“UN Watch is one the world’s most important NGOs. It has a David and Goliath mission: to hold the UN accountable. Neuer is watching. A man with a formidable intellect. Purpose driven. Laser focused. He is the man every democratic nation is in debt to—whether they know it or not.” 2/ “Who’s watching the watcher? This question, this phrase, born of the 1st century Roman poet Juvenal, was the first thing that came to my mind when I found out Hillel Neuer was coming to Australia. The second thought was: This is a conversation I must have.”
@GemmaTognini

“𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗜𝗗𝗘”: A bombshell new UN Watch report exposes how the UN and Francesca Albanese engaged in a cover-up to conceal her funding by pro-Hamas lobby groups.

Here are the highlights of the report: 🧵 2/ In November 2023, Albanese toured Australia and New Zealand on a trip sponsored by pro-Hamas lobby groups, including Sinwar sympathizers like @AFOPA_Australia.

This violated UN rules forbidding officials from accepting payment for mandate-related activities.

Silence.
Neglect.
Complicity.

This is not what you’d expect from the world’s largest humanitarian organization.

But on International Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, we look at the scandals that they would rather ignore: 2/ The Red Cross has failed the hostages in Hamas captivity:

- The Red Cross hasn’t visited a single hostage in Gaza
- Red Cross officials were complicit in Hamas's humiliating hostage handovers
- Hostage families were equated with those of convicted Palestinian prisoners

BREAKING: The three-year extension of Francesca Albanese’s role as a U.N. special rapporteur is “invalid” and “without any legal effect,” Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, wrote on Monday to António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general.
jns.org/francesca-alba… 2/ Albanese, who has a long history of anti-Israel bias, began her second and final three-year term on Thursday. Neuer wrote to Guterres that the global body didn’t follow the proper process to extend Albanese’s mandate.

Att: @FranceskAlbs

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” is invalid and without legal effect, and therefore null and void.🧵
2/ 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.

BREAKING: New Investigation Exposes UNRWA Ties to Terror Groups

👇 US-indicted Hamas terrorist Ali Baraka with UNRWA rep.

See 🧵 below: more shocking examples of the UNRWA-terrorist alliance, documented in UN Watch's new report with 68 exclusive photos. unwatch.org/new-investigat… 2/ At a Beirut meeting in May 2024, UNRWA Commissioner-General @UNLazzarini made a deal with Jihadi terrorist groups by which UNRWA allowed Hamas leader Fathi Al-Sharif to remain as principal of a major UNRWA school, and as the head of the UNRWA Teachers Union.

For years, Al-Sharif had openly glorified Hamas terrorist attacks, including on his Facebook page, and published photos of his fraternization with heads of terrorist organizations. Contrary to its claims of robust neutrality mechanisms, UNRWA for years allowed Al-Sharif to occupy a senior position overseeing thousands of UNRWA teachers and students.

Only when a formal complaint was made to UNRWA by a government, in early 2024, did the agency give Al-Sharif a slap on the wrist by suspending him. Immediately, Hamas and other terrorist groups responded by effectively shutting down UNRWA in Lebanon, mobilizing massive protests by UNRWA teachers and students.

Three months into the shutdown, Lazzarini flew to Beirut and met with the alliance of terrorist organizations who were behind the strike. Local media reported on June 1, 2024 that Lazzarini and the terrorist groups reached “understandings” that would lead to a “positive” result for Al-Sharif, and the strike was called off.

On September 30, 2024, Al-Sharif was eliminated by an IDF missile. Hamas announced that indeed he had been their leader in Lebanon, and eulogized the senior UNRWA figure for his “Jihadi education.”

🚨 At a U.N. debate tomorrow, Hillel Neuer is set to confront the U.N.'s chief propagandist for dictators, Alena Douhan.

🧵 Meet Alena Douhan: The U.N.’s Special Rapporteur against Western sanctions.

She has exploited her U.N. human rights
post to shield the brutal regimes in Venezuela, China, Iran, Syria and Zimbabwe.

She never opposes tyrants, instead always portraying their regime as the victim.

Is ICJ President Nawaf Salam impartial? As Lebanon's UN rep, he accused Israel of "crimes against humanity" and "war crimes." 🧵 2/ As Lebanon's UN rep, current ICJ President Nawaf Salam condemned Israeli "savage assault" and "indiscriminate killing"

BREAKING: Senior UNRWA official is top figure in Hamas. Fathi al-Sharif, head of the UNRWA teachers union in Lebanon, overseeing 39,000 students in 65 schools, is a key figure in Hamas, according to a new report presented to the Dutch parliament . 🧵
unwatch.org/contempt-for-c… 2/ Fathi al-Sharif, a.k.a. Fateh Abo Amin al-Sharif, openly promoted Hamas terrorism for over a decade on his Facebook page—which for now is still active. (See link above.) He mingles with the top Hamas reps in Lebanon. As head of UNRWA's teachers union in Lebanon, everyone knew.

BREAKING: UNRWA staff stealing and selling humanitarian aid, Gazans report
• UNRWA warehouse chief sold 50 cartons of food for $5,000
• Pampers, canned sweets, tissues stolen and sold at UNRWA school door
• UNRWA staff “have their homes full of aid”
unwatch.org/unrwa-staff-st… 2/ Dr. Izzat Shatat: “Open thefts from shelter workers. The director of a school warehouse came with 50 cartons of food distributed in UNRWA schools and sold them to a merchant for $100 per carton. How did he take out this amount of cartons? Where is the administration?”

UNRWA says it faces imminent collapse — "forced to shut down by end of February" — if funds are not unfrozen.

Hmm.. when have we heard this before? 🤔

Let's take a look. 👇 🧵

https://twitter.com/UNRWA/status/1753019537144811861

November 2023: press.un.org/en/2023/gaspd7…

The ANC government ruling South Africa may have the worst record in the world when it comes to a democracy that sides at the U.N. with oppressive, murderous, and genocidal regimes. For example, 🇿🇦 voted to PRAISE the brutal regime of Venezuela's Maduro. 🧵

https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1177223015404384256

2/ South Africa, as pointed out by an opposition lawmaker, refused to support UN resolutions speaking out for the human rights of millions of victims of genocide and crimes against humanity in Syria, Sri Lanka, Iran and North Korea. iol.co.za/pretoria-news/…

BREAKING: Shocking antisemitic materials have been distributed at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The booklet glorifies terrorism, portrays Jews with big noses, pushes antisemitic conspiracies, labels the time since Oct 7th as the "Gaza Jihad" and more.

See below 🧵

Page 4 of the booklet tells the story of a Gaza family whose "father has to be away to fight against the zionists," insinuating that he is a Hamas fighter.

The date is marked as "Day 14 of Gaza jihad, 2023"

Quoted in National Review: “Germany announced it would be freezing funding to UNRWA. This followed UN Watch's report—‘UNRWA: Hate Starts Here’—documenting numerous senior-ranking members of UNRWA gloating about the October 7 atrocities.”
🗞️ @ariblaff @NRO nationalreview.com/news/not-a-sin…
2/ “Since Hamas invaded Israel in October and massacred over a thousand people, reports emerged that at least 100 terrorists who participated in the attacks were graduates of UNRWA institutions, and over a dozen educators within the system celebrated the attacks on social media.”

BREAKING: UN Watch has uncovered 20 new examples of @UNRWA teachers supporting terror and celebrating the Hamas massacre on October 7th.

Meet some of the U.N.'s teachers of hate in the thread below, and read the full new report here: unwatch.org/report-u-n-tea… Meet UNRWA English teacher Asmaa Rafiq Kuheil. On October 7th he celebrated the Hamas attack with exclamation marks and a heart emoji, as well as a call to mark the day. In 2021 he also posted his hope that rockets would strike Zionists "wiping them entirely off this Earth."

1/ Navi Pillay's UN commission of inquiry on Israel has become a farce. For the first time in decades, a majority of UN member states taking the floor in a debate on Israel actually called out anti-Israel prejudice and antisemitism—of her inquiry. This is what stunned Pillay: 🧵 🇨🇿 “Czechia voted against the establishment of the Inquiry. We are shocked by a recent interview in which one of the members of the Commission used terms such as 'Jewish lobby' and questioned Israel's UN membership. We strongly reject any form of antisemitism.” /2

Ban gender apartheid.
#BanKhamenei Ban genocide.
#BanKhamenei

.@HillelNeuer: "This is also a time for the Council to reflect on its own actions. By what moral logic did the Council, in its October 2020 session, decide to scrap the mandate on Sudan? What message did this send to Sudan’s military? Will the Council correct this grievous act?" Statement by United Nations Watch, Special Session on Sudan, Human Rights Council:

"Madam President: UN Watch thanks the Council for heeding our call to hold this urgent session on the situation of human rights in Sudan, in wake of the military coup and ensuing violence."

"El último informe de la misión independiente para la determinación de los hechos sobre Venezuela evidencia lo que todos sabemos: en Venezuela no hay justicia, no hay respecto a la ley. El régimen Chavista-Madurista se propuso como todo sistema totalitario someter a la justicia."

https://twitter.com/UNWatch/status/1441429339250339840

"La justicia no existe para defender el ciudadano sino para oprimirlo, para hacer intocable al régimen y sus corruptos, para imponer el terror, y los que más miedo tienen son los administradores de justicia: jueces, fiscales, funcionarios, y lo sé porque me lo dicen."

Rare Moment of Truth at the UN: Maria Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure, took the floor just now at the UN Human Rights Council to call out the gross abuses of the Maduro regime—which, absurdly, sits on the UNHRC as a member.

@MariaCorinaYA @VenteVenezuela Transcript: unwatch.org/maria-corina-m…

.@TheCJN: “Canada is failing to uphold its values when it comes to racist and antisemitic teachers at UN-run schools for Palestinian children, which Ottawa helps fund. That’s the view of Hillel Neuer, the Montreal-born executive director of UN Watch.”
:thecjn.ca/un-watch-uncov… In reply to the UN Watch report, the Canadian foreign ministry told The CJN:

“Canada is concerned by the allegations that certain employees of UNRWA posted comments on social media that appear to violate UN values, including the principle of neutrality.