ZOA is Appalled by Biden’s Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Shameful Antisemitic Lies at UN Security Council

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:

When President Biden nominated Linda Thomas-Greenfield to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, the ZOA did not place Thomas-Greenfield on ZOA’s huge list of Biden’s hostile-to-Israel nominees and appointees, because Thomas-Greenfield seemed to be relatively reasonable. But Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield’s repeated failure to veto anti-Israel UNSC resolutions since October 7th, and her “Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East” on June 26, 2024, were so full of anti-Israel, antisemitic lies and pronouncements that we now must add her to our “Biden Hostile-to-Israel Appointments Watch” list. We realize that Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield was “just following orders” from the Biden/Blinken administration, but that’s no excuse.

Lie #1: During her UNSC address, Amb. Thomas-Greenfield falsely blamed Jewish “settlers in the “West Bank” for a “deeply alarming” “uptick” in “deadly violence against Palestinian civilians” in 2023-24. In fact, Jewish “settlers in the West Bank” (a pejorative term for Jews living in the lawful and historic Jewish homelands of Judea/Samaria) are not the source of violence. Virtually every Palestinian Arab killed in Judea/Samaria was a terrorist in the midst of attacking Jewish civilians or security forces, including attacking the IDF when the IDF attempted to arrest Palestinian Arab terrorists/murderers in counter-terrorism operations. A very few may have been caught in crossfire between terrorists and the IDF.

Amb. Thomas-Greenfield failed to mention that the real problem is the increased Palestinian Arab deadly violence against Israeli civilians. The U.S. Ambassador also ignored the role of Iran and the Palestinian Authority in financing and inciting this.

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Israel Security Agency data regarding major Palestinian Arab terror attacks on Israelis (excluding the October 7th massacre) is summarized here:

Further information and a few of many examples:

In addition to “lone wolves” incited by the Palestinian Authority’s promotion of terror and financial rewards to terrorists who murder Jews, about 20 armed Palestinian Arab terrorist groups operating throughout Judea and Samaria are carrying out terrorist attacks against Jews. These terror groups are equipped with large weapons and ammunition stockpiles financed by Iran and smuggled in through Jordan. But the only Palestinian Arab violence in the “West Bank” mentioned by the Ambassador during her entire speech was that the U.S. sanctioned one “militant Palestinian group, Lions’ Den.”

According to IDF data reported by JNS, during 2023, there were 608 explosives, ramming, shooting and stabbing attacks by Palestinian Arabs against Jews in Judea/Samaria, a 350% increase over 2022. The 300 shooting attacks by Arabs against Jews in 2023 were the most since the Second Intifada (the bloody Palestinian terror wave in 2000-2005). More than 50 of the 2023 shooting attacks emanated from the terrorist hotspot of Jenin, resulting in an IDF counterterror operation in Jenin. The enormous number of Arab terror attacks emanating from Judea/Samaria diverted IDF attention from the Gaza border.

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reported that, in addition to the vastly increasing numbers of Palestinian Arab attacks against Jews in 2023, supported and incited by the PA, the attacks were more deadly. Palestinian Arab terrorists from Judea/Samaria murdered 43 Israelis in 2023, including 37 civilians and six security forces members. (This toll apparently does not include the Jews murdered by PA brigades in the October 7 massacre.) Many more Jews were wounded. In addition, for the first time, Palestinian Arab terrorists (from Jenin) attempted to shoot rockets at Israeli towns.

During the three-month period between Oct. 7, 2023 and Jan. 15, 2024, the Hatzalah-Judea and Samaria ambulance service recorded more than 2,600 terrorist attacks against Israelis in Judea/Samaria, including 760 cases of rock-throwing, 551 fire bombings, 12 attempted or successful stabbings and nine vehicular assaults.

On April 12, 2024, Palestinian Arabs brutally murdered a 14-year-old Jewish boy, Binyamin Achimeir who was tending sheep, by abducting, knifing and splitting open the Jewish boy’s head with rocks. In addition, Arab terrorists shot and wounded an Israeli civilian and injured three Israeli soldiers who were searching for the Jewish boy after his abduction. An official reported repeated increasing Palestinian Arab violence against Jewish shepherds.

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