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Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

28 May

“Madam President: The United Nations was founded to prevent war. Yet today’s one-sided session, and the pre-determined investigation it proposes, will achieve the opposite — because they were the very purpose of this war.“

My intervention at yesterday's Orwellian UNHRC session.

“The purpose of Hamas, backed by Iran, was to attack Israeli cities from within populated areas in Gaza, to incur civilian casualties, and exploit the suffering of their own people -- in order to delegitimize Israel, here at the UN, in international courts, and in the media.“

“A council for human rights ought to condemn what Hamas is doing.“

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Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

26 May

@WHO

BREAKING: @WHO deviates from addressing COVID-19 to hold session condemning one single country as a violator of health rights: 🇮🇱 Israel.

Shame on France, Spain, Belgium, Ireland for backing PLO resolution co-sponsored by Syria, Cuba, Turkey & Qatar.

unwatch.org/who-meeting-de…

The vote was 82-14, with 40 abstentions & 38 absent.

✅ We applaud the Netherlands, Austria & Colombia for changing their votes this year to No.

✅ Voted No like last year: US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Honduras, Hungary & Israel.

However, amid a global pandemic, the minority of EU member states and other democracies who voted for the resolution should be ashamed:

❌ France, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Portugal, Japan, India, Ireland, New Zealand and Luxembourg.

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Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

23 May

@IBAnews

Dear International Bar Association @IBAnews:

Your Israel-Palestine panel tomorrow has 5 for the Palestine side—@_SEDill @leilasadat1 @AdHaque110 @RizKhanShows @omarmdajani—but you forgot to get 1 for the Israel side.

Also, see the McCarthyite list your organizer is creating:

https://twitter.com/_SEDill/status/1395006249679396872

@_SEDill

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%…

@SecBlinken

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"?

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Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

22 May

For some people, any good news about Israel is a problem. It disturbs their worldview, and makes them angry. And so their reaction to this year's good news about Israel’s vaccines was to twist it into something sinister.

My debate at UNHRC's 46th session:

"The canard that began to circulate was summarized by the comic TV news presenter on Saturday Night Live, who said, “Israel is reporting that they've vaccinated half their population — and I'm going to guess it's the Jewish half.”

"This is exactly what many around the world now believe.

Madam President, I am taking the floor today to state for the record, before the United Nations, and before the world: That is a lie."

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Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

20 May

@unicefchief

.@unicefchief Henrietta Holsman Fore was forced to resign as trustee from Wellesley College in 1987 over racist remarks she made about the work ethics of blacks, Hispanics & Asians.

NYT: She said "blacks preferred pushing drugs to working in a factory."
nytimes.com/1987/02/12/us/…

@nytimes

.@nytimes: "Ms. Holsman reiterated her statement that she had trouble keeping black assembly-line workers from going 'back to the street to earn more money' selling drugs."

"In her lecture, Ms. Holsman also said she had found Hispanic workers to be lazy."
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…

@UNICEF

In 2007, then Senator Obama and Senator Menendez almost blocked her appointment to the State Department over the racially charged remarks.
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
nytimes.com/2005/06/18/pol…

Why did the UN never discuss this when she was named to head @UNICEF?

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Hillel Neuer

@HillelNeuer

19 May

1/ “Mr. President: Never before, in the history of Israel’s seven decades of existence, has its men, women and children come under such a massive aerial assault, forcing them, at the sound of air raid sirens day and night, to run for shelter.“
unwatch.org/unw-testimony-…

2/ “I ask each ambassador in this chamber to take a moment and imagine terrorists deliberately firing deadly rockets at the airports of Heathrow, Charles de Gaulle, or Frankfurt; Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, or Tokyo. How would your government react?“

“Finally, we ask: If those who refuse to speak out for Palestinians—1800 Palestinians, if not more—who were starved to death, murdered, by Assad in Syria, but you only cry out when Israel can be blamed, then you are not pro-human rights, you are only anti-Israel.“