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Israelis lean on UN to silence official’s criticisms
Respected Jordanian humanitarian accused of anti-semitism

by Our Foreign Desk

ISRAEL is pressuring the UN to sack a senior official who criticised the effectively exclusively Jewish state for racism and flouting international law.

The row started late last month when Tel Aviv’s UN ambassador Ron Prosor demanded disciplinary action against the UN’s economic and social commission for western Asia (ESCWA) executive secretary Rima Khalaf.

  • UN under-secretary-general for political affairs Jeffrey Feltman warned the security council on Wednesday that the risk of escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was “palpable” in the wake of attacks by Jewish settler extremists and rocket attacks from rogue militants in Gaza.
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