.@GWR Do you have a Guinness World Record for United Nations interruptions?
I've been interrupted at the U.N. by Russia, China, Syria, Cuba, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, the PLO, Egypt, Bangladesh, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Just to name a few.
At the U.N. in 2016, Venezuela, Cuba, China, Russia, and Pakistan tried to silence me: unwatch.org/9479-2/
At the U.N.'s Durban II racism conference in 2009, Iran tried to silence me:
At the U.N. in 2010, Cuba interrupted me for mentioning the case of political prisoner Nestor Rodríguez Lobaina:
In 2012, Iran interrupted me for citing its abuses of women's rights and its leader Ahmadinejad's incitement to genocide:
At the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2007, Egypt interrupted me for daring to quote Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's criticism of the council's adoption of a permanent agenda item targeting Israel:
When in 2014 I tried to read out a Wikileaks cable showing the PLO actually didn't like UN Palestine rapporteur Richard Falk, I was interrupted numerous times by the PLO, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Venezuela and Morocco: unwatch.org/pa-tries-to-st…
When in 2019 I spoke out at the United Nations Human Rights Council on behalf for 1 million Muslim Uighurs being detained by China, they freaked out and tried to stop me—three times. unwatch.org/china-attempts…
When I listed abuses by regimes worldwide in 2014, Venezuela said I was “out of order,” echoed by Cuba, China, Iran, Pakistan & Egypt.
Fortunately my right to speak was defended by the U.S., France, Ireland, Canada, Norway and Britain.
When I spoke at the UN Emergency Session on the Hamas-Israel war of 2014, I was interrupted by Iran, Syria, Egypt, the “State of Palestine,“ Cuba & Venezuela.
The U.S. & Canada defended my right to speak.
When I called out the PLO's lies in 2017, I was interrupted by the PLO, Egypt & Pakistan:
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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).
“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..."
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…
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.
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.
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...