Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, 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 our 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."

 

 

Following this, the ambassador, along with his delegation, took out 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 UN 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 and the end of World War II. "We will wear this star until you wake up and condemn the atrocities of Hamas," Erdan said.

 

 

The envoy 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.

 

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 envoy said on Ayatollah. Notably, the Einsatzgruppen, 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 from the late 1930s til the end of World War II.

 

This strong reaction by the Israeli envoy came after the Jordanian-led resolution called for an "immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce" between Israeli forces and Hamas terrorists in Gaza as it did not specifically condemn the terror attack by Hamas. It was adopted by the General Assembly, with 120 votes in favour, 14 against, and 45 abstentions. The 45 nations that abstained from voting on the resolution included Iceland, India, Panama, Lithuania, and Greece.

 

However, it is pertinent to note that India was in favour of the Canadian resolution which had an added clause that condemned the terrorist attacks by Hamas.

 

The conflict in Gaza escalated after the October 7 attack by Hamas, where about 2,500 terrorists breached the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip, leading to casualties and the seizure of hostages. Over 8,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 7. More than 1,400 people were killed in the Hamas attack on Israel.