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18 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The UN doesn't want you to know this: In 2007, Canada tried to oppose the UNHRC's adoption of a package that removed Belarus & Cuba from a blacklist—while subjecting Israel to permanent indictment. The UNHRC declared a "consensus" despite Canada's protest.
The UNHRC refused to let Canada vote on the package. The video above from the 19 June 2007 debate shows Canada's principled objection and the strictly procedural vote that effectively—and fictitiously—declared the agreement to have been won by "consensus."
unwatch.org/born-in-sin-th…
This is the tainted and illegitimate origin of the UNHRC's Agenda Item 7 singling out Israel, and of the council's entire constitutional framework, known as the Institution-Building Package (A/HRC/RES/5/1).

See how the UN rewrote history in this timeline: unwatch.org/wp-content/upl…
Read what happened:

• Cable from US Secretary of State to US Diplomats: wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/0…

• Canadian complaint of gross irregularities in founding of UNHRC: unwatch.org/wp-content/upl…

• US complaint: unwatch.org/wp-content/upl…

• Poland's complaint unwatch.org/wp-content/upl…

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16 Mar
“Thank you, Madam President. My name is @YosephHaddad and I'm an Israeli Arab. Accusations have been made that Israel's coronavirus vaccine program is ‘racist.’

This is false. Like me, my family, friends and hundreds of thousands of other Israeli Arabs have been vaccinated.“
"The State of Israel is running campaigns in Arabic to encourage us Arab Israelis to get vaccinated, and Israel’s National EMS Magen David Adom, composed of Jews and Arabs, is working directly in Arab communities to vaccinate."
"And about our Palestinian neighbors. Despite that we are not obligated under the Oslo Accords, we help. Israel, not the Palestinian Authority, has vaccinated thousands of Palestinians..."
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16 Mar
Tomorrow: U.N. Human Rights Council to adopt their report on the 🇺🇸 U.S.A.'s human rights record that includes this review conducted by 🇨🇳 China about America's "systemic racism, white supremacy, religious intolerance and xenophobia.“
hrc46.sched.com/event/iCdM/38t…
Here's a glimpse of the report's official recommendations for USA:

“26.106 Stop interfering, for political purposes, in other countries’ internal affairs under the pretext of human rights (China);“
"26.142 Root out systemic racism, address widespread police brutality and combat discrimination against African- and Asian-Americans (China);"
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16 Mar
On this day 21 years ago, March 16, 2000, the world lost Morris B. Abram, a U.S. civil rights leader, drafter of the UN convention against racial discrimination, and founder of UN Watch.

A genuine anti-racist, he fought bigots, dictators and antisemites.

unwatch.org/founder-morris…
Morris Berthold Abram was a pioneer of the U.S. civil rights movement, serving as an attorney in crucial cases for the equality rights of African Americans, and a key drafter of the United Nations convention against racial discrimination.
He also became a champion of victims of human rights persecution across the globe over the course of a career of advocacy that lasted over five decades.
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15 Mar
On this day 15 years ago, the UN abolished its Commission on Human Rights—which made Qaddafi’s Libya its Chair—and created the Human Rights Council, promising to address gross violations & ensure “universality, objectivity & non-selectivity.”

15 years later, where do we stand?
Has the UN kept its promise?

Let’s take a look. In this session, there is one agenda item on the entire world, 193 countries, and then a separate agenda item that targets one country alone: Israel. No other UN member state is singled out.
There is no agenda item on Iran, which massacres its own people for protesting; no agenda item on Russia, which poisons dissidents; no agenda item on Cuba, which throws artists into prison; and no agenda item on China, which herded 1 million Uighur Muslims into camps...
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12 Mar
UN Human Rights Council member 🇨🇺 Cuba gives speech justifying genocide by UN Human Rights Council member 🇨🇳 China. On behalf of 64 countries.

We urged 🇪🇺 European Union & member states to oppose the election of China & Cuba to the UNHRC. They did nothing. This is the result.
"Madam President, I have the honor to speak on behalf of 64 countries. [Yet provides no names...]

We maintain that all sides should promote & protect human rights through constructive dialogue & cooperation and firmly oppose politicization of human rights and double standards."
"We commend the people-center philosophy that the Chinese government pursues & achievements that have been made in its human rights cause. Xinjiang is an inseparable part of China. We urge the relevant sides to abide by the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter...
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11 Mar
Watch what happened at the U.N. Human Rights Council when Venezuelan dissident @MariaCorinaYA exposed the crimes of Maduro, a UNHRC member.

The chair got outraged—not at the crimes, but at @MariaCorinaYA, whom he told "to deal with human rights issues with dignity and respect."
"I request all delegations to deal with human rights issues with dignity & respect and to adhere to the well-established principles of the UN. I call on all speakers to uphold UN standards when referring to countries and to refrain from using words like the words you just heard."
Meanwhile, the chair of the session doesn't seem to care about what Ms. Machado said: that the Maduro regime has committed massive crimes—all of which breach Venezuela's obligations as a UNHRC member state to "uphold the highest standards of human rights."
unwatch.org/expelmaduro
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