@HillelNeuer's Threads
1/ SHAME: Asked by @yvonne_tg @thepulse_rthk about #Taiwan's participation in the U.N.'s World Health Organization, its official Bruce Aylward says "I can't...could't hear"; then hangs up; and then when called back & asked again, he quickly shuts down the interview. #Covid_19
2/ Bowing to political pressure by China, the WHO excludes Taiwan from the world health summit & dozens of WHO technical expert meetings, creating loopholes in global health security networks that could quicken the spread of pandemics in Asia and beyond.
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
3/ The World Health Organization failed to communicate Taiwan's warning in December of possible human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus, the Financial Times reported.
news.yahoo.com/taiwan-accuses…
news.yahoo.com/taiwan-accuses…
1/ Today, in one of its last acts before suspending due to the coronavirus, @UN_HRC adopted a report with 85% PRAISE for the human rights record of #Iran.
🇸🇾SYRIA: “We commend Iran's active efforts to increase healthcare services by building medical care in rural & urban areas.”
🇸🇾SYRIA: “We commend Iran's active efforts to increase healthcare services by building medical care in rural & urban areas.”
2/ 🇨🇳 CHINA "commends Iran's efforts to eradicate poverty, enhance social security, protect the rights of vulnerable groups & hopes Iran will continue to drive economic & social development to provide a solid basis for the enjoyment of all human rights.” unwatch.org/iran-praised-i…
3/ 🇷🇺 RUSSIA: “We highly rate #Iran’s cooperation with human rights treaty bodies and openness for dialogue as part of the UPR (Universal Periodic Review).”
1/ No joke: Today in one of its last acts before suspending tomorrow due to the coronavirus, the U.N. Human Rights Council will adopt a report in which 85% of UNHRC reps PRAISE the human rights record of the Islamic Republic of Iran. See quotes below.
unwatch.org/85-of-unhrc-re…
unwatch.org/85-of-unhrc-re…
2/ The report undocs.org/A/HRC/43/12:
North Korea: “We highly commend Iran for protecting human rights.”
Qatar: “We commend Iran's development of social & human rights.”
State of Palestine: “We commend Iran’s commitment to promote and protect human rights.”
North Korea: “We highly commend Iran for protecting human rights.”
Qatar: “We commend Iran's development of social & human rights.”
State of Palestine: “We commend Iran’s commitment to promote and protect human rights.”
3/ Ahead this mandatory UNHRC review of its human rights record, finalized today, the Islamic Republic of Iran submitted a report claiming it has a stellar human rights record. Following are some of Iran’s most absurd claims, contrasted with the reality. unwatch.org/iran-claims-co…
.@UN_Women Now imagine a world where this never happens:
🇮🇷 Iran named a @UN_Women's rights judge 1 year ago this week, after it sentenced women's rights lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh to 38 years prison & 148 lashes. unwatch.org/un-picks-iran-…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia sits on your Executive Board.
🇮🇷 Iran named a @UN_Women's rights judge 1 year ago this week, after it sentenced women's rights lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh to 38 years prison & 148 lashes. unwatch.org/un-picks-iran-…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia sits on your Executive Board.
Today is #InternationalWomensDay. Tomorrow is the 64th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is an elected member.
🇧🇪 Belgium helped elected the Saudis, we revealed in 2017, to win its own election to the Security Council.
independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia is an elected member.
🇧🇪 Belgium helped elected the Saudis, we revealed in 2017, to win its own election to the Security Council.
independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…
1/ Human Rights Watch took funds from Saudi billionaire tied to the regime—after reporting his company's abuse of workers—and promised not to promote #LGBT rights with the grant. (Source: @theintercept.) Worst crisis to hit @hrw since its 1978 founding by my friend Bob Bernstein. 
2/ HRW now admits that its chief @KenRoth himself solicited the donation from Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber. Roth himself signed the agreement with the accused Saudi human rights abuser promising that HRW would not use the funds to promote LGBT rights. hrw.org/news/2020/02/2…
3/ @hrw: "In 2012, Human Rights Watch made a deeply regrettable decision to accept a donation that included conditions that the funds not be used to support HRW’s work on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the Middle East and North Africa...."
1/ On this 9 years ago, we finally got the Libyan regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi expelled from the U.N.'s highest human rights body. Here's the story of how we did it — and it matters because we're about to do the same to the narco-criminal tyranny of Venezuela's Maduro.
2/ May 2010 - UN Watch leads 37 NGOs to oppose Libya’s election to the UNHRC & with Freedom House hosts dissident Mohamed Eljahmi—whose brother was jailed, tortured & killed by Qaddafi—at UN press conference. “Libya does not belong on the UNHRC,” he said.
unwatch.org/issue-229-un-w…
unwatch.org/issue-229-un-w…
3/ Our appeal to oppose Qaddafi was widely reported. @jkirchick @NYDailyNews: "It speaks volumes about the integrity of the 'international community' that it would choose a terrorist-celebrating murderer to sit in judgment of the world's democracies.
nydailynews.com/opinion/dare-l…
nydailynews.com/opinion/dare-l…
1/ The Syrian regime now indiscriminately bombing 4 million of its own civilians in Idlib was elected to a senior post on a United Nations committee in charge of upholding fundamental human rights in opposing the “subjugation and exploitation” of peoples. unwatch.org/syria-elected-…
2/ The 24-nation forum seeks to “decolonize,” among other places, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa. Committee sessions also debate the future of places such as Gibraltar, the Falklands, Bermuda, French Polynesia and New Caledonia.
3/ UN chief Antonio Guterres delivered blessings before the 24-nation committee (which counts Iran, China, and Russia among its members) as it reelected by acclamation the genocidal Syrian regime’s UN representative Bashar Ja’afari to a leadership post. news.un.org/en/story/2020/…
1/ @HRW's Iran analyst @SepehriFar "encouraged silence" during Iran's 2-year detention of environmentalist Sam Rajabi, says his sister Katy. Iran just sentenced him to 6 years prison on false espionage charges. "I have a complaint about Tara Sepehri Far who encouraged silence..."
@hrw @sepehrifar 2/ Tr:
"I have a complaint!
I have a complaint about everyone who has been silent. I have a complaint about Tara Sepehri Far who encouraged silence. I have a complaint about those who have been threatened for two years & been silent. I have a complaint!"
english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle…
"I have a complaint!
I have a complaint about everyone who has been silent. I have a complaint about Tara Sepehri Far who encouraged silence. I have a complaint about those who have been threatened for two years & been silent. I have a complaint!"
english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle…
@hrw @sepehrifar 3/ Human rights lawyer Kaveh Shahrooz says @sepehrifar @hrw "promotes known Islamic Republic of Iran apologists" & may have sought to silence families to protect Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. He calls on @hrw to investigate. @KenRoth should respond.
These countries' laws call to kill gays:
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇶🇦 Qatar
These countries sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇶🇦 Qatar
#hrc43
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇶🇦 Qatar
These countries sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇶🇦 Qatar
#hrc43
@ILGAWORLD @UNHumanRights "Yes...but you need to talk to everyone," say the apologists.
False. The UNHRC's own rules (Res. 60/251) say the opposite.
Art. 8: "When electing members states... take into account the contribution of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights..."
False. The UNHRC's own rules (Res. 60/251) say the opposite.
Art. 8: "When electing members states... take into account the contribution of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights..."
@ILGAWORLD @UNHumanRights Diplomats say abusers are meant to be on the Council.
FACT-CHECK: False.
Art. 8: "The General Assembly by a two-thirds majority may suspend the rights of membership in the Council of a member that commits gross and systematic violations of human rights."
FACT-CHECK: False.
Art. 8: "The General Assembly by a two-thirds majority may suspend the rights of membership in the Council of a member that commits gross and systematic violations of human rights."
Rejects peace proposal:
🇵🇸 Palestinians
🇯🇴 Jordan
🇹🇷 Turkey
🇮🇷 Iran
Welcomes peace proposal:
🇬🇧 UK
🇮🇹 Italy
🇦🇪 UAE
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇱 Israel
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇸🇦 Saudi
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇰🇷 Korea
🇴🇲 Oman
🇯🇵 Japan
🇨🇿 Czech
🇫🇷 France
🇦🇹 Austria
🇵🇱 Poland
🇧🇭 Bahrain
🇦🇺 Australia
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇵🇸 Palestinians
🇯🇴 Jordan
🇹🇷 Turkey
🇮🇷 Iran
Welcomes peace proposal:
🇬🇧 UK
🇮🇹 Italy
🇦🇪 UAE
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇱 Israel
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇸🇦 Saudi
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇰🇷 Korea
🇴🇲 Oman
🇯🇵 Japan
🇨🇿 Czech
🇫🇷 France
🇦🇹 Austria
🇵🇱 Poland
🇧🇭 Bahrain
🇦🇺 Australia
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇩🇰 Denmark: "[A]ny new initiative to create new momentum in the Middle East Peace Process is welcome."
🇨🇴 Colombia:
"The international community must support these efforts and Colombia will be ready to contribute whatever is necessary for this process to be successful."
cancilleria.gov.co/newsroom/publi…
"The international community must support these efforts and Colombia will be ready to contribute whatever is necessary for this process to be successful."
cancilleria.gov.co/newsroom/publi…
Memo to @IntlCrimCourt: PA threatens to dissolve itself, again. Is there any other entity that keeps threatening to self-destruct that you deem to be a state?
2015 israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx…
2014 ynetnews.com/articles/0,734…
2013 jpost.com/Middle-East/Ab…
2012 haaretz.com/.premium-abbas…
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2015 israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx…
2014 ynetnews.com/articles/0,734…
2013 jpost.com/Middle-East/Ab…
2012 haaretz.com/.premium-abbas…
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@IntlCrimCourt 2015: "Erekat Threatens: We'll Dismantle the PA."
PA chief negotiator says the PA will not agree to the status quo, threatens the PA will dismantle itself and “hand the keys” back to Israel.
israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx…
PA chief negotiator says the PA will not agree to the status quo, threatens the PA will dismantle itself and “hand the keys” back to Israel.
israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx…
@IntlCrimCourt 2014: "Abbas threatens to dismantle Palestinian Authority"
PA president's proposal to declare West Bank under occupation would annul Oslo Accords, leave Israel with full responsibility over Palestinians.
ynetnews.com/articles/0,734…
PA president's proposal to declare West Bank under occupation would annul Oslo Accords, leave Israel with full responsibility over Palestinians.
ynetnews.com/articles/0,734…
Third time this week I've seen Iranian citizens overtly refuse to dishonor the U.S. & Israeli flags, defying the diktat of the murderous Ayatollah Khamenei regime. These men and women are the great hope for a Middle East of peace and tolerance. The free world must support them.
First time was on Sunday at Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University:
Second time: Monday, at Sanandaj University in Iran's western Kurdish Province, where students refused to take the stairs upon which a large U.S. flag had been painted:
BREAKING: @UNHumanRights to publish anti-Israeli blacklist next month, reports Israel’s @ynetnews, after Maduro’s Venezuela & slaveholding Mauritania join UNHRC. US is trying to get UN to postpone release, with Amb. David Friedman liaising with Jerusalem.
ynet.co.il/articles/0,734…
ynet.co.il/articles/0,734…
@UNHumanRights @ynetnews Sponsors of the UNHRC resolution creating the anti-Israeli blacklist include #Syria #Iran #Venezuela #Pakistan #Libya #Yemen & #Cuba. Joining this club of tyrants, murderers and rapists as its most ardent supporter for the past 3 years has been Human Rights Watch chief @KenRoth.
@UNHumanRights @ynetnews @KenRoth Nearly a third of the UNHRC refused to support the resolution, including Britain, France, Germany, US Netherlands & Belgium. UK officials strongly criticized the UNHRC for exceeding its authority in creating the blacklist. haaretz.com/israel-news/fr…
How UN Watch fought dictatorships and defended human rights heroes, victims & dissidents in 2019:
✅ Part 1/3: Leading world opposition to Syrian Assad regime's obscene presidency of the U.N. Disarmament Conference, exposing Cuban regime's cheating on U.N. human rights review.
✅ Part 1/3: Leading world opposition to Syrian Assad regime's obscene presidency of the U.N. Disarmament Conference, exposing Cuban regime's cheating on U.N. human rights review.
How UN Watch fought dictatorships and defended human rights heroes, victims & dissidents in 2019:
✅ Part 2/3: Taking the floor at UNHRC to debunk the Big Tent Theory which defends electing regimes like Maduro, Putin & Castro because they'll "learn & improve"; defending Uighurs.
✅ Part 2/3: Taking the floor at UNHRC to debunk the Big Tent Theory which defends electing regimes like Maduro, Putin & Castro because they'll "learn & improve"; defending Uighurs.
How UN Watch fought dictatorships & defended human rights heroes, victims & dissidents in 2019:
✅ Part 3/3: Creating global platforms for courageous human rights dissidents from Syria, Turkey, Burundi, China & Venezuela.
Fighting to defend the true principles of human rights.
✅ Part 3/3: Creating global platforms for courageous human rights dissidents from Syria, Turkey, Burundi, China & Venezuela.
Fighting to defend the true principles of human rights.
Today we remember the fate of 850,000 Jewish refugees forced out of Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century. Communities dating back 2,500 years were destroyed.
At the UN, I asked Algeria, Egypt, Iraq & the others: “Where are your Jews?”
FULL VIDEO:
At the UN, I asked Algeria, Egypt, Iraq & the others: “Where are your Jews?”
FULL VIDEO:
On this day 72 years ago, Nov. 30, 1947—a day after the UN voted to partition Palestine into Arab & Jewish states—Syria incited mobs in Aleppo. Rioters burned 50 Jewish shops, 5 schools, 18 synagogues, the community’s orphanage, a youth club & 150 homes.
timesofisrael.com/a-different-hi…
timesofisrael.com/a-different-hi…
In Aden, now part of Yemen, local Arabs slaughtered or burned to death 87 Jews, including children, women & the elderly; dozens more were seriously injured; the 2 Jewish schools, several synagogues & many homes were destroyed; every Jewish shop was looted.
timesofisrael.com/murder-looting…
timesofisrael.com/murder-looting…
SHAME: 🇨🇦 Canada joins the jackals, votes for anti-Israel resolution co-sponsored by North Korea, Zimbabwe & the PLO. Resolution condemns Israel for "occupying" Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem & holiest sites of Judaism. Ignores hundreds of Palestinian rockets just fired at Israelis.
@JustinTrudeau @CanadaUN The vote change is dramatic. If it wanted to shift, Trudeau's government could have moved from a No, as it voted last year with U.S., to an Abstain, as Australia voted today. Instead, they jumped all the way to a Yes—for the first time in years and breaking bi-partisan tradition.
@JustinTrudeau @CanadaUN Trudeau is trading Canada's bedrock principles of fairness & equality for a UN Security Council seat. By voting for a resolution co-sponsored by North Korea & Zimbabwe, he has entered a Faustian bargain with dictatorships that does not bode well for a free & democratic society.
Amnesty a menti en accusant à tort Israël d’une attaque perpétrée par un missile palestinien. «Nous condamnons fermement l’attaque contre la Commission palestinienne pour les droits de l’homme dont le bureau à Gaza a été frappé par un missile israélien...»
unwatch.org/amnesty-a-ment…
unwatch.org/amnesty-a-ment…
Hier après-midi, quelques heures seulement après l’explosion à Gaza d’un missile dans les bureaux de la Commission indépendante palestinienne pour les droits de l’homme, Amnesty International s’est empressée d’accuser Israël de l’attaque.
Cependant, selon un rapport publié aujourd’hui par Amira Hass, correspondante pro-Palestinenne de Haaretz dans les territoires, l’explosion a été provoquée par un “missile égaré sur ses lanceurs, presque certainement des membres du Jihad islamique”. haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
1/ Here's Reuters video of the Palestinian missile in Gaza going astray yesterday at about 10 am right into the fifth floor office of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights, a bombing for which Amnesty International immediately and falsely condemned Israel.
2/ Photos of the Palestinian missile entry point into the offices of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights, on the fifth floor of the Al-Harara office building in Gaza City, which is across from the Palestinian Legislative Council building.
3/ Video of the aftermath.
Ten good reasons why Amnesty International is a credible voice when it comes to terrorism.
Founded in 1961, Amnesty built a formidable reputation for supporting individual prisoners of conscience, who were non-violent. While some in the worldwide group still do some good work, sadly Amnesty has lost direction, often supporting misogynists, homophobes & terrorists.
In 2010, Gita Sahgal, then head of the organization's gender unit, was fired for exposing Amnesty's shameful ties & support for Britain's most famous Taliban advocate, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
"Reports that five Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israeli airstrikes today are deeply worrying."
Here's the 1st innocent victim mourned by Amnesty:
Here's the 1st innocent victim mourned by Amnesty:
Here's No. 2:
Here's innocent victim No. 3 mourned by Amnesty:
Jordan won’t extradite Ahlam Tamimi, a Hamas terrorist who aided the suicide bombing of a pizzeria in Jerusalem in 2001, killing 15 people, including 2 Americans. Amnesty International says the terrorist’s family of supporters are human rights activists.
haaretz.com/us-news/.premi…
haaretz.com/us-news/.premi…
“The Tamimi clan has become internationally renowned thanks in part to the support of Amnesty International. But their supposed advocacy of non-violence is a dangerous myth; all along, they’ve been working for a third intifada.”
thetower.org/article/how-a-…
thetower.org/article/how-a-…
The UN’s Michael Lynk listed Manal Tamimi, Ahed’s mom, as a “human rights defender” but he was forced to delete her name after folks reminded him she supports murder of Jews she calls “vampire Zionists.”
@OmarSShakir @hrw Hi Omar, we met in Jerusalem about a year ago. I understand that the Supreme Court stated that its decision "concerns only the employment of Shakir himself—and it is based on his systematic, prolonged, qualitative and wide-ranging activity to promote the boycott strategy." 1/3
@OmarSShakir @hrw Every democracy including US, Canada, Australia & Germany have laws to bar entry of individuals who engage in racism or seek to promote harm to the country, all the more so when the activity is systematic, prolonged, qualitative and wide-ranging. The Court did rule that.. 2/3
@OmarSShakir @hrw HRW as an organization is free to request the employment of another rep who is not involved "up to their neck in BDS activity." While I don't know if it's wise for Israel to bar your entry, but clearly the Supreme Court ruled your activity was not "human rights" work. 3/3
U.N. Human Rights Council members today include:
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇨🇳 China
Joining on January 1, 2020:
🇻🇪 Venezuela (Maduro regime)
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇱🇾 Libya
I wish I were making this up. I'm not. This is real.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇨🇳 China
Joining on January 1, 2020:
🇻🇪 Venezuela (Maduro regime)
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇱🇾 Libya
I wish I were making this up. I'm not. This is real.
"Dictators on the council will continue to ensure that most of the world’s worst abusers enjoy impunity. Violators like China, Cuba & Saudi Arabia have never been the object of a single resolution, urgent session or commission of inquiry."
My latest: nypost.com/2019/10/18/ano…
My latest: nypost.com/2019/10/18/ano…
Dictators will appoint more scoundrels like Jean Ziegler—the longest-serving council official—who defends the Maduro regime. In 1989 he co-founded the Qaddafi Human Rights Prize, awarded to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan and, in 2002, to Ziegler himself.
As the U.N. today elects slave state Mauritania to its Human Rights Council, I share this:
1. "Mr. President, people around the world ask: 'Why does a human rights council include so many non-democracies?' Defenders of the system have a ready reply: “We need a big tent...”
1. "Mr. President, people around the world ask: 'Why does a human rights council include so many non-democracies?' Defenders of the system have a ready reply: “We need a big tent...”
2. “We need a big tent,” they say, “so that countries with poor records can engage, learn and improve.” Well, perhaps nations with spotty records, who actually wish to make progress, can be embraced & given technical cooperation, for example, to train their judges or police..."
3. "But does the UN have to keep electing the world’s worst abusers, dictatorships whose only intent is to win a false badge of international legitimacy?"
