The Director of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is resigning in protest over the UN’s failure to stand up to Israel’s “textbook case of genocide” in Gaza.
“The European ethno-nationalist, settler-colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase”, wrote the top UN official in a scathing resignation letter.
Mokhiber said the UN has “surrendered” to US interests and the “fear of the Israel lobby”, while describing Western countries not as “credible mediators” but as “active parties” in the war against Gaza.
He went on to slam “western corporate media”, for parroting its governments’ propaganda and the dehumanization of Palestinians “to facilitate the genocide” which he warned was an “open breach of Article 20 of the ICCPR.”
Mokhiber listed a 10-point plan the UN must implement, including “fighting apartheid” and for a one-state solution aimed at a “single, democratic, secular state in all of historic Palestine.”