Jewish Journal
Aaron Bandler
October 4, 2021
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) cut off UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer as he was highlighting antisemitic social media posts from various United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

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The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) cut off UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer as he was highlighting antisemitic social media posts from various United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Speaking virtually at the October 2 UNHRC session, Neuer cited UN Watchās recent report about two UNRWA teachers in the Gaza Strip, one who posted an Adolf Hitler video to Facebook āwith quotes to āenrich and enlighten your mindsāā and another who posted āconspiracy theoriesā about Jews controlling the world, starting the COVID-19 pandemic aiming āto destroy Islam.ā At that point, UNHRC President Nazhat Shameem Khan cut off Neuerās video feed, accusing Neuer of making āinsulting and inflammatory remarks.ā

In a series of tweets, Neuer called on Khan āto apologize and rescind your rulingā or else he will ask U.N. Secretary-General Antonio-Guterres to publicly state āthat the highest human rights body of the United Nations has just sent a dangerous message to the world when, without any basis, you summarily and arbitrarily blocked me from presenting a report about systemic antisemitism incited daily by the teachers of UNRWA.ā
Neuer also noted in a tweet that āIsrael is the only nation treated as a standing item on the UNHRC agendaā and that āfor three hours, tyrants vilified Israelā during Shabbat, when Israel was unable to defend itself in the forum.
StandWithUs Israel Executive Director Michael Dickson tweeted that the UNHRC ācanāt handle the truth.ā

The Zionist Federation, a pro-Israel advocacy group in Britain and Ireland, tweeted, āKudos to @HillelNeuer of @UNWatch for telling the truth. Disgraceful and entirely out of order that he was cut short by the @UN_HRC and reprimanded for simply stating the facts.ā
Joel M. Petlin, Superintendent of the Kiryas Joel District, tweeted: āSo according to @UN_HRC, itās *derogatory, insulting and inflammatory* to call out the #Antisemitism expressed by teachers funded by @UNRWA, but itās not a problem for these same teachers to praise Hitler on Facebook. Itās just the warped logic of the United Nations.ā
The August 2 UN Watch report, titled āBeyond the Textbooks,ā documents 22 examples of UNRWA staffers promulgating antisemitism on social media. Neuer said in a statement at the time of the reportās publication: āWe call on the governments that fund UNWRA to take action to stop the vicious cycle of generations being taught to hate and violently attack Jews. We demand that UNRWA address the core problem, and demonstrate its genuine commitment to basic norms of education in its schools, by publicly condemning UNWRA employees who incite terrorism and antisemitism, removing them from their positions, and creating an independent and impartial investigation of all of its staff.ā
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