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Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1970s, I have distinct memories of my father, a Canadian-born surgeon, fighting the UN.
“They are an antisemitic group,” he would fulminate. I was too young to understand what it meant or even care when I was young about the United Nations.
But earlier this month, some 50 years later, when I arrived at the United Nations in New York City to emcee the Israeli Mission to the United Nations’ marking the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel, live and there my father’s words materialized in an amazing way.
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As my friends and I entered the security line armed with UN-issued VIPs and accompanied by UN interns, I was stopped as we passed our wallets through the X-ray machine.
My wallet had just come out of the machine when the female guard manning the screen asked if she could see inside. I said, “of course.” When he dug through, he glanced up at me and saw my necklace. I wore my now-common dog tag since October 7 to highlight the hundreds of Israeli, American, French, Bedouin, Thai and Bangladeshi civilians held hostage by terrorists. The tag is engraved with the words “Bring Them Home Now” in English and Hebrew.
The guard picked up and held up the tag, examined it and in an accusing tone, “What is this? This is religion.”
Liz Claman, anchor of ‘The Claman Countdown’ on Fox Business Network at the United Nations on October 7, 2024.
Put aside for a moment the fact that religious symbols, whether they are Christian crosses, Stars of David or head scarves, which are common in the United Nations A statement about freeing hostages is not ‘religion.’
He then glared at my friend, pointed to his dog tag necklace and poked a charm that my friend added in the shape of the State of Israel– the same country that the United Nations played an important role in re-creating in 1947 with Resolution 181.
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When I started to explain that I was attending the October 7th anniversary event as the host of the ceremony, the guard refused to look me directly in the eye and instead pulled out of my wallet a script that had been prepared for the event and began to read it. that.
I was filled with a mixture of anger and confusion.
The tension started to rise when I asked to see the supervisor. The supervisor was called and came quickly. He, along with two other security guards, checked my dog tag as if it had fallen from outer space. I said clearly, “I’m here for Israel’s October 7 event. The necklace is a sign of support for the hostages.” That’s when another supervisor rushed up and said, “It’s okay. You can pass.”
But I was so angry and not ready to go through it. I looked at him and said, “600 people are coming to this event, including the families of the hostages and the parents of the victims. Many of them will be wearing this. Are you going to arrest everyone?”
He assured that “going forward” no one wearing a dog tag will be bothered by security.
So, this is where we are now.
The United Nations — an international body with a history of anti-Israel bias — allowed security guards to feel free to harass Jewish guests for wearing 1 ½-inch metal dog tags in honor of civilians. who were torn from their homes, taken hostage and shoved into a terrorist tunnel where they stayed FOR A YEAR.
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It became clear to me that the United Nations, which is an institution hostile to Israel, has permeated down to the security of the employees and visitors to what is supposed to be a body encouraging understanding between the various nations of the world.
It is the same governing body with a mission statement to take “effective collective measures to prevent and eliminate threats to the peace and acts of aggression or other violations of the peace.”
As the commemoration began in a UN auditorium full of ambassadors, parents of the victims, clerics and devout Muslims Ali al-Ziadna, an Arab-Israeli who saw four of his relatives captured on October 7, Ambassador Danon bluntly crystallized American. The bad history of anti-Israel bias.
“We stand here today at the United Nations, an institution that has failed over and over again,” Danon said. “When the massacre of October 7 unfolded. The UN refused to act. It could not find the most basic morality to condemn the brutal killing of innocent civilians. Instead of standing with the innocent, this institution remained silent. Its voice, did not speak for justice , he chooses to destroy the country that is fighting to protect the people from the monsters that killed them.
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In what world slaughtering 1,200 civilians, raping and mutilating women and burning innocent babies is not an act of aggression or breach of peace?
Answer: The most important thing from the United Nations in the world.
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