Danny Danon (Israel) - Security Council Media Stakeout

Good morning and thank you for joining us today.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, who will deliver a brief statement.
He will take your questions afterwards.
If called upon to ask a question, please state your name and out it.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Good morning.
You all saw what happened here last week.
In a UNA conference room, miss Vanessa Frazier, the Special Representative for Children and armed conflict, tried to silence Israel.
She shouted over me.
She broke protocol.
She acted with a complete lack of professionalism.
When I tried to respond to baseless allegations, she tried to shut me down.
Today, that same mis Frazier comes before the Security Council to present yet another report attacking Israel, a report filled with serious allegations, a report we will answer, a report we will expose.
But before we address the credibility of this report, we need to address the credibility of the person presenting it today because miss Vanessa Fazev is not an impartial observer.
She is not just an official with bad judgment.
She represents a deeper moral failure at the UN where bias against Israel is excused, rewarded, and dressed up as human rights.
She's an anti Israel activist wearing the badge of a UN official.
Her on public record proves it.
Let me show you.
You can look at this image which was published on social media and she's over there.
She can approve it.
Last Saturday, An anti Semite posted this image on X to reply miss Fraser, and instead of condemning it, she engaged with it.
The original comment was the V Swastika replacing the star of David on Israel's flag.
That is classic anti Semitism, textbook anti Semitism.
The kind of hatred every UN official should condemn immediately.
Below the comment, you can see miss Fraser has replied to it, and I quote, and it's over here.
I look forward to constructive engagement.
Together, we can eliminate this scurge and do justice to all victims and survivors.
Eliminate this scurge.
The scourge was right there.
A Slastica replacing the star of David.
But miss Frazier did not condemn it.
She engaged with it.
She welcomed constructive engagement.
Constructive engagement with an anti Semite.
That's a record.
You know what? She left.
But let's give her the benefit of the doubt.
Maybe it was a mistake.
Maybe she did not look carefully.
Maybe a social media team let her down.
Maybe it can happen.
But we all know what someone does when a mistake like that happens.
You condemn it, you delete it, you apologize.
Miss Frazier did none of those things.
Instead, again, she accused Israel of lying, of fabrication.
We have the screenshots.
You have it in front of you.
We have the evidence.
Miss Frazier, you are exposed.
And it's not enough.
That's from last week from a social media.
She reportsed this post trying to say that Israel dropped explosives disguised as children's toys and footballs in Lebanon.
Think about that accusation for a moment.
Do you really believe Israel would ever do something so evil? There was no evidence, none.
It was a blood libel dressed up as concern for children.
You know who made the original claim that she reported.
Her name is Sarah Wilkinson.
We looked with she.
Sarah Wilkinson is a holocaust denier, who was arrested in the UK counterterrorism police.
She denied October 7th, she denied the Holocaust.
This is who miss Fraser aligns herself with.
This is who she platforms.
Then she comes before the Security Council and expects the world to Twitter as neutral.
Please, the mask is off and it's not over.
Another example also from of social media from earlier this year, miss Frazier shared an image of rows of body bags to support allegations about attacks on a school in Iran.
But this image had nothing to do with those allegations.
Those body bags were from the massacre of brave Iranian protesters who took to the streets against the Iranian regime.
They were murdered by the regime itself.
Miss Frazier used their deaths to promote a false allegation against Israel and the United States.
And you know what you did when it came out? She didn't correct the record, She didn't apologize.
She deleted the post.
That's the pattern, accuse Israel first, check the facts later, when the facts collapse, erase the evidence, and move on or try to cover it.
But today, you cannot cover it.
Today, everything stays.
This is not professionalism.
This is not neutrality.
This is an anti Israel obsession.
And this is bigger than miss Frazier.
She is not the exception.
She is a proof proof of a culture inside the UN where allegations against Israel become facts.
That is why today I'm calling on the Office of the Secretary-General to launch an official investigation into anti Israel bias among UN officials and in UN reports, an investigation into how anti Semitism is normalized in this institution.
Our hate speech is excused.
Our false allegations against Israel are amplified by those who are supposed to be impartial.
The UN cannot claim to fight anti Semitism and hate speech while its own officials engage with it, excuse it, and spread it.
The time for silence is over.
Thank you.
Ambassador? Yes.
It's Pamela Faulk from US News and World Report.
We will hear from you on this and we'll hear from Ambassador Frazier, apparently.
But can you answer some questions about Beirut and Lebanon campaign Iran the deal maybe deal is up in the air because of it.
How do you see the Lebanon campaign going? I mean, how do you see it ending? We have direct negotiations with the Lebanese government.
We believe in those negotiations.
I think it's very fruitful.
But my question is, why do we need Iran in Lebanon? Why they are engaging? Why they are putting conditions? At the end of the day, Lebanon belongs to the Lebanese people, to the Lebanese government, and for us, we have no desire to stay in Lebanon.
Eventually, we want to pull back to Israel and to allow the Lebanese military to take over those positions.
One thing is for sure, we will not allow Iran and Hezbollah to come back to where they were at our border.
Thank you.
Ambassador Al Masud with the national.
So President Trump last week told reporters he's disappointed Israel can't put Hezbollah away.
And he said that he is close to giving it over to Syria.
Now, after months of war, thousands of casualties, over 1 million displaced and still no Hezbollah disarmament, what's Israel's response? So first, we all know it's very complicated.
You know, we fight with a terrorist organization that hides behind civilians, behind UN officials.
We accomplished a lot.
We pushed Hezbalah to a different locations.
Hezbalah is still in Lebanon, and I think we should look at what we achieved now and make sure that they are not coming back to those positions.
And that is the dialogue we are having with the Lebanese government.
We want to hand them the keys to those locations, but we have to make sure that they are staying there and they are not moving when Hezbollah will try to come back.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Judge