Thread by @UNWatch

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley Dear @SherineT @Amnesty:
By that logic, your group has the same "human rights credentials" as North Vietnamese General & Communist Party Politburo member Le Duc Tho, and arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat. Indeed, many—even within @Amnesty itself—have questioned your direction. ⬇️

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley 1/ Founded in 1961, Amnesty built a formidable reputation for supporting individual prisoners of conscience, who were non-violent. While some in your worldwide group still do some good work, sadly Amnesty has lost direction, often supporting misogynists, homophobes & terrorists.

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley 2/ For example, in 2010, Gita Sahgal, then head of your organization's gender unit, was sacked for exposing @Amnesty's shameful ties & support for Britain's most famous Taliban advocate, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley 3/ This has been a recurring theme @Amnesty. In 2015, a senior employee of Amnesty International was found to have undeclared private links to men alleged to be key players in a secretive network of global Islamists, revealed @thetimes. thetimes.co.uk/article/amnest…

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley @thetimes 4/ Christopher Hitchens wrote that @Amnesty’s actions backing the Taliban & against whistleblower & gender unit chief Gita Sahgal exemplified the organization’s “degeneration and politicization,” reflecting “a moral crisis that has global implications.” slate.com/articles/news_…

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley @thetimes 5/ In 2015, @Amnesty's speaker called the 9/11 attacks “sweet revenge,” said Europe made “the cult of the Holocaust & Jew-worshiping its religion” & labeled gays “AIDS-spreading faggots.” Part of Hezbollah, he questions the existence of Nazi gas chambers. tabletmag.com/scroll/195521/…

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley @thetimes 6/ @Amnesty backed the pro-Taliban group "Cage," which promotes an ideology that mocks the values of tolerance—especially towards women. Amnesty took research from them, shared logos, co-produced briefing papers & co-signed letters to the government. economist.com/britain/2015/0…

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley @thetimes 7/ Rights backer Sigrid Rausing criticized Amnesty for "blurring" its original mission. @TheEconomist: "A group which devotes more focus to rights abuses in Britain & America than those in Belarus & Saudi Arabia cannot expect to escape doubters' scrutiny." economist.com/international/…

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley @thetimes @TheEconomist 8/ While Amnesty justified hosting an anti-gay Holocaust denier to protest Islamophobia—due to "the significance of this issue" & because it "was not an endorsement of any of the views of the individual speaker"—this year they saw fit to ban London's Jews. theguardian.com/world/2018/jan…

@SherineT @amnesty @hrw @nikkihaley @thetimes @TheEconomist 9/ Former @Amnesty prisoner of conscience @MaajidNawaz lamented the NGO's fall: "If ever there was proof that the regressive left rot is spreading into the core of our liberal culture, look how it has politicised this once bright beacon of human rights." blogs.timesofisrael.com/human-rights-a…