At the U.N. General Assembly last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had lots to say in his speech. His agenda included the undeserved recognition of a Palestinian state, the wicked Jew-hatred in the United Nations, and the celebration of Israel’s and America’s hard-fought victories over Iran and its proxies.

In addition, Netanyahu—wearing a button pin with a QR code on his coat lapel—reminded a mostly empty chamber about the casus belli for the Gaza war. In the intervening two years since Oct. 7, most of the world has been raging against Israel and forgotten the horrors of that day. They have been persuaded by a disinformation campaign inverting the story and casting Israel as the oppressor. The QR code button, for those who click on it, connects to a website that reveals gruesome images from the Oct. 7 atrocities carried out by Hamas and Palestinians. The website offers a warning about the graphic materials.

Maybe Netanyahu’s intention to remind the haters of what transpired on that day stems from his awareness of this sacred season. After all, the recitation of the Yizkor prayer is the chance to ask God to remember the souls of those who have departed. Some prayers are for deceased family members, and some are for the Jewish martyrs who died across the centuries for their faith.

Was the use of a QR code button a remembrance prayer of sorts for the tragedy of Oct. 7? Netanyahu’s singular voice, albeit resolute, must compete with the decibels from Qatar’s massively funded propaganda campaign. He must stand up to the mobs who praise the Palestinians and Hamas, including Jews, and proclaim foolishness about rivers and seas. He needs to rouse the disinterested and uninformed about the 1,200 people murdered and the more than 250 kidnapped—50 still languishing in Gaza. He needs to counter the virtue-signaling from a pack, including mainstream media, of Hollywood’s boycotters, opportunistic politicians and the woke/progressive brainwashed.

The U.N. functionaries and diplomats, as well as most of the world, have been fed a steady diet of lies about bombed hospitals, casualty reports, genocide and famine. Not surprisingly, the Jew-hating United Nations largely ignored the realities of the murders, rapes, burnings, torture and kidnappings, the proof of which is available via the QR code on Netanyahu’s pin. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees all proved to be, at best, disingenuous and, at worst, conspirators with blood on their hands.

The book No Mercy impactfully documents the cruelty of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel. It was created by Ilan Greenfield of Gefen Publishing House, who gifted a copy to the prime minister during a Yom Hazikaron memorial for fallen soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu made a specific reference to the book, so perhaps the QR display was influenced by that as well.

On the same day as Netanyahu’s U.N. speech, the movie “Bau, Artist at War” opened in limited theatrical release. It tells the story of a Holocaust survivor, Joseph Bau, and his experiences in the death camps and life afterward.

Both the movie and the QR code button serve as visualization tools to help remind the world about Jewish suffering and the impact of antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

Source: JNS