…Israeli PM Brands Boycotting Delegations ‘Moral Cowards’, Rejects Genocide Allegations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the 81st United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, September 24, 2026, delivering a defiant speech that rejected allegations of genocide in Gaza and defended Israel’s military campaigns, even as scores of delegates walked out in protest.
CDA News Nigeria reports that as Netanyahu took the podium, representatives from nearly all predominantly Arab and Muslim nations left the General Assembly hall together, joined by multiple African, European, and Latin American delegations. The mass walkout followed a message from the Palestinian Mission to the UN urging member states to “collectively walk out” once Netanyahu was announced.
CDA News Nigeria gathered that Netanyahu responded by calling those who left “moral cowards.” “If there are any other moral cowards who have not yet left the hall, please do so now,” he said at the opening of his address.
Below is the full text of Netanyahu’s speech as published by Punch Newspapers and The Times of Israel :
Ladies and gentlemen,
And listen, two days ago… I say this to my colleague Emmanuel Macron. Two days ago, three days ago, a French citizen, Netanel Shukrun, a father of six, was gunned down when he visited a spring with his 16-year-old son. And a Hamas terrorist in Judea and Samaria came and fired point-blank at him. And the last words he uttered: “Flee, flee, son. Save yourself.”
That was three days ago. Two days ago, in Judea and Samaria, a reserve officer, a reserve soldier, Neria Leiter, was mowed down by a Palestinian terrorist. He is fighting for his life now in a Jerusalem hospital.
I visited the family right before I boarded the plane to come here.
Neria, a father of four, is the son of Yechiel Leiter, our brilliant ambassador to the United States.
Three years ago, Yechiel’s oldest son, Moshe, a father of six, was killed while clearing a booby-trapped building in Gaza.
Yechiel, my brother, your pain is immeasurable.
The entire people of Israel, and many outside of Israel, are praying for Neria’s life.
But despite the pain, despite the agony, we do not give in.
In a recent post before he was attacked, Neria wrote this: “We have no other country. It is a privilege to defend it.”
To Neria, and to all of the heroes of Israel, I pledge a sacred vow:
Your sacrifice will not be in vain. We will continue to defend our state. We will continue to win. Because we have no other choice.
In this battle against the barbarians, we’ve had no greater partner than President Trump.
I thank him for his bold leadership. He boldly confronted an enormous danger to America, Israel, and the world.
Decades ago, he understood that if left unchallenged, the fanatic ayatollahs who chant “Death to America! Death to Israel!” would eventually carry out their mad fantasies.
So Israel and America acted together not only to protect ourselves, but to save civilisation.
Brave American pilots alongside brave Israeli pilots flew joint missions over the skies of Iran.
America and Israel also worked together to bring back our remaining hostages.
We brought back every last one of them.
You ask, why are we winning?
Yoni said it simply.
Throughout this long war, our goal never wavered: To win!
To win with unwavering resolve. To win with unrelenting courage. Because this is Israel.
One nation fighting for one future.
Left and right. Young and old. Religious and secular.
Do we have our differences?
Of course we do. Who doesn’t?
But in the critical moments, those moments that shape our destiny, we stand together, because what unites us is so much stronger: our history, our values, our courage.
The courage of our brave people who withstood 1,000 massive ballistic missiles that Iran rained down on our cities, on our civilians.
You’re sitting here, in the General Assembly Hall of the U.N. Do you know what one ton, just one, one-ton ballistic missile would do if it hit this place? It would obliterate the entire compound. In fact, two such missiles would obliterate the U.N.
So you can imagine, think about one thousand gigantic missiles falling from the skies on your cities, on your homes.
I salute the courage of the people of Israel. I salute the courage of our brave soldiers—Jews, Christian, Druze, Muslim. The most moral army in the world, the IDF.
For three years, they have been valiantly fighting a seven-front war.
But there is an eighth front to this war. It’s the war for truth.
It is waged in the world’s media, and most perniciously, in social media.
Several foreign countries have spent untold billions to spread lies about my country.
The first to do so was Qatar.
Decades ago, it started massively funding American universities and toxic media outlets like Al Jazeera. They did the same in Europe, by the way.
Their goal was clear. Brainwash young minds to hate Israel, hate America, and hate the West.
This is the same Qatar that hosts the Hamas butchers of Oct. 7.
The latest country to become a super-spreader of antisemitic lies is Turkey. (Recep Tayyip) Erdoğan is a tyrant who also hosts the Hamas terror chiefs.
He has murdered thousands…
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