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Source: http://www.unwatch.org/speeches/UNWatchFilesProceedingsToRemoveSpecialRapporteurJeanZiegler.html
UN Official Abuses Mandate
(UN Watch) United Nations Watch has submitted evidence to the UN Commission on Human Rights showing that Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, has repeatedly abused his mandate by unfairly singling out Israel for condemnation on matters not concerning food, and has requested he be replaced. Ziegler has undertaken a series of actions that evince a pattern of selective treatment of Israel, singled out for condemnation as a Nazi-like state that commits "state terror" and "war crimes." On May 28, 2004, Ziegler sent a letter on official UN stationery to Caterpillar demanding that it boycott the Jewish state. Earlier in the year Ziegler wrote to the EU demanding it break its trade agreement with Israel. "It is tragic that the Special Rapporteur on food is diverting his resources and the world's attention from our planet's genuine food emergencies - such as Burundi, Liberia, or Sierra Leone - to pursue his own narrow political agenda," said UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer.