Open Letter to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Our Report on Apartheid in Israel
NOVANEWS
Instead of responding to it with constructive criticism, you launched defamatory attacks on all involved.
By Richard Falk and Virginia Tilley
APRIL 25, 2017
Ambassador to the United Nations NIkki Haley speaks at the AIPAC conference in Washington, DC, March 27, 2017. (Reuters / Joshua Roberts)
Dear Madam Ambassador:
We were deeply disappointed by your response to our report, Israeli Practices Toward the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid, and particularly your dismissal of it as “anti-Israeli propaganda” within hours of its release. The UN Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) invited us to undertake a fully researched scholarly study. Its principal purpose was to ascertain whether Israeli policies and practices imposed on the Palestinian people...