a bad day at the un for satanyahu;

 

 In New York the chairs sat empty, but the message rang out clear. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rose to address the 81st United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, representatives from dozens of nations rose too, only to walk straight out the door, leaving a chamber that emptied fast and filled instead with silence where applause once lived. Blocks away, thousands of demonstrators pressed against police barricades outside UN headquarters in Manhattan, their chants rattling the glass towers as officers hauled more than 100 people away in handcuffs. Something has shifted. The old choreography of quiet diplomatic disapproval, careful statements and polite handshakes has given way to open, physical rejection, and the scale of it suggests this is no fringe movement but a widening current of global realization turning decisively against the government of Israel and the American power that arms it.

Key points:

• Delegates from dozens of nations, estimated by regional outlets at roughly 70, walked out of or skipped Netanyahu's Sept. 24 address to the UN General Assembly.
• Netanyahu branded the departing diplomats "moral cowards" and dismissed genocide allegations as "the biggest lie of the century".
• More than 100 protesters, including actors Susan Sarandon and Hannah Einbinder, were detained near UN headquarters.
• A Pew Research Center survey found American disapproval of Israel's government climbed from 43% in 2022 to 62% by May 2026.
• Gaza's Health Ministry puts the war's death toll near 74,000 since October 2023, with more than 1,400 killed since an October 2025 ceasefire supposedly took hold........more...........