Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan wears Nazi-era yellow star in protest
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations called out the organization for its failure to condemn Hamas “atrocities” while donning a Nazi-era yellow star as a stark reminder of what happened in the past when the “world” stayed silent.
During a heated address before the UN Security Council, Ambassador Gilad Erdan compared the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack to what his grandfather Chaim and his children endured when they were ripped away from their lives and taken to Auschwitz by the Nazis.
“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 during Monday’s meeting.
“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.”
The ambassador, along with his delegation, then took out the gold stars similar to the ones Jews were forced to wear by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust to “remind” the group why they were first created.
“Just like my grandparents, and the grandparents of millions of Jews, from now on my team and I will wear yellow stars,” he told the Council as he stood up and placed the star inscribed with the words “Never Again” on his chest.
Nazi Germany used the Star of David patch to identify Jews between 1939 until the end of World War II.
“We will wear this star until you wake up and condemn the atrocities of Hamas,” Erdan said.
During the address, Erdan stated to the Council that the only solution being sought out by Hamas was “the final solution” and that the terrorist organization’s idea of peace would only be achieved by the elimination of Jews in Israel.
The harsh reminder by Erdan also comes after an outcry of anger by Israel after the UN’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “The attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.”
The emergency meeting was convened at the request of the United Arab Emirates as tension continues to rise across the wartorn region.
The ambassador also pointed out similarities between Adolf Hitler and Iran’s “bloodthirsty” Ayatollah Khamenei, saying that his regime is the latter to the Nazi regime and accused the Islamic ruler of fueling the uptick in violence against Jews.
“Instead of shouting ‘Sieg Heil,’ these radical Nazi Islamists scream, ‘Death to Israel! Death to America! Death to England!’” Erdan said.
He explained that Ayatollah uses the actions of his “death squads” like “Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Revolutionary Guard and other savage Jihadists” to spread “poisonous genocidal ideologies with the world.”
“On the day of the massacre, he called for the eradication of Israel alongside a video of Israelis running for their lives as his Hamas Einsatzgruppen mowed them down with machine guns,” the ambassador said of the Ayatollah.
The Eizengruppen — often referred to as mobile killing squads — were outfits of Nazi SS soldiers used by Germany to ethnically cleanse Jews and others in mass shooting operations during the late 1930s til the end of World War II.
“If Hitler had a Twitter account, it would look exactly the same as Khamenei’s,” he said.
Erdan kept ambushing the council with historical compassion, saying that if it had existed during the Allies’ efforts to eliminate Nazi rule during World War II, the group would have been fixated on the death toll of Germans versus the murdering of British civilians during Germany’s blitzkrieg bombings.
“This is precisely where the world stood as the Nazis begin their rampage,” Erdan exclaimed.
“Precisely the same moment! And then, too – the world was silent.”
Despite his cries for the council to call out the violence taken against Israel, Erdan assured the group and the world that Israel would continue to defend itself in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
“The people of Israel are strong, we cannot be broken, and we are not going anywhere. Many have tried to destroy us, but we are here to stay,” he told the council.
“Israel will win, crush Hamas and bring back the hostages.”
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