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🚨 BREAKING: New report by UN Watch reveals UN “experts” accepted millions of dollars from China, Russia, and Qatar before attacking the U.S., Israel, and the West.

🧵 See the report’s most striking findings:Image
Alena Douhan, the UN expert against Western sanctions, received $1.3 million in funding from China, Russia, and Qatar.

Her official visits — including to Tehran, Beijing, Damascus, Doha, Caracas, and Harare — were conducted exclusively to support the regimes, not their victims. Image
Ben Saul, the UN expert counterterrorism, received $150,000 from China then refused to issue any statements on China’s persecution of the Uyghurs, which Beijing justifies as “counterterrorism.”

In March, Saul condemned the U.S. while praising Somalia as a “responsible state.”
George Katrougalos, a former Greek foreign minister serving as the UN expert “on a democratic and equitable international order,” received $100,000 from China in 2025 — the same year he praised Xi Jinping’s book and the Chinese dictator’s “vision of openness and dialogue.” Image
In November 2025, Katrougalos traveled to Tehran and met with the Iranian regime’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi. The two lamented Israeli and American “crimes.” Image
Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN expert on health, said “Hamas are not terrorists,” and endorsed “the legitimacy of armed struggle.”

She was fined by South Africa’s health authority for misconduct after she attacked UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer as “evil scum.” Image
Michael Fakhri, the UN expert on the right to food, accuses Canada of committing genocide.

Though Venezuela routinely bars UN monitors, Fakhri was specifically invited for a visit, which he used to lavish praise on the Maduro regime. Image
Irene Khan, the UN expert on freedom of expression, turned a blind eye to systematic violations of free speech in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Turkey, and Myanmar, yet devoted an entire UN report to condemning Western states for allegedly repressing pro-Palestinian protests. Image
Reem Alsalem, the UN expert on violence against women, has refused to acknowledge the October 7th massacre, denied Hamas sexual crimes against Israeli women, and amplified Hamas-aligned propaganda. Image
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN expert on housing, routinely excoriates the U.S. while excusing or ignoring abuses by China, Russia, and Iran.

He's called international law an “imperial” system that “legitimates the exercise of raw power by the USA.” Image
UN Watch's report finds that the UN experts frequently rely on unverified and anonymous sources, weakening evidentiary standards.

Despite these concerns, their reports continue to be cited as authoritative sources by international courts, governments, and media outlets. Image
The 13 UN “experts” exposed in the report represent more than a fifth of the 59 mandates to report on human rights. Their conduct would end careers in any other institution. Yet all retain their UN platforms. Image
“The UN’s human rights system was founded to protect victims of abuse. Instead, it is being manipulated to attack democracies and shield some of the world’s worst human rights violators.”

— Hillel Neuer Image
UN Watch is calling for 12 concrete reforms, including:

▶️ Complete ban on UN experts receiving earmarked funding from governments or external entities

▶️ Independent external mechanism to review, audit, and discipline experts

▶️ External vetting of candidates by democracies Image
UN Watch's findings show a clear pattern of ideological bias and financial conflicts of interest that are hampering human rights.

Read the full 104-page investigative report:
unwatch.org/report-u-n-exp…

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May 7
Vogue made antisemitism fashionable when it profiled Hamas supporter Francesca Albanese.

Now meet the person behind the whitewash: Kerry McDermott, Vogue’s Digital Director.

Is she an objective journalist?
🧵 Let's take a look:
Kerry McDermott on Instagram: when not posting selfies or Vogue covers, it's all “Free Palestine.”

L: Vogue digital director posting from Oct. 11, 2025 protest where people chanted “Death to the IDF!”

R: Vogue digital director supporting the Hamas-orchestrated flotilla stunt. Image
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L: McDermott mourning “journalist” Anas al-Sharif.

R: McDermott forgot to mention Anas al-Sharif was a Hamas terrorist in the East Jabaliya Battalion. Image
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Apr 25
.@Klassekampen: “My life has become hell.”
Francesca Albanese: “I can't have a bank account, or earn money. I travel incognito—hotels cancel my reservations. I can't order taxis. My email is shut down. University collaborations were cut, without me even getting a chance to...”Image
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2/ She interrupts herself. In short, she is being treated like a criminal, says Albanese, who since July has been on the same sanctions list as terrorists and drug lords.
“But if I were a criminal, at least I'd have legal protection. That's definitely not the case here. So I'm really furious,” Albanese says.
3/ Who is she furious with? First and foremost, the authorities in her native country, Italy.

“My own government has turned its back on me. The Italian press has portrayed me as hysterical and power-hungry, as someone who only wants attention.“
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And now: The Top 10 Worst U.N. Moments of 2025

1. Saudi Arabia Chairs UN Women’s Rights Commission

Despite its abysmal record on women’s rights, the UN elected Saudi Arabia as Chair of its “global body for gender equality and the empowerment of women.”

Represented by Abdulaziz Alwasil, a regime official having no credentials as a women's rights activist, Saudi Arabia presided over the 2025 session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The desert monarchy still subjects women to legal discrimination including male guardianship controls.

London’s Spectator reported: “As the superb organization UN Watch points out, the UN Commission on the Status of Women has never passed a single resolution regarding Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women — and now, grotesquely, has rewarded it with the chair.”
spectator.co.uk/article/will-t…

Hillel Neuer was quoted by Women’s Agenda magazine: “By elevating a misogynistic regime to its highest women’s rights body, the UN betrays millions of female victims, in Saudi Arabia and worldwide.” womensagenda.com.au/latest/its-sur…Image
2. UN Launches Day to Defend Dictatorships, Framing Western Sanctions as Illegal

At the initiative of China, Cuba, Iran, and other authoritarian regimes, the United Nations on December 4, 2025 launched its new “International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures,” branding Western sanctions on tyrannies as violations of international law.
x.com/HillelNeuer/st…

The new annual event will boost an anti-Western narrative at the UN that is designed to shield the world’s worst human rights abusers from accountability. The campaign is driven by UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan of Belarus, who has used her mandate to promote the talking points of sanctioned regimes. x.com/HillelNeuer/st…

Outrageously, Annalena Baerbock, the President of the UN General Assembly who until recently was Germany’s foreign minister,  also joined the jackals. “Unilateral coercive measures imposed by a single State are in contravention of international law,” said Baerbock. Her opening remarks at the UN's Orwellian event effectively condemned U.S. sanctions on Sudanese genocide commanders, Russian war financiers, and Chinese officials who run Uyghur prison camps, as “unlawful coercion.”Image
3. UN's Anti-Western Rapporteur Received $1.3 Million From China, Qatar, Russia

UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan, who was installed by the UN Human Rights Council to go after Western countries for sanctioning dictatorships, received over $1.3 million from China, Qatar, and Russia, revealed Hillel Neuer when he confronted her in a dramatic UN debate. In response, the UN chair rebuked Neuer for “personal attacks.” Cuba joined in, accusing UN Watch of “offensive, out-of-order, politicized comments.”

UN Watch then exposed in detail the moral and financial corruption of Douhan's Orwellian UN mandate, including her propaganda trips to Iran, China, Syria, Qatar, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and, most recently, Cuba: nationalpost.com/opinion/un-pro…
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BREAKING: UN names UNRWA's ex-Lebanon Director Claudio Cordone as Deputy Special Envoy for Syria.

Here's Cordone—who once also headed Amnesty International—giving an award to Lebanon's Hamas terror chief Fateh Sharif, an UNRWA educator by day who oversaw 2,000 UNRWA teachers. Image
2/ Claudio Cordone: “UNRWA expresses its deep appreciation to Fateh Sharif for his contribution in enhancing the school community to guarantee a better future for Palestine refugee children.”

Hamas: “Fateh Sharif fought as a martyr, and gave Jihadi education to the children.”
3/ UNRWA Lebanon chief @claudio_cordone with Islamic Jihad and other terror chiefs like Ali Baraka, one of only a handful of top Hamas terrorists to be indicted by the U.S. for “heinous crimes.” He managed Hamas ties with Tehran and was deeply involved in Hamas terror operations Image
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Nov 4, 2025
🚨 NEW: UN Watch has unveiled the UNRWA Terror Network, an investigative platform that exposes and maps the systemic infiltration of UNRWA by terrorist organizations including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

🔗 unwatch.org/unrwa-terror-n…Image
Users can browse between 490 profiles of UNRWA employees and terrorists and a complex web of 889 connections between them. Profiles are labeled according to affiliation with UNRWA, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and more.

Learn how to explore the UNRWA Terror Network:
The platform is the result of over ten years of research and compiles documented evidence involving hundreds of UNRWA employees engaged in terrorism, incitement, or membership in extremist organizations. Image
Read 8 tweets
Sep 17, 2025
BREAKING: A bombshell new 200-page report exposes how Hamas terror chiefs seized control of the UNRWA school system responsible for educating hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza and Lebanon.

The UN knew about this scandal — and did nothing.

Here are the highlights: 🧵Image
2/ UNRWA runs a vast network of schools for 500,000 Palestinian students.

It raises $1+ billion each year from Western states with a promise to teach these children peace and tolerance.

In reality, UNRWA handed the children over to violent terror groups like Hamas and PIJ. Image
3/ While UNRWA’s international staff — such as former chief Pierre Krähenbühl & successor Philippe Lazzarini — serve as its public face, the real power lies with local staff who make up 99% of UNRWA's 30,000 employees.

They run the education system & staff unions on the ground. Image
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