| 1 | Oct 15, '23 | When I tell people children are being slaughtered, and they want to know which children before moving into outrage mode or justification mode - that mentality, that conditional hum | 177× | 1.6M | 26k | 5.9k | 444 |
| 2 | Oct 22, '23 | If you only care about war crimes when your enemies commit them, then you don't really care about war crimes. | 44.2× | 394k | 5k | 1.7k | 147 |
| 3 | Jan 27, '23 | The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words. #HolocaustMemorialDay | 24.3× | 217k | 3.3k | 932 | 56 |
| 4 | Jan 28, '17 | How about injecting some facts into the discussion? | 21.4× | 0 | 26k | 24k | 4 |
| 5 | Nov 28, '21 | If being asked to wear a mask in some places during a global pandemic is really the greatest "oppression" you've ever faced in your life, you seriously do not know how charmed a li | 16.6× | 0 | 43k | 8.1k | 257 |
| 6 | Dec 2, '22 | The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words. | 16.3× | 0 | 40k | 8.5k | 259 |
| 7 | May 20, '24 | How can a prime minister not understand that “but they started it” is not a legitimate justification for committing atrocities? | 16.1× | 143k | 3k | 588 | 64 |
| 8 | Aug 19, '17 | Auschwitz personnel, 1942. People, not monsters, help make atrocities happen. | 15.1× | 0 | 26k | 13k | 52 |
| 9 | Nov 21, '20 | Auschwitz personnel, 1944. Ordinary people, not monsters, make atrocities happen. | 14.5× | 0 | 32k | 8.2k | 740 |
| 10 | Aug 22, '17 | New DNA evidence says Marcellus Williams is innocent. The US state of Missouri will execute him tonight anyway. | 10.9× | 0 | 6.9k | 13k | 0 |
| 11 | Jul 4, '21 | Auschwitz personnel, 1944. Ordinary people, not monsters, make atrocities happen. | 10.7× | 0 | 21k | 6.9k | 924 |
| 12 | Jan 21, '17 | Women's rights are human rights - #WomensMarch | 10.2× | 0 | 18k | 9.4k | 4 |
| 13 | Mar 18, '17 | {Spits coffee on laptop} | 8.7× | 0 | 15k | 8.1k | 1 |
| 14 | Nov 13, '18 | Everything about this is wonderful... | 8.1× | 0 | 17k | 5k | 197 |
| 15 | Nov 22, '16 | The road to authoritarianism: 1) degrade free media; 2) neuter civil society; 3) undermine rule of law; And do all this "for the people" | 8.1× | 0 | 10k | 8.4k | 35 |
| 16 | Sep 6, '16 | I know facts don't matter anymore, but still, for nostalgia's sake... | 7.2× | 0 | 8.4k | 8.1k | 0 |
| 17 | Feb 29, '20 | The wombat we all need right now. (turn the sound on & enjoy the munching) | 7.0× | 0 | 17k | 3.3k | 388 |
| 18 | May 18, '21 | If you say: “Using torture is fine, because we’re fighting terrorists.” “Killing civilians is acceptable, because we’re fighting terrorists.” “Bombing schools, hospitals & pres | 6.5× | 0 | 13k | 4.7k | 139 |
| 19 | Apr 22, '21 | 🇪🇺 Dear EU Citizens, 🇬🇧 Dear UK Citizens, 🇺🇸 Dear US Citizens, 🇦🇺 Dear Australian Citizens, Do you want a longer pandemic? No, of course not. But your governments, by block | 6.2× | 0 | 10k | 5.3k | 295 |
| 20 | Oct 7, '22 | Two decades ago, I asked Russian investigative journalist & human rights defender Anna Politkovskaya how she could keep doing what she did. For her reporting on abuses by Russi | 5.9× | 0 | 12k | 3.7k | 556 |
| 21 | Jun 29, '19 | People want to believe that only monsters commit mass abuses & atrocities. But it’s actually ordinary people, “just doing their jobs” and “just following orders”, who make horr | 5.2× | 0 | 8.5k | 4.5k | 168 |
| 22 | Oct 9, '19 | I’m not gay. I’m not Muslim. I’m not a senior. I’m not Hungarian. I’m not trans. I’m not black. I’m not a refugee. I don’t have a disability. I’m not a woman. I’m not homeless. But | 5.1× | 0 | 12k | 2.9k | 55 |
| 23 | Oct 17, '22 | 🇬🇷 The Greek government is breaking the law. 🇪🇺 The EU is going along with it. 🤔 Why? 🧵 Thread... | 4.9× | 0 | 8.4k | 3.7k | 306 |
| 24 | Oct 22, '17 | Catalonia: Our detailed investigation into 3 cases found that national police & Civil Guard used excessive force | 4.7× | 0 | 4.2k | 6.1k | 1 |
| 25 | May 15, '18 | If you say: “Using torture is fine, because we’re fighting terrorists.” “Killing civilians is acceptable, because we’re fighting terrorists.” “Bombing hospitals is allowed, because | 4.6× | 0 | 8.9k | 3.7k | 15 |
| 26 | Apr 3, '17 | Hate them. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them. Hate them. Wait, why are you attacking them in the streets? | 4.5× | 0 | 5.4k | 5.3k | 1 |
| 27 | Feb 10, '17 | "If you think nationalism is a welcome breath of fresh air, think again: It is the road to war." - Frans Timmermans | 4.4× | 0 | 7.2k | 4.1k | 1 |
| 28 | Dec 14, '21 | Genocides do not begin with mass murder. That's where they end up. Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a p | 4.3× | 0 | 6.8k | 3.8k | 153 |
| 29 | May 26, '20 | Now I'm wondering if maybe these same people lied about brexit, too... 🤔 | 4.2× | 0 | 11k | 1.9k | 9 |
| 30 | Jul 7, '17 | El Salvador rape victim jailed for 30 yrs for stillbirth - convicted of homicide under extreme anti-abortion law | 4.1× | 0 | 2.4k | 4k | 0 |
| 31 | May 29, '21 | Genocides do not begin with mass murder. That's where they end up. Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a m | 3.5× | 0 | 6.2k | 2.7k | 127 |
| 32 | Jan 15, '21 | People frustrated with the negative sides of Twitter sometimes ask me what they can do about it. Here's a thread with some ideas. Whether you have 100 followers or a million, you c | 3.5× | 0 | 4.1k | 2.5k | 827 |
| 33 | Oct 9, '16 | A few months ago, Farage warned refugees would grope women but now when Trump does it, it's just "alpha male" normal | 3.4× | 0 | 3.9k | 3.9k | 0 |
| 34 | Aug 22, '14 | If you only care about human rights abuses when your enemies commit them, then you probably don't really care about human rights abuses. | 3.3× | 0 | 3.1k | 4.3k | 2 |
| 35 | Feb 22, '16 | Think only the "good guys" would use an iPhone back door? | 3.2× | 0 | 3.7k | 4k | 0 |
| 36 | Jul 4, '21 | Nazi horror didn’t start with genocide. It started with words... ...with the dehumanizing of minority groups... ...and the mainstream acceptance of that dehumanization. | 3.2× | 0 | 7k | 2.1k | 77 |
| 37 | Jan 21, '17 | #WomensMarch Antarctica | 3.1× | 0 | 5.2k | 2.8k | 0 |
| 38 | Aug 7, '20 | Poland's president has said that LGBT people are not human beings. The opposition showed they disagree... 🏳️🌈 | 3.1× | 0 | 7k | 1.9k | 52 |
| 39 | May 30, '18 | Now it’s porn that causes school shootings in the US? Er... I think we have porn in Europe too, and yet, no weekly school shootings... #ItsTheGunsStupid | 2.9× | 0 | 6.2k | 2k | 2 |
| 40 | Apr 12, '18 | 41% of Americans don’t know what Auschwitz was. Among those aged 18 to 34, it's two thirds. "Never knew" is replacing "never again"... | 2.9× | 0 | 2.8k | 2.7k | 20 |
| 41 | Jun 22, '22 | A judge in Brazil has refused to let an 11-year-old rape victim have an abortion — and ordered the girl to be detained to prevent her from trying to get one. This is the kind of ri | 2.8× | 0 | 4.3k | 2.3k | 106 |
| 42 | Nov 9, '16 | Today is the anniversary of Kristallnacht... And thus also the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism. | 2.7× | 0 | 2.7k | 3.1k | 1 |
| 43 | Jan 21, '21 | When a politician says something he knows is a lie, he is announcing his contempt for the general public. He’s saying he considers you so stupid that you’ll believe the lie. Cruz k | 2.5× | 0 | 5k | 1.5k | 40 |
| 44 | Jul 13, '16 | When you defend someone else's human rights, you're also defending your own. | 2.4× | 0 | 3.3k | 2.4k | 0 |
| 45 | Jan 29, '22 | Fellow English speakers: if you don’t say “the France” or “the Germany”, please stop saying, “the Ukraine”. Thanks. | 2.4× | 0 | 5.7k | 818 | 58 |
| 46 | Sep 1, '20 | New BBC boss warns comedians not to joke about the government & its signature policy of brexit, and not to mock the Tories or Trump... A chilling move to politicise entertainme | 2.3× | 0 | 2.9k | 1.7k | 69 |
| 47 | Mar 26, '20 | Some Dutch rail staff working from home... | 2.2× | 0 | 4.7k | 1.3k | 43 |
| 48 | Jun 2, '20 | The most dangerous delusion is, “it can’t happen here.” | 2.1× | 0 | 4.6k | 1.4k | 43 |
| 49 | Aug 8, '16 | What's wrong with this picture? (Hint: nothing) #Rio2016 | 2.1× | 0 | 2.5k | 2.1k | 0 |
| 50 | Aug 26, '17 | ISIS will hate this. Far-right extremists will hate this. Everyone else should applaud. | 2.1× | 0 | 3.9k | 1.8k | 0 |
| 51 | Feb 26, '17 | Oh look, another billionaire behind the "people's revolts" of Brexit & Trump... | 2.0× | 0 | 2k | 2.5k | 0 |
| 52 | Nov 14, '19 | If Trump proceeds with his plan to pump Syrian oil for US benefit, it would be the war crime of pillage under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. | 2.0× | 0 | 3.3k | 1.7k | 42 |
| 53 | Aug 13, '17 | “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” Last FB post of Heather Heyer, killed in #Charlottesville | 2.0× | 0 | 2.9k | 2.1k | 0 |
| 54 | Feb 24, '18 | Europe has: ✅ video games ✅ movies ✅ music ✅ people with mental health conditions ✅ schools ✅ unarmed teachers Europe doesn’t have: ❌ weekly school shootings #ItsTheGunsStupid | 2.0× | 0 | 3.9k | 1.6k | 0 |
| 55 | Feb 9, '19 | “Oops, I locked my keys in the apartment” is a mistake. “Sorry, I forgot our anniversary” is a huge mistake. Murdering a journalist in your consulate and hacking him to pieces with | 2.0× | 0 | 4.1k | 1.4k | 13 |
| 56 | Sep 1, '20 | Lukashenko’s security forces are no match for the women of Belarus... | 1.9× | 0 | 4k | 1.2k | 54 |
| 57 | Sep 21, '18 | When the world seems to have lost its mind, this wombat video is the only answer... | 1.9× | 0 | 3.7k | 1.3k | 86 |
| 58 | Jun 6, '20 | Quality headline. | 1.8× | 0 | 3.9k | 1.3k | 31 |
| 59 | Jan 7, '21 | If you’re storming a parliament with people wearing “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirts, you know what side you’re on... These are the faces of hatred and extremism. | 1.7× | 0 | 3.6k | 1k | 42 |
| 60 | Jun 27, '20 | Nazi horror didn’t start with Auschwitz. It started with words... ...with the dehumanizing of minority groups. Once they were seen as less than human, anything could be done to the | 1.6× | 0 | 3.2k | 1.2k | 44 |
| 61 | Aug 11, '19 | When neo-Nazis and other white supremacists on Twitter say it's unfair to call them neo-Nazis and white supremacists, even when the evidence is right there in their bio and tweets. | 1.6× | 0 | 2.6k | 1.2k | 265 |
| 62 | Jan 23, '20 | As the world marks #Auschwitz75, let's remember that the Holocaust did not appear out of thin air. It was built on hatred for "the other," politically weaponized by those seeking e | 1.6× | 0 | 3k | 1.3k | 13 |
| 63 | Feb 2, '20 | When an educated, influential person tweets something he knows is a lie, he is announcing his contempt for the general public. He’s saying he considers you so stupid that you’ll be | 1.6× | 0 | 3k | 1k | 81 |
| 64 | Nov 22, '20 | Nazi horror didn’t start with genocide. It started with words... ...with the dehumanizing of minority groups. Once they were seen as less than human, anything could be done to them | 1.6× | 0 | 3.2k | 998 | 39 |
| 65 | Apr 20, '20 | "596 dead. See page 4." | 1.5× | 0 | 3.9k | 688 | 42 |
| 66 | Jun 13, '20 | The president of Poland says #LGBT people are not human beings... His supporters chant their approval... Vile. Dangerous. | 1.5× | 0 | 2.7k | 1.2k | 41 |
| 67 | Mar 20, '21 | Genocides do not begin with mass murder. That's where they end up. Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a p | 1.5× | 0 | 2.7k | 1.1k | 47 |
| 68 | Feb 18, '18 | We have the same video games and movies in Europe. We don’t have school shootings every week like they do in the gun-flooded US. #ItsTheGunsStupid | 1.5× | 0 | 3k | 1.1k | 0 |
| 69 | Jul 4, '21 | We have to fight against dehumanization whenever we see it, even when - especially when - it seems to be coming from ordinary people in the mainstream. We have to defend everyone's | 1.4× | 0 | 3.6k | 723 | 31 |
| 70 | Dec 2, '22 | Genocides do not begin with mass murder. That's where they end up. Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a m | 1.4× | 0 | 3k | 921 | 45 |
| 71 | Oct 2, '18 | The problem with "the will of the people"... Imagine you’re in a group of ten people and 6 of them decide to kill you… Democracy doesn't work without respect for fundamental human | 1.4× | 0 | 3.3k | 830 | 19 |
| 72 | Jul 4, '21 | Once a minority group is seen as less than human, anything can be done to them. Discrimination seems "natural" - they are less than human so human rights do not apply. In time, eve | 1.4× | 0 | 3.4k | 696 | 21 |
| 73 | Jan 25, '17 | Another lie. This one's a whopper. Research says the exact opposite. More importantly, torture is illegal & immoral. #resist | 1.3× | 0 | 2.2k | 1.2k | 0 |
| 74 | Jul 4, '21 | The endless stream of books and films that present those who supported and took part in atrocities as one-dimensional beasts, as simply monsters, sheds no light on how atrocities e | 1.3× | 0 | 3.9k | 431 | 24 |
| 75 | Aug 25, '22 | We have a major new report on Russia’s war crimes of forcibly transferring Ukrainians to Russia - report coming out on 1 September. Journalists can DM me for an embargoed copy. | 1.3× | 0 | 2.9k | 736 | 60 |
| 76 | Jan 6, '21 | The most dangerous delusion is, “it can’t happen here”. | 1.3× | 0 | 2.9k | 756 | 18 |
| 77 | Apr 6, '22 | If you only care about war crimes when one side commits them, then you don't really care about war crimes, do you? | 1.3× | 0 | 2.9k | 667 | 37 |
| 78 | Feb 7, '19 | This is already a classic... | 1.2× | 0 | 2.1k | 840 | 63 |
| 79 | Jan 27, '20 | On #HolocaustMemorialDay let's remember that the Holocaust did not appear out of thin air. It was built on hatred of "the other," politically weaponized by those seeking ever more | 1.2× | 0 | 2.1k | 1k | 17 |
| 80 | Jul 4, '21 | And “it can’t happen here” is a dangerous delusion. Nazis were made, not born. I understand why people want to believe otherwise. Who wants to think such potential exists in everyo | 1.2× | 0 | 3.3k | 522 | 13 |
| 81 | Feb 27, '22 | That was quick. And good. Well done. And it proves that all the EU’s past excuses for not acting humanely towards refugees from other recent wars were just bunk. Let them never aga | 1.2× | 0 | 2.6k | 796 | 41 |
| 82 | Feb 1, '19 | If you say: “Using torture is fine, because we’re fighting terrorists.” “Killing civilians is acceptable, because we’re fighting terrorists.” “Bombing hospitals is allowed, because | 1.2× | 0 | 2.3k | 879 | 19 |
| 83 | Jun 19, '21 | If you only care about human rights abuses when your enemies commit them, then you don't really care about human rights abuses. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.5k | 742 | 27 |
| 84 | Feb 14, '20 | I’m not gay. I’m not Muslim. I’m not a senior. I’m not Czech. I’m not trans. I’m not black. I’m not a refugee. I don’t have a disability. I’m not a woman. I’m not homeless. But if | 1.1× | 0 | 2.6k | 631 | 26 |
| 85 | Jan 27, '21 | Genocides do not begin with mass murder. That's where they end up. Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a p | 1.1× | 0 | 2.5k | 696 | 43 |
| 86 | May 19, '20 | I’m not gay. I’m not Muslim. I’m not a senior. I’m not Hungarian. I’m not trans. I’m not black. I’m not a refugee. I don’t have a disability. I’m not a woman. I’m not homeless. But | 1.1× | 0 | 2.6k | 658 | 15 |
| 87 | Oct 7, '22 | Politkovskaya was poisoned on a plane in 2004. She survived the poisoning. But she was shot dead outside her apartment on this day in 2006. 3/ | 1.1× | 0 | 3k | 421 | 13 |
| 88 | Nov 10, '20 | Arguments that haven't worked for 5 years but people keep making... "He'll calm down & act normal soon." "He has to accept reality." "GOP leaders will abandon him." "His suppor | 1.0× | 0 | 2.2k | 699 | 27 |
| 89 | Oct 7, '22 | I don’t believe that human rights defenders like Politkovskaya have any desire to become martyrs. They feel taken over by the gravity of the issue and become possessed by the histo | 1.0× | 0 | 3.2k | 285 | 17 |
| 90 | Jul 2, '20 | I’m not gay. I’m not Muslim. I’m not a senior. I’m not Polish. I’m not trans. I’m not black. I’m not a refugee. I don’t have a disability. I’m not a woman. I’m not homeless. But if | 1.0× | 0 | 2.3k | 636 | 27 |
| 91 | Jan 21, '25 | Please join me elsewhere: | 1.0× | 8.9k | 33 | 17 | 2 |
| 92 | Jun 18, '19 | "Never again" does not mean, "don't say anything until there's a new Holocaust." That's leaving it far too late. "Never again" means, speak out - loudly - when you see evidence of | 1.0× | 0 | 2.1k | 689 | 5 |
| 93 | Jul 4, '21 | To stop mass atrocity crimes from happening, we have to understand this as a problem of human potential, not a problem of monsters. | 1.0× | 0 | 2.8k | 416 | 11 |
| 94 | Oct 7, '22 | We see dissidents’ bravery and vision as inspiring, but also incomprehensible. We struggle to understand what makes them choose such a dangerous path in life. But that’s just it: W | 1.0× | 0 | 2.8k | 302 | 24 |
| 95 | Jan 7, '21 | Dear America, Less "shining city on a hill" rhetoric, please... Less "beacon of democracy" chest-thumping... Less "greatest country on Earth" nonsense... How about we try some humi | 1.0× | 0 | 2.5k | 399 | 10 |
| 96 | Jan 8, '21 | Republican leaders aren't stupid. They knew that: - lying repeatedly about voter fraud would enrage people; - calling media "the enemy of the people" would lead to attacks on journ | 0.9× | 0 | 2.2k | 440 | 16 |
| 97 | Oct 7, '22 | “How can you go on with your investigations? Surely you know the military’s intimidation is not just for show, and that they may actually kill you next time, no?” “Of course,” she | 0.9× | 0 | 2.6k | 288 | 15 |
| 98 | Oct 7, '22 | Perhaps if those warnings had been heeded, tens of thousands of people would still be alive. Ten million people would not have had to flee their home. The world would not now be ta | 0.9× | 0 | 2.6k | 238 | 15 |
| 99 | Jan 9, '21 | Nikki Haley's actions will also be judged harshly by history, since she helped Trump undermine human rights worldwide when she served as his ambassador to the UN. | 0.8× | 0 | 2.1k | 383 | 11 |
| 100 | Oct 7, '22 | I can't help but think also that her murder was a warning - one of many warnings that were ignored or glossed over by the outside world. 6/ | 0.8× | 0 | 2.5k | 240 | 6 |
| 101 | Sep 5, '19 | @60Mins Um... why did you ask a notorious, hate-mongering racist for her opinion of Markle? Were you unable to Google "Hopkins", or were you desperately seeking outrage clicks on t | 0.7× | 0 | 2.2k | 111 | 3 |