The UN Watch NGO revealed on Thursday that the UN Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) vetting committee has shortlisted a UK professor for a six-year term as the world body's investigator of "Israel's violations," even though she campaigns for the boycott of what she calls "apartheid Israel" and a "criminal government."
The professor in question is Penny Green, who would be replacing Makarim Wibisono, the former Indonesian diplomat who announced that he will step down at the end of March, after serving less than two years in his position as “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.”
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