Trending UN Watch tweets from this past week: Belgium assumes its Security Council seat, which it earned in part by voting the Saudis onto the UN body tasked with protecting women’s rights; as Israel requests compensation for Jews displaced in 1948, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer asks Arab nations, “Algeria, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iraq: Where are your Jews?”; Somalia joins the UN Human Rights Council, and the next day expels a UN envoy for speaking out on human rights; and the new head of the UN General Assembly is revealed to be an admirer of both Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
But to get your Security Council spot you voted Saudi Arabia onto the UN Women's Rights Commission and sold your soul.https://t.co/f2GH7UPa4b https://t.co/P397h0mW1r
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 2, 2019
Israel to seek $250 billion compensation for Jews forced out of Libya, Tunisia, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Morocco. Yet the UN only speaks about Palestinians. In March 2017 at UNHRC I asked: "Egypt, where are your Jews?" Still waiting for a reply. https://t.co/Ze54AAnU6R
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 5, 2019
Jan. 1: Somalia joins UN Human Rights Council
Jan. 2: Somalia expels UN envoy for questioning their killing of protestershttps://t.co/KH1i4q5FGE— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 3, 2019
Shame on @KenRoth & @HRW for refusing to oppose #Somalia's absurd candidacy. My own organization UN Watch urged the world to reject this abusive regime and failed state, but, perhaps out of political correctness, Roth was silent. https://t.co/id4j4PoPhp
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 3, 2019
Instead, Roth's HRW merely noted Somalia was running for the UNHRC—without saying a word on its human rights abuses, or that it's a failed state. And he falsely claimed that the dictator-dominated Council makes "significant contributions" to human rights.https://t.co/zFT8iVBj1a pic.twitter.com/DG33MKLlnN
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 3, 2019
Scary: this year's President of the UN General Assembly, Ecuador's former foreign minister María Fernanda Espinosa, is a long-time admirer of "Commander Chavez" and "Commander Fidel." See her tweets: https://t.co/ECAeGBigbD
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 5, 2019
