When UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer traveled to The Hague to testify before the Dutch Parliament on UNRWA’s terror ties, radical left MPs working in close coordination with the UN’s Palestinian agency came to the hearing in order to attack him.
“I myself have not found the facts,” declared MP Sarah Dobbe of the Socialist Party. But Neuer’s sharp rebuttal—citing detailed facts and evidence—brought the chamber to silence.
Video of the short class has gone viral, garnering over 1.6 million views across Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
SARAH DOBBE (SOCIALIST PARTY): Our guest is making some serious accusations for which I myself have not found the facts. And I wonder, do you — these accusations are exposed on the website, as you call it. Do you have contact with UNRWA before you publish these accusations? In other words, do you try to fact-check these accusations with UNRWA before you put the accusations out there?
HILLEL NEUER, UN WATCH: First of all, let’s be clear. In most cases the accusations that we put out are publications by UNRWA officials.
So the Terrorgram report in January that we put out are open messages — we didn’t hack — it’s an open message called the UNRWA Teachers Group in Gaza where thousands of UNRWA teachers belong to it. Some are full time, some are part time. And they were celebrating the October 7th attacks.
So we didn’t put it out there — they put it out there. We just linked to something that is public.
When I linked today to the Facebook page of Fathi al-Sharif, the head of the UNRWA teachers union, I’m not putting it out there. His pictures — this is Fathi al-Sharif, I’m glad you asked — with a giant picture of Sheikh Hassan Youssef the founder of Hamas. There are pictures after pictures here of him celebrating terrorists. So we’re not putting it out there.
We don’t have to contact UNRWA. Because you know what UNRWA will do. I’m going to give you a secret. The moment we call UNRWA, they’re going to call Facebook and delete the page. The page is gone within 24 hours.
They don’t want us to talk about it. They don’t want the Dutch citizens to know that there are hundreds and thousands of UNRWA teachers — the head of the UNRWA teachers union in Lebanon, Fathi al-Sharif, is a major supporter of Hamas. On his page. Tomorrow the page will be deleted. Of course we screenshotted everything.
So I know you want us to give it to UNRWA so it will be deleted. But let me tell you, because you asked. We have reached out to UNRWA. And we’ve documented it in our report, in the evidence submitted to Colonna, we documented all the times that we reached out to UNRWA, because the distinguished member asked if we reached out to UNRWA.
We have reached out to UNRWA.
In August 2015, we reached out to UNRWA. No answer. September 2015 — no answer. November 2015. 2018; 2021; 2023. We keep reaching out to UNRWA.
I will meet with Mr. Lazzarini in Geneva. He’s coming in a few weeks. And he’s been there; he refuses to meet with me. I’ll meet with him in Amman, I’ll meet with him in Jerusalem. Those are their headquarters. I’ll meet with him anywhere. They refuse to meet.
So you’re asking me why we’re not engaging with UNRWA. And the truth is the opposite. We have reached out to UNRWA. Time and time and time again.
So please, I invite you to ask your friends from UNRWA. Meet with us. We have hundreds of pages of evidence. And if we’re wrong let them show us how.
Thank you.
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Radical left members of the Dutch Parliament, working in close coordination with UNRWA, came to a committee hearing in The Hague in order to attack me. It didn’t work out as they planned. pic.twitter.com/BUWYSy5ebA
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 15, 2024
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