Thread by @UNWatch

Today the world body turns 75. We bring you:

🇺🇳 The Top 10 Worst U.N. Moments 🇺🇳

10. U.N. picks Austrian diplomat Kurt Waldheim to serve as Secretary-General (right) despite his being listed a suspected Nazi war criminal (left) by the U.N.'s own War Crimes Commission in 1948.

9. In 2000, the UNHRC appointed Jean Ziegler, one of the world's most industrious anti-Western ideologues & apologists for rogue regimes—including Libya’s Qaddafi, Zimbabwe’s Mugabe & Cuba’s Fidel Castro—as its world monitor on "the right to food."

👉 unwatch.org/zieglers-folli…

8. The U.N.'s "Oil-for-Food" program—created to help Iraq avoid sanctions to buy food for its people—was exploited by then-dictator Saddam Hussein due to wide-scale mismanagement and unethical conduct of U.N. employees, who tacitly allowed for Hussein to steal over $1 billion.

7. In 2017, thanks to votes by Belgium, Ireland & Sweden, the UN elected Saudi Arabia to its Women's Rights Commission. The medieval and misogynistic Saudi regime systematically subjugates women, and arrests, jails & tortures women's rights activists. unwatch.org/no-joke-u-n-el…

6. In 2009, the UNHRC's Goldstone Commission into the Hamas-Israel war hired Dr. Grietje Baars—an extremist supporter of Hamas, and the former European spox of the IHH terrorist-backed Gaza flotilla—to author key chapters of the infamous Goldstone Report.

unwatch.org/un-hired-anti-…

5. In 2003, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights elected Muammar Qaddafi's Libyan regime as its Chair. The tyrant was a serial rapist, carried out extrajudicial killings, ethnic cleansing and bombing of his own people.

unwatch.org/from-the-archi…

4. The U.N.'s 2001 Durban World Racism Conference turned into a hatefest.

“Having experienced the horrors of the Holocaust first hand, this was the most sickening and unabashed display of hate for Jews I have seen since the Nazi period.”
—Tom Lantos
unwatch.org/something-abou…

3. In 1975, in a Soviet-inspired move backed by Arab states, the UN General Assembly declared that Zionism was a form of racism. In 1991, when the Soviet Union fell, the text was repealed.

Ambassador Moynihan delivered the greatest U.N. speech in history:

2. In 1974, the U.N. General Assembly invited terrorist chief Yasser Arafat of the PLO to address the plenary. He appeared with a gun holster on his hip. Arafat oversaw deadly hijackings and the brutal murders of hundreds of men, women and children.

1. in 1994, UN fails to stop genocide in Rwanda that kills 800,000 people. Kofi Annan was head of UN peacekeeping. Gen. Roméo Dallaire: “Preventing this genocide was possible; it was our moral obligation. And it’s a failure that has haunted me every day for the last 20 years.”