LIZ CLAMAN: My shocking October 7 experience at a UN riddled with antisemitism

Growing up successful Los Angeles successful the 1970s, I person a chiseled representation of my father, a surgeon primitively from Canada, railing against the United Nations. 

"They’re a clump of antisemites," helium would fulminate.  I was excessively young to recognize what helium meant oregon adjacent truly attraction astatine my young property astir the United Nations.

But earlier this month, immoderate 50 years later, arsenic I arrived astatine the U.N. successful New York City to emcee the Israeli Mission to the United Nations’ marking of the one-year day of the October 7th Hamas panic attacks connected Israel, close past and determination my father’s words took signifier successful a stunning way.

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As my workfellow and I entered the information lanes equipped with U.N.-issued VIP passes and accompanied by a U.N. intern, I was stopped arsenic I sent my purse done the X-ray machine.

My purse had conscionable emerged from the instrumentality erstwhile the pistillate defender who was monitoring the surface asked maine if she could look inside it.  I said, "of course." As she dug done it, she glanced up astatine maine and saw my necklace. I was wearing a canine tag that’s present commonly worn since October 7th to item the hundreds of Israelis, Americans, French, Bedouins, Thai and Bangladeshi civilians taken hostage by the terrorists. The tag is engraved with the words "Bring Them Home Now" successful some English and Hebrew.

The defender reached retired and grabbed the tag, scrutinized it and successful an accusatory code said, "What is this? This is religious."  

Liz Claman, anchor of 'The Claman Countdown' connected Fox Business Network astatine the U.N. connected October 7, 2024.

Put speech for a infinitesimal the information that spiritual symbols, whether they beryllium Christian crosses, Stars of David oregon caput scarfs, are communal astatine the U.N. A connection astir freeing hostages is not ‘religious.’  

She past glared astatine my colleague, pointed to her canine tag necklace and poked astatine the charm my workfellow had added that’s successful the signifier of the State of Israel-- the aforesaid authorities the U.N. played a pivotal relation successful establishing backmost successful 1947 with Resolution 181. 

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As I began to explicate that I was attending the October 7th one-year day lawsuit as the ceremonial host, the defender refused to look maine straight successful the oculus and alternatively pulled retired from my purse the publication I had prepared for the lawsuit and began speechmaking it.

I was filled with a premix of fury and confusion.

Tensions began rising arsenic I asked to spot a supervisor. The supervisor was called and rapidly arrived.  He, on with 2 different information guards, examined my canine tag arsenic if it were thing that had fallen from outer space.  I intelligibly stated, "I’m present for the Israeli's October 7th event.  The necklace is simply a motion of enactment for the hostages." That’s erstwhile different supervisor rushed up and said, "It’s fine. You tin walk through." 

But I was truthful livid I wasn’t acceptable to walk through.  I looked astatine him and said, "600 radical are coming to this event, including hostage families and parents of the victims. A bully fig of them volition beryllium wearing these.  Are you going to clasp up each azygous 1 of them?"

He assured maine that "going guardant from this infinitesimal on" nary 1 wearing the canine tag would beryllium bothered by security.

So, this is wherever we are today.

The United Nations--an planetary assemblage with a past of one-sided, hostile bias against Israel-- allows a information defender to consciousness she has the state to harass a Jewish invited impermanent for wearing a 1 ½ inch agelong metallic canine tag honoring civilians who were ripped from their homes, taken hostage and shoved into violent tunnels wherever they person remained FOR A YEAR. 

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It became wide to maine that the U.N.'s organization hostility toward Israel has permeated down to information defender employees clearing visitors to what is expected to beryllium a assemblage encouraging knowing among divers peoples of the world.

This is the aforesaid governing assemblage whose ngo connection is to instrumentality "effective corporate measures for the prevention and removal of threats to bid and acts of aggression oregon different breaches of the peace."

When the memorial lawsuit began successful a U.N. auditorium chock-full of ambassadors, grieving parents of victims, clergy, and devout Muslim Ali al-Ziadna, an Arab-Israeli who saw 4 relatives taken hostage connected October 7th, Ambassador Danon bluntly crystalized the United Nations’ disfigured past of anti-Israel bias. 

"We basal present contiguous successful the United Nations, an instauration that has failed america clip and clip again," Danon said.  "When the massacre of October 7th unfolded. The U.N. refused to act. It could not find the astir basal morality to condemn the brutal execution of guiltless civilians. Instead of lasting with the innocent, this instauration remained silent. Then, erstwhile it yet recovered its voice, it did not talk for justice. It chose to vilify the state warring to support its radical from the monsters who massacred them. The U.N. has failed successful its astir basal mandate to support the guiltless and condemn evil."

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In what satellite is slaughtering 1,200 civilians, raping and mutilating women and burning live guiltless babies not an enactment of aggression oregon a breach of the peace?

The answer: successful the UN’s presumption of the world.   

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