Ron Prosor Slams Global Silence on Terror

In a statement that has rocked the international community, Israel’s Ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, issued a blistering condemnation of a world that has grown more and more indifferent to terrorism and antisemitism. “Nurses admit to having murdered Israeli patients.” Kanye West is selling swastika T-shirts as if it’s 1933. No, we are not in a history class. We are in 2025,” Prosor said. His words are as straightforward as they are terrifying, sketching a stark image of contemporary barbarity.

Ron Prosor is far more than just an ambassador. Born on 11 October 1958 in Kfar Saba, Israel, Prosor is a veteran diplomat who has worked for almost three decades with Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prosor has served as Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2011–2015) and Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2007–2011). Now Israel’s Ambassador to Germany and director of the Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy at IDC Herzliya, Prosor is a passionate defender of the Jewish state whose own life is a testament to Israel’s staying power.

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Ambassador Prosor’s remarks follow a series of shocking incidents. A video from a Sydney hospital depicts nurses shamelessly stating that they would kill, not cure, Israeli patients, a deplorable statement that was followed by the words “send these dogs straight to hell.”

Meanwhile, Kanye West, whose long record of antisemitic statements is well known, has been in the news again peddling swastika T-shirts for the Super Bowl, one of the world’s most viewed sporting events. These actions, set against the worldwide silence and the lack of outrage, have left Prosor and the Israeli nation as a whole shocked.

“Antisemitism is flourishing, not just at the fringes, but in campuses, in the media, and in the cultural hubs,” Prosor admonished, lamenting the phenomenon of hate disguised as activism. “They no longer whisper, because there is no price to pay, no penalty to dread.” His words cut through the facade of liberal tolerance today to reveal a stark reality in which hate is not only accepted but runs amok.

To the national mourning, there is added the heart-breaking story of three Israeli hostages, Ohad Ben-Ami, Or Levy, and Eli Sharabi, released after 16 months of captivity in the most barbaric conditions in Gaza. One hostage recalled emotionally, “I was chained in a tunnel for 15 months,” describing being in complete darkness with no light or air, a fate that seems torn from the pages of the worst atrocities of history.

These men, starved, beaten, and even suspended upside down while their captors all but drowned them with cloth, are living testimony to Hamas brutality. Their gaunt frames and sunken eyes irresistibly call to mind Holocaust survivors. For Eli Sharabi, the pain is made all the more personal by a loss beyond understanding: his wife, Lianne, and their two children were savagely killed on October 7, 2023, in an attack at Kibbutz Be’eri.

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The release itself was a macabre spectacle. The hostages were made to address their captors in thanks on a Gaza stage in a grisly show aimed at humiliation. They wore olive-green uniforms that dishonestly suggested soldierhood and were marched in front of a howling mob of masked militants, compelled to make rehearsed pronouncements about the “good treatment” they had received, a degrading charade that has left the world reeling.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog went on social media to announce, “This is what a crime against humanity looks like!” and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged, “We will do everything to bring our hostages home.” In a country already traumatized by loss, these images have sparked a firestorm of emotion and a desperate call to action.

Along with the individual tragedies, there is also the larger cultural rot. Kanye West’s frequent adventures in antisemitism, long excused as off-the-cuff outbursts, are now a troubling trend. West has gone from comments on the Jewish and Black communities’ financial networks in 2013 to public declarations of “I’m going death con 3 on Jewish people” and declaring himself a Nazi. West’s behavior has acted as a rallying cry for hate groups all over the globe. Big corporations have shunned him in the past, but his re-emergence on the world stage represents a breakdown of corporate and media accountability.

Likewise, a Sydney video that went viral showing nurses endangering the lives of Jewish patients is proof of a dangerous normalization of hate. Although there was quick action by local officials to suspend the perpetrators and launch investigations, the event is characteristic of a deeper ailment, a societal acceptance of antisemitism that needs to be confronted squarely.

Ron Prosor’s message is one of sorrow but also unyielding resolve. It is a call to the world to learn from history and act firmly against those who seek to repeat its darkest pages. With his storied career, marked by uncompromising advocacy and an unyielding commitment to Israel’s security and honor, Prosor embodies the heart of a people who have overcome unimaginable suffering.