Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, wore a yellow Star of David at the UN Security Council on Monday. The diplomat wore the symbol that the Nazis used to identify Jews as a gesture of protest against the organization's silence after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7.
סיפרתי למועצה שבסמוך לטבח, הפיהרר חמינאי צייץ ללא הרף דברי שטנה והסתה נגד ישראל: הוא טען שישראל גוססת וקרא להשמדתה. אם להיטלר היה חשבון טוויטר, הוא היה נראה בדיוק כמו של חמינאי. ואת נציגי הרוצח הזה, מזכ״ל האו״ם פוגש בלי מילת גינוי. איזו חרפה!
צפו ורטווטו >> pic.twitter.com/Mj6OQzUjKu— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 31, 2023
Erdan began his speech by comparing the terrorist attack against Israel with what happened when Jewish people were attacked by the Nazis. The Israeli ambassador claimed that the fact that the organization did not condemn the "atrocities" by Hamas showed that many UN representatives had forgotten part of modern history, specifically what happened "in the past 80 years":
When his babies were sent to the gas chambers, the world stayed silent. When their bodies were burned along with millions of other Jewish children, the world was silent. Today, after innocent Jewish babies were burned alive, this Council is still silent. Some of you have learned nothing in the past 80 years. Some of you have forgotten why this body was established.
He proceeded to take out the yellow Star of David labeled with the motto "Never Again" and placed it on his chest. The rest of his team did the same. At that time, reports Enlace Judío, the diplomat assured that Israel would use this symbol as a reminder of what happened in the Holocaust and that it had been repeated three weeks ago:
From this day on, every time you look at me you will remember what it means to remain silent in the face of evil. Like my grandparents and the grandparents of millions of Jews, from now on, my team and I will wear yellow stars. We will use this star until they wake up and condemn the atrocities of Hamas. We walk with a yellow star as a symbol of pride. A reminder that we swear to fight to defend ourselves. It is never again now.
UN Secretary General António Guterres justifies the terrorist attack on Israel
Erdan's gesture and words come a few days after UN Secretary General António Guterres justified the terrorist attack on Israel by assuring that it happened due to the "suffocating occupation" that the Palestinian people have experienced for more than 50 years:
It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.
