Trending UN Watch tweets from May: World Health Organization elects Syria to its executive board, singles out Israel as a violator of health rights; dictatorships vote against General Assembly resolution on responsibility to protect; Human Rights Council members abuse press freedom; Denmark’s human rights record examined by UNHRC; Israel attacked by Hamas.
SICK: The U.N.’s World Health Organization elects Syria’s Assad regime, which bombs its own people in hospitals, to its Executive Board. I urge U.N. chief @antonioguterres & WHO director @DrTedros to denounce this insult to the millions of Assad victims. https://t.co/FjjeP4e1mf
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 29, 2021
BREAKING: @WHO deviates from addressing COVID-19 to hold session condemning one single country as a violator of health rights: 🇮🇱 Israel.
Shame on France, Spain, Belgium, Ireland for backing PLO resolution co-sponsored by Syria, Cuba, Turkey & Qatar.https://t.co/zDZsC4g4gU
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 26, 2021
Dictatorships Vote Against General Assembly Resolution on Responsibility to Protect
LIST OF SHAME: Countries who just voted NO to UN General Assembly resolution on the Responsibility to Protect.
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇮🇩 Indonesia
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇷🇺 Russia
🇨🇳 China
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇸🇾 Syria pic.twitter.com/AohcXFvxBY— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 19, 2021
Human Rights Council Members Abuse Press Freedom
Here are 5 of the worst abusers on the 2021 World Press Freedom Index:
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇨🇳 China
🇱🇾 Libya
🇨🇺 CubaHere are 5 members on the U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇨🇳 China
🇱🇾 Libya
🇨🇺 CubaHave a nice #WorldPressFreedomDay pic.twitter.com/dN2L6uWoqb
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 3, 2021
Denmark’s Human Rights Record Examined by UNHRC
Finally! I'm so glad 🇩🇰 Denmark will finally be held to account for its crimes against humanity by U.N. Human Rights Council members such as China, Russia, Libya, Cuba, Pakistan & Venezuela. https://t.co/378080S9ew
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 3, 2021
Israel Attacked by Hamas
BREAKING: U.N. Human Rights Council adopts PLO-drafted resolution ignoring Hamas rocket attacks & creating inquiry targeting Israel with unprecedented open-ended mandate that stretches indefinitely into past & future. Shame on 🇲🇽 Mexico for backing it.
📜 https://t.co/hAEcjUKMXi pic.twitter.com/XU4vIPH3JO
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 27, 2021
Congresswoman, that U.N. report accusing Israel of 'apartheid' was authored by 9/11 conspiracy theorist Richard Falk, who was denounced by his own UN chief Ban Ki-moon and by the UK for antisemitism, and it was commissioned by Syria, Libya and 18 other Arab states. #factsmatter https://t.co/iwd4rMPESm
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 16, 2021
Hamas targeting of Israeli civilians is a violation of Art. 51(2) of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention of 1949; and its use of Gaza civilians, including women and children, as human shields, is a violation of Art. 51(7) of the First Additional Protocol.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 16, 2021
Reminder: When Hamas attacks Israel from built-up areas, knowing there will be counter-fire against the rocket launchers, any resulting civilian casualties may be physically caused by Israel but the one that is responsible for their deaths under international law is Hamas.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 15, 2021
It’s midnight in Tel Aviv and Hamas terrorists are firing rockets at Israeli families.
If you think this is morally justified because you believe Israelis are baby-killers and thieves, you have swallowed a poisonous meme that has fueled hatred and killing of Jews for millennia. https://t.co/QK7bG9TPS6
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 15, 2021
RIGHT: Hamas rockets fired from Gaza to kill, injure and terrorize civilians across Israel.
LEFT: Israeli Iron Dome interceptors seeking to bring them down.
This is no blurry "cycle of violence." Hamas terrorists are attacking Israeli civilians. We need to stand with them. pic.twitter.com/UkNihQfwdP
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 14, 2021
Palestinians killed 17 of their own in Gaza on Monday with misfired rockets, before Israel even began any response in the area.
This never gets mentioned by people like HRW's @KenRoth because it doesn't serve their packaged narrative of Israel as inhuman.https://t.co/rndXD9vRLD
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 14, 2021
Dear @Malala: I have great respect for your courageous stand for women's rights, which got you shot and nearly killed.
But Western ideologues are misinforming you about Gaza. The perpetrator here is terrorist Hamas—the same kind of murderous Islamists who tried to kill you. https://t.co/XIhSnCjVYE
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 13, 2021
The reason Gaza is filled with rocket launchers and not bomb shelters is because that's the goal of Hamas: to incur civilian casualties by compelling Israel to engage in combat operations that are legally permissible but which the world will condemn. All to delegitimize Israel.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 13, 2021
Turns out the same Palestinian rulers who have no money for vaccines somehow have endless money to manufacture thousands of deadly rockets and construct miles of terror tunnels to attack Israeli civilians.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 13, 2021
Congresswoman, you are literally justifying terrorist groups firing rockets targeting Israeli men, women and children. Nothing caused them to commit these war crimes.
If you are progressive, why do you side with Hamas which just urged Arabs to "cut off the heads of the Jews"? https://t.co/l17QFwdKMW
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 12, 2021
Sir, when you say "proportionate," does the EU want Israel to indiscriminately rain down 1,000 rockets targeting civilians in Gaza?
Israel instead targets terrorists firing rockets at its people & warns civilians to get out of harm's way. No army in history ever did this better. https://t.co/4wHtNKaxwK
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 12, 2021
For years, UN reports ignored the use of human shields by Hamas, incentivizing these terror tactics in the future. The risk posed to the civilian population of Gaza was exacerbated. To truly mitigate harm done to civilians, we should condemn Hamas actions—and the UN's complicity.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 12, 2021
Imagine bombs raining down on London, Leeds & York.
Imagine bombs raining down on Paris, Lyon & Nice.
Imagine bombs raining down on LA, DC & Miami.
It's hard to imagine. Yet Hamas fired 900 rockets in 36 hours at Israeli towns. Kids are in bomb shelters.
Stand with Israel. pic.twitter.com/MezBrv6R2G
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 12, 2021
I mourn the loss of life of innocent civilians in both Israel and Gaza.
The NYT implies there's no chain of causation. This is false.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad attacked Israel with hundreds of rockets. Israel responded to stop the rockets. The terrorists bear full responsibility. pic.twitter.com/qmK1ReXKO6
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 11, 2021
Today’s Hamas assault on Israel, including 150 rockets fired at civilians, constitute grave violations of international law and a breach of international peace and security under the Charter of the United Nations. All states should work to bring justice to the perpetrators.
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 10, 2021
Fact: The U.N. will do nothing about this. https://t.co/AzaUGcnBVI
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 10, 2021
Woops https://t.co/G8EALVaEdZ
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 9, 2021
Liking, retweeting, following: UN Watch tweets were liked and shared by thousands around the world, including by opinion leaders and celebrities such as:
- Former Bulgarian foreign minister & OSCE chair Solomon Passy
- Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist Pastor Evan Mawarire, Hong Kong human rights activist Denise Ho, Iranian activist Ahmad Batebi
- United States Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva
- Canadian senators Leo Housakos & Linda Frum, former Canadian immigration minister Chris Alexander, Canadian MPs Peter Kent & Anthony Housefather
- British MPs Tim Loughton & Rebecca Harris, Swedish MEP David Lega
- Israeli ambassador to the UN in Geneva Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israeli ambassador to Austria Mordechai Rodgold, Israeli ambassador to Belgium Emmanuel Nachshon, Israeli ambassador to Denmark Benny Dagan, Israeli ambassador to Peru Assaf Ichilevich, former Israeli ambassador to India Daniel Carmon
- Colombian Senator María Fernanda Cabal, Zimbabwean Senator David Coltart
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies president Clifford May & CEO Mark Dubowitz, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies executive director Kyle Matthews, American Enterprise Initiative resident scholar Christina Sommers, AJC Transatlantic Institute director Daniel Schwammenthal, Human Rights Foundation chief strategy officer Alex Gladstein, Religious Freedom Institute senior fellow & former Pakistani politician Farahnaz Ispahani, Interamerican Institute for Democracy director & former Bolivian politician Carlos Sánchez Berzain, International Observatory of Human Rights, UK Muslims Against Anti-Semitism chairman Ghanem Nuseibeh, AIPAC, Canada’s Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
- Technology venture capitalist Tim O’Reilly, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass
- U.S. actor Elon Gold, UK author Simon Sebag Montefiore, UK television presenter & activist Rachel Riley, Irish actor Rory Cowan, Canadian actress Shira Lazar, Canadian-American actress Tara Strong, Egyptian actor Amr Wahed, former professional baseball player & journalist Adam Housely, Romanian Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Nadia Comăneci, ESPN & Fox Sports commentator Ross Dyer, Cuban-American director Robbie Starbuck, Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero
Many journalists also liked or shared UN Watch’s tweets, including:
- Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, Wall St. Journal writer Gregory Zuckerman, former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss, Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake & journalist Katie Roof, New York Post journalist Jon Levine, ABC News journalist Daniella Greenbaum Davis, CNN political commentator Mia Love, Fox News correspondents Eben Brown & Jessica Rosenthal, Washington Examiner executive editor Seth Mandel, CNBC reporter Lora Kolodny, Voice of America correspondent Michael Lipin, News 12 anchor Eric Landskroner
- National Post senior editor Michael Higgins & journalist Terry Glavin, Toronto Sun columnist Lorrie Goldstein, Globe & Mail columnist Andrew Coyne, CBC news anchor Tom Harrington, Global News broadcaster Alex Pierson
- Daily Telegraph journalist Dia Chakravarty, Deutsche Welle editor-in-chief Alexander Kudascheff, Welt chief correspondent Clemens Wergin, Welt am Sonntag editor-in-chief Johannes Boie & managing editor Antje Schippmann, ARD German TV correspondent Richard C. Schneider, Irish Times journalist Peter McGuire
- Sky News Australia hosts Rita Panahi & Sharri Markson
- SABC News anchor Peter Ndoro, The National UN correspondent James Reinl, Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, Pakistani journalist Gharidah Farooqi
- Jerusalem Post journalist Lahav Harkov, Jewish Chronicle deputy editor Jake Wallis Simons
- Think with Google editor-in-chief Alanna Petroff, music journalist Eve Barlow
- Iranian journalist Nazenin Ansari
