Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, has appeared before the United Nations Security Council with a yellow star of David on the lapel to demand an explicit condemnation of the Hamas attacks, in a gesture that has raised controversy and that has not pleased the director of the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. “[El gesto] dishonors both the victims of the Holocaust and the State of Israel“, criticized Dani Dayan.

Erdan, who has criticized the inaction of the UN and has even demanded the resignation of its secretary general, António Guterresattended the last meeting of the Security Council wearing a star that read: “Never more”. “From now on, my team and I will wear yellow stars. We will do so until you condemn the atrocities of Hamas and ask for the immediate release of the hostages,” said the ambassador, with allusions to the Holocaust and direct mockery of the Security Council.

Thus, he has asked whether the main executive body of the UN would have debated the supplies that arrived in Munich if it had existed on the day of the Normandy Landings, in 1944. He has also criticized the comparison of casualty figures in the ranks Israelis and Palestinians, assuring that it would be like putting under the same prism the British and German victims in the Second World War, and has assured that asking for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is equivalent, in historical terms, to demanding that Russia not advance before the battle of Stalingrad.

However, the historical allusions have upset Holocaust Museum director Dani Dayan, who believes the use of the Star of David “dishonors” the victims of the persecution undertaken by Nazi Germany. In this sense, he has said that it is a symbol of hopelessness and has claimed that Israel is now “an independent country” with a “strong Army”: “We are not defenseless or at the mercy of others.” “We are owners of our destiny. We put a white and blue flag on our lapel, not a yellow patch,” he stated on social networks.