- UN Watch Director Testifies Before U.S. Congress Hearing on UN’s Anti-Israeli Bigotry
- Exposed: 40 UNRWA Teachers’ Antisemitic Facebook Pages—New 130-Page Report by UN Watch
- World’s Most Courageous Champions of Human Rights Heading to UN Watch’s Feb. 21 Geneva Summit
UN Watch Director Testifies Before U.S. Congress Hearing on UN & Israel
Neuer slammed Security Council Resolution 2334 for “absurdly defining Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and Western Wall, the holiest sites in Judaism, together with the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, as ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory’.”
Neuer described a “U.N. infrastructure of anti-Israel demonization,” citing recent actions by the General Assembly, UNESCO, the Commission on the Status of Women, and the Human Rights Council. Click here for 5-minute video.
Exposed: UNRWA Teachers’ Antisemitic Facebook Pages
Documented in New 130-Page Report by UN Watch
UN Watch released a 130-page report exposing 40 new cases of UNRWA school teachers in Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria whose Facebook pages incite to Jihadist terrorism and antisemitism, including by posting Holocaust-denying videos and pictures celebrating Hitler.
The report reveals Facebook pages of UNRWA teachers celebrating the terrorist kidnapping of Israeli teenagers, cheering rockets fired at Israeli civilian centers, erasing Israel from the map, and posting overtly antisemitic videos, caricatures, and statements.
UN Watch sent letters yesterday to U.N. chief António Guterres, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and U.S. envoy to the U.N. Nikki Haley, urging them to take action and demand U.N. condemnation of the incitement—and the immediate termination of the implicated employees.
After UN Watch sent a letter to German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel urging his country—which gave $90 million a year to UNRWA—to take action to remove teachers of the agency who spread Holocaust denial and antisemitism, the country’s highest circulation newspaper Bild published a major story about UN Watch’s report.
World’s Most Courageous Champions of Human Rights
Heading to UN Watch’s Feb. 21 Geneva Summit
Rahmani’s wife, Narges Mohammadi, made the brave decision to stay behind and continue her work leading the struggle for human rights in Iran. Since 2015, she has been held as a prisoner of conscience of the Iranian regime, despite suffering from a critical and worsening illness.
Speakers at UN Watch’s Feb. 21 Geneva Summit will include:
- Danilo Maldonado Machado, Cuban artist, dissident, former political prisoner—just released from prison.
- Biram Dah Abeid, Leads fight against slavery in Mauritania—freed from prison this year.
- Dang Xuan Dieu, Vietnamese democracy activist—just released after six years in prison.
- Can Dündar, Exiled leading Turkish journalist—survived assassination attempt, solitary confinement.
- Chito Gascon, Heads Philippines Human Rights Commission—now investigating President Duterte for killings.
- [Name Withheld for Security Reasons], High-level North Korean defector.
- Antonietta Ledezma, Human rights activist, daughter of Venezuelan political prisoner Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma.
- Nyima Lhamo, Exiled Tibetan activist, niece of slain religious leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche.
- Mohamed Nasheed, Former President of the Maldives, human rights icon, former political prisoner.
- Zhanna Nemtsova, Russian journalist, daughter of assassinated dissident Boris Nemtsov.
- Shirin, Freed Yazidi sex slave of the Islamic State, author of I Remain a Daughter of the Light.
- Anastasia Zotova, Russian human rights activist, wife of jailed dissident Ildar Dadin.
- Keynote Speaker: Irwin Cotler, Former Canadian Minister of Justice & MP, counsel to the oppressed.
