We conducted an in-depth interview with a former senior United Nations official in New York who discusses his decision to resign after publicly accusing the United Nations of failing to adequately address events in Gaza, which he called “manual genocide.” designated. . Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and was long-time director of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York. His resignation letter went viral. In one of his first interviews since leaving office, Mokhiber told Democracy Now! That the United Nations follows “different rules” in dealing with violations of international law by Israel than in other cases and refuses to implement the action mechanisms at its disposal, which “effectively” act as a “smoke screen behind which the dispossession of the people “The situation of the Palestinian people is deepening and deteriorating.” Mokhiber points out that “in the corridors of the United Nations it is accepted as an open secret that the so-called two-state solution is in fact impossible,” and calls for the international community to commit to introducing a “new paradigm” in the region based on “equality for all”. Mokhiber also analyzes, among other things, the inaction of the International Criminal Court and the censorship exerted on pro-Palestine activism at the global level, with malicious accusations of anti-Semitism.
To watch the full interview in English, click here.