Craig Mokhiber, a director of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, has resigned from his position. In his resignation letter, he strongly criticized the United Nations, the United States, and Western media companies for their positions on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. He described the situation as a “text-book case of genocide” and expressed frustration that the international community appeared powerless to stop it.
Mokhiber’s letter pointed to what he viewed as the wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, which he attributed to an ethno-nationalist colonial settler ideology and decades of systematic persecution based on their Arab ethnicity. He also criticized explicit statements of intent by leaders in the Israeli government and military.
Additionally, Mokhiber proposed a 10-point plan for the United Nations, which included abandoning the two-state solution, acknowledging Israel’s efforts to colonize and dispossess an indigenous population based on ethnicity, addressing apartheid, supporting the return and compensation of displaced Palestinians, conducting a full-scale U.N. investigation, issuing a “protection force” for Palestinians, and calling for the disarmament of Israel, including its nuclear capabilities. He also called for an end to the influence of Israel lobbyists on UN leaders and advocated for a single, secular democratic state to replace the two-state solution.
Mokhiber further criticized the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe for their complicity in what he considered a horrific assault. He accused these governments of failing to uphold their treaty obligations under the Geneva Conventions and instead arming and providing support to Israel, which, in his view, contributed to the suffering of thousands of innocent civilians and refugees.
