UPDATE โ After placing significant pressure on UN leadership, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, announced on Wednesday that the international body has removed the antisemitic drawings, which called for the eradication of the Jewish State, from the display of the exhibit on “World Peace.”
“Yesterday, I exposed the hypocrisy of the UN through an exhibition featuring children’s drawings where the state of Israel was erased and filled with hateful imagery,” he wrote. “After firmly addressing the UN leadership, the exhibition was fixed, and these antisemitic drawings were removed from the walls. We will stand for [truth], and each time we witness antisemitism or hypocrisy, we will confront them head-on.”
The United Nations โGlobal Peace Flagโ exhibit displayed at the main entrance of its headquarters in New York, contained a considerable number of Palestinian flags, watermelons (a fruit used as a symbol by anti-Israel activists due to the similarity of its colors with the Palestinian flag), and the words “Free Palestine.”
The most egregious drawing pictured declared the whole of Israel to be Palestinian land and had writing which stated, “From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free”โa slogan which describes wiping Israel off the map from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
While the exhibit contained calls for the elimination of the Jewish State, noticeably absent was any mention of the terrorist-driven war against Israel or the 101 hostages who remain held captive by Hamas. Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon underscored that the exhibit showcased the hypocrisy of the UN against Israel.
“The UN, who was established in the wake of the Holocaust’s horrors, has chosen to hang paintings on its walls that explicitly call for the destruction of the Jewish people and do not recognize the State of Israel,” Danon charged on X earlier in the week. “This is a disgrace, and I demand that the UN immediately remove this shameful exhibition.”
“They promote hate in those drawings,” he continued. “This is part of the hypocrisy of the United Nations.”
Similarly, at the headquarters of the UN last August, the global body displayed a shameful exhibit surrounding “Global Victims of Terrorism.” The display ignored Jewish victims of terrorism, including the largest terrorist attack against Jews and Israelis since the Holocaust, which occurred less than a year prior on Oct. 7. The UN, however, did see fit to include a deceptive reference to a “Palestinian victim” of a terror attack supposedly in “Palestine,” though the woman shown, Maysson Salama, was actually wounded in a 2019 shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Then Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, derided the UN at the time, writing: “There is no place more corrupt and morally twisted than the UN, and we must all unite to spread this message worldwide, demanding the closure and the dismantling of this organization, and the establishment of a new body that truly represents noble values.”
Robert Gottselig, Executive Director of the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry Canada, recently described the lies against Israel as “demonic.”
“Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. Period. If you want to know who is trying to commit genocide, it’s the Palestinians, as they shout all day long their mantra, ‘From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free,'” Gottselig warned. “That’s from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. That means no Israel. That means death to the Jews.”
“They are accusing Israel of that which they want to do themselves,” he stressed. “Then they try to convince the world that it’s Israel that is to blame. It’s all due to their demonic hate for Israel and the Jewish people.
“If we don’t stand with Israel and against those who wish them dead, Genesis 12:3 promises us that God will curse those who curse His chosen people. Let’s not be silent,” he urged Christians. “Let’s get involved and take a stand in these evil days where evil is being presented as good and good as evil. Don’t sit back and say nothing. God is taking note.”
