Hillel Neuer’s Top 50 Most Viral Tweets of 2020

Following are the top 50 most viral tweets of UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer in 2020, selected from posts that received from 1,000 and up to 20,000 likes.

The Top 10 Worst Regimes Who Will be Sitting on the U.N. Human Rights Council on January 1st, 2021:

10. 🇵🇰 Pakistan
9. 🇲🇷 Mauritania
8. 🇨🇲 Cameroon
7. 🇸🇴 Somalia
6. 🇷🇺 Russia
5. 🇱🇾 Libya
4. 🇨🇺 Cuba
3. 🇪🇷 Eritrea
2. 🇻🇪 Venezuela
1. 🇨🇳 China

Happy New Year.

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 28, 2020

One week from tomorrow, a man who herded 1 million Uighurs into camps, jails human rights activists, crushed Tibet, disappeared courageous men and women who sounded the alarm on the coronavirus, and suffocated freedom in Hong Kong will join the U.N.'s highest human rights body. pic.twitter.com/j4iSBOOnlk

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 24, 2020

I'm not making this up.

U.N. Human Rights Council members now include:
🇻🇪 Venezuela's Maduro regime
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇨🇲 Cameroon
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇱🇾 Libya

Joining on January 1st:
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇨🇳 China
🇷🇺 Russia
🇨🇺 Cuba

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 19, 2020

Dr. Li Wenliang, 1986-2020. Tried to sound the alarm on seeing early COVID-19 infections in Wuhan.

Police summoned him for middle-of-the-night interrogation & under threat of prosecution made him sign a promise not to “publish untrue statements.“

Dr. Li died of COVID on Feb. 7. https://t.co/R1Y8dKIyIa

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 11, 2020

🇦🇪🇮🇱 Peace between United Arab Emirates & Israel.
🇲🇦🇮🇱 Peace between Morocco & Israel.
🇧🇭🇮🇱 Peace between Bahrain & Israel.
🇸🇩🇮🇱 Peace between Sudan & Israel.
⬇️⬇️ Quotes that didn't age well. pic.twitter.com/prCvLZJmwS

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 10, 2020

Never before in the history of U.S. news networks did a journalist distort the Holocaust for political purposes as Amanpour just did on on CNN & PBS.

No, @camanpour, the Nazi genocide was not “an attack on fact, knowledge, history & truth.“

They murdered 6 million Jews. Say it. pic.twitter.com/Cwkzj1lUBK

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 14, 2020

China making recommendation on human rights is like Jeffrey Epstein giving advice on babysitting. https://t.co/az1zJeOKDK

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 12, 2020

No joke: Ahead of U.N. review of U.S. rights record, China—which herded 1 million Muslims into camps to kill their religion & culture—asks: “What measures has U.S. taken to eliminate systematic racism, racial discrimination, white supremacy, religious intolerance and xenophobia?“ pic.twitter.com/azw4UMagK7

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 8, 2020

Maduro on U.S. elections: “In Venezuela, the results are known on the same night.”

Actually, even the night before. https://t.co/x0HAuKdmUN

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 5, 2020

No joke: the U.N. just adopted a resolution referring to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount solely by its Muslim name of Haram al-Sharif, one of seven resolutions passed today that single out or condemn Israel, with zero on the entire rest of the world.https://t.co/ubiVccF0sc

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 5, 2020

you don't even have elections https://t.co/ejrCYX6JEB

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 3, 2020

These countries' laws call to kill gays:
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇶🇦 Qatar

These countries sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇶🇦 Qatar

Why, @mbachelet?

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 25, 2020

Welcomes Sudan-Israel Peace:
🇺🇸 US
🇬🇧 UK
🇦🇪 UAE
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇬🇷 Greece
🇧🇭 Bahrain
🇨🇦 Canada
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇩🇪 Germany

Condemns:
🇮🇷 Islamic Republic of Iran
🇵🇸 Palestinian Authority
🇮🇷 Islamic Jihad
🏴‍☠️ Hamas

“Takes note“:
🇺🇳 U.N. https://t.co/1j0Z6VsuWK

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 24, 2020

HUGE: 🇸🇩 Sudan to make peace with 🇮🇱 Israel.

Same country that was allied with Iran & Hamas, and which in 1967 hosted the Arab League summit that declared the Khartoum three No's: “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it.”https://t.co/G4WTO2nzCD

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 23, 2020

Congratulation to President Xi Jinping on 🇨🇳 China's election to the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Credentials: Herded 1 million Uighurs into camps; jails human rights activists; crushed Tibet; disappeared those who sounded the alarm on coronavirus; suffocated freedom in Hong Kong. pic.twitter.com/i88Jahg56Z

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 16, 2020

🇨🇳 China just interrupted me at the United Nations & tried to stop me from speaking after I asked why a regime that herded 1 million Muslim Uighurs into camps is sitting on the 5-nation UNHRC panel that nominates the next UN experts on arbitrary detention & forced disappearances. pic.twitter.com/5XUqq7Zye1

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) September 24, 2020

I just asked the UNHRC: “Given that your experts just found that Maduro's agents committed killings, torture and sexual violence, by what logic and morality can a convicted murderer, torturer & rapist stay a member of this Human Rights Council?“

🇻🇪 & 🇨🇺 tried to shut me down. pic.twitter.com/JCuxfSapxt

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) September 24, 2020

Bravo to @jaketapper for calling out Disney. Not only did it film “Mulan” in areas where 1 million Muslim Uighurs have been herded into camps but they thanked the Chinese regime entities who are doing it. “The big problem is Disney thanking people accused of committing genocide.” pic.twitter.com/4Me0ZS8r61

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) September 13, 2020

Welcomes Bahrain-Israel Peace:
🇺🇸 US
🇬🇧 UK
🇪🇺 EU
🇦🇪 UAE
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇨🇿 Czech
🇦🇹 Austria
🇨🇦 Canada
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇷🇴 Romania
🇦🇺 Australia
🇩🇪 Germany

Condemns Bahrain-Israel Peace:
🇮🇷 Islamic Republic of Iran
🇵🇸 Palestinian Authority
🇱🇧 Hezbollah
🏴‍☠️ Hamas
🇹🇷 Turkey

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) September 13, 2020

Welcomes UAE-Israel peace:
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇩🇪 Germany
🇨🇦 Canada
🇧🇭 Bahrain
🇫🇷 France
🇯🇵 Japan
🇮🇳 India
🇴🇲 Oman
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇪🇸 Spain

Condemns UAE-Israel peace:
🇮🇷 Iran
🇸🇾 Syria
🇱🇾 Libya
🇹🇷 Turkey
🇾🇪 Yemen
🏴‍☠️ Hamas
🏁 Ken Roth
🇱🇧 Hezbollah
🇵🇸 Palestinian Authority

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) September 1, 2020

You herded 1 million Muslim Uighurs into camps https://t.co/cpYLznHIM5

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 30, 2020

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oppose China running for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. pic.twitter.com/TGu95r83or

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 23, 2020

China puts 1 million Muslim Uighurs in camps.

🇹🇷 Why is Turkey's President Erodgan—who claims to care for this Turkic-speaking people—silent?
🇸🇦 Why are the 56 Muslim states—who claim to care about Muslims—silent?
🇺🇳 Why is the United Nations—and its Human Rights Council—silent? https://t.co/ogvHzAYO58

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 18, 2020

BREAKING: 🇨🇳 China was Chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council vetting process that picked Amnesty International's former chief Irene Khan to be the next world monitor on free speech—to be ratified this afternoon—and it turns out she's weirdly close with China's government. pic.twitter.com/zquD92e0bo

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 17, 2020

History will record that on the day China smashed Hong Kong's autonomy, the U.N.'s top human rights body not only refused to say a word, but broke its own rules to invite Beijing's puppet ruler of Hong Kong Carrie Lam to address the council & spin the takeover—without any debate. pic.twitter.com/Uc9Y7WBNdj

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 1, 2020

75 years ago today, the UN Charter was born, promising fundamental human rights for all.

Now:
🇻🇪 Venezuela sits on the UN Human Rights Council.
🇨🇳 China sits on the UN committee for human rights NGOs.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia sits on the UN Women’s Rights Commission.

Have a nice day. pic.twitter.com/DZ5y7trS6d

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 25, 2020

China lashed out at me at the United Nations today for "abusing human rights" after I asked why a regime that locks up 1 million Muslims, and crushed those who tried to sound the alarm of the Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, was put on the UN panel that vets human rights monitors. pic.twitter.com/lPaa1CcdG7

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 18, 2020

No joke:

🇹🇷 Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan purged 18,000 civil servants, fired 4,000 judges, tortures journalists, occupies northern Syria & denies water to its Kurds.

🇺🇳 The U.N. just elected Turkey's representative as next President of its General Assembly. pic.twitter.com/rnVkQ9kqD3

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 18, 2020

No joke: 🇰🇵 North Korea and 🇮🇷 Iran take the floor at U.N. Human Rights Council to condemn 🇮🇱 Israel for violating human rights & international law.

Every UNHRC meeting has a special agenda item to condemn Israel. No other country in the world is singled out in this fashion. pic.twitter.com/7Ci0rQV77L

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 15, 2020

If the man who saved his country and the world from Hitler & the Nazis doesn't deserve a statue, who does? pic.twitter.com/OOdLH6i1q1

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 7, 2020

Wait till they hear about the guy he defeated pic.twitter.com/SbG5P9CkUv

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 7, 2020

NOT on the U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇺🇸 U.S.
🇬🇧 Britain
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇳🇴 Norway
🇨🇦 Canada
🇸🇬 Singapore
🇨🇷 Costa Rica

ON the U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇱🇾 Libya

Have a nice day.

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 7, 2020

When I told the United Nations that Chinese Muslim Uighur lives matter, your regime's delegates banged on the table and tried to shut me down https://t.co/txzLkBSDLk pic.twitter.com/BqCOqXtwQg

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 3, 2020

No, Ian, not extraordinary. Here in Europe, you will always fill city squares for a rally on America's ills. Now try to the same for a rally about the Islamic Republic of Iran slaughtering 1500 innocent protesters, or on Putin & Assad bombing Syrians—that would be extraordinary. https://t.co/F6ZY3po5dg

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 3, 2020

This sounds like a joke. It's not.

Meet the W.H.O.'s Goodwill Ambassadors:

🇨🇳 Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, and Major General in the People’s Liberation Armyhttps://t.co/tZSY6flJh5

🇨🇳 James Chau, propagandist for Chinese state TVhttps://t.co/oudYEfyVls pic.twitter.com/JwfkcxgM0D

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 20, 2020

GOOD: U.S. Senators call on U.N. chief to suspend 🇨🇳 #China from the U.N. Human Rights Council panel that will choose the world monitors on free speech, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances & health. We sounded the alarm, now things are moving.https://t.co/FOEaPQHKhm pic.twitter.com/PhmIIvqDyf

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 7, 2020

"Madam Chair, I wish to list 5 of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom:
🇨🇳 China
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇪🇷 Eritrea

"I now list 5 members who sit here on this U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇨🇳 China
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇪🇷 Eritrea

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— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 5, 2020

When I spoke out at the U.N. Human Rights Council for 1 million Muslims arbitrarily detained by China in camps, regime reps furiously banged on the table trying to shut me down. Now they've been named to the UNHRC panel that picks UN monitors on free speech & arbitrary detention. pic.twitter.com/uvaA5ZNUrR

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 5, 2020

🇨🇳 China imposes draconian censorship
✅ China to select UN monitor on free speech

🇨🇳 China arbitrarily detains human rights activists
✅ China to pick UN monitor on arbitrary detention

🇨🇳 China disappears dissidents
✅ China to select UN monitor on enforced disappearances https://t.co/zEy4VRMYwk

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 4, 2020

Putting China in charge of protecting human rights victims is like asking Colonel Sanders to babysit your chickens https://t.co/XuQHc06VZi

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 3, 2020

No joke: #China joins U.N. Human Rights Council panel, where it will help select the U.N.'s next world monitors on freedom of speech, enforced disappearances & arbitrary detention—and on health. That's like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief. https://t.co/DqFY90rd6I

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 3, 2020

The 2020 UN Human Rights Council opened this week.
Members include:
🇵🇰 Pakistan — death penalty for 'blasphemers'
🇸🇴 Somalia — death penalty for gays
🇸🇩 Sudan — same⬆️
🇲🇷 Mauritania — has 500,000 slaves
🇻🇪 Venezuela — Maduro tyranny
🇶🇦 Qatar — enslaves migrants
🇱🇾 Libya — same⬆️

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 28, 2020

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oppose this tyrant taking his seat on the UNHRC on Monday. pic.twitter.com/Q2Wh8lBLLl

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 19, 2020

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 pic.twitter.com/weW5BUtsEl

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 12, 2020

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 https://t.co/99UFF1JI6s

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 30, 2020

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. https://t.co/OtmUhy6CbP

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 15, 2020

🇮🇷 Iran protests in past two months:
1,500 protesters killed by regime
4,800 Injured
7,000 arrested

🇺🇳 Reaction from U.N. Human Rights Council:
0 resolutions
0 urgent sessions
0 commissions of inquiry

Why, @mbachelet?

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 13, 2020

“Soleimani was a murderer, his Leader is also a murderer!”
“Soleimani was a murderer, his Leader is also a murderer!”
“Soleimani was a murderer, his Leader is also a murderer!”
“Soleimani was a murderer, his Leader is also a murderer!”

Bravest people in the world. pic.twitter.com/xjCav4reQi

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 11, 2020

Congratulations to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for just entering the 16th year of his 4-year term. pic.twitter.com/1FrDYMjNz5

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 11, 2020

If this were Israel instead of Iran the BBC would not report "mistakenly," the U.N. Human Rights Council here in Geneva would be gathering the lynch mob, and Jeremy Corbyn, Linda Sarsour & Ken Roth would be red in the face screaming about war crimes.https://t.co/8ee6InAfQI

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 9, 2020

Today is Jan. 1, 2020 & UN Human Rights Council members now include:
🇵🇰 Pakistan — death penalty for "blasphemers"
🇸🇴 Somalia — death penalty for gays
🇸🇩 Sudan — same⬆️
🇲🇷 Mauritania — has 500,000 slaves
🇻🇪 Venezuela — Maduro tyranny
🇶🇦 Qatar — enslaves migrants
🇱🇾 Libya — same⬆️

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 1, 2020