.@SwedishPM Ulf Kristersson: You are the Chair of the European Union. We urge you to show moral leadership by telling your ambassador NOT to attend tomorrow's ceremony in Tehran celebrating the 44th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Do not dance on the graves of the victims.
2/ Shame on any Ambassador in Tehran who goes to this ceremony glorifying 44 years of a regime that has tortured and killed thousands of its own people. You will become a tool in their propaganda. You will be complicit in their crimes. #BoycottIRIDay#بیشرف
9/ “On the 43rd anniversary of the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution, Ebrahim Raisi, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, received 101 foreign ambassadors residing in Tehran, who conveyed congratulatory messages...” iranpress.com/content/55338/… #BoycottIRIDay#بیشرف
10/ Shame on any Ambassador who goes to this ceremony glorifying 44 years of a regime that has tortured and killed thousands of its own people. You will become a tool in their propaganda. You will be complicit in their crimes. #BoycottIRIDay#بیشرف
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BREAKING: UN human rights official tweets “F**k him” about Israel's prime minister. I ask Secretary-General @antonioguterres & High Commissioner @volker_turk: this tweet has been up for 16 hours, why are you silent?
2/ Mofakeng works closely with fellow UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. She's also a veteran member on the Committee overseeing all the UN rapporteurs—the same one that's supposed to investigate our complaint against Albanese. How morally corrupt. ohchr.org/en/special-pro…
3/ We now urge Secretary-General @antonioguterres and High Commissioner @volker_turk to condemn Mofokeng for violating the UN Code of Conduct. She is in gross breach of her duty under Article 3 to uphold the highest standards of integrity, probity, impartiality, and good faith.
BREAKING: Nawaf Salam wins support to become next PM of Lebanon.
• The Good News: Hezbollah wanted the other guy.
• The Bad News: Salam is a longtime supporter of Ayatollah Khamenei, Fidel Castro & Bashar Assad.
• The Unethical News: He was heading ICJ while campaigning. 🧵
In 2007, when the UNGA considered a resolution to denounce the Islamic Republic of Iran’s use of stoning as a method of execution, Nawaf Salam—then the ambassador of Lebanon—voted to shield the regime, joining a club that includes China, Russia, Cuba, North Korea & Venezuela. /2
When ICJ President Salam was Lebanon's UN rep, he voted 11 times against UNGA resolutions that condemned serious human rights violations by the Islamic Regime in Iran, including the mollahs' use of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, flogging and amputations. /3
BREAKING: 🇸🇪 Sweden ends all funding for UNRWA, redirecting aid to trusted groups. Second EU state to announce in one week, after the Netherlands. Momentum is on our side. We are going to run terrorist-infested UNRWA into the ground. Peace now has a brighter future. 🧵⬇️
2/ I want to begin by thanking 🇸🇪 Sweden's @DavidLega, who served in European Parliament from 2019-2024, for inviting me to address the Parliament to expose UNRWA's terror ties, and for his own powerful remarks in Geneva at our 2024 Summit to End UNRWA:
3/ Again and again, the head of UNRWA tried to accuse us of “disinformation.”
But more and more governments saw the facts, none of which @UNLazzarini could dispute:
• Chair of UNRWA Teachers Union in Gaza, Suhail al-Hindi, was on Hamas Politburo. x.com/HillelNeuer/st…
• UNRWA Headquarters powered Hamas espionage computer server in terror tunnel right below. wsj.com/world/middle-e…
• UNRWA's ex-official Francesca Albanese fundraised for the agency by writing, “America is subjugated by the Jewish Lobby.” x.com/HillelNeuer/st…
• UNRWA commissioner-general met with Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror chiefs, telling them “We are united, no one can separate us.” foxnews.com/world/new-repo…
• UNRWA knew in July that 100 of its employees were on a list of Hamas terrorists—including Mohammad Abu Itiwi who took part in the October 7th massacre—but did nothing. x.com/HillelNeuer/st…
• 3,000 UNRWA staffers celebrated the Hamas October 7th massacre on the Telegram chat group. unwatch.org/unrwa-terrorgr…
• 8,000 UNRWA teachers in Gaza rallied for Hamas terror chief and UNRWA official Suhail al-Hindi. x.com/HillelNeuer/st…
HISTORIC DEFEAT FOR UNRWA: 🇳🇱 Netherlands Parliament just voted 88-49 to phase out funding for UNRWA by 2029, citing its complicity with terror. This is first EU state to defund UNRWA, setting major precedent. We had presented key info ahead of the vote: tweedekamer.nl/debat_en_verga…
2/ As reported by journalist @coenhermenet, today's vote was part of a deal to pass the foreign aid budget. Under the agreed amendment, in 2025 UNRWA will get €15 million, instead of the originally planned €19m; then it drops to €11m, €7m, €1m.
3/ The text of the Dutch Parliament decision recaps key facts about UNRWA that we had presented to them in our Position Paper: tweedekamer.nl/downloads/docu…
Bravo to @chris_stoffer & @Eerdmans for their successful motion, which states: “UNRWA as an organization has been in disrepute for repeated neutrality violations and for some staff members glorifying violence in Telegram groups. In addition, there have been serious allegations against staff members participating in Oct. 7 or the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations. There is also the issue of antisemitism in UNRWA teaching methods and those of host countries, which the Colonna report also noted. The petitioners are therefore critical of UNRWA's funding and do not yet see enough reform and improvement...”
BREAKING: On Human Rights Day, we are calling for the resignation of UN rights chief @volker_turk after our investigation produces damning report of his blind eye to abuses by Syria, China, North Korea, Cuba, Eritrea, Qatar and other serial violators. unwatch.org/un-watchdog-ca…
2/ In two years, Türk made ONLY THREE statements on Syria—with only one of them directed at the regime of Bashar Assad. The other two statements criticized the opposition Syrian Democratic Forces for violations in areas where it operates. Syria was one of the world’s most repressive regimes, embroiled in civil war since 2011. Assad repressed all political opposition, committed egregious violations with impunity, including enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture. The Syrian Network For Human Rights reported that nearly 2000 people were forcibly disappeared in 2023, approximately half by the Assad regime. In 2024, fighting intensified throughout Syria with the Assad regime using cluster munitions in urban areas resulting in over 150 civilians being killed and injured in the Idlib area. On April 7, pro-government militia in Daraa in Southern Syria massacred ten civilians, including two children. Syria also hosted IRGC military personnel and installations which facilitate the supply of weapons to the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon.
3/ Weak on Venezuela: Over two years, @volker_turk made ONLY FOUR statements on Venezuela, which is illegitimately controlled by dictator Nicolás Maduro, and ranked Not Free by Freedom House. Under Maduro, the state is a serial violator of human rights, with repeated credible reports of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearance, and torture taking place by government authorities. There are severe limits on freedom of expression and the media, with violence against journalists being commonplace. In 2023, opposition presidential candidate María Corina Machado was barred from running against Maduro on false grounds. Furthermore, the U.S. State department declared Maduro’s re-election to have been fraudulent, declaring that the opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, “won the most votes,” and that the reported outcome by Maduro’s regime “does not represent the will of the Venezuelan people.” The level of repression in the country has caused millions of Venezuelans to flee.
FINALLY: After a decade of our sounding the alarm, including this year addressing the US Congress as well as the EU, Dutch, Swiss & Austrian Parliaments, the New York Times reports in detail how Hamas terrorists completely infiltrated UNRWA schools. nytimes.com/2024/12/08/wor…
“To his students, Ahmad al-Khatib was a deputy principal at an elementary school in Gaza run by UNRWA. To Hamas’s military wing, documents say, he was something else entirely: an infantryman operating out of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.” /2
“The military wing, known as the Qassam Brigades, kept meticulous records of its fighters, tracking the weapons they were issued and regularly evaluating everything from their fitness to their loyalty.” /3