.@AgnesCallamard @amnesty You knew for a decade that Alaa Abd El-Fattah's family incited terrorism. In 2012, his sister Mona Seif TOLD YOU she backed Hamas attacks on civilians.

Yet you & HRW gave her a prize: unwatch.org/tweets-for-ter…

As reported in NYT: archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.… x.com/AgnesCallamard… Amnesty: “Demand that Al Qassam Brigade stop attacks on civilians”

Mona Seif, sister of Alaa Abd El-Fattah: “Amnesty, you don't ask an occupied nation to stop their ‘Resistance’ to end violence!!! SHAME ON YOU”

https://x.com/Monasosh/status/269503866192678912

Italian authorities arrested 9 people for using charities to fund Hamas, seizing assets worth 8 million euro.

Mohammad Hannoun, chief of the Palestinian Association who addressed an event with Francesca Albanese, was arrested. blogs.timesofisrael.com/italian-media-…

welt.de/politik/auslan… 2/ The prosecutor describes Mohammad Hannoun, president of the Palestinian Association in Italy, as the “leader of the Italian cell of Hamas.”

He allegedly ran a system for collecting funds for more than 20 years, ostensibly intended for humanitarian purposes.

UPDATE:
• For the first time ever at the UN, Germany, Italy, Czechia, Latvia & Bulgaria withheld support for renewing UNRWA's mandate, a “remarkable political shift.”
• Naples, Florence, Turin freeze awards for Francesca Albanese after she endorsed violent attacks
• & more ▶️ Also: Austria, Romania, Lithuania join in refusing to support UNRWA x.com/HillelNeuer/st…

Our advocacy in 🇩🇪 Parliament: unwatch.org/impact-un-watc…

In 🇮🇹 Senate: unwatch.org/at-the-senate-…

Albanese discredited: x.com/UNWatch/status…

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UN voting shift: for the first time ever, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Czechia, Bulgaria & Latvia withheld support for renewing UNRWA's mandate. See 2022 vs. 2025 votes.

We had presented evidence of UNRWA terror ties before the German and Italian Parliaments: unwatch.org/at-the-senate-…
And in a vote on a second UNRWA resolution on Friday, those 6 EU countries were further joined by Austria, Romania & Lithuania. In previous years, all EU-27 voted in favour of these resolutions. We exposed and mapped UNRWA's terror network here: unwatch.org/unrwa-terror-n…

In Torino, 400 leftists attacked La Stampa newspaper, dumping manure, ransacking desks and books, chanting “Terrorist journalist, you're next on the list.”

“I condemn,” said Francesca Albanese, “but let this be a warning to the press to do their job...”
ansa.it/sito/notizie/c… 2/ Government & opposition are condemning Albanese. Pina Picierno, progressive VP of European Parliament: “Violence is never a warning, and it condemns itself, without any ‘ifs or buts.’ Surprised but not too much, by the statements of Francesca Albanese.”

https://x.com/pinapic/status/1994791559477461136

TRAGIC: Francesca Albanese, the UN's de facto spokesperson for Hamas, says she can no longer use a credit card, rent a car, or open a bank account, due to the historic U.S. decision to sanction her.

“I am treated almost like Osama bin Laden, and I find it horrible, horrible!” 2/ Albanese: “I'm the first UN person to be sanctioned...
U.S. sanctions are very, very heavy.
The implications are enormous.”

ICJ found no proof of UNRWA terror ties.

⚡️ Exposé on UNRWA chiefs Philippe Lazzarini & Pierre Krähenbühl, Lebanon reps Dorothee Klaus, Claudio Cordone, Matthias Schmale, UNRWA deputies Gwyn Lewis, Hakam Shahwan, Thomas White, Munir Manna, Leni Stenseth: unwatch.org/the-unholy-all… 2/ See evidence of UNRWA teachers in a 3,000-member UNRWA Gaza staff Telegram group who cheered and celebrated Hamas’s October 7th massacre while at the same time asking when their UNRWA salaries will be paid.
⚡️ unwatch.org/unrwa-terrorgr…

The Rise and Fall of Human Rights at the UN:

Jan. 15, 1964: UN Watch founder Morris Abram drafts UN anti-racism convention as member of UN human rights expert body.

Tomorrow: Loyal servants of Beijing & Tehran to be elected by acclamation to the successor UN human rights body.
2/ Meet 🇨🇳 Ren Yisheng. He served as a mouthpiece for the communist regime—primarily at UN human rights bodies.

Now he's going to switch roles by getting elected as a UN human rights expert.

Same guy who trashed a UN report on China's abuse of Uyghurs: archive.md/NWAtv

.@GretaThunberg, while you're feasting once again on Israeli Navy sandwiches, remember that under international law—according to the UN—Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, designed to stop Hamas from smuggling rockets and other weapons, is entirely legal.🧵 blog.unwatch.org/wp-content/upl… 2/ The UN's Palmer Report found that “Israel faces a real threat to its security from militant groups in Gaza. The naval blockade was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law.”

Navi Pillay's UN inquiry on Israel just released a report accusing Israel of “genocide.”

We asked legal expert Salo Aizenberg to take a look.

Turns out the report is a complete travesty. See his devastating rebuttal here: 🧵
@Aizenberg55unwatch.org/un-watch-rebut… 2/ @Aizenberg55: “The UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry’s report is fatally deficient: its reasoning is deeply flawed, its evidentiary base unreliable, and its methodology unsound.

It selectively misinterprets statements by Israeli leaders, accepts unverified Hamas casualty figures, disregards Hamas’s systematic use of human shields, relies on unverified media reports (such as by Al-Jazeera), and assumes that civilian deaths in Gaza are only the result of deliberate targeting by Israel.

Its omissions are equally striking. The report erases Hamas as an active belligerent; across its 72 pages, it never acknowledges that the IDF is engaged with a 30,000-strong fighting force that constructed a battlefield fortified with 500 kilometers of tunnels.

Such deficiencies strip the document of legal credibility and render it indistinguishable from propaganda dressed in legal language.”

NO JOKE: Amnesty International's researcher in Gaza got Hamas to arrest peace activist Rami Aman for the crime of organizing a video call for Gazans to meet Israelis.

Why, @AgnesCallamard @amnesty?

See exclusive new interview in full: unwatch.org/from-gazas-pri… x.com/UNWatch/status… 2/ On April 8, 2020, Amnesty International researcher Hind Khoudary, now an Al Jazeera “journalist,” called on Hamas to arrest Rami Aman for his peace initiatives.
unwatch.org/the-disappeara…

🇺🇸 @MorganOrtagus tells UN: “Today’s resolution is yet another counterproductive gesture that only rewards Hamas, drags out the war, and undercuts the very diplomatic efforts to free the hostages and end the suffering in Gaza, which the New York Declaration claims to support.” 2/ The French-led resolution is “is yet another misguided and ill-timed publicity stunt that undermines serious diplomatic efforts to end the conflict. Make no mistake – this resolution is a gift to Hamas.”

BREAKING: The U.N. on October 8th is planning to elect by acclamation an official rep of the Islamic Regime of Iran to its U.N. Human Rights Council advisory committee.

We are calling on @antonioguterres, @volker_turk, and all member states to denounce and oppose this travesty. 2/ Electing any rep of the murderous IRGC regime to a UN human rights body is a travesty.

Here, it's even worse. Under UNHRC Res. 6/102, candidates must have high moral standing, Independence, and impartiality.

Afsaneh Nadipour is an enemy of human rights. Consider: 🧵

Oops: turns out key author of new IPC report claiming Gaza famine turns out to be a nutcase who backs the Houthis & Iran's regime

https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1959361221540421797

2/ 98% of his LinkedIn posts attack Israel & the West: linkedin.com/in/andrew-seal…

When the IAEA declared Iran in breach of non-proliferation duties, he posted this comment — and the joint statement of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela & Belarus.
linkedin.com/posts/andrew-s…

BREAKING: U.S. just sanctioned ICC Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan—for illegitimate actions targeting Israel. I knew her as UNHRC's ex-Chair: she censored me for exposing Hamas & UNRWA antisemitism, named Israel-haters to a UN inquiry, then plotted with them at the ICC. 🧵 2/ When she chaired UN Human Rights Council sessions, Nazhat Khan trampled freedom of speech to appease the world's worst tyrannies. Here she is cutting me off after a few seconds—as demanded by Cuba & the PLO—after I tried to simply read out the names of tyrannies who spoke.

Today we are holding Francesca Albanese's husband & collaborator to account. We just lodged an official complaint with the World Bank calling to fire Massimiliano Cali for his decade of anti-American and anti-Israel posts—in violation of World Bank rules. unwatch.org/world-bank-eco… 2/ Like his wife, Massimiliano Cali is a dangerous nutcase who says Israel “invents” terrorist attacks. He equates the IDF fighting Hamas rocket launchers with the Nazis murdering Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.

Full text of our letter to the World Bank: unwatch.org/wp-content/upl…

.@UN_SPExperts Your claim that Hamas terrorism supporter Francesca Albanese enjoys immunity from U.S. sanctions has no basis—her term legally ended on May 1. On April 23, she was duly served with our “Notice of Cessation of Mandate, Effective 1 May 2025”: unwatch.org/wp-content/upl… x.com/UN_SPExperts/s…
Notice of Invalid Appointment and Cessation of Mandate Effective 1 May 2025

Dear Ms. Albanese,

This letter serves as formal notice that the purported renewal of your UN mandate, as “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,” is invalid and without legal effect, and therefore null and void.

The purported renewal, announced at the conclusion of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council, was carried out in direct contravention of the governing legislation—as mandated under Presidential Statement 8/PRST/2 and enshrined in Article 7 of the Manual of Operations of the Special Procedures—which requires the President to bring forward to the Council any information of persistent non-compliance with the Code of Conduct for Special Procedure Mandate-Holders.

As you are aware, a formal submission with a 56-page dossier documenting your sustained and egregious violations of that Code—including breaches of impartiality, integrity, and restraint—was submitted by United Nations Watch to the President of the Council on 26 March 2025.

Nothing to see here, just a so-called U.N. human rights expert legitimizing Iran's English-language propaganda outlet Press TV — which airs forced confessions of tortured Iranian political prisoners. Shame on you, @FranceskAlbs. #بیشرف
🧵

https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1953116608496542087

2/ Press TV broadcast Maziar Bahari's forced confession in Evin prison. “I was surprised — I thought Press TV would at least pretend to have some credibility and wouldn’t come and interview a prisoner in an interrogation room when I was under duress.” channel4.com/news/iran-repo…

Big News: The UN's entire commission of inquiry against Israel has resigned, in fear of U.S. sanctions.
▶️ unwatch.org/un-watch-hails…

Now here's my 🧵 on what the media won't tell you:

A broad coalition of 22 nations condemned the inquiry's anti-Israel bias:

• It was established with an “open-ended mandate with no sunset clause, end date, or clear limitations...”

• “We believe the nature of the COI is further demonstration of long-standing, disproportionate attention given to Israel in the Council, which must stop.”

• “We continue to believe that this long-standing disproportionate scrutiny should end, and that the Council should address all human rights concerns, regardless of country, in an even-handed manner.”

• “Regrettably, we are concerned that the Commission of Inquiry will further contribute to the polarization of a situation about which so many of us are concerned.” 2/ When the commission's reports supported Hamas, @COLRICHARDKEMP took the floor:

“Mr. President, this commission of inquiry is equivalent to Putin’s propaganda machine. The disinformation from Moscow justifies their illegal war on Ukraine; the disinformation from today’s report justifies Hamas’s illegal war on Israel.

I wish to address the commissioners. Putin wrongfully says an illegitimate Ukrainian state occupies Russian territory; you wrongfully say an illegitimate Israeli state occupies Palestinian territory.

Putin falsely says his war is to protect Russian-speakers in Ukraine; you falsely say Hamas’s violence is to protect religious rights in Jerusalem.

Why is this commission swallowing Hamas’s lies — hook, line and sinker — and amplifying them with a megaphone that contorts reality into a travesty of human rights?

Neither this commission nor Putin count Hamas as terrorists. You back them with words while Putin backs them with guns.

Today’s report validates and encourages Hamas’s terror tactics, just as it outrageously denigrates Israel’s lawful defense.

Your work here today ensures renewed bloodshed tomorrow. It incites hatred of Jews around the world, and cruelly betrays the Palestinian people.”

HRC President: “Excuse me, I have to interrupt you — there is a point of order asked by the State of Palestine.”

PLO: “Thank you very much indeed, sir. I would just like to reiterate your call on everyone to respect the mandate of this council and to stick to using respectful language. Such interventions, President, perpetuate the crimes and the violence that we have seen during the funeral of the Palestinian journalist who was killed. This language is an ongoing feature of the violence that is in Palestine. So, President, I will call on you to put an end to the statement of the current speaker. Thank you.”

Col. Kemp: “This report incites hatred of Jews around the world, and cruelly betrays the Palestinian people. Before Putin was expelled from this body, he voted to create your commission of inquiry, and now—like Hamas—he has endorsed your report. I can think of no greater indictment.”

BREAKING: Navi Pillay is resigning from the UN's permanent commission of inquiry on Israel, citing “age, medical issues and other commitments.” Her two colleagues are also resigning. Pillay was chosen for the post because of her visceral hate for Israel: unwatch.org/pillay-commiss… 2/ Commissioner Miloon Kothari, condemned for antisemitism by 18 states, may have been forced out. His letter to UNHRC chair Jürg Lauber, announcing his resignation effective Oct. 31st, refers to “the understanding we reached during our meeting last week.” unwatch.org/the-compendium…

BREAKING: Francesca Albanese acknowledges to Reuters that new U.S. sanctions against her will make it “extremely problematic” for her to interact with U.S. citizens, or to “move around.”

Harvard and Columbia will need to cease giving her research support. reuters.com/world/middle-e… 2/ Francesca Albanese is now on the sanctions list. Under U.S. law, it is therefore now illegal for Americans or U.S. entities to provide funds, goods or services to her. Criminal penalties for violations can include fines of up to $20 million and imprisonment of up to 30 years.