Israel Launches UN 'Lies Industry' Campaign Featuring Parrot Video

Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, in collaboration with the National Public Diplomacy Directorate, has launched a new campaign titled "The UN's Lies Industry." The campaign aims to expose what it calls systematic and false bias against Israel within the United Nations.

The campaign's centerpiece is a video depicting the UN General Assembly hall filled with parrots representing different nations. These parrots repeatedly chant "Blame Israel," amplifying the accusation until the entire hall echoes with the phrase. The video concludes with the message, "Repeating lies doesn’t make them true," and directs viewers to a campaign website detailing alleged UN falsehoods and biases.

The website, developed with the National Security Council, compiles information on how biased data about Israel is collected, institutionalized, and disseminated globally, particularly since the October 7th attacks. It addresses topics such as information manipulation, anti-Israel organizational culture, false claims of starvation in Gaza, Hamas infiltration of UNRWA, and the creation of a "genocide" narrative. The site also includes testimonies from UN sources about internal silencing and persecution.

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli stated that the UN General Assembly has become a "sounding board for libels against Israel," and that the campaign visually represents this "culture of recitation." He emphasized that repeated lies do not become truth and vowed to continue exposing facts countering the anti-Israel chorus.

Public Diplomacy Directorate head Tzipi Hotoveli added that many false blood libels against Israel originate from UN reports, citing the false starvation campaign in Gaza as one example. She asserted that the campaign aims to present truth and facts to dismantle the lies against Israel.