Palestinian President's Key-Shaped Suit Pin At UN Draws Israeli Ire: 'Unmistakable Symbol'

Last Updated:September 25, 2025, 20:47 IST

89-year-old Palestinian leader delivered his speech to the UNGA via video after the United States denied him a visa to attend in person

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sparked a sharp reaction from Israel after wearing a small, key-shaped lapel pin during his video address to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.

The symbolic accessory, worn on his suit, was interpreted by Israel as a political message, one it described as an “unmistakable symbol" of erasing Israel.

The 89-year-old Palestinian leader delivered his speech to the UNGA via video after the United States denied him a visa to attend in person.

On Thursday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry shared a screenshot of Abbas’s virtual address on X, showing the key-shaped pin on his suit, accompanied by a strongly worded statement.

“The dangerous duplicity of Mahmoud Abbas. In his speech addressing the UN General Assembly he wore a “key" pin – an unmistakable symbol of his goal of erasing Israel," the ministry wrote.

The ministry further continued, “While Hamas called the October 7 massacre the “Al-Aqsa Flood", Abbas wants his own flood under the guise of two states: millions of descendants of Arabs who left Israel in 1948 pushed into Israel to erase the only Jewish State."

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