Trending UN Watch tweets from October: NBA basketball star Enes Kanter speaks out against Chinese dictatorship; Nigeria jails indigenous opposition leader; Iran slams “any form of terrorism”; UN Human Rights Council President cuts off Hillel Neuer over UNRWA antisemitism — and more.
Human Rights Council Elects New Members, Joining China and Other Rights Abusers
This Thursday, the United Nations will elect new members to its Human Rights Council.
Current members include:
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇷🇺 Russia
🇧🇴 Bolivia
🇨🇳 China
🇱🇾 Libya
🇨🇺 CubaThis is not a joke, this is real. The inmates are running the asylum. pic.twitter.com/wF3V7YkVnP
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 12, 2021
The @UN_HRC is fair and balanced.
Condemnations since it was founded:
0 🇨🇺 Cuba
0 🇸🇦 Saudi
0 🇶🇦 Qatar
0 🇨🇳 China
0 🇹🇷 Turkey
0 🏴☠️ Taliban
0 🇵🇰 Pakistan
0 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
2 🇻🇪 Venezuela
10 🇪🇷 Eritrea
11 🇮🇷 Iran
12 🇧🇾 Belarus
14 🇰🇵 North Korea
25 🇲🇲 Myanmar
36 🇸🇾 Syria
95 🇮🇱 Israel— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 13, 2021
A man who herded 1 million Uighurs into camps, jails human rights activists, crushed Tibet, disappeared courageous men and women who sounded the alarm on the coronavirus, and suffocated freedom in Hong Kong is now sitting on the United Nations’ highest human rights body. #HRC48 pic.twitter.com/Yu2lJRFLyq
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 5, 2021
HRC Cuts Off Hillel Neuer Over UNRWA Antisemitism
No joke: The U.N. Human Rights Council just cut me off for testifying about UNRWA teachers who glorify Hitler. Chair says I made "derogatory, insulting & inflammatory remarks"—by quoting their own Facebook posts. "This amounts to personal attacks. This statement is out of order." pic.twitter.com/qPXohSdOfW
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 3, 2021
NBA Basketball Star Speaks Out Against Chinese Dictatorship
Rare: celebrity speaks out against powerful dictatorship.
NBA basketball star Enes Kanter has courage. https://t.co/c6tvc1lTvC
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 21, 2021
Iran Slams Any Form of Terrorism; Murders its Own Sportsmen
You are the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world.
🏴☠️ Hezbollah
🏴☠️ Hamas
🏴☠️ Islamic Jihad
🏴☠️ Kataib Hezbollah
🏴☠️ Ansar Allah (Houthis)
🏴☠️ Asaib Ahl al Haq
🏴☠️ Harakat Hezbollah al Nujaba
🏴☠️ Zaynabiyoun Brigade
🏴☠️ Fatemiyoun Division
🏴☠️ Al Ashtar Brigades
🏴☠️ Saraya al Mukhtar https://t.co/vI4gRRxYFk— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 6, 2021
you murder your wrestlers https://t.co/YT8VfI2Qow
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 4, 2021
Palestinian Sentenced for Attempting to Sell Land to Israeli Jews
Racism you will never hear about from @aoc @benandjerrys @KenRoth https://t.co/oKoOLGJUy0
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 17, 2021
Nigeria Jails Indigenous Opposition Leader
🇳🇬 Nigeria jails indigenous opposition leader Nnamdi Kanu on “terrorism” charges for comments made on a London radio station.
🇳🇬 Nigeria sits on the U.N. committee overseeing human rights NGOs. https://t.co/PFTSaZmfku
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) October 27, 2021
New York Times Science Reporter Goes Woke on COVID
Science reporter at the New York Times pic.twitter.com/yPFUV8h6m5
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 10, 2021
Monty Python Actor Explains Extremism
"The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies, and all the goodness in the whole world is in you."
"You can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behavior is morally justified.
Prescient John Cleese: pic.twitter.com/6q5LiPIFb8
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 30, 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
- Former UN Security Council President Diego Arria
- World chess champion Garry Kasparov, Cuban human rights activist Rosa María Payá, Venezuelan activist Carlos Vecchio, Zimbabwean activist Hopewell Chin’ono, Zimbabwe Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance party
- Canadian senator Leo Housakos, former Canadian immigration minister Chris Alexander
- Dutch MEP Peter van Dalen, Swedish MEP Charlie Weimers
- Israeli ambassador to the U.S. & UN Gilad Erdan
- Hudson Institute South & Central Asia Director and former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani
- Miss Iraq Sarah Idan, former professional baseball player & journalist Adam Housely, former NBA basketball player Andrew Bogut, actors Daniel Gillies & Adam Baldwin, UK actress Tracy-Ann Oberman
Many journalists also liked or shared UN Watch’s tweets, including:
- Commentator Bill Kristol, Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake, CNN anchor Isa Soares, Washington Post columnist & CNN contributor Frida Ghitis, BBC News correspondent John Simpson, Washington Examiner executive editor Seth Mandel
