After Hamas's Murder of Six Hostages, Another Israel-Bashing UN Security Council Meeting

The United Nations Security Council met on September 4, 2024, ostensibly to discuss, at Israel’s request, Hamas’s cold-blooded execution of six hostages whom it had held captive since October 7^th. But the meeting was quickly highjacked by Algeria, a member of the Council and the representative of the Arab group of states.

The meeting went downhill from there

Algeria requested a separate meeting to condemn Israel for the suffering that it has allegedly inflicted on the Palestinians residing in Gaza and the West Bank. The President of the Council for the month of September, Samuel Žbogar of Slovenia, decided to hold one combined meeting that turned into yet another Israel-bashing session.

The meeting started off fairly well with a briefing by Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN’s Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, who noted the brutal murders of the hostages. But the Council’s attention quickly turned to condemning Israel when Edem Wosornu, Director of Operations for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provided her briefing to the Council. Ms. Wosornu falsely alleged, with no substantiating proof, that Israel is responsible for the “torture & sexual violence of thousands of Palestinians taken into detention by Israeli forces.”

The meeting went downhill from there.

For example, Russia’s Deputy Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, whose country has the blood of countless innocent Ukrainian civilians on its hands, engaged in blood libel of his own against the Jewish state. “We note the very alarming reports of…the mass graves of dead Palestinians with traces of torture and the removal of internal organs,” he said.

Guyana’s representative to the UN said that “the situation in Palestine today did not begin on 7th October 2023. We must cast our minds back to 1948 because it was in that year that Israel first violently rejected the two-state solution.” This is a total lie.

The truth is that the Palestinian leaders and the Arab nations supporting them at the time rejected the UN’s original two-state partition plan, which they followed up with their military attack on Israel when it declared its independence. They intended to destroy the Jewish state from the get-go but failed. None of the other Security Council members bothered to push back against Guyana’s fabrication, much less call out the Palestinians’ continuing violent rejectionism that culminated in the genocidal horrors committed against Jews in Israel on October 7^th.

Security Council President Žbogar made things even worse by inviting Executive Director of the left-wing Israeli NGO B’Tselem, Yuli Novak, to address the Council via video. "Our government is cynically exploiting our collective trauma to violently advance its project of cementing Israel's control over the entire land," she said.

Novak used the global platform that Žbogar provided her to parrot pro-Hamas propaganda. She declared that the Israeli government is "criminal," "apartheid," and "cruel" and "does not want to return the hostages in a deal, but to continue the war, indefinitely." Novak even questioned Israel’s right to exist as a safe haven for the Jewish people after many centuries of persecution, capped by the Holocaust. "Since Israel was founded, its guiding logic has been to promote Jewish supremacy over the entire territory under its control," she charged.

This absurd accusation echoes what has been uttered numerous times at the UN. The canard ignores the reality that Islamist supremacy is what has driven the genocidal jihad against the Jews in their ancestral homeland before and after the creation of the Israeli state, including Hamas’s brutal attack on October 7^th. 

Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon reminded the Security Council about the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7^th and described the crimes against humanity the terrorists have committed against the hostages, including the executions as well as physical and sexual abuse. He held up pictures of each of the six hostages murdered by Hamas. "These six beautiful innocent heroic souls were executed by Hamas after more than 330 days of being held captive. Hamas shot bullets in the back of each of their heads," he said.

Ambassador Danon challenged the Security Council, telling its members that if they "truly cared for the Palestinian people, and truly wanted an end to this war which Hamas started, [they] would officially draft and pass a resolution designating Hamas a terrorist organization, and condemning Hamas for its hostage-taking."

Of course, that will not happen. At the United Nations, Israel is always cast as the villain. No wonder that, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey, more than three-quarters of Israelis have a negative view of the UN. Given the UN’s disgraceful anti-Israel bias in its handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Israelis’ negative view of the UN should be much closer to 100 percent.

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