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Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary General António Guterres, said that Mokhiber is retiring on November 1 and the content of the letter, which has made the rounds in the human rights community, “are his views” and not of the UN OHCHR. While Mokhiber has not publicly released a statement, he responded to a post on X to academic Anne Bayefsky’s criticism of his letter as anti-semitic, saying “I will continue to stand with the millions of Jews, Muslims, Christians and others who are rejecting this kind of tired old nonsense and standing up for human rights for all,” he posted on October 31.
The UN’s predecessor, the League of Nations, put Palestine under British Mandate after World War II. The Mandate System is a mechanism by which Allied powers are given the right to govern previously colonized lands until such time they can govern themselves. This paved the way for Britain to help in creating aThe Mandate System has been heavily criticized for being colonial itself, despite its expressed intentions to decolonize.
He laid out a 10-point action plan, one of which is to “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.”