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29 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Palestinian journalists rallied at a UN building in Ramallah pleading for protection from Palestinian forces. Twelve journalists, including 5 women, were assaulted by Palestinian police in weekend unrest.

But if the UN can't blame Israel, they will do 0.
i24news.tv/en/news/middle…
Reporter Naila Khalil, a reporter with The New Arab media outlet, said Palestinian reporters had submitted a letter to the UN urging the world body “to take necessary and immediate measures” to protect media freedom.

aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/28…
Journalists protest outside the United Nations office in Ramallah demanding protection following attacks by Palestinian security forces on their colleagues.

They left their cameras on the ground with a note reading in Arabic ‘Freedom of Press’.

(Photo: Abbas Momani, AFP)
"Journalists protest PA security thugs' violation of their right to cover the thugs' crimes against demonstrators.
I demand withdrawal of international recognition of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate for its complicity in the attacks on journalists."

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23 Jun
To argue US breaks laws, Beinart in NYT—unwittingly—cited UN's 2 most evil reps:

1. Idriss Jazairy—ex-Algerian diplomat, drafted UN resolution to muzzle experts, took $50K from Russia then did report against sanctions on Russia.

2. Alfred de Zayas—hero to Holocaust deniers.

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Beinart cites Jazairy as a "current U.N. special rapporteur." But he's been dead since February 2020. Doesn't @nytimes check facts?

Far worse, Beinart is citing as an authority someone who has been a lifelong enemy of human rights and an apologist for murderous regimes: ⤵️
NYU scholar Prof. Philip Alston, a veteran UN expert, documented in this essay how Idriss Jazairy as Algerian rep to UNHRC led a "personal project" to muzzle the human rights experts. Later, the tyrant-run UNHRC made Jazairy himself a human right expert... unwatch.org/how-idriss-jaz…
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20 Jun
On #WorldRefugeeDay, we ask: How come the 850,000 Jewish refugees from the Arab world after 1948 were all successfully resettled in Israel and other countries—with 0 refugees left today—yet @UNRWA has multiplied the number of Palestinian refugees from 700,000 to 5 million?
Most Palestinians under UNRWA’s jurisdiction are not refugees.

UNRWA ex-General Counsel James Lindsay: "UNRWA does not use the UNHCR criteria & does not engage in the sort of analysis required by the Procedural Standards for Refugee Status Determination."
unwatch.org/former-unrwa-o…
“UNRWA has become part of the problem. It supplies the ammunition to continue the conflict. By supporting UNRWA, we keep the conflict alive. It’s a perverse logic.”
— 🇨🇭 Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis

swissinfo.ch/eng/palestinia…
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17 Jun
Shame on @UNESCO for honoring the murderer Che Guevara. He led firing squads.

In 2013, UNESCO enshrined “The Life and Works of Ernesto Che Guevara”—even though President Obama’s ambassador urged UNESCO to “not be used as a tool to glorify and legitimize violence.” Image
And @UNESCO_es's tweet did not show the full picture. They omitted this part of Guevara's UN remarks from that day: “Yes, we have executed people; we are executing people and shall continue to execute people as long as it is necessary.“

I urge @SecBlinken to complain to @UNESCO as Obama's rep did in 2013: "The US Mission to UNESCO requests an immediate review of the inscription of the writings of Ernesto Che Guevara in the Memory of the World Register. Che Guevara is a controversial figure who advocated violence
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16 Jun
Death toll of civilians by French forces in Mali—including 19 at a wedding—is far higher than they admit.

Also completely disproportionate to the amount of French civilians killed.

So far, no EU calls for France to de-escalate its war & show restraint. thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations…
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“In the evening, Mamoudou recounted, the survivors 'picked up heads, arms, and feet and put them into a big hole to bury them'.“
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8 Jun
Despite Havana's efforts to silence her, Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera managed to submit testimony about the regime’s oppression to the 2021 @GenevaSummit of dissidents and former political prisoners. She now fears “the potential consequences.“
genevasummit.org/cuban-dissiden…
.@Immigrantmove: "Imagine yourself walking on the streets with a friend and suddenly, a car stops, and four people emerge from the car and force you to get inside of it. Once you are inside; you realize that those with you are state security agents..." genevasummit.org/tania-bruguera…
"You arrive to a police station, and they make you remove your clothes, they interrogate you, they don’ t allow to make a call and noone knows where you are. Imagine that you are one of the 170 political prisoners in Cuba today."
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6 Jun
Dear @matzschmale @UNRWA:

How can UNRWA claim to be strictly humanitarian when you pronounce on "root causes" of the conflict, and falsely point the finger at Israel?

Here's a "root cause" for you: a hundred years of genocidal antisemitism from Haj Amin al-Husseini to Hamas. Image
@matzschmale, you yourself have a long record of employing admirers of Hitler and other antisemites and Jihadi terrorism supporters as UNRWA teachers and principals.

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UNRWA systematically violates its humanitarian mandate by pronouncing itself on political matters, as done this past month by blaming Israel for "root causes" of the conflict.

Our governments—🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧🇸🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦🇫🇷—give UNRWA hundreds of millions & say nothing.
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