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22 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Cuban propaganda trumpets Diaz-Canel's speech today to U.N.'s Durban IV racism conference.

How can Cuba speak on human rights after crushing thousands of peaceful protesters, or on racism after the Castros destroyed black civil society & leadership, replacing them with puppets?
"Black civil society, which had played an important role in empowering black Cubans over the first six decades of the 20th century, was systematically dismantled by the Castro regime." @johnjsuarez

cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2020/01/reflec…
“Racist attitudes persist in Cuba under the Castros. This is reflected in rates of interracial marriage being lower in Cuba than in Brazil which has a much higher level of inequality than the Caribbean island, and has not undergone a communist revolution.”cubacenter.org/archives/2020/…
Orlando Zapata Tamayo died on hunger strike on February 23, 2010, after years of racist taunts and torture by Cuban regime prison officials. He was 42 years old.

@johnjsuarez: cubanexilequarter.blogspot.com/2021/02/eleven…
“Fidel Castro and the regime he left behind is a white male minority and racist regime that ended black agency in Cuba over the past 61 years, destroying what had been a vibrant black civil society.”

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23 Sep
BRAVO: 🇸🇪 Sweden pulled out of Durban IV.

@SweMFA: "Sweden is not participating in the UN meeting celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and action plan. There is a long and politically charged history behind the Durban Conference and its follow-up meetings.
The previous conferences have inter alia been criticized for not adequately addressing the issue, that is, the fight against racism. They have also been criticized for having antisemitic elements and for directing disproportionate criticism of Israel.

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Several countries therefore do not associate the Durban Conference with the fight against racism, and the process has been politicized. As a result, several countries have chosen not to participate at all in previous conferences, as in today's meeting.
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31 Aug
Italy right pulled out of Durban III.

"We asked for the text to recognize that past references to the situation of the Middle East are not part of the international commitment against racial discrimination. However, this was not accepted..."

Italy should pull out of Durban IV.
🇮🇹 Foreign Minister of Italy, 2011: "For some time now we have had some reserves over the exercise known in the UN sphere as the “Durban Process”, because over the years it has been instrumentalized in political terms."

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"The Process has been transformed from a forum for debate on and coordination of international action against racism, discrimination and xenophobia, into a tribunal for accusations against Israel."
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29 Aug
Ben and Jerry's boasts it is both profitable and ethical.

Now the head of their board, social justice activist Anuradha Mittal @Mittaloak, is accused of doling out tens of thousands in cash from B&J's foundation to fund her own pro-Palestinian non-profit.nypost.com/2021/08/28/hea…
Ms. Mittal is Chair of the @benandjerrys Board & VP of its non-profit foundation which doled out more than $100,000 to the Oakland Institute, a progressive think tank where Mittal happens to be director & only salaried employee, paid a combined $156,000 in salary in 2017 & 2018.
Part of the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation cash went to finance the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights.

Last year, the European Union pulled $2 million of funding from Badil after it refused to sign an “anti-terror” clause in its funding contract.
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24 Aug
BREAKING: The UN Human Rights Council session on Afghanistan just adopted one of the most watered-down resolutions in its history. Text fails to document Taliban atrocities; fails to condemn the Taliban; fails to create a commission of inquiry. Credibility of UNHRC is at zero.
Better to have had no UN session at all than this gross dereliction of duty & green light of impunity for the Taliban.

The text was adopted by consensus. We regret the EU declined to call a vote. It did make a strong statement: "We have explained at length why we believe that..
"...there is an urgent need to set up an independent mechanism to investigate all violations and abuses by the Taliban and all other parties to the conflict to promote accountability and to monitor the human rights situation on the ground."
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24 Aug
SHAME: UNHRC now holding special session on #Afghanistan, but plans to do almost nothing. The resolution—drafted by Pakistan—fails to mention let alone condemn Taliban abuses. The word "Taliban" does not appear. Nor is there any commission of inquiry to investigate their crimes.
Addressing the UNHRC, @AfghanistanIHRC Chair @ShaharzadAkbar called Pakistan's draft a "travesty."

"Afghan activists on the ground, my colleagues who face direct threats to their lives & the lives of their families, demand better. To be frank with you, you are failing them." Image
.@ShaharzadAkbar "Madame President, The draft resolution tabled today is a travesty. We have documented that the Taliban advances came with summary executions, disappearances, restrictions on women, media & cultural life. This is not ancient history. This is earlier this month... Image
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24 Aug
In #Afghanistan millions live in fear of the Taliban terrorists who have taken over the country.

Here in Geneva, the #UNHRC meets shortly on Afghanistan to adopt one of its weakest-ever resolutions.

Better to scrap the session than send message of appeasement to the #Taliban. Image
The United Nations was founded to prevent war. For years we appealed to the Council to hold an urgent session on the war in Afghanistan. Image
Yet even as 241,000 people were killed, including 71,000 civilians, this UN Human Rights Council refused to hold a single session to try and help Afghanistan’s victims.

Not a single commission of inquiry to hold terrorists and their state sponsors to account.
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