Powerful: Israel Ambassador Wears Yellow Star at Pro-Hamas UN

Unfortunately, “Never again” seems to have meant “just give it a few years.” The Israeli ambassador to the Hamas-sympathizing United Nations (UN) is making a powerful statement by wearing a yellow star as a reminder of where empathy with violent anti-Semitism leads.

In Nazi Germany — and all Nazi-controlled territories — Jews were forced to wear yellow stars. When Hamas terrorists attacked and committed horrific atrocities on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, ultimately killing 1,400 Israelis, it was the single worst day of violence against Jews since the Holocaust. But the UN, which has a long history of providing a regular platform for the Palestinians to peddle their lies and propaganda against Israel, has been shamefully weak and vague on the attacks. 

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres even implied that Israel was to blame for somehow provoking the attacks. So Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan is determined to make sure that everyone at the UN knows it’s basically a choice between supporting or condemning Nazis.

Erdan slammed the UN’s moral cowardice and made a personal link to the Holocaust, mentioning his own family — grandfather Chaim and children — who the Nazis sent to the infamous Auschwitz death camp. 

“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,” Erdan said. “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.”