A high-ranking United Nations official has retired after calling for a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. In his letter, the official wrote on what he called \u2018essential points\u2019 regarding the war between Israel and Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n
In what was described as his \u2018last official communication\u2019 as the director of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Craig Mokhiber sent an Oct. 28 letter to Volker T\u00fcrk of Austria, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, detailing what he believes a \u2018U.N.-norm-based position\u2019 on the war would look like.<\/p>\n
In what critics are calling comments devoid of historic fact, Mokhiber called for a one-state solution, which could mean the end of the Jewish state.<\/p>\n
\u2018We must support the establishment of a single, democratic, secular state in all of historic Palestine, with equal rights for Christians, Muslims and Jews, and, therefore, the dismantling of the deeply racist, settler-colonial project and an end to apartheid across the land,\u2019 Mokhiber stated.<\/p>\n
\u2018Mokhiber wrote this letter as one of the U.N.\u2019s highest ranking \u2018human rights\u2019 officials, on U.N. letterhead, with a U.N. email address,\u2019 professor Anne Bayefsky, the director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, told Fox News Digital. \u2018As such, his overt call for the destruction of the Jewish state lays bare what is really going on at the U.N. in the war now being waged by and at the U.N. against Israel.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018Listen to Mokhiber\u2019s chilling words. Yes, Israel is engaged in an existential fight. At the U.N., there are human rights for everyone but Jews, who are supposed to lay down their arms in the face of a genocidal enemy currently enslaving their people. Mokhiber\u2019s phony \u2018human rights\u2019 cover is extremely disturbing. He says equality means 21 Arab states, 56 Islamic states and zero Jewish states. That\u2019s antisemitism dressed up as human rights,\u2019 Bayefsky added.<\/p>\n
Just last week, Israel\u2019s U.N. ambassador, Gilad Erdan, called for the secretary-general\u2019s resignation following a speech on the issue. Antonio Guterres said Hamas\u2019 attacks \u2018did not happen in a vacuum,\u2019 and the \u2018Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.\u2019 Erdan called Guterres\u2019 words a \u2018pure blood libel.\u2019<\/p>\n
Guterres responded to the criticism against him, saying, \u2018I am shocked by the misrepresentations by some of my statements yesterday in the Security Council. As if \u2026 I was justifying acts of terror by Hamas. This is false. It was the opposite.\u2019<\/p>\n
The U.N. has long faced accusations by critics of antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred.<\/p>\n
Mokhiber\u2019s letter also took aim at the U.S. and Western allies.<\/p>\n
\u2018This is a text-book case of genocide,\u2019 he wrote. \u2018The 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. What\u2019s more, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and much of Europe, are wholly complicit in the horrific assault. Not only are these governments refusing to meet their treaty obligations \u2018to ensure respect\u2019 for the Geneva Conventions, but they are in fact actively arming the assault, providing economic and intelligence support, and giving political and diplomatic cover for Israel\u2019s atrocities.\u2019<\/p>\n
In a statement to Fox News, the Office of Human Rights said, \u2018Mr. Mokhiber retires today. The views in his letter are his personal views. The position of the Office is reflected in its public reporting and statements.\u2019<\/p>\n
Bayefsky noted that, \u2018If he indeed suddenly \u2018retired,\u2019 instead of immediately being fired, it means the U.N. has made some kind of deal to save his pension. A new outrage \u2013 and one that leaves U.S. taxpayers on the hook.\u2019<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the U.N. secretary-general did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment on whether Mokhiber\u2019s comments were representative of the U.N. as a whole or whether they are sentiments shared by Guterres.<\/p>\n
Fox News\u2019 Benjamin Weinthal and Courtney De George contributed to this article.<\/p>\n