Ed Pilkington – The Guardian Oct 31, 2023
The director of the New York office of the UN high commissioner for human rights has left his post, protesting that the UN is “failing” in its duty to prevent what he categorizes as genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza under Israeli bombardment and citing the US, UK and much of Europe as “wholly complicit in the horrific assault”.
Craig Mokhiber wrote on 28 October to the UN high commissioner in Geneva, Volker Turk, saying: “This will be my last communication to you” in his role in New York.
Mokhiber, who was stepping down having reached retirement age, wrote: “Once again we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes and the organization we serve appears powerless to stop it.”
He said that the UN had failed to prevent previous genocides against the Tutsis in Rwanda, Muslims in Bosnia, the Yazidi in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Rohingya in Myanmar and wrote: “High Commissioner we are failing again.
“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist colonial settler ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs … leaves no room for doubt.”
Mokhiber added: “This is text book case of genocide” and said the US, UK and much of Europe were not only “refusing to meet their treaty obligations” under the Geneva Conventions but were also arming Israel’s assault and providing political and diplomatic cover for it.
The outgoing director’s departure letter did not mention the 7 October attack by Hamas on southern Israel killing more than 1,400 people and taking 240 hostages. Even more contentiously, his letter calls for the effective end to the state of Israel.
“We must support the establishment of a single, democratic secular state in all of historic Palestine, with equal rights for Christians, Muslims, and Jews,” he wrote, adding: “and, therefore, the dismantling of the deeply racist, settler-colonial project and an end to apartheid across the land.”
Mokhiber has worked for the UN since 1992, serving in a number of increasingly prominent roles. He led the high commissioner’s work on devising a human rights-based approach to development, and acted as a senior human rights adviser in Palestine, Afghanistan and Sudan.
A lawyer who specialises in international human rights law, he lived in Gaza in the 1990s.
In his role as director of the New York office of the high commissioner for human rights, he has come under occasional fire from pro-Israeli groups for his comments on social media. He was criticised for posting support of the boycott, divest, sanctions (BDS) movement and accusing Israel of apartheid – an accusation which he repeated in his retirement letter.
Journalists and academics began posting the letter’s content to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday afternoon.
A spokesperson for the UN in New York sent the Guardian a statement about Mokhiber, saying: “I can confirm that he is retiring today. He informed the UN in March 2023 of his upcoming retirement, which takes effect tomorrow. The views in his letter made public today are his personal views.”
The statement went on: “The position of the office on the grave situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel is reflected in our reports and public statements.”
Reaction to Mokhiber’s outspoken departure from such a prominent UN position was mixed. Louis Charbonneau, the UN director at Human Rights Watch, told the Guardian that he had made a powerful argument against double standards in the stance of the world body.
“You don’t have to agree with everything in the letter to see that he’s made a powerful and depressing case that the UN lost its way on human rights when it comes to Israel and Palestine, partly due to pressure from the US, Israel and other governments. It’s not too late to turn the UN ship around, but they need to do it quickly.”
By contrast, Anne Bayefsky, who directs Touro College’s Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust in New York, accused Mokhiber on social media of “overt antisemitism”. She said he had used a UN letterhead to call for “wiping Israel off the map”.
The silver lining of the scamdemic was the way it focused our attention on the germ versus terrain question of disease. It also caused some of us to look hard at vaccination. But maybe what helped to cause this interest was the obvious machinations of the mainstream media. And as always, when cognitive dissonance becomes evident, another nail is driven in the coffin of the BBC’s credibility.
WRT to Palestine, hypocrisy is of course always present:
“David Bernstein condemns slow response to Israel terror attacks… and reveals he is ‘shocked and hurt’ by its delay to light up Wembley arch as show of support…”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67084936
Meanwhile, someone on the other side of the argument has to grovel:
“Hamza Choudhury: Leicester player ‘sorry for offence’ caused by pro-Palestinian post”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67261620
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In this age of the internet, all the psychopathy is increasingly coming under the microscope. I’m sure more people will be examining the colonisation of Palestine like never before. My take is that WWIII is page 3 for the click baiters. More ethnic cleansing will come about, the MSM will herald a breakthrough in negotiations where “both sides come to the table”, but where Palestinians have less. Then in a few years’ time we can expect more of the same.
No doubt TPTB will be cooking up other stuff in order to distract us. I always remember thinking it strange Israel invaded Lebanon during the Falklands War. Was the Falklands War just a smokescreen? This is just pure speculation on my part. The action in the South Atlantic was coming to a head just as it kicked off in the Middle East.
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And speaking of the internet. As anyone here experienced outages from their internet provider lately? We know this has been mooted by TPTB… I have had two brief periods of the internet being down after midnight very recently…
Does anyone with computer savvy have any opinion on the possibility/likelihood of the internet being crashed on a major scale? How feasible is it? How would they do it?
The relationship between Israel and the UN is a curious one. I have suggested that the UN may have been set up to eventually fail, and that TPTB seek to contrive rule from Jerusalem based on the “long suffering” and “wisdom” of the Jews; that the UN will necessarily be found to be wanting on the Middle East and also culpable on the death jab and scamdemic.
(I note in passing the Twin Towers was replaced by the “One World Trade Center”. The UN building was sighted on a Rockefeller donation, and the original WTC was spearheaded by David Rockefeller. I have noted in other posts the friction/dialectic that potentially exists between Rothschilds and their robber baron proteges, the Rockefellers…)
(I stumbled over the following biblical quotation when looking at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT189ZTd04g “Failed Apocalyptic Messiah 200 Years BEFORE Jesus” )
Isiah 2,4:
“…and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
This is a famous passage. Who could possibly criticise this? Indeed , these words are inscribed on the wall of the UN:
https://cojs.org/the_isaiah_wall_at_the_united_nations-_new_york/
The problem is Isiah 2,3 that precedes it. We find what the price of peace is:
“And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
Let me be even clearer:
FOR OUT OF ZION SHALL GO FORTH THE LAW, AND THE WORD OF THE LORD FROM JERUSALEM
Should read:
“The UN building was sited on a Rockefeller donation…”
NOT
“The UN building was sighted on a Rockefeller donation…”
“…genocide of Palestinian civilians in Gaza under Israeli bombardment and citing the US, UK and much of Europe as “wholly complicit in the horrific assault”..
You just KNEW that it wouldn’t be “a show” without ZOGUK clinging for dear life to Uncle Shlomo’s coat-tails.. hoping to get “a piece of the action”… DIDN’T YOU???
After all, just like with Iraq, there can always be a Parliamentary”Enquiry” – AFTER the Palestinians have been wiped-out!! – with a grudging admisssion that maybe “mistakes were made”… to salve the conscience of any THICK Brit that might even think of going against the (((offically approved))) narrative…
“antisemitismus” is the only argument thausendfold
repeated by this hundreds of parasitical jewish organisations.
and “holocaust” are their only replyes to hide their crimes
against worldpopulation .
Astronomers say that probably a billion planets have life on them, but Jews have found that all that life is antisemitic and very disappointing