When the United Nations (UN) marks International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to Victims of Terrorism on Wednesday, it will treat some victims as more equal than others, according to Gilad Erdan, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.
The Israeli envoy posted a video walkthrough — in Hebrew with English subtitles — of an exhibit about global terror victims at UN headquarters in New York, in a place where all visitors enter the building.
There are mentions of the September 11 terror attacks in 2001 and the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, as well as references to terror in Indonesia and Kenya. “But what’s missing?” Erdan asked.
“There’s not a single mention of any attack carried out by Palestinians against Israelis,” he said. “We are about to mark one year since the massacre and the largest terrorist attack against Jews and Israelis since the Holocaust. Yet the UN doesn’t think it needs to be displayed on its walls.”