The woman heading the United Nations inquiry into last spring's Hamas-Israel flare-up was accused this week of making prejudicial statements and was asked to recuse herself in a legal brief filed with the world body by UN Watch.
"According to the 30-page complaint submitted today by UN Watch, Navi Pillay, a retired South African judge and former UN human rights chief, violated UN rules by failing to disclose numerous of her prior statements that directly prejudge the matters before the inquiry," UN Watch said in a statement. The watchdog went on to give examples of the alleged prejudicial statements.
"In a June 14, 2021 joint letter to US President Joe Biden, Pillay decried Israel's 'domination and oppression of the Palestinian people,' calling on the US to 'address the root causes of the violence' by ending Israel's 'ever-expanding discrimination and systemic oppression," wrote the organization.
In June 2020 "Navi Pillay signed a petition, organized by the South African Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (SA BDS) Coalition, entitled 'Sanction Apartheid Israel!'," UN Watch said, also stressing that in November 2017 she said, "Apartheid is now being declared a crime against humanity in the Rome Statute, and it means the enforced segregation of people on racial lines, and that is what is happening in Israel."
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