Badawi Tweet Update: UN Official Visits Israel
May 16, 2012 11:53 by Simon Plosker
It’s been two months since HonestReporting exposed “false photo tweeter” Khulood Badawi and the case continues to drag on. We delivered 15,000 signatures demanding the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) fire Badawi. Having promised to investigate, is the UN finally moving slowly through the gears?
The Jerusalem Post reports:
A small group of people demonstrated in front of a UN office in Jerusalem Tuesday in support of a worker who used her Twitter account to send an incendiary message against Israel when rockets were falling on the South in March.
The gathering took place at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) during a visit here by a senior UN official, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Catherine Bragg.
Bragg came to examine both OCHA’s work here and the fallout from the tweeting incident. …
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor expressed outrage at Badawi’s conduct, and called for her dismissal in a letter at the time to the Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos.
The UN, however, also came under pressure from Arab and Palestinian circles not to fire the worker.
Bragg, who arrived in the country Sunday and left Tuesday, is Amos’s deputy. She did not meet with Foreign Ministry officials during her visit, and Jerusalem is still waiting to hear from OCHA about how it intends to deal with the affair.
They’re not the only ones still waiting.
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Caroline
7:11 pm
Jun 19, 2012
“We delivered 15,000 signatures demanding the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) fire Badawi.”
I heard that 22,000 people signed another petition demanding the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) refrain from caving in to pressure from right wing lobbies in Israel.
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Kyra Ann Parker Nelson
2:50 am
May 17, 2012
It is anti-semitism. Annie
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Yair
11:39 am
May 17, 2012
What Arab and Palestinian circles, specifically? They openly support lying to hurt Israel and need to be named so it can be held against them.
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Daniel
10:54 am
May 18, 2012
How typical
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Louisa
7:19 pm
May 18, 2012
If the UN keeps her employed and undisciplined, it is positive proof, once and for all, that the UN fails to be an objective body and makes it very clear to the world that their presence is a total waste of space.
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jeb stuart
4:02 pm
May 19, 2012
Harvard the richest University in the world hosted a one-sided attack on Israel, in which hoaxters like Finklestein were featured guest speakers their intent to impose a one-state solution on Israel. But it had the feature of over exposing the PA, Hamas and all Palestinian efforts to force a Right of Return to politically undo the Jewish Homeland. What is becoming more apparent is that the intent of Palestinian state hood is to impose sharia Law where it does not exists and other freer “western” forms of representation do exist. The Islamists feel no compunction to tell truth instead of lies to achieve their end goal and bprobably believe it is a blessing confoming with taqiyyah, the right to decieve to achieve the greaqter good of a world that is totally embossed by Islamic virtues to include the enslavement of all non-professing or submissive Muslims. Moderation is not an option.
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Len Kurtz
9:54 pm
Jun 22, 2012
So what did she do wrong? She only hates Jews.
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anya
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Feb 09, 2013
finally, she is gone
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