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((short description|Derogatory Hebrew/Israeli term for United Nations))
[[File:The United Nations Secretariat Building.jpg|thumb|"Um-Shmum", UN headquarters in New York]]
'''Um-Shmum''' (((lang-he|או"ם שמום)) ((IPA-he|ˈ(ʔ)um ˈʃmum)), where ''um'' is the Hebrew acronymic pronunciation for "[[U.N.]]",<ref>((Script/Hebrew|או"ם)) pronounced "um", acronym for ((Script/Hebrew|אומות)) (pr. "umot") "nations, peoples", and ((Script/Hebrew|מאוחדות)) (pr. "m'ukhadot") "united"; "the U.N." is ((Script/Hebrew|האומות המאוחדות)) (pronounced "ha-umot ha-m'ukhadot").</ref> and the [[Shm-reduplication|"shm"-prefix]] signifies dismissal, contempt or irony) is a phrase coined by the Israeli [[Ministry of Defense (Israel)|Minister of Defense]] (and former [[Prime Minister of Israel|Prime Minister]]) [[David Ben-Gurion]] on March 29, 1955 during a cabinet debate  regarding his plan to take the [[Gaza Strip]] from [[Egypt]] in response to the increasing [[Palestinian fedayeen|fedayeen]] [[terror attack]]s on Israel.

The expression has become part of Hebrew street dialect.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LDXQAgAAQBAJ&dq=umm+shmum&pg=PA106 Ethos Clash in Israeli society, Eyal Levin]</ref>

==History==
The original expression was uttered as a response to Prime Minister [[Moshe Sharett]], who had stated in the previous cabinet session that if it hadn't been for the [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine#The vote|UN resolution of 1947]], the State of Israel would not have been founded. According to Sharett's account in his diary, Ben-Gurion shouted: "Not at all! Only the daring of the Jews founded this country, and not some ''Um-Shmum'' resolution."<ref>Moshe Sharett, ''Yoman ishi'' [=Personal Diary], vol. 3, Tel-Aviv: Sifriyat Ma'ariv, 1978, p. 874 (Hebrew).</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ejIZCgAAQBAJ&dq=umm+shmum&pg=PA202 The Mortality and Morality of Nations: Jews, Afrikaners, and French-Canadians, Uriel Abulof]</ref>

The term expresses contempt for the institutional-political importance of the United Nations, and denotes a feeling among many members of the  Israeli public that the UN's policies towards Israel are biased and unfair.<ref>[https://972mag.com/who-cares-about-the-un/59098/ Who cares about the UN?]</ref> 

In 1998, [[Kofi Annan]] quoted this phrase while visiting the [[Knesset]] (Israeli Parliament) and made a rebutting [[pun]] himself by saying that in the world that we live in today, "without the UM we will all have ''klum''" (''klum'' is part of expressions that mean "nothing" in Hebrew).<ref>((Script/Hebrew|כלום)) (pronounced kloom).</ref><ref>[http://mwcnews.net/focus/letters-to-editors/13648-netanyahu-un.html Full Transcript: Netanyahu's 2011 UN Speech], MWC News Website.</ref>

==See also==
* [[Israel and the United Nations]]
* [[Joe Shmoe]]
* [[Culture of Israel]]

==References==
((reflist))
==External links==
*[https://www.haaretz.com/1.4687569 Comments on the Situation, Yoel Marcus], [[Haaretz]]
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2061845/ "Um-Shmum: Seven Hours to Death", 2011 documentary, Gideon Gitai]
[[Category:Hebrew words and phrases]]
[[Category:Jewish comedy and humor]]
[[Category:Culture of Israel]]
[[Category:Israel and the United Nations]]
[[Category:David Ben-Gurion]]

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