A top United Nations official is once again under fire for smearing Israel by sharing a social media message originally posted by a woman facing charges of incitement to terror and expressing support of Hamas.
On June 18, U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Vanessa Frazier reposted an image of three small objects which the original poster, Sarah Wilkinson, claimed were cluster munitions “disguised as childrens toys” that Israelis had been “strategically dropping” over Lebanon. In her own post, Frazier stated, “If this is true it means that there is a deliberate, premeditated intent to kill children.”
Frazier, who has over 10,000 followers on X, has since deleted the post, but a screenshot of the original was provided to Fox News Digital.
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In response to questions about whether United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stood behind Frazier’s repost of Wilkinson’s remarks, Guterres’ spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told Fox News Digital that “the retweet was deleted a while ago and, as you know, [the] retweet in no way implies an endorsement of the person who posted the original tweet.”
Andrew Fox a senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital that “it is farcical that a U.N. official should be so gullible.”Â
Fox, a former British army officer who has studied and written about Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tactics, said it was “deeply telling that a U.N. official should leap to share the ancient, antisemitic blood libel that Jews kill children. This is the toxic atmosphere that nearly three years of lies have created around Israel. Any allegation against the Jewish state, no matter how outlandish, is immediately given credence. This is another nail in the coffin of the U.N. Special Representatives credibility and reputation.”
An IDF spokesman told Fox News Digital that the “allegation is baseless and unfounded. It is fake news, and we categorically reject it.”
The original poster of the cluster munitions accusation was arrested in the United Kingdom on terror charges in 2024, according to the World Socialist Web Site. The site, as well as Al Mayadeen English, â Hezbollahs media arm – link Wilkinson to the social media profile on X which shared the post Frazier elevated.
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The BBC reported last week that Wilkinson will face trial in January on “two counts of
