Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon and the Foreign Ministry blasted UN Secretary-General António Guterres for condemning Israel while ignoring Syrian atrocities against the Druze.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, unleashed a blistering condemnation of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, accusing him of moral failure and willful blindness amid the brutal massacre of Druze civilians in Syria.
Guterres, instead of confronting the atrocities committed by the Syrian regime, chose once again to attack Israel. In a statement he issued earlier in the day, the UN chief claimed he was “alarmed” by the situation in Syria but then diverted blame, stating, “I condemn Israel’s escalatory airstrikes and reports of the IDF’s redeployment of forces in the Golan. I call for an immediate cessation of all violations of Syria’s sovereignty & territorial integrity.”
Danon responded with fury: “Antonio Guterres continues to expose his moral bankruptcy. While the Druze community is being butchered in Syria, he says nothing. Instead, he vilifies the only democracy in the region actively fighting evil.”
Danon reminded the global community of the UN’s disgraceful pattern of silence: “The UN didn’t utter a word after the Hamas massacre on October 7th. Now, as Druze civilians are slaughtered by the Syrian regime, the UN again retreats into silence. It’s not diplomacy—it’s complicity.”
The IDF had earlier launched airstrikes against the Syrian regime’s central command and the presidential palace in Damascus, targeting military infrastructure directly linked to the violent campaign against Druze citizens in southern Syria.
UN criticism of Israel has become a consistent refrain under Guterres’s leadership, particularly in the wake of Israel’s counterterrorism operations in Gaza, Lebanon, and Yemen. His infamous remark that Hamas’s October 7th massacre “did not happen in a vacuum” drew outrage from global leaders and Israeli officials, who saw it as an attempt to blame the victim.
More recently, after Israel resumed military operations against Hamas, Guterres again voiced outrage—not at the terrorists who rejected ceasefire offers and hoarded aid—but at Israel’s efforts to defend its people.
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Oren Marmorstein did not hold back: “We are outraged that you, Antonio Guterres, are the Secretary-General of the UN. Not a word from you on Hamas rejecting two U.S.-backed ceasefire deals. Not a word about UNRWA employing Hamas terrorists. Not a word about hostages. You are morally bankrupt.”
