Director in the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Craig Mokhiber resigned Tuesday in protest, expressing concerns about the response of certain parts of the UN system to issues related to Palestinian Human Rights.
A United Nations Human Rights New York office director has resigned in protest of the UN’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war – after calling attacks on Gaza ‘a text-book case of genocide.’
Craig Mokhiber, Director in the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, resigned in a contentious four-page letter to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk.
In his resignation letter, Mokhiber wrote, ‘This is a textbook case of genocide. The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase, toward the expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life in Palestine.’
