Melanie Phillips
JNS, Feb. 28, 2025
“Yet with the Jewish haters of Israel and Judaism, this takes on a pathological form. They obsessively seek to expunge Jewish particularism from themselves and the world. The damage they have done is incalculable.”
Noa Argamani, the Israeli hostage who was rescued from Gaza by the Israel Defence Forces last June, addressed the UN Security Council this week. She spoke about being abducted into a “world of torture and humiliation,” where she tried to comfort two small girls who had been dragged with her into the darkness of the Hamas tunnels and where she saw her fellow hostage, Itai Svirsky, brutally murdered.
Her boyfriend, Avinatan Or who was dragged into the Gaza Strip with her, remains in captivity. Of the 63 remaining hostages, 36 are believed to be dead.
Argamani’s raw testimony was a necessary corrective to the unconscionable indifference in the halls of the United Nations to Israeli suffering, and its shocking embrace of Israel’s genocidal attackers.
Shortly afterward, however, someone else addressed the Security Council. This was Daniel Levy, the British former Israeli peace negotiator and now president of the US/Middle East Project think tank. ….SOURCE