U.N. Official Quits after Being Asked to Withdraw 'Israel Apartheid' Report

[TomSea]

U.N. Official Quits after Being Asked to Withdraw 'Israel Apartheid' Report

U.N. official Rima Khalaf announced her resignation on Friday, saying the secretary general had asked her to withdraw a report in which she accused Israel of being an "apartheid state."

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres accepted the resignation of Khalaf, a Jordanian national, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York, while denying that the secretary general had acted under U.S. pressure.

Khalaf, under-secretary general and executive secretary at the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), told a news conference: "The secretary general asked me yesterday morning to withdraw (the report).

"I asked him to rethink his decision, he insisted, so I submitted my resignation from the U.N.

Continued: http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/227139-u-n-official-quits-after-being-asked-to-withdraw-israel-apartheid-report

Wiki bio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima_Khalaf

[TomSea]

The secretary-general of the United Nations on Friday requested the removal of an inflammatory report on Israel, which was co-authored by a discredited former UN official on behalf of an agency representing Arab nations, The Times of Israel reported.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for the report — compiled by Richard Falk, who has repeatedly suggested that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. government, and Virginia Tilley, a political scientist who authored a book in favor of the one-state solution — to be removed from the website of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The agency, which is made up of 18 Arab countries, claimed that its report was the first by a UN body accusing Israel of practicing apartheid.

More: http://www.thetower.org/4739-un-chief-demands-removal-of-anti-israel-report-by-discredited-official/

Wow, that report was authored by what sounds like a "truther".

[Fishrrman]

From the article:
Khalaf, under-secretary general and executive secretary at the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), told a news conference: "The secretary general asked me yesterday morning to withdraw (the report).
"I asked him to rethink his decision, he insisted, so I submitted my resignation from the U.N."

Good.
Now put her a@@ on a plane and get her out of the country and back to where she came from.