Hillel Neuer

Debate on Israel & U.N.: Hillel Neuer vs. Harvard Professors (full 58 minutes)

Turns out I also had to debate a second Harvard Professor — the one serving as impartial chair and moderator. Harvard Professor: “Just want to flag that for UNRWA, clearly there are major problematic individuals, and they need to be held accountable. As an institution it has been, you know, a different story.” Hillel Neuer: “What's a different story? I don’t understand.” Harvard Professor: “That as an institution, it is not biased as an institution. The investigation has cleared UNRWA.” Neuer: “Which investigation?” Harvard Professor: “Well, like I said, I'm not an expert on this...” Neuer: “The head of the UNRWA Teachers' Union was Hamas. The head of the Teachers' Union in Lebanon was Hamas. Who was cleared?” Harvard Professor: “I mean, not cleared, but the individuals had been held accountable, they've been fired...” Neuer: “Who was fired?” Harvard Professor: “Those individuals were either removed... Look, I don't want to engage in litigation of all the numbers and facts. The question that I'm interested in is accountability...” Neuer: “I agree, and we have no accountability. Philippe Lazzarini in Switzerland was the head of UNRWA for five years. He was informed repeatedly that the heads of the schools were Hamas leaders. He did nothing. “A recent dispute tribunal of UNRWA issued an opinion a few weeks ago, and they said that UNRWA is obliged to pay death benefits to the family of Fathi Sharif, who was the Hamas commander in Lebanon — because UNRWA had never fired him. He was never fired.”

They didn't want me to share clips, so I decided to post the entire debate. Invited to Harvard to debate whether the United Nations treats Israel equally, I challenged the university itself: Why does Harvard repeatedly host and support U.N. rapporteurs who justify terrorism, including Francesca Albanese, Tlaleng Mofokeng, and Michael Fakhri? Watch my full debate with Harvard Professor Kathryn Sikkink, moderated by Professor Patrick Vinck at the Harvard Kennedy School. I addressed the U.N.’s double standards on Israel, Hamas infiltration of UNRWA, outside funding of U.N. rapporteurs, and Harvard’s responsibility to finally scrutinize the “human rights experts” it promotes.

BREAKING: Brave UNRWA teacher in Gaza speaks out against the culture of death being cultivated in the schools. Teachers around her are “aggressively pushing” ideologies of killing and violence onto their students. Will former UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini be held to account?

Disgusting: U.N. rapporteur on counterterrorism Ben Saul condemns Israel for waging a “vengeful war” against Hamas: “Hamas invaded Israel for 48 hours, and then was repulsed. Israel was going to be fine...”

Writing in The Telegraph, Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, the former UN special rapporteur on torture, just denounced her colleagues Francesca Albanese and Reem Alsalem for denying the October 7 atrocities and ignoring Hamas torture of Israeli hostages: “My colleagues said nothing. I felt ashamed. Their one-sided, vitriolic reports added to families’ anguish.”   As the massacre was still unfolding, Albanese declared, “today’s violence must be put in context.”   Alsalem even denied that rape had taken place, despite a UN report documenting the sexual violence.   UN Watch commends Dr. Edwards for standing up for victims and speaking out about the failures of fellow UN human rights “experts.”   Read our report on the UN special rapporteurs subverting human rights at bit.ly/UNExpertsExposed or via the link in bio.

Great honor to meet with the President of the State of Israel, @isaacherzog. 🇮🇱 I was there on October 7th with an incredible group of Christian leaders oranized by @fozmuseum.official . President Herzog spoke eloquently. He recalled how his grandfather Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, tried to save Jews during the Holocaust, and how his father Chaim Herzog, who would later become Israel’s President, was a British military officer who liberated the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. By contrast, Israel today is a strong and revived nation, a beautiful and successful country, with incredible young people who defend their nation, drive innovation in every field of science and technology, and build new families with a vision for peace and prosperity. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

CLASH AT THE UN: George Katrougalos, chair of the committee overseeing all UN human rights experts, absurdly called UN Watch a “champion of antisemitism” after Hillel Neuer challenged Katrougalous for accepting a $100,000 donation from China and then fully omitting China's victims from his latest report. China also lashed out at UN Watch, saying that Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong are “purely China's internal affairs.” ___ Neuer's speech: ”Mr. President, Thank you for allowing us to pose several questions to the Expert. Mr. Katrougalos, your report mentions China 33 times. At page 9, you say China is a ‘central actor’ defending international order; Xi Jinping is the ‘new guardian of global rules for free trade’; and Chinese discourse ‘closely aligns’ with the UN Charter and ‘peaceful co-existence.’ At page 10, you recite numerous Chinese initiatives, that contribute, and I quote, ‘to the enjoyment of alll human rights.’ Mr. Katrougalos, we ask: if your report is truly about human rights, then where are China’s victims? Where are the million Uyghurs subjected to mass detention, forced labour, and religious persecution? Where are the Tibetans whose culture, language and religion Beijing systematically crushes? Where are Hong Kong’s imprisoned democracy activists, such as 78-year-old Jimmy Lai? Where are the human rights lawyers, journalists, dissidents, and religious minorities jailed across China? Where is Beijing’s mass censorship? Its surveillance state? Its threats against Taiwan? Mr. Katrougalos, one fifth of humanity are denied free elections, free speech and basic political rights. Why does none of this appear in your account of China’s contribution to a ‘democratic and equitable’ world order? Now, you also chair the UN committee overseeing all human rights experts — and the UN disclosed that China chose to donate $100,000 to your mandate. Why did Beijing choose you? What exactly did its money finance? Did it support this report? Who funded your two trips to China, mentioned on Page 2? Will you acknowledge that such funding creates a conflict? Will you commit today that all China’s money will be returned?”

Former UN rights chief Navi Pillay was just awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize “for her efforts to promote peace and international law,” despite turning a blind eye to gross human rights abuses by the world’s most oppressive regimes and leading a false genocide claim against Israel.   Unsurprisingly, Hamas celebrated the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award Pillay.   Some examples of Pillay’s long and troubling record include: • Handing dissidents’ names to China, despite warnings about the danger to them and their families. • Defending her fellow commissioner Miloon Kothari after he railed against “the Jewish lobby” and questioned Israel’s right to be a member state of the UN. • In 2012, Pillay called the cartoons in France’s satirical paper Charlie Hebdo “malicious and deliberately provocative” after they featured caricatures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. • In 2010, Pillay notoriously refused to attend Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Peace Price ceremony due to pressure from China, as reported by Foreign Policy. See the evidence for yourself  ➡️

MUST WATCH: Hillel Neuer confronts a UN panel on education over UNRWA's employment of terror chiefs as school principals. “Today’s panel asks how the United Nations can advance human rights education for children and youth. Surely, the first principle must be: ‘Do no harm.’ Yesterday, UN Watch released its report card on UNRWA reform, testing the agency’s claims against the evidence. UNRWA says it fulfilled 41 of the 50 reforms recommended by the Colonna Review. But what is the reality in UNRWA’s classrooms? According to a December 8th, 2025 report in the New York Times, 24 employees at 24 different UNRWA schools, mostly principals and deputy principals, were Hamas or Islamic Jihad terrorists. We ask: Why for 27 years did UNRWA employ Suhail al-Hindi as school principal and teachers’ union chief while he openly sat on the Hamas Politburo with Yahya Sinwar? Why was he allowed to block Holocaust education? Why did UNRWA employee Fateh Sharif serve as a school principal and teachers’ union chief while he was also the Hamas commander in Lebanon? Why did the UN honor UNRWA principal Imad al-Samhouri at its solemn memorial ceremony when he was a Hamas commander sworn to jihad? Now, the UN can pretend they didn’t know, but his social media is full of photos of him bringing Hamas chiefs into UNRWA schools. And so we ask the panel: Is this human rights education? Will the UN and this Council demand an investigation into the UNRWA leaders who oversaw the hiring of terrorist commanders to run the schools and brainwash generations of Palestinians with incitement, hate, racism and holy war? We ask: Who will be held accountable? I thank you.”

🔥 RARE MOMENT OF TRUTH AT UNITED NATIONS: As world leaders used the UN podium to condemn Israel, we invited courageous Yemeni journalist @JustLuai to tell the truth: “Our problem in the Middle East is neither Israel nor the Jews. It is the Islamist dictatorships.”

When institutions look away, witnesses matter more than ever. hillelneuer on the truth about Israel, and why 1,000 Pastors and Leaders are part of the answer. #AmbassadorsSummit2026 #FriendsOfZion #ChristiansInIsrael #1000Pastors #TruthAboutIsrael #StandWithIsrael

On this day three years ago, I ran to a bomb shelter as Hamas attacked. I predicted how the UN would do nothing until Israel responded—and then accuse Israel of war crimes and racism. But I failed to imagine that they would declare “genocide” and fuel a global tsunami of Jew hatred.

UN Watch sparked international condemnation and forced a rare apology from Francesca Albanese after exposing her claims that Jews in Nazi death camps “were called Muslims” and that antisemitism targets “Semitic peoples,” not just Jews.   We are calling on all UN member states to denounce Albanese’s distortion of antisemitism and the Holocaust.

GOOD NEWS: Following a sustained diplomatic and media campaign by UN Watch, an unprecedented coalition of 48 countries pulled out of the UN’s 25th anniversary commemoration of the Durban Conference, a notorious event tainted by antisemitism and the demonization of Israel.   Instead of combating racism as it promised, the original September 2001 conference in Durban, South Africa became the worst international manifestation of antisemitism in the post-war period.   In 2021, following UN Watch’s campaign, 38 democracies refused to participate at the 20th anniversary commemoration of the Durban Conference.    Now, at the 25-year commemoration, a record 48 countries boycotted the event that became synonymous with anti-Israel hate.   Thank you to all who supported our campaign and signed our petition to world leaders.   We salute all governments who stayed away and showed moral courage: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Fiji, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Samoa, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Sudan, Spain, Sweden, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela.

U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Hamas’ de facto spokesperson, calls for weapons embargo against Ukraine, which would leave it defenseless in face of Russian aggression. Then when she tried to whitewash her record in trying to disarm Ukraine, we got her Community-Noted.   Shame on Amnesty for honoring Albanese as its 2026 keynote speaker. Shame on Reuters, Politico and NYT for glorifying her.    And shame on @antonioguterres for refusing to act.

🔥 International lawyer Natasha Hausdorff rips into Macron, Burnham, Sánchez, Wong, and Erdoğan for their lies and hypocrisy on Israel. World leaders used the UN podium to put Israel on trial. UN Watch brought brave British barrister Hausdorff to put their claims on trial.

This time, 50 years later, the Israeli passengers pulled off their own Entebbe rescue — in the air.

Meet Tom Fletcher: Oxford graduate, adviser to Gordon Brown and David Cameron, British ambassador to Lebanon, now bowing before a mass murderer.   On September 26, the UN humanitarian chief bowed to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi while in New York for the annual session of the UN General Assembly. This comes after the regime massacred tens of thousands of protesters in January.    Over the last year, the U.S. has generously donated $3.8 billion in humanitarian aid to OCHA, trusting Fletcher to distribute the money. But it’s clearly time for the United Nations to fire and replace him — or risk losing the confidence of the American people.   Swipe to see Fletcher’s history of echoing Iranian regime talking points against the US and Israel and siding with repressive regimes ➡️

SHAME: Former British diplomat @tomfletcher1874 Tom Fletcher, now head of the UN’s relief agency, bows to Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi whose regime just massacred tens of thousands of protesters in January. Fletcher often echoed Iranian regime talking points against the US and Israel.