A staff member of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), currently hospitalized in Israel after being wounded in Gaza, has been discovered with two prominent Nazi tattoos — raising serious concerns about the ideological affiliations of individuals employed by the U.N.
One tattoo, etched in heavy black German script on one arm, reads Meine Ehre heißt Treue (“My honor is loyalty”) — the official motto of the Waffen SS, which pledged personal allegiance to Adolf Hitler.
On the staffer’s other arm is an even more graphic depiction: a large tattoo of an SS officer’s face, complete with a Nazi officer’s peaked cap, dark sunglasses, and a collar emblazoned with recognizable Nazi insignia.
The staffer was injured in what sources describe as a booby-trap attack in Gaza — likely set by Hamas, not Israel, which was not operating in that area at the time. Nevertheless, the U.N. inexplicably blamed Israel for the incident despite clear indications to the contrary.
Initially treated at a Gaza hospital, the employee was later transferred to an Israeli hospital for further medical care — where hospital staff noticed and reported the tattoos.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N., Danny Danon, immediately issued a letter to Secretary-General António Guterres, calling for a thorough investigation into the staffer’s background and U.N. hiring practices:
“Such antisemitic expressions are unacceptable,” Danon wrote. “We request to know exactly what the U.N. will be doing to expunge blatant expressions of Jew-hatred among its employees.”
Danon emphasized the hypocrisy of an organization founded in the wake of the Holocaust harboring individuals bearing Nazi imagery:
“As a representative of an international institution that had been established in the wake of World War II by the Allies to uphold international peace in a post-Nazi world, this is unacceptable and deeply concerning.”
Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the Secretary-General, told JNS that he was aware of a tweet showing the tattoos but had no further details — including the staffer’s identity.
“Our focus right now is getting medical care for the wounded people,” Haq said.
But human rights experts and Jewish advocacy groups say this incident is far from isolated — and reflects a much deeper rot within the global body.
Daniel Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS:
“This becomes part of a larger tableau of anti-Israel, antisemitic activity in the U.N. system. It is well long past time for the organization to forcefully and meaningfully address it.”
Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of U.N. Watch, agreed:
“Sadly, this is not an isolated phenomenon. Antisemitism pervades the United Nations. On April 1, the U.N.’s top human rights body is planning to renew Francesca Albanese for another three-year term as an investigator targeting Israel — even after she was condemned by France, Germany, Canada, and the United States for antisemitism and Holocaust distortion.”
Neuer, who recently gave a talk in Montreal about the UN’s hostile posture toward Israel, leads UN Watch, a Geneva-based NGO that monitors U.N. bias and human rights abuses. In his remarks, he highlighted how deeply entrenched anti-Israel sentiment has become in the institution.
He also noted that Albanese, formerly with UNRWA, once claimed in a public fundraising letter that “America is subjugated by the Jewish lobby.”
Neuer noted that Albanese, formerly with UNRWA, once claimed in a public fundraising letter that “America is subjugated by the Jewish lobby.”
Arsen Ostrovsky, CEO of the International Legal Forum, condemned the staffer’s tattoos in stark terms:
“If it wasn’t enough working side-by-side with Hamas and helping maintain the ongoing captivity of hostages, now U.N. officials are also carrying the tattoos of the Waffen SS death squad. The United Nations was created in the wake of the Holocaust, upon the ashes of the 6 million Jews murdered. Today, it has become the world’s foremost purveyor of antisemitism, seeking to carry out the indistinguishable agenda of Hamas and Hitler.”
The U.N. has already come under fire for extensive ties to Hamas. Israel has provided evidence that multiple UNRWA staff participated in the October 7 terror attacks. A significant number of UNRWA employees are reported to have affiliations with designated Palestinian terror groups.
In 2024, Jewish U.N. employees speaking anonymously with JNS confirmed that antisemitism and anti-Israel propaganda are not just tolerated but “completely organized and supported at the highest level by the U.N.” Many said they actively hide their Jewish identity out of fear.
“Lots of people are hiding the fact that they’re Jewish,” one employee said. “They’re not saying they’re Jewish out of fear.”
The U.N. Mine Action Service (UNMAS), established in 1997, operates under the Department of Peace Operations and is tasked with eliminating landmines, unexploded ordnance, and IEDs. But in light of this discovery, serious questions are now being asked about how thoroughly the U.N. vets those it sends into conflict zones — and what ideological allegiances they might be carrying under their sleeves.
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