During a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations strongly criticized the idea of Palestinian statehood, suggesting that supporting it contradicted the U.N.’s original mission to combat Nazi ideology.
Ambassador Erdan displayed a WWII-era photo of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, meeting with Adolf Hitler, citing Al-Husseini’s Nazi sympathies as evidence against Palestinian statehood. Erdan emphasized that the conflict’s root was not political but centered on Israel’s destruction and Jewish genocide.
He accused the U.N. of indirectly supporting “Palestine’s terror state,” likening it to a “Palesti-Nazi state,” drawing sharp condemnation.
The U.N. Security Council convened to address the Palestinian Authority’s bid for full U.N. membership, amid ongoing Israeli-Palestinian tensions and the conflict’s international ramifications.