If you don't name the perpetrator, this is worthless. Why haven't you even mentioned the word ”Cuba” since May 2020? During a year when they beat up artists & dissidents and throw them in prison? And as they now seek to crush historic mass protests?
Gital Sahgal, Amnesty International's former gender unit head, reminds us that Amnesty's then Secretary-General @Claudio_Cordone justified working with pro-Taleban activists because ”defensive jihad is not antithetical to human rights.”
Amnesty changed its mind when partner Caged Prisoners was linked to ’Jihadi John’, the masked ISIS man with British accent who beheaded hostages.
AI's Kate Allen: “We are reviewing whether any future association with the group would now be appropriate.” theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/m…
Kate Allen, @AmnestyUK's longtime director until her recent retirement (and who had lived together with London Mayor ”Red Ken” Livingstone for 20 years) "was central to Amnesty's embrace of pro-Jihadis and to the cover up afterward."
BRAVO: 🇦🇹 Austria pulls 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: 🇦🇺🇦🇹🇧🇬🇨🇦🇨🇿🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇱🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇳🇿🇵🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸 jpost.com/international/…
“Austria supports efforts to combat racism worldwide, while rejecting the misuse of the Durban process to unfairly single out and target Israel.”
”Therefore, Austria abstained from the vote to hold a high-level conference in New York to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Durban conference. There will be no participation at the political level.”
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.”
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/