Genocide against the Palestinians – Craig Mokhiber steps down
by Alfred de Zayas, Geneva
(1 November 2023) Craig Mokhiber has the courage that every international civil servant should have. He has stepped down from his post as Chief of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in protest against the failure of the United Nations to stop the genocide being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians.
I have known Craig since 1992 and consider him a friend, an intellectually honest, constructive and optimistic UN official, a model for others. But there are times when officials have to step down, because the Organization has allowed itself to be hijacked.
Two other friends stepped down from their Assistant-Secretary-General posts in the 1990’s — Denis Halliday and Hans Christoph von Sponeck — because of the complicity of the United Nations in the US- led genocide of Iraq pursuant to thoroughly criminal “sanctions” that killed over a million human beings.
| * Alfred de Zayas is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a UN Independent Expert on International Order 2012-18. He is the author of ten books including “Building a Just World Order” Clarity Press, 2021. |
Source: https://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/genocide-against-the-palestinians-craig-mokhiber-steps-down/, 1 November 2023
