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Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1970s, I vividly remember my father, a Canadian surgeon, railing against the United Nations.
“They are a bunch of anti-Semites,” he raged. I was too young to understand what he meant, and too young to even really care about the United Nations.
But nearly 50 years later, earlier this month, when I arrived at the United Nations in New York City to moderate the Israeli mission to the United Nations to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, It was around the same time. There, my father's words took shape in a surprising way.
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When my colleague and I entered the security lane with our UN-issued VIP passes and were escorted by a UN intern, we were stopped as we tried to pass our wallets through an X-ray machine.
My wallet had just come out of the machine when the female security guard monitoring the screen asked if she could look inside. I said, “Of course.” As she dug into it, she glanced up at me and saw my necklace. I used the now commonly worn dog tags to highlight the hundreds of Israeli, American, French, Bedouin, Thai and Bangladeshi civilians taken hostage by terrorists. I was wearing it. The tag is inscribed with the words “Bring Them Home Now” in both English and Hebrew.
The guard reached out and grabbed the tag, stared at it, and said in an accusatory tone, “What is this? This is religious.”
Fox Business Network's “The Claman Countdown” anchor Liz Claman at the United Nations on October 7, 2024.
Setting aside for a moment the fact that religious symbols, whether Christian crosses, Stars of David, or scarves, are common at the United Nations, the statement on hostage release is not “religious.” .
Then she glared at my co-worker, pointed to her dog tag necklace, and poked at the charm my co-worker had added in the shape of the state of Israel. This is the same state that the United Nations played a pivotal role in establishing in 1947 with Resolution 181. .
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When I began to explain that I would be attending the one year anniversary event on October 7th as the master of ceremonies, the security guard refused to look me in the eye and instead asked me to prepare for the event. I took the script out of my wallet and started reading it. that.
I felt a mixture of anger and confusion.
Tensions began to build when I asked to see the director. A supervisor was called and arrived quickly. He, along with two other security guards, examined my dog tags as if they had fallen from outer space. I clearly said, “I'm here for the October 7th event in Israel. The necklace is a sign of support for the hostages.” At that moment, another supervisor came running up to me and said, “It's okay. You can pass.”
But I was so furious that I wasn't ready to go through with it. I looked at him and said, “There are 600 people coming to this event, including the families of the hostages and the parents of the victims. Quite a few people will be wearing this. Are you going to protect them all? ” he said.
He assured me that “from now on” anyone wearing a dog tag would not be bothered by security.
So that's all for today.
The United Nations, an international organization with a history of unilateral and hostile bias against Israel, says security guards are free to harass Jewish guests who wear 1.5-inch-long metal dog tags honoring civilians. They were torn from their homes, taken hostage and forced into terrorist tunnels, where they remained for a year.
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It is clear to me that the UN's systemic hostility towards Israel permeates down to the security personnel who allow visitors into institutions that are supposed to promote understanding between the world's diverse peoples. It became.
This is the same governing body whose mission statement is to take “effective collective measures for the prevention and elimination of threats to the peace and acts of aggression or other violations of the peace.”
The memorial service was held for the ambassador, the grieving parents of the victims, the cleric and Ali al-Ziadna, a devout Muslim Arab Israeli who witnessed the taking of four of his relatives hostage on October 7th. Opening in a packed United Nations auditorium, Ambassador Danon bluntly criticized the U.S. alliance. The ugly history of anti-Israel prejudice in various countries.
“We stand here today at the United Nations, an institution that has failed us time and time again,” Danon said. “When the October 7th massacre broke out, the United Nations refused to act, unable to find the most basic morality to condemn the brutal killing of innocent civilians. Instead of standing by the innocent , this agency remained silent. And when it was finally discovered, its voice chose not to speak for justice but to smear a country fighting to protect its people from the monsters that massacred them. The United Nations has failed in its most fundamental mission: to protect the innocent and condemn evil.”
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In what world is it not an act of aggression or a breach of peace to slaughter 1,200 civilians, rape and mutilate a woman, and burn a living innocent baby to death?
The answer lies in the United Nations' worldview.
