The IBA staffer organizing the event, Sara Elizabeth Dill @_SEDill, is an anti-Israel activist who routinely accuses the Jewish state of "atrocities" yet has never once condemned terrorist Hamas or Islamic Jihad for targeting civilians. twitter.com/search?q=from%…
When @SecBlinken spoke about Yom Hashoah & Holocaust remembrance, this IBA Arab Region staffer complained: "And yet they have the audacity to speak against the ICC & question its jurisdiction over modern day war crimes & genocide."
Who's the "they" & which modern-day "genocide"?
Article 1 of the IBA constitution provides that the association is "non-political" and "shall not entertain any matter which is political in character.”
So why do they allow Sara Elizabeth Dill to promote her extreme anti-Israel political agenda with tomorrow's one-sided panel?
She's not a staffer but rather her precise International Bar Association title is: "Arab Region Liaison Officer for the IBA War Crimes Committee."
Committee Co-Vice Chair Sareta Ashraph drafted chapters of the UN's infamous 2009 Goldstone Report which was celebrated by Hamas.
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Jan. 15, 1964: UN Watch founder Morris Abram drafts UN anti-racism convention as member of UN human rights expert body.
Tomorrow: Loyal servants of Beijing & Tehran to be elected by acclamation to the successor UN human rights body.
2/ Meet 🇨🇳 Ren Yisheng. He served as a mouthpiece for the communist regime—primarily at UN human rights bodies.
Now he's going to switch roles by getting elected as a UN human rights expert.
Same guy who trashed a UN report on China's abuse of Uyghurs: archive.md/NWAtv
3/ Meet 🇮🇷 Afsaneh Nadipour. She's a 33-year veteran of the Islamic regime in Iran who defended their brutal crackdown on women's rights protesters. She’s an enemy of human rights.
Why are all our democracies silent ahead of her UNHRC election tomorrow?
.@GretaThunberg, while you're feasting once again on Israeli Navy sandwiches, remember that under international law—according to the UN—Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, designed to stop Hamas from smuggling rockets and other weapons, is entirely legal.🧵 blog.unwatch.org/wp-content/upl…
2/ The UN's Palmer Report found that “Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza. The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law.”
3/ “Although people are entitled to express their political views, the [2010] flotilla acted recklessly in attempting to breach the naval blockade. [T]here exist serious questions about the conduct, true nature and objectives of the flotilla organizers, particularly IHH. The actions of the flotilla needlessly carried the potential for escalation.”
Navi Pillay's UN inquiry on Israel just released a report accusing Israel of “genocide.”
We asked legal expert Salo Aizenberg to take a look.
Turns out the report is a complete travesty. See his devastating rebuttal here: 🧵
@Aizenberg55unwatch.org/un-watch-rebut…
2/ @Aizenberg55: “The UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry’s report is fatally deficient: its reasoning is deeply flawed, its evidentiary base unreliable, and its methodology unsound.
It selectively misinterprets statements by Israeli leaders, accepts unverified Hamas casualty figures, disregards Hamas’s systematic use of human shields, relies on unverified media reports (such as by Al-Jazeera), and assumes that civilian deaths in Gaza are only the result of deliberate targeting by Israel.
Its omissions are equally striking. The report erases Hamas as an active belligerent; across its 72 pages, it never acknowledges that the IDF is engaged with a 30,000-strong fighting force that constructed a battlefield fortified with 500 kilometers of tunnels.
Such deficiencies strip the document of legal credibility and render it indistinguishable from propaganda dressed in legal language.”
3/ “Failure to prove dolus specialis: The specific intent to destroy a protected group is the central and extremely high bar in any genocide case. The Commission’s claim of genocidal intent fails on this threshold alone, relying on tortured parsing of statements, selective quotations, and conjecture rather than unambiguous evidence.”
NO JOKE: Amnesty International's researcher in Gaza got Hamas to arrest peace activist Rami Aman for the crime of organizing a video call for Gazans to meet Israelis.
2/ On April 8, 2020, Amnesty International researcher Hind Khoudary, now an Al Jazeera “journalist,” called on Hamas to arrest Rami Aman for his peace initiatives. unwatch.org/the-disappeara…
3/ “In 2020, we organized a big conference between 10 Gazans and 300 Israelis,” explains Aman. “We were talking about Coronavirus — not talking about one state or two states, or talking about negotiation. We were talking about how we can save each other.”
“And two days later, I found a post started from a journalist working with Amnesty called Hind Khoudary, asking Hamas and mentioning Hamas leaders on Facebook, to arrest me. And that happened just a day later.”
“This surprised me from the first time because when I checked Hind Khoudary’s profile I saw that she is working with Amnesty and she is a journalist and I know that she is a U.S. fellow.”
“So for me, how come Amnesty is calling for my arrest? How come a journalist asking the security to arrest me?” x.com/UNWatch/status…
🇺🇸 @MorganOrtagus tells UN: “Today’s resolution is yet another counterproductive gesture that only rewards Hamas, drags out the war, and undercuts the very diplomatic efforts to free the hostages and end the suffering in Gaza, which the New York Declaration claims to support.”
2/ The French-led resolution is “is yet another misguided and ill-timed publicity stunt that undermines serious diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. Make no mistake – this resolution is a gift to Hamas.”
3/ “It is likewise cynical, transparently driven by the domestic politics rather than a serious foreign policy agenda.”
BREAKING: The U.N. on October 8th is planning to elect by acclamation an official rep of the Islamic Regime of Iran to its U.N. Human Rights Council advisory committee.
We are calling on @antonioguterres, @volker_turk, and all member states to denounce and oppose this travesty.
2/ Electing any rep of the murderous IRGC regime to a UN human rights body is a travesty.
Here, it's even worse. Under UNHRC Res. 6/102, candidates must have high moral standing, Independence, and impartiality.
Afsaneh Nadipour is an enemy of human rights. Consider: 🧵
3/ Iran's UNHRC candidate Afsaneh Nadipour is an enemy of women's rights. During the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, she defended the murderous regime. She said support for the courageous women protesters was “disingenuous and politically motivated.” tehrantimes.com/news/480477/Ir…