2021 video of Israel’s UN envoy tearing up the UNHRC report is linked to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
October 24, 2023
A video is being shared on social media claiming it as the visuals of an Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) tearing apart the UN Human Rights Council report issued against Israel during the recent UN General Assembly. As per the post, Israel’s UN envoy ripped apart a 20-page notice from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) while delivering his speech at the UN podium. Amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, this video is going viral on social media. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Recent video of Israel’s envoy to the UN tearing up a Human Rights Council report against Israel at the UN General Assembly.
Fact: The post shared a 2021 video of Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, tearing up a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) annual report during an address at the UN General Assembly. The video shared in the post is old and has nothing to do with the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
When we searched for the video using relevant keywords, the same video was found in an article published by ‘The Times of Israel’ on 30 October 2021. They reported that Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, tore up the UN Human Rights annual report during his address at the UN General Assembly podium on 29 October 2021.
During his speech at the UN General Assembly, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, tore up a report by the UN Human Rights Council to demonstrate his strong disapproval of the organization’s perceived bias against Israel. Gilad Erdan tweeted the same video on his ‘X’ handle on 30 October 2021.
Today, I addressed the @UN General Assembly and spoke out against the baseless, one-sided, and outright false accusations from the Human Rights Council's annual report. 1/8 pic.twitter.com/b4YIv2jGaK
Several news sites reported about this dramatic video of Gilad Erdan tearing up the UNHRC report at the UN General Assembly in October 2021. They can be seen here, here, and here.
To sum it up, this video of Israel’s envoy to the UN tearing up a UNHRC report at the UN General Assembly is old and has nothing to do with the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.