My @UN_HRC speech today: ”Madam President: Here in the UN, we just heard repeated and false accusations against Israel. But in reality, on the ground in Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah, thousands of Palestinians are actually demonstrating against the Palestinian Authority.”
“They’re protesting the June 24th arrest of Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of President Abbas.
More than two dozen PA security officers raided his home, at 3:30 am. They severely beat Banat with metal clubs and rifle butts, in front of his wife and young children...”
”...before taking him away. Three hours later, he was dead.
When Palestinians protested, PA forces attacked them with batons, tear gas and stun grenades. PA officers singled out female demonstrators and reporters, who were sexually harassed.”
”Madam President, why is the PA acting with impunity?
Is it because those who claim to care about Palestinians, about human rights and international law, never show the slightest interest when Israel cannot be blamed?”
”We have to ask: Would Nizar Banat still be alive if this Council’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Michael Lynk, had issued just one press release on the autocratic PA, instead of 75 on democratic Israel?”
”Would Nizar Banat still be alive if this Council had adopted just one resolution holding the PA to account, instead of 95 resolutions on Israel?”
”Would Nizar Banat still be alive if social media stars like Ilhan Omar and AOC, who claim to be fighting for justice, would have spoken out just once about the systematic abuses of the PA, such as the arrest of 752 people, in one year alone...”
”...for social media posts critical of Abbas’ rule?
I thank you.”
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I've been sitting at the UN for 17 years and this was never mentioned:
"The sale of Palestinian land to Israelis is punishable by death, a Palestinian court ruled, in what PA officials say is a necessary measure to ensure the founding of a future state."
BREAKING: 🇳🇱 The Dutch pull out of UN's upcoming 20th anniversary celebration of the Durban Conference, which was tainted by antisemitism.
🔹 Pulled out of Durban IV so far: 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇱🇭🇺🇳🇱
🔹 Pulled out of Durban III in 2011: 🇦🇺🇦🇹🇧🇬🇨🇦🇨🇿🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇱🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇳🇿🇵🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸 cidi.nl/nederland-boyc…
🇳🇱 @ministerBZ: “The Netherlands does not intend to participate in the Durban IV meeting, in view of the historical burden of the Durban process, the risk of repetition of abuse of this platform for antisemitic expressions...
For the past two weeks, Palestinians have begun to protest the brutality of their autocratic Abbas government.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Human Rights Council is about to hold its perennial meeting on Palestinian rights but will mention none of this — because Israel cannot be blamed.
UNHRC Palestine monitor Michael Lynk is mandated to only investigate “Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law…”
“…although he notes that human rights violations by any State party or non-state organization are deplorable…” un.org/unispal/docume…
Here are some of the many human rights abuses committed by the Palestinian Authority & Hamas that are ignored by the UNHRC’s Michael Lynk, whose misleading title is “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.” unwatch.org/lynk/
The Palestinians rejected a million COVID-19 vaccine doses from Israel, claiming they “fall short of meeting the technical criteria” as they were soon to expire.
The South Koreans chose moving forward, hard work and prosperity, and the Palestinians together with the Arab states used @UNRWA to nourish grievance, hate and war:
As the UN Human Rights Council marks its 15th anniversary, let the record show that no country in the world has sat longer on this body than 🇨🇺 Cuba's oppressive regime, which won repeated election to 3-year terms in 2006, 2009, 2014, 2017 & 2020.
On May 18, Cuba's regime arrested rapper Maykel Osorbo @Mov_sanisidro—of the viral hit #PatriayVida—on false charges. None of his family was informed for nearly two weeks.
There have been many great Americans, but the greatest of all was Abraham Lincoln:
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.”
“We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.”