Danny Danon Clashes With UN Officials Over Israel Blacklisting Report at Heated Hearing

By Aditya Nagar | June 20, 2026

Danny Danon Clashes with UN Officials: A United Nations public hearing on Friday turned into a heated argument between an Israeli diplomat and top UN officials.

The argument began when Israel’s UN Ambassador, Danny Danon, called for Pramila Patten to step down during the meeting in New York.

Patten serves as the UN secretary-general’s special representative on sexual violence in conflict.

Danny Danon Clashes with UN Officials: Tensions Flare as Israeli Envoy Confronts UN Official Over Blacklisting Report

UN Blacklist Israel: Patten recently wrote a report that, for the first time, put Israel on a UN blacklist for alleged conflict-related sexual violence violations.

When she and Danon met at the hearing for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, tensions rose.

"You caved to the secretary-general's obsession with targeting Israel," Danon said, referring to UN chief Antonio Guterres.

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‘’You Will Be Quiet Now’’: Danon Hits Back as Frazier Defends Her Office's Findings

Danny Danon Clashes with UN Officials: Vanessa Frazier, Guterres’ representative for children and armed conflict, interrupted to raise a point of order and accused Danon of making "personal attacks."

Frazier defended her office's findings, calling the evidence solid and confirmed. Danon responded sharply, telling the UN official to be quiet.

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Danny Danon vs UN Officials: The Israeli envoy told the UN official that as a member state representative, she would not stay silent, and dismissed the official's report as shameful.

"We know why you took this position. We will not allow you to be part of this shameful campaign. I will finish my words," he continued as Frazier interrupted, and meeting organizers called for order.

He snapped that if she didn't want to listen, she should go out.

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Danny Danon clashes with UN officials: This tense exchange and break from diplomatic norms showed Israel’s growing anger over several UN reports accusing Israeli forces of violations during the war.

Frazier’s report, released this week for Guterres, warned that Israeli settler groups could also be added to a global blacklist for serious violations against children.

Palestinian Children Report: The report highlighted what the UN chief called a “staggering” rise in violations against Palestinian children.

Israel War Crimes Allegations: Israel Reportedly Added to UN's "List of Shame"; Danon Calls Report a "New Low"

Danny Danon Clashes with UN Officials: Israel has reportedly already been placed on the report's so-called "list of shame" annexes over alleged violations against children.

Last month, after Patten’s report came out, Danon called the findings politically motivated.

"This is a political decision! Disconnected from the facts and reality!" he wrote on X, calling the report "a new low".

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry also said it would cut ties with Guterres, whose second and final term as secretary-general ends later this year.

Both Patten’s and Frazier’s reports also mention Hamas, the Palestinian militant group behind the October 7 attack on Israel that started the Gaza war.

In his annual report on conflict-related sexual violence presented to the UN Security Council last August, Guterres cautioned Israel and Russia that they might be placed on the list of parties suspected on credible grounds of carrying out or bearing responsibility for patterns of rape or other sexual violence.

Danny Danon Clashes with UN Officials: The UN chief said the warning was based on "significant concerns regarding patterns of certain forms of sexual violence that have been consistently documented" by the organization. Danon rejected the allegations at the time as unfounded.

Quick Facts: Who Is Danny Danon?

Danny Danon was appointed as Israel’s 17th Permanent Representative to the United Nations in October 2015.

Danon was born in Israel, served as a Lieutenant in the IDF, and led the Marva volunteer program.

He earned a B.A. in International Relations from F.I.U. with magna cum laude honors, an M.A. in Public Policy and Public Administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and also studied at the Hebrew University Law School.

Danon served as a member of the Knesset from February 2009 to August 2015.

During this period, he was Deputy Speaker of the 18th Knesset and chaired the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

He participated in several committees, such as Labour, Welfare and Health; House; Constitution, Law and Justice; Foreign Affairs and Defence; Education, Culture and Sports; Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs; the Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality; and the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

From March 2013 to July 2014, he was Deputy Minister of Defence.

In May 2015, he became Minister of Science, Technology and Space, a role he held until his appointment as Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations in August 2015.

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