In New York City, Craig Mokhiber, the director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights and longtime human rights lawyer, stepped down in protest over the U.N.’s failure to stop the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, which he called a \u201ctext-book case of genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe 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 \u2026 leaves no room for doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mokhiber said: \u201cThis is text book case of genocide\u201d and said the United States, UK and much of Europe were not only \u201crefusing to meet their treaty obligations\u201d under the Geneva Conventions but were also arming Israel\u2019s assault and providing political and diplomatic cover for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe must support the establishment of a single, democratic secular state in all of historic Palestine, with equal rights for Christians, Muslims, and Jews,\u201d he wrote, adding: \u201cand, therefore, the dismantling of the deeply racist, settler-colonial project and an end to apartheid across the land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mokhiber has worked for the UN since 1992, serving in a number of increasingly prominent roles. He led the high commissioner\u2019s work on devising a human rights-based approach to development, and acted as a senior human rights adviser in Palestine, Afghanistan and Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A lawyer who specialises in international human rights law, he lived in Gaza in the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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