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@HillelNeuer
Jan 2, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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A reminder that Amnesty International has lost its way.

It was founded to defend prisoners of conscience jailed by oppressive regimes.

Now Amnesty's focus is accusing Western democracies of racism while the organization itself supports misogynists, homophobes & terrorists.

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In 2010, Gita Sahgal, then head of the organization's gender unit, was fired for exposing Amnesty's shameful ties and support for Britain's most famous Taliban advocate, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg. theguardian.com/world/2010/apr… Image
Supporting terrorists has been a recurring theme with Amnesty. In 2015, a senior employee of Amnesty International was found to have undeclared private links to men alleged to be key players in a secretive network of global Islamists, revealed The Times.

thetimes.co.uk/article/amnest…
Christopher Hitchens wrote that Amnesty’s actions backing the Taliban—and targeting whistleblower & women's rights chief Gita Sahgal—exemplified the organization’s “degeneration and politicization,” reflecting “a moral crisis that has global implications.” slate.com/news-and-polit…
In 2015, @amnesty's speaker said the 9/11 attacks were “sweet revenge”; & Europe made “the cult of the Holocaust & Jew-worshiping its religion.” He labeled gays “AIDS-spreading faggots.” Part of Hezbollah, he questions the existence of Nazi gas chambers. tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
Amnesty backed the pro-Taliban group "Cage," which promotes an ideology that mocks the values of tolerance, especially towards women.

Amnesty used Cage propaganda, shared logos with them, co-produced briefing papers & co-signed letters to the government. economist.com/britain/2015/0… Image
Rights activist Sigrid Rausing criticized Amnesty for "blurring" its original mission. The Economist: "A group which devotes more focus to rights abuses in Britain & America than those in Belarus & Saudi Arabia cannot expect to escape doubters' scrutiny." economist.com/international/… Image
In 2015, Amnesty justified hosting an anti-gay Holocaust denier to protest Islamophobia—due to "the significance of this issue" & as it "was not an endorsement of any of the views of the individual speaker." Yet in 2018 they saw fit to ban London's Jews. theguardian.com/world/2018/jan…
Amnesty International chief Agnes Callamard makes a moral equivalence between Nazi Germany and the American city of Minneapolis.

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Jun 13
AP Exclusive: Humanitarians at Médecins Sans Frontières sexually exploit Sudanese underage girls in refugee camps, systematically targeting vulnerable victims of war. Internal report, buried for 11 months, suggests there was organized sexual trafficking.
apnews.com/article/chad-s…
2/ Staff at Doctors Without Borders were engaged in “pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation , in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.”
3/ The internal report was from July 2025, yet only reported today by Associated Press. It found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18 staff members were dismissed and barred from future employment. “Findings only scratch the surface, as many women were hesitant to speak openly.”
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Jun 8
The U.N. is now attempting to redefine antisemitism out of existence.

Through its most famous appointed expert, the U.N. is erasing the term's meaning as hatred of Jews.

U.N. member states—UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Australia—must condemn this disgraceful distortion.
2/ “Among Arabs and their supporters, it is sometimes said that Arabs cannot be anti-Semites since they themselves are Semites. This statement is meaningless. Anti-Semitism has never been concerned with anyone but Jews, and there is in any case no such thing as a Semite. Like the Aryan, he is a myth, and part of the same mythology.”
— Bernard Lewis
nybooks.com/articles/1986/…
3/ “A common answer, given by or on behalf of Arabs, is that they cannot be anti-Semitic, since they themselves are Semites. The logic of this would seem to be that while an edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf published in Berlin or in Buenos Aires in German or Spanish is anti-Semitic, an Arabic version of the same text published in Cairo or Beirut cannot be anti-Semitic, because Arabic and Hebrew are cognate languages.”
ms.z-library.sk/book/wRN3b8oYj…
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May 25
LEAKED: Amnesty’s unused “ongoing genocide” posters. 🧵

1: Palestinian surfs on the beach in Gaza City, May 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE Image
2: Palestinian women take part in 5-kilometer Palestine Marathon along the coastal road near Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE”
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3: Wedding ceremony in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, April 24, 2026. (Photo: Saeed Jaras)

Amnesty: “STOP THE ONGOING GENOCIDE” Image
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May 17
BREAKING: Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz 'Angel of Death' Mengele.

1949: Red Cross gives Mengele fake travel papers to flee to Argentina

1956: Mengele visits Swiss Alps

1961: Mrs. Mengele rents apartment near Zurich. Was he there too?
🧵bbc.com/news/articles/…
2/ Mengele, under the alias Helmut Gregor, flew from his refuge in Argentina to Switzerland in 1956 to spend a skiing holiday in Engelberg with his future wife Martha, his widowed sister-in-law, and his son Rolf, the only child from his previous marriage to Irene Schönbein. Image
3/ Josef Mengele and his son Rolf during a skiing holiday in Engelberg, Switzerland, in 1956. @Weltwoche

Previous photo: Cover of the illustrated magazine Bunte from June 27, 1985.Image
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May 5
.@MarkJCarney Prime Minister, why did you appoint a Governor-General who admitted herself that as U.N. human rights chief she gave a free pass to the worst tyrannies, saying she was “constrained by the reality of the organization's power centers, including China and Russia”? Image
2/ In fact, as U.N. high commissioner from 2004-2008, Louise Arbour turned a blind eye to billions of victims in 153 countries, including of regimes in Algeria, Bangladesh, Belarus, North Korea, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Vietnam & Yemen.

🔗 Full report: unwatch.org/new-report-giv…Image
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3/ UN Watch's Aug. 2008 report revealed that in her official statements over a two-year period, Arbour criticized China only once—and that she never said a single word on Russia. Instead, she posed for pictures taking flowers from Vladimir Putin, legitimizing his brutal regime. Image
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Apr 16
DAY OF INFAMY: New video shows the moment when Canada, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Austria and Switzerland joined the consensus decision to nominate Iran—and when they were repeatedly invited to object. They chose silence.
I regret that some democracies now suggest they never endorsed Iran for this UN committee that soon meets to address women's rights.

Ask your MP and foreign minister:

1. Yes or no, did our government join ECOSOC's April 8 consensus nomination of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
2. Yes or no, did the United States take the floor in that meeting to disassociate from the consensus nomination of Iran, stating that the regime threatens its neighbors, infringes on the Iranian people’s ability to exercise their basic human rights, and is thus unfit to serve?
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