The United Nations’ new exhibit on “World Peace,” displayed at the main entrance of its headquarters in New York, immediately drew rebuke from Israeli officials on Monday for containing a call for the eradication of the Jewish State.
The “Global Peace Flag” exhibit, which featured drawings from children, 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”—a 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 showcases 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. “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.”
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