Trending UN Watch tweets from August: The Taliban takes over Afghanistan; Swedish foreign minister blocks Hillel Neuer on Twitter; Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company boycotts Israel; China accuses West of human rights violations in Afghanistan; and many more below.
You know it's only a matter of time before the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
EU diplomats justified electing Iran's regime to the women's rights commission, and China, Russia and Cuba to the UNHRC, because "that's how they'll learn." pic.twitter.com/SYhoMh1uxi
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1428129037776523265?s=20
No joke: the Swedish foreign minister blocked me.
Why? For showing how she sold out her "feminist foreign policy" by kowtowing to the Mullahs & legitimizing Iran's misogynist hijab law.@annlinde, doesn't Sweden embrace transparency?
(Please send this to her so she'll see it!) https://t.co/B4eulcDQ1Z pic.twitter.com/CKwCEFexSz
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 23, 2021
Click here to see more of UN Watch’s viral tweets on the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Prediction: Ben and Jerry's will never announce a boycott of the Taliban. pic.twitter.com/CFxzcVqtXj
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 17, 2021
Ben and Jerry's boasts it is both profitable and ethical.
Now the head of their board, social justice activist Anuradha Mittal @Mittaloak, is accused of doling out tens of thousands in cash from B&J's foundation to fund her own pro-Palestinian non-profit.https://t.co/xvkVRQ0gd9
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 29, 2021
you locked up 1 million muslim uighurs in camps https://t.co/mO4LMK6COh
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 25, 2021
you destroyed 6000 buddhist temples https://t.co/d2yRqqW1Gv
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 19, 2021
SHAME: 🇪🇺 European Union senior official @enriquemora_ legitimizes Butcher of Tehran at his inauguration today as president. Close to him are 3 terrorist leaders: Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhalah, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh & Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem. https://t.co/0Wmi15iJqR pic.twitter.com/As1coRYirM
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 5, 2021
Why did the Netherlands, one of the world’s most respected democracies, legitimize the Butcher of Tehran by sending the Dutch ambassador to stand and pay tribute at the presidential inauguration of a man who sent 5,000 innocent political prisoners to their deaths? https://t.co/HpEPJdUUfs
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 8, 2021
Zionist Congress in Geneva learns of the Hitler-Stalin pact signed on this day in 1939.
“They do not look like people who have just heard a piece of political news. They look like people who have heard a death sentence pronounced on members of their family.”
(C. Cruise O’Brien) pic.twitter.com/TE5VM2BPIB— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 23, 2021
Islamists bomb the Bianco Resort, one of Gaza's most luxurious seaside tourist sites.
The resort was accused of holding an ”evil” mixed-gender concert.
The U.N. Human Rights Council will not condemn the Gaza attack. Because Israel can't be blamed. https://t.co/yn5LTiYhCo pic.twitter.com/PBbZKXWjP7
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 8, 2021
Liking, retweeting, following: UN Watch tweets were liked and shared by thousands around the world, including by opinion leaders and celebrities such as:
- UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion Ahmed Shaheed
- Venezuelan diplomat & former UN Security Council President Diego Arria
- Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission chairperson Shaharzad Akbar, Russian chess grandmaster & political activist Garry Kasparov, Iranian women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad
- Former U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley
- Canadian senator Leo Housakos, former Canadian immigration minister Chris Alexander
- Chair of the British parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Tom Tugendhat, UK MP Rebecca Harris, members of UK House of Lords Zac Goldsmith & Helena Morrissey
- Swedish MEPs Charlie Weimers & David Lega
- Hudson Institute South & Central Asia Director and former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani, Yad Vashem chairperson Dani Dayan
- UK television presenter & activist Rachel Riley, UK author Simon Sebag-Montefiore, UK television personality Robert Rinder, The Mandalorian actress Gina Carano
Many journalists also liked or shared UN Watch’s tweets, including:
- CNN anchors Jake Tapper & Bianna Golodryga, commentator Bill Kristol, Daily Wire commentator Ben Shapiro, The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, The Atlantic senior editor David Frum
