BREAKING: The Islamic Republic of Iran was today appointed Chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council Social Forum. This year's theme is technology and promotion of human rights; Iran just hanged Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare for using social media to criticize religion.
2/ We just created a petition demanding that Secretary-General @antonioguterres intervene to stop this shameful appointment, which is an insult to the tens of thousands of victims beaten, brutalized, tortured, raped and murdered by this regime. Sign here: change.org/p/stop-iran-fr…
3/ Also, the criminal regime in Iran—which tortures protesters, poisons schoolgirls and spreads terrorism worldwide—was recently elected to the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention. While the U.S. and allies did stop Russia from getting elected, on Iran they said and did nothing.
4/ I know some of you won't believe me that the United Nations elected a criminal regime to a commission on crime prevention, so here are the original sources:
📜 U.N. report on its election of Islamic regime to a 3-year term starting January 1, 2024: press.un.org/en/2023/ecosoc…
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5/ The appointment of the Ayatollah's murderous regime to head an intergovernmental human rights forum, and to serve on the world’s highest commission on crime prevention, weakens the credibility and the work of these bodies — and of the United Nations as a whole.
6/ It is time for the free world to show that we are prepared to live up to our highest ideals, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations. The world body should not serve as a platform for propaganda and a safe haven for human rights abusers.
7/ A persistent and egregious perpetrator of brutal crimes, including mass rape, torture, and murder, should not be allowed to occupy positions of leadership on promoting human rights, or on preventing crime, at the United Nations.
8/ If the petition gathers 100,000 signatures by June, we will approach governments with a draft resolution for the 53rd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council to overrule the president's decision to appoint Iran's regime chair of the UNHRC Social Forum. change.org/p/stop-iran-fr…
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BREAKING: The dictator-dominated UNHRC just passed its 100th resolution condemning Israel, more than the combined total enacted on Iran, Syria, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela. Text fails to even mention the PA, Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Shame on 🇫🇷 & 🇩🇪 for joining the jackals.
Apart from a few words on rockets fired at Israelis (perpetrators unnamed), 98% of the text excoriates Israel, which is called on to surrender the holiest places of Judaism in Jerusalem, enforce the debunked Goldstone Report, and end “acts of terror.”
📜ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpag… /2
Stats before today: unwatch.org/database
When universal standards are applied so selectively, they cease to become standards at all. By disproportionately focusing on Israel to such an extreme degree, the UN neglects the plight of millions of human rights victims worldwide. /3
Hamas and Islamic Jihad join UNRWA staff in denouncing agency's suspension of a teacher who incited to the murder of Jews. UNRWA teachers pulled hundreds of students out of class for mass rallies and strikes in support of the teacher Riyad Mustafa Nimr. unwatch.org/hamas-islamic-…
Hamas: “We condemn UNRWA’s decision, and declare our rejection of it, and we consider that this behavior of UNRWA is repressive behavior that contradicts the human right to freedom, thinking and expression.” /2
“The Hamas council rejected UNRWA’s reliance on UN Watch, which it said implements Zionist policies and has hostile stances towards the rights of the Palestinian people.” /3 palinfo.com/news/2023/03/2…
Our human rights group just took the floor right now at the United Nations to demand they take action to protect the courageous Iranian activist Sepideh Gholian who was just abducted by agents of the Ayatollah — one day after she was released from Evin prison.
“We raise before this Council, and before the world, the case of Sepideh Gholian. Just days ago, this labor rights activist was finally released from Evin prison, after more than four years of arbitrary detention.” /2
“She had been thrown into prison in January 2019, convicted on trumped-up national security charges, after she peacefully supported striking workers.
Iranian state TV aired footage of her confessing to taking part in alleged Western-backed efforts to overthrow the government.” /3
Secretary @JochenFlasbarth, as you were just in Gaza to celebrate 🇩🇪 funding of UNRWA schools, we hereby submit our 100-page report documenting how UNRWA teachers and schools promote antisemitic hate and violence, and urge you to take immediate action: unwatch.org/un-teachers-ca… /1
@JochenFlasbarth, the report identifies UNRWA teachers who call to murder Jews and glorify Jihadi terrorist attacks, and has photos of school blackboards and textbooks glorifying terrorists like Dalal Mughrabi and praising the firebombing of a Jewish bus as a “Barbecue Party.” /2
@JochenFlasbarth, we urge you to act on behalf of the German government to:
• Demand that UNRWA implement its stated Zero Tolerance policy for employees who incite racism or murder, and immediately terminate them; /3
U.N. chief Antonio Guterres just appointed the bagman for mass-murdering war criminal Bashar al-Assad as an Assistant Secretary-General. Abdallah Dardari was Syrian deputy premier for six years, is a confidant of the dictator, and has never condemned the regime's mass murder.
“Dardari never defected from the regime, never spoke a word against Assad and never took part in opposition politics. Rather, as the uprising against Assad took off, Dardari picked up and moved next door — to Beirut. He managed to worm his way into international institutions.” /2
“Dardari maintained regular contact with Damascus, constantly shuttling back and forth. European diplomats in Beirut grumbled that Dardari’s office at @UNESCWA was like a second Syrian embassy.” /3
Meet Adnan Shteiwi, an UNRWA math teacher in Syria. He repeatedly venerates Palestinian terrorists as holy “martyrs” and glorifies members of the Lion’s Den, a Palestinian terrorist group. He's one of 133 UNRWA teachers of hate exposed in our new report: unwatch.org/un-teachers-ca…
Shteiwi glorified terrorist Diaa Hamarsheh for killing 4 Israelis in Bnei Brak: “What splendor is like you, O Diaa! Glory to your spirit and eternity in Paradise. Palestine shall not forget you, your name shall forever remain in letters of fire and might.” facebook.com/permalink.php?…
The UNRWA teacher also shared a photo of terrorist Udai Tamimi with his gun at a mall in Ariel, glorifying
him as a “martyr” and referring to “his pure
body” as “a sacrifice to Allah.” facebook.com/permalink.php?…