Credit: By Gary Raynaldo  /  Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was seriously injured in an anti-Semitic attack at Chabad of Poway, Calif. with Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon at UN world headquarters in New York June 26, 2019.  Rabbi Goldstein’s hands still heavily bandaged from being shot during the attack.

By Gary Raynaldo      DIPLOMATIC TIMES

UNITED NATIONS   –  Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was seriously injured in a deadly domestic terror attack at Chabad of Poway, Calif., addressed the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday in a special session devoted to rising anti-Semitism around the world. The Rabbi was invited at the personal request of Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon. Goldstein lost an index finger in the shooting.

It is time “to tackle the tsunami of hatred that is so visible and violence across the world today,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, at a special discussion by the UN General Assembly on the growing threat of antisemitism. 

Israel Ambassador To UN  Calls On World To Declare War on Antisemitism 

DIPLOMATIC TIMES VIDEO / Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks at press conference outside UN General Assembly June 26, 2019, with Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the rabbi who was injured in a terrorist attack at the Chabad of Poway in San Diego last month. 

Anti-Semitism Is not Just a Jewish Issue, It Is a World Issue:  Rabbi Goldstein

DIPLOMATIC TIMES VIDEO / Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the rabbi who was injured in a terrorist attack at the Chabad of Poway in San Diego last month at United Nations in New York June 26, 2019

“We are here  to show our face to what anti-Semitism has  done and what we’re going to do to fight it,” Rabbi Goldstein said before he addressed the UN General Assembly.  “And the way we fight it is not defeating it with darkness, but rather defeating it with light, and pushing away the darkness. Today, we are going to stand in this house of the United Nations and we are going to be a light, not just a light  onto the  nations, but a light  to the world, so the world can see and know that anti-semitism  is not just a Jewish issue but it’s a world issue. And today, we are going to take whatever it takes to eradicate it.”

-Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein

Credit:   By Gary Raynaldo /  Left to Right: Hannah Kaye and Rnadi Grossman (the daughter and sister of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, respectively),  Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon with Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein.  Lori Gilbert-Kaye, a 60-year-old mother, was killed in the terror attack  at the San Diego County synagogue. Rabbi Goldstein’s hands are still heavily bandaged from being shot during the attack.

Hannah Kaye and Rnadi Grossman, the daughter and sister of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was killed in the San Diego synagogue, also attended the UN General Assembly event Wednesday. 

“Lori Kaye  did not deserve to die because she came to the synagogue to pray, She was a wonderful and kind person. The reason why she died was because she was a Jew. The reason why I got shot was because I was a Jew.”

-Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein address to UN General Assembly June 26, 2019