Yemini Attacks UNHRC in Support of Israel

Luai Ahmed, a Muslim and native of Yemen, arrived in Geneva to figuratively spit in the face of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk. And he did it out of outrage—on behalf of Israel.

Here’s an excerpt from Ahmed’s speech (translated from the official UN transcript), which left an unforgettable impression on Palestinian advocates but was conveniently ignored by the global media:

*“I address the UN, the Arab League, and everyone who has been waving the Palestinian flag since October 7: where is the flag of Yemen? Where is the flag of my country, where half a million people have died in the past 10 years?

The greatest famine and humanitarian crisis of modern history—why does no one care when half a million Arabs die in Yemen?

What about Sudan? In less than two years, more than 150,000 people have been killed there. Where is the Sudanese flag?

What about Syria? Half a million people have been slaughtered. Where is the Syrian flag?

Mr. High Commissioner, why is it that when Arabs kill millions of Arabs, the world doesn’t even blink? Where is the outrage? Where are the protests?

Mr. High Commissioner, may I ask why, in your latest report (the Global Human Rights Situation report published on February 24, 2025), Israel is mentioned 188 times, yet the Islamic Republic of Iran is not mentioned even once?

How can you speak about this conflict while ignoring the side that armed, trained, and financed its proxies—Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis—who have launched thousands of attacks on Israel?

Why do you fail to mention that the Houthis in Yemen spent millions of dollars firing rockets at Israel instead of feeding my starving people?

Mr. High Commissioner, why is Qatar sitting here as a respected member of the Human Rights Council while it hosts Hamas leaders in luxury hotels and pampers them like honored guests?

What is your answer? Your answer is… silence.”*

➤ Luai Ahmed was born in 1993 in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen.

He recalls that as a child, he attended a mosque where, at the end of every prayer, the congregation would chant: “May Allah destroy Israel, kill the Jews, and make the Zionists orphans.”

Later, he moved to Sweden—a country that, to put it mildly, is not particularly friendly toward Israel. But it was there, he says, that his eyes were opened.

Luai became a columnist for the Swedish newspaper Bulletin and, in 2021, published his book “The Paradoxical Journey of a Refugee: From Sharia to the Rainbow,” where he explored modern antisemitism.

On October 7, 2023, he wrote a heartfelt post that gained him 190,000 new followers overnight. A month later, he traveled to Israel in a show of solidarity. And from there, he headed straight to Geneva—to take the fight for truth to the UN Human Rights Council.