United Nations Ambassador-designate Elise Stefanik issued a sharp and shocking rebuke of the organization she is set to serve as an envoy to, and in a Tuesday speech condemned the United Nations as a “hotbed of anti-Semitism” that she wants to confront. Is.
Stefanik (R-NY), 40, The Outgoing House GOP Conference ChairDuring an address at the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), she foreshadowed upcoming battles at the United Nations and highlighted some of its offices and commissions she will target when she takes over as ambassador.
“We know the United Nations is a hotbed of anti-Semitism,” he said at EMET’s annual dinner, where he was honored with the Rays of Light in the Darkness award.
“Since (Hamas’) barbaric terrorist attacks on October 7 and even before that, the UN has consistently betrayed Israel and betrayed the US, becoming apologists for Iran and their terrorist proxies. “Has served as.”
Stefanik flags examples of UN betrayal such as UN Women delete a post Condemning Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs disclosed data from Hamas’ health ministry and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees. in which Hamas employees were,
Last week, President-elect Donald Trump announced Stefanik as his choice to serve as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Since then, Statfanik has maintained a somewhat light public profile as she prepares for that role and prepares to move on.
But during a dinner event in Washington, D.C., hosted by the pro-Israel think tank EMET, Stefanik laid out clearly how she views the United Nations, an organization that is often maligned in conservative circles.
He also praised Trump, noting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had described the former president as “the best friend Israel ever had.”
He said, “I believe it is absolutely clear to the world that if President Trump were in the White House today, what is happening at the United Nations would never have happened, because October 7 would never have happened.”
“I will stand up to President Trump’s America First, peace through strong policies, and bring moral truth and clear moral clarity to the United Nations on day one,” she pledged.
Stefanik visited Israel in May and gave an address to the Knesset where she toured the site of Hamas’s barbaric and bloody massacre.
He said, “Each visit to Israel highlights for me the fundamental facts that Israel is a miracle and that Israel is fundamental to the United States.”
The Empire State Republican also recounted his explosive exchanges with the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during a congressional hearing last year about anti-Semitism on college campuses.
During the hearing, Stefanik pressed three campus presidents about whether “calling for the genocide of the Jews” violated campus policies and none of them definitively said it did.
“I wasn’t getting answers. So when considering this last question, which was not ready, I thought to myself, ‘How can I ask it in the most direct way…’ so as to force it to give the right answer,” Stefanik said, recalling his line of questioning.
“The despicable attempt to contextualize the Holocaust is a symptom of decades of moral decay, intellectual laziness, and dangerous radical leftist groupthink in so-called elite institutions across society.”
Stefanik emphasized that “this fight is not over yet – this is just the beginning.”
The New York delegate may have some international allies in the fight, with Hungary’s Ambassador to the US Szabolcs Takacs saying his country is “very confident that US-Hungarian relations will take a very good turn when Trump takes office”.
“The new Trump administration will bring new hope for peace in the Middle East,” he told The Post.
Harvard University student Shabbos Kestenbaum, who later testified before Congress about anti-Semitism on campus, was similarly awarded the Ray of Light in the Darkness Award.
Kestenbaum recounted the meeting with Stefanik and praised her leadership during what she described as a fraught time on campus, in which some of her Jewish friends took steps to hide their identities out of fear.
The Empire State Republican concluded his speech with a reminder of the hostages currently held by Hamas, including seven Americans.
He declared, “We must not stop and we will not stop until every hostage is brought home.”
Stefanik has already drawn some bipartisan cheer upon Trump’s approval to serve as United Nations ambassador, including from Israel supporters like Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.). Democrats are also included. Who gave a speech at the Rays of Light in the Darkness Awards dinner.
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