UN official blames Paris attack on West and 'Israeli settlers'

The UN Watch watchdog group on Wednesday called on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and the UN ambassadors of the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, to condemn a UN Human Rights Council official for claiming that last month’s Paris attacks were caused by the United States, Western colonialism, capitalism, and “Israeli settlers”.

The allegations by Alfred de Zayas, the UNHRC’s Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, were made in an essay last month which UN Watch described as “offensive and morally perverse”.