(June 24, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
Danny Danon, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, is calling for the removal of a senior U.N. official, accusing her of anti-Israel bias, amplifying antisemitic content and repeatedly promoting unverified claims about the Jewish state.<\/p>\n
The dispute stems from a heated confrontation on June 19 between Danon and Vanessa Frazier, the U.N. special representative for children and armed conflict and Malta\u2019s former U.N. ambassador. During a U.N. event marking the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, Frazier repeatedly interrupted Danon as he challenged the findings of a report by Pramila Patten, the U.N. secretary-general\u2019s special representative on sexual violence in conflict. Reuters reported that the exchange escalated into a shouting match.<\/p>\n
Danon criticized Patten\u2019s recent report, which for the first time placed Israeli security forces on the U.N.\u2019s annual blacklist of parties suspected of conflict-related sexual violence, alongside groups such as Hamas, ISIS and Boko Haram. Israel has strongly rejected the allegations.<\/p>\n
Patten had conceded to the media that it is not the job of her office to verify claims in the report, and Danon accused her of acquiescing to demands by U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres to blacklist Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
Frazier broke protocol by shouting at Danon in defense of her co-worker, with the envoy telling her to be quiet or leave.<\/p>\n
The clash resurfaced on Wednesday before the U.N. Security Council\u2019s annual debate on children and armed conflict, where Frazier was scheduled to brief member states on the secretary-general\u2019s latest report. The report again included Israel in its annexes for alleged grave violations against children during armed conflict.<\/p>\n
\u201cVanessa Frazier believed she would arrive at the Security Council to present yet another biased report against Israel,\u201d Danon told reporters before the meeting. \u201cBut before she even began speaking, her true record came to light.\u201d<\/p>\n
Danon highlighted a series of Frazier\u2019s social-media posts as examples of her engaging with antisemitic content online.<\/p>\n
Among them was an exchange on X following last week\u2019s confrontation. After an account responded to a Danon post with an Israeli flag altered to include a swastika, Frazier replied: \u201cI look forward to constructive engagement\u2014together we can eliminate this scourge and do justice to all victims and survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Danon also pointed to a March social-media post in which Frazier shared<\/a> a photograph from Iran\u2019s 2022 protest crackdown while suggesting it depicted children killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes. While the post was deleted, Frazier later shared<\/a> almost the same text\u2014minus \u201cceasefire now\u201d\u2014this time with a new photo from a BBC article.<\/p>\n A social-media user with no bio and 18 followers wrote, \u201cWell said, Vanessa. Genocide of innocent children. No ifs and buts by Zionists.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf they are attacking the photo and not the message, then it is clear that my message was strong,\u201d the U.N. official wrote in response. \u201cPlus the photo was still representative of the result of the attack\u2014bodies in bags\u2014whether it was from that attack or not.\u201d<\/p>\n