Trending UN Watch tweets from August: Amnesty International silent on Rushdie stabbing attack, slammed over immoral Ukraine report; Iran plots assassinations on U.S. soil, sits on UN Women’s Rights Commission; UN Palestine Rapporteur ignores terrorist rockets.
Antisemite Exposed Running Canadian Government Anti-Racism Program
Meet Laith Marouf, one of Canada’s most vile antisemites. The 🇨🇦 government gave him a $133,000 grant to build an “anti-racism strategy” for Canadian broadcasting. That’s like paying Jack the Ripper to run a women’s shelter. Top officials must take responsibility and resign. https://t.co/Pd2n3HMes4 pic.twitter.com/mW7XOPre7K
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 19, 2022
Mr. PM @JustinTrudeau: Your gov gave $133,000 to Laith Marouf to build an anti-racism strategy for 🇨🇦 media. But he is a known racist who calls to kills Jews, vilifies French people & spews Goebbels-like hate against Canada's former Minister of Justice. When will you speak out?
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 23, 2022
Mr. Minister: You are taking us for fools. You are calling on CMAC to answer “how they came to hire Laith Marouf”? Are you not aware that he and his wife Gretchen King *are* CMAC? That they and CMAC share the same address? That it was you and Marouf who announced this program? https://t.co/wKUdnQ6ga4
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 22, 2022
Amnesty International Silent on Rushdie Stabbing Attack
Amnesty International is still silent on Salman Rushdie pic.twitter.com/gfOP7NzisT
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 15, 2022
“It looks very much as if Amnesty's leadership is suffering from a kind of moral bankruptcy and has lost the ability to distinguish right from wrong.”
— Salman Rushdie, February 2010https://t.co/Esy5TwhUzJ pic.twitter.com/MmyyU3PFCB— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 15, 2022
Amnesty Slammed Over Immoral Ukraine Report
The strangest thing about Amnesty International issuing a report accusing Ukraine of endangering its civilians is that this is the same organization which for the past two decades has consistently ignored or downplayed the actual deliberate use of human shields by Hamas in Gaza.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 7, 2022
BREAKING: Co-founder of Amnesty International Sweden resigns in protest. Per Wästberg: “I have been a member for over 60 years. It is with a heavy heart that, due to Amnesty's statements regarding the war in Ukraine, I am ending a long and fruitful engagement.”
More must follow. pic.twitter.com/5zTatUQh8D
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 10, 2022
You did the opposite
You did the opposite
You did the opposite
You did the opposite
You did the opposite https://t.co/azzz7r4vSH— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 14, 2022
Amnesty International was once asked why they refused to do a report on antisemitism.
Their reply:https://t.co/xb2h0woBJW
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 15, 2022
Bad week for Amnesty International & Roger Waters pic.twitter.com/AnlA2Zh8EY
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 7, 2022
Iran Plots Assassinations on U.S. Soil
•July 28: Man with loaded AK-47 arrested at NY home of Masih Alinejad, critic of Iran regime
•Aug 10: US reveals Iran regime tried to assassinate former National Security Advisor John Bolton
•Aug 12: Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran's leaders, stabbed in New York
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 13, 2022
When a woman puts her life on the line to speak out for millions of her female compatriots oppressed and subjugated by a murderous and misogynistic regime, and when they try to assassinate her in New York, we all need to step forward and say: #IstandwithMasih pic.twitter.com/yP6Di12Li4
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 16, 2022
“Not a single woman in the U.S. Congress condemned the attempt on my life. If they continue to remain silent, the authorities will persecute more and more women in Iran.”
— Masih Alinejad, Iranian-born journalist targeted for assassination in Brooklynhttps://t.co/8mSxOYmABf pic.twitter.com/86k13MgJyI
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 16, 2022
Iran Sits on UN Women’s Rights Commission
The Islamic Republic of Iran sits on the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission. That’s the whole tweet. pic.twitter.com/5oIa8i7swD
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 30, 2022
For God’s sake, the Islamic Republic of Iran cannot remain on the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 30, 2022
UN Palestine Rapporteur Ignores Terrorist Rockets
Summary:
– Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired 1100 rockets at Israel
– Palestinian Islamic Jihad misfired 200 into Gaza
– Palestinian Islamic Jihad killed 11 children in Gaza
– Israel takes in the victims for medical treatment
– Israel is only one condemned by UN's @franceskalbs https://t.co/4XNBWMlw2j— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 11, 2022
Liking, retweeting, following: UN Watch tweets were liked and shared by thousands around the world, including by opinion leaders and celebrities such as:
- Former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former Estonian prime minister Taavi Rõivas
- Former UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion Ahmed Shaheed
- Iranian women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad, Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, world chess champion Garry Kasparov, Cuban human rights activist Rosa María Payá, Saudi dissident Raif Badawi, Chinese human rights activist Teng Biao, Human Rights Foundation
- Congressman Adam Kinzinger, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer
- Former Canadian ambassador to the UN Louise Blais, senator Leo Housakos Canadian MPs Melissa Lantsman & Pat Kelly
- Members of UK House of Lords Sarah Ludford & Ian Austin, UK MP Stewart McDonald, Dutch MP Gert-Jan Segers, Irish MPs Charlie Flanagan & John Paul Phelan
- Israeli deputy foreign minister Idan Roll, Israeli ambassador to the UN in Geneva Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israeli MK Ruth Wasserman Lande
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies president Clifford May, CEO Mark Dubowitz & senior VP research Jonathan Schanzer, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China coordinator Luke de Pulford, Lawyers Without Borders president William Goldnadel, Simon Wiesenthal Center
- U.S. actor Joshua Malina, U.S. singer David Draiman, UK TV presenter Rachel Riley, Miss Iraq Sarah Idan, former professional baseball player & journalist Adam Housely, UK historian Simon Schama, UK author Simon Sebag Montefiore, Russian-American singer Regina Spektor
Many journalists also liked or shared UN Watch’s tweets, including:
- CNN senior political analyst and anchor John Avlon, national correspondent Ed Lavandera & contributor Frida Ghitis, New York Times opinion editor Meghan Stack, The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg, National Review foreign affairs reporter James Quinn, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, journalist Melissa Chan, commentator Charlie Sykes
- National Post journalist Terry Glavin, Toronto Sun columnist Lorrie Goldstein, Globe & Mail columnist Andrew Coyne
- Spectator columnist Stephen Daisley, The Times of London assistant foreign editor Maxim Tucker
- Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi
