{"id":4209,"date":"2017-03-18T22:45:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2017-03-18T23:28:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T22:28:28","slug":"senior-u-n-official-quits-after-anti-israel-report-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/senior-u-n-official-quits-after-anti-israel-report-pulled\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior U.N. official quits after anti-Israel report pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York – Leading UN official resigns after secretary-general makes her withdraw report accusing Israel of \u2018apartheid\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UN Under-Secretary-General Rima Khalaf resigned from her post on Friday after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres forced her to withdraw a report accusing Israel of imposing an \u201capartheid\u201d regime. <\/p>\n

A Wednesday report commissioned by the UN\u2019s Beirut-based Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) asserted that Israel had \u201cestablished an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole\u201d.<\/p>\n

The report went on to point to \u201coverwhelming evidence\u201d that Israel had committed the \u201ccrime of apartheid\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the same day as the report\u2019s release, Khalaf — who also serves as ESCWA\u2019s executive secretary — said the \u201cignorance of the international community\u201d in recent decades had \u201cencouraged Israel to continue its abuses of international law\u201d.<\/p>\n

The ESCWA report was prepared by Richard Falk, an expert in international law and a former UN human rights rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, and Virginia Tilley, a political science professor and expert in Israeli affairs.<\/p>\n

Established in 1973 to promote economic and social development among member states, ESCWA is currently comprised of 18 Arab nations.\/World Bulletin\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York – Leading UN official resigns after secretary-general makes her withdraw report accusing Israel of \u2018apartheid\u2019. UN Under-Secretary-General Rima Khalaf resigned from her post on Friday after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres forced her to withdraw a report accusing Israel of imposing an \u201capartheid\u201d regime. A Wednesday report commissioned by the UN\u2019s Beirut-based Economic and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[189,656,212],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-israel","tag-rima-khalaf","tag-un"],"views":652,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}