“They just want to play,” said Adham Safadi, whose daughter was killed by a rocket, before receiving a hero’s award.
At the Jerusalem Post 2025 Annual Conference in New York, Gilad Erdan, the former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations and the current Global President of Magen David Adom (MDA), gave a passionate speech denouncing the UN while paying tribute to Israeli emergency responders.
“The United Nations is beyond reform. It’s beyond repair,” Erdan declared to an applauding crowd. “The institution created to prevent atrocities after the Holocaust now protects genocidal regimes.”
Erdan, who served at the UN between 2020 and 2024, criticized what he called the UN’s “staggering moral distortions,” pointing to Israel being the subject of 70% of its condemnations. “Cuba and Somalia sit on the Human Rights Council while their citizens suffer,” he added. “And at the ICJ, a Lebanese child presides over genocide charges against Israel while we are at war with Lebanon.”
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