56th session of the UN Human Rights Council | June 19, 2024 | Geneva

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“Mr. President, we meet in the Palais des Nations, a site with a historical lesson concerning what is being done in this body.

Here was the League of Nations. In July 1936, the journalist Stefan Lux stood up in the Assembly and shot himself, committing suicide. He did so to warn humanity of the catastrophic peril coming from the Nazis. His warning went ignored. Hitler launched World War II, and the League went extinct.

In its place came the UN. It promised to uphold world peace.

Yet here today, as happens all too often, the UN has become a platform of terrible lies. The worst dictatorships on the planet, state sponsors of terrorism, and their apologists, told heard terrible lies, to demonize the world’s only Jewish state.

Israel was accused of starvation. In truth, since Hamas started the war, 500,000 tons of food were transferred to Gaza.

“Extermination?” It is Hamas which attempted to carry out a genocide, and openly promises to try again. Hamas deliberately embeds itself among civilians. To stop genocide, and to rescue the hostages, Israel aims at the terrorists. No army in the history of urban warfare has achieved a lower ratio of civilian-combatant casualties.

Commissioner Pillay, why does your report make no mention of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the one orchestrating the multi-front war? Is it because this would collapse the fixed narrative of Israel as the guilty party?

Today we sound a warning: UN demonization of the Jewish state has consequences. The demon of antisemitism has now been unleashed upon the world. If the world does not act now, it will only get worse.”