Of all the various U.N. bodies, the most anti-Israel and most antisemitic of all – and the competition is stiff, with many strong contenders – is the U.N. Human Rights Council. It is that body which has an Item #7 on its permanent agenda, which requires it at every session to investigate and prepare reports on so-called “violations” of Palestinian human rights by Israel. The UNHRC has passed almost as many resolutions denouncing Israel as it has passed against the other 193 members of the U.N. But it could have been worse. After all, in 2020 the UN General Assembly did itself proud by passing 17 resolutions against the tiny Jewish state and only 6 against all the other 193 countries combined. Among the current UNHRC members passing judgment on Israel are such stalwart supporters of human rights as China, Cuba, Russia, Bolivia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Libya, and Venezuela. The current president of the UNHRC is Nazhat Shameem Khan of Pakistan. Need I say more?
The other day, Hillel Neuer of the indispensable NGO UN Watch tried to give a video presentation before the UNHCR about what some UNRWA teachers are posting on their Facebook pages. He had all of 28 seconds to speak before Nazhat Shameem Khan had the Council’s Secretariat shut his video down.
Here is exactly what Khan and Neuer said:
Khan: Thank you. And I now give the floor to Ingenieurs du Monde [UN Watch]
Neuer: Madame President, is UNRWA supporting peace? Let us consider UN Watch’s recent report on the teachers they hire by looking at their social media.
Nahed Sharawi, an UNRWA math teacher in Gaza, posted a picture of Adolf Hitler, along with “quotes to enrich and enlighten your thoughts and minds.”
Husni Mash, an UNRWA teacher in the West Ban, posted antisemitic conspiracy theories about how Jews control the world, created the Covid virus, and seek to destroy Islam.
Esraa Abdul Rahim, an UNRWA…”
Khan: I ask the Secretariat to pause [i.e., to shut down] this video.
I have noticed that in the course of this video derogatory, insulting, and inflammatory remarks have been made which in particular refer directly to specific individuals. This amounts to personal attack against these individuals and it is not acceptable in this forum.
This statement is out of order, and I give the floor to the next speaker, the Palestine Return Centre, Limited.
I assume that Neuer identified his group as “Ingenieurs du Monde” so that he might have the possibility of addressing the UNHCR, which would likely not have happened had he identified himself as being with the NGO UN Watch.
Neuer spoke for exactly 28 seconds – 28 seconds of truth out of thousands of hours, year after year, of anti-Israel lies at the UNHCR. He managed to name, and to describe, the disturbing Facebook pages of two UNRWA teachers. The first was Nahed Sharawi, a math teacher in Gaza, who posted a photograph of Adolf Hitler on his Facebook page and offered “quotes to enrich and enlighten your thoughts and minds,” no doubt linked to the photo. Too bad that Neuer, wanting to name as many people as he could in what he undoubtedly knew would be a short appearance, hadn’t time to report what Sharawi had posted in order “to enrich and enlighten [Palestinian] thoughts and minds.”
Neuer then mentioned “Husni Mash, an UNRWA teacher in the West Ban, [who] posted antisemitic conspiracy theories about how Jews control the world, created the Covid virus, and seek to destroy Islam.”
As for the third teacher, all Neuer managed to say before his video was shut down was this:
“Esraa Abdul Rahim, an UNRWA…”
Then Madame Khan, a true daughter of Pakistan, horrified at what Neuer had managed to say In his 28 seconds, immediately had the video shut down. A stunning act of censorship, captured on video for all to see, by the UNHRC’s Madame President, determined at all costs to protect members of UNRWA’s staff from being revealed as antisemites (an admiring photo of Hitler tells us all we need to know about Nahed Sharawi) and crazed conspiracy theorists, such as Husni Mash, insisting that Jews control the world, created the Covid virus, and seek to destroy Islam. The full report on Neuer’s video appearance and shutdown is here. Here is the video of Hillel Neuer:
? CENSORED: @UN_HRC just stopped me from calling out UNRWA teachers who glorify Hitler & incite antisemitism. 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/8jFrvzdYR8
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 1, 2021
“UNHRC stops video quoting antisemitic posts by UNRWA teachers,” i24 News, October 3, 2021:
President of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Nazhat Shameem Khan on Friday [October 1] cut off a video presentation by UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer quoting antisemitic social media posts by UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) teachers.
After stopping the video, Khan said that “insulting and inflammatory remarks” were made that amount to “personal attacks” against individuals. She then went on to say that the “statement is out of order” before giving the floor to the UK-based Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), which has been accused of having ties with Hamas.
What “personal attacks” did Khan have in mind? Neuer reported that Nahed Sharawi had posted a photo of Hitler, and had offered on the same Facebook page, in his own words, “quotes to enrich and enlighten your thoughts and minds.” That’s it. No “derogatory remarks.” No “personal attacks.” The same is true of the one sentence Neuer delivered about Husni Mash, whom he said had on social media had “posted antisemitic conspiracy theories about how Jews control the world, created the Covid virus, and seek to destroy Islam.” No editorializing, nothing made up. Everyone is free to visit Mash’s Facebook page to see his conspiracy theories on display.
It is altogether fitting that, having shut down the truth-teller Hillel Neuer after 28 seconds, Khan would then give the floor to a speaker from a group, the Palestine Return Centre, whose stock in trade is lies, and that both the German and Israeli governments accuse of having ties to the terror group Hamas. A 2011 intelligence service report of the German Ministry of the Interior found that “Hamas does not operate openly in Europe. Instead it uses, for instance, the Palestinian Return Centre in London as a forum.”
But that Hamas connection wouldn’t bother Nazhat Shemeem Khan. She was greatly relieved to have cut Neuer off after 28 seconds, limiting the damage he might have done to UNRWA’s reputation. Now the Human Rights Council instead would hear, straight from Gaza, the latest Palestinian trumped-up grievance against Israel, that it was denying Gaza water, when in fact Israel recently built a fourth pipeline to deliver more water to Gaza, and has supplied Gaza with the Watergen technology that produces water out of the circumambient air. But why should President Khan care about any of that?
Neuer was highlighting [in his brief appearance] a recent UN Watch report that, according to the organization’s website, “exposed more than 100 teachers, school principals and other employees that praise Hitler, propagate hatred against Jews and support terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians on social media.”
In response to the allegations in the report [of Neuer’s NGO, UN Watch] , UNRWA announced that it was investigating 10 of its staffers to determine if any of them violated “social media policies that prohibit personnel from engaging in non-neutral behaviors online,” according to a press release from UNRWA.
Why, after the report was released by Hillel Neuer’s NGO about UNRWA that has “exposed more than 100 teachers, school principals, and other employees that praise Hitler, propagate hatred against Jews and support terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians on social media,” is UNRWA being allowed to investigate itself? And why, when Neuer has identified more than 100 staffers as antisemites who “praise Hitler and propagate hatred against Jews,” is UNRWA going to investigate only 10 members of its staff? On what basis has it decided to ignore the other ninety? Is UNRWA afraid, as I suspect, of what it might find out and, still worse, might have to act on?
somehistory says
Another example…this time on the world’s stage…of the goal of shutting down truth, shutting the mouths of people trying to speak truth, and accusing the speakers of using the very tactics that they, the liars and haters of truth, use against truth-speakers.
This is clearly psychopathic…the practice of doing wrong and then when it is pointed out, accusing the one making the truth known of lying and slander and of doing everything the psychopath has done.
The unhrc is a joke…and not a funny one. It is made up of the devil’s children. That demon spirit is a liar…the “father of the lie,” and all of his children follow his evil example. No country listed as being on the “council,” is one where humans have rights…only those in charge have any rights…and all living in those places suffer extreme abuse at the hands of their so-called “leaders.”
They make up satan’s beast…as do all countries where people are being killed for speaking truth.
maria says
dissolve UNHRC it is a muslimo-nazi organization that doesn´t belong to the democratic countries
Elizabeth Lawson says
Hilarious. ‘Madam Speaker’ and her cohorts in crime ( the crime? Accepting payment from the West to assist those who push for terrorism and the destruction of the rule of law). There is NOTHING august or noble about an organization that shamefully – and deliberately ignores real injustices, and then, using the protocol of what once WAS a proud and effective agency, to silence real truth bearers in the inimitable ´fashion of fourteenth century Pakistan. Saturday Night Live couldn’t have produced better comedy.
James Lincoln says
So, according to the feature article:
“Khan said that “insulting and inflammatory remarks” were made that amount to “personal attacks” against individuals.”
How can it be insulting – and a personal attack – if the statements are true?
somehistory says
While the Jews suffer literal, real, “personal attacks” that count for nothing with these mozlums. Body count is all that matters to them and they are happy to rack em up.
gravenimage says
Spot on, James.
gravenimage says
28 Seconds of Truth at the UN Human Rights Council
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This is rare, and clearly could not be allowed to continue…
OLD GUY says
America needs to get out of the UN and have its UN head quarters turned into housing for the Biden migration families. At least than the UN would do something for humans, instead of defending and avoiding the human issues in its member countries.