🚨 CENSORED: @UN_HRC just stopped me from calling out UNRWA teachers who glorify Hitler & incite antisemitism. Chair says I made "derogatory, insulting & inflammatory remarks"—by quoting their own Facebook posts. "This amounts to personal attacks. This statement is out of order."
UNHRC Chair Nazhat Khan is making up a rule that does not exist.
I have every right to quote the racist Facebook posts of UNRWA teachers—funded with hundreds of millions by US, Germany, EU, Canada—and to name them.
Ironically, after the U.N. Human Rights Council president cut me off for exposing the antisemitic teachers hired by UNRWA, she then gave the floor to the Hamas front group, the "Palestinian Return Center." unwatch.org/hamas-congratu…
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On Friday you cut me off while presenting a report on UNRWA teachers' systemic antisemitism. You read out a prepared statement accusing me of "inflammatory remarks" and ruled me out of order.
Otherwise, I will be calling on U.N. Secretary-General @antonioguterres to publicly declare:
1. That my quoting of antisemitic posts by UN teachers can in no way be characterized as "derogatory, insulting and inflammatory remarks" nor as "personal attacks."
2. That the highest human rights body of the United Nations has just sent a dangerous message to the world when, without any basis, you summarily and arbitrarily blocked me from presenting a report about systemic antisemitism incited daily by the teachers of UNRWA, a UN agency.
#Cuba, where there is no democracy, has a draft on "Promotion of a democratic order."
#China, which detains 1 million Muslims, has a draft on "Realizing a better life for everyone."
#Venezuela, a failed state, has a draft on "Enjoyment of human rights."
Venezuela, China and Sri Lanka: "Stresses the utmost importance to eradicate colonialism and address the negative impact of legacies of colonialism on the enjoyment of human rights."
Cuba: "Reiterates that democracy includes respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms and is a universal value based on the freely expressed will of people to determine their own political, economic, social and cultural systems and their full participation in all..."
@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.
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.
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
“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/…
"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."
"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."
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.