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PURELY COMMENTARY

essay
Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Lays Bare 
the Hypocrisy of Israel’s U.N. Critics
T

he idiom “words 
speak for themselves” 
never was truer 
than when Gilad Erdan, 
Israel’s ambassador to the 
United Nations, 
recently 
delivered a 
blistering 
attack on the 
organization 
in the general 
assembly.
His verbal 
attack does not need any 
amplification, clarification, 
interpretation or 
explanation. 
Writing that he did not 
mince any words is one of 
the greatest understatements 
ever voiced in political 
journalism.

His words did not just 
speak. They scorned, 
blasted, demeaned, 
chastised, accused, scolded, 
condemned. 
Even without a Google 
search, I feel safe to observe 
that such an attack has never 
been heard in the diplomatic 
or political world.
Erdan took on the world’s 
double-standard, accusing 
it of ignoring humanitarian 
crises in Sudan, Myanmar, 
Yemen, Pakistan, bewailed 
the antisemitism on 
campuses among students 
and faculty and the hatred 
directed at Israel.
And he laid it all — all of 
it — at the feet of the United 
Nations whose demise he 
predicted in his speech. 

IN HIS OWN WORDS
Here are a few of the charges 
he laid out in his speech:
• “The U.N. is fueled by 
nothing other than political 
interests — not by the U.N. 
charter, not by morality.”
• “The U.N. is again 
seeking to reward the 
perpetrators of the horrors.”
• “The U.N. couldn’t care 
less about Israel, to hell with 
our safety, to hell with our 
future, and the hell with our 
hostages.”
• “To this day you have not 
even condemned Hamas, not 
even once. To this day, not 
a single U.N. initiative has 
been taken for the sake of 
the Israeli hostages. Instead, 
this body has focused only 
on recognizing a Palestinian 

terror state, an entity fueled 
by Jewish genocide, by terror, 
by Nazi-like incitement.”
• “You have told Hamas 
that terror pays off. You have 
done nothing for the victims.”
• “You should be ashamed 
of yourself, those who 
support a unilateral forced 
Palestinian terror state.”
• “This body reeks of 
antisemitism. It’s everywhere. 
The U.N. cares nothing for 
Israeli blood, nothing, zero. It 
is a collaborator of the Nazis 
of our day, working to assure 
Hamas’ survival and even 
rewards them for murder and 
rape. I have no words.”
• “You are encouraging 
their racism and 
antisemitism.”
• “This brainwashing 

Berl Falbaum

