Barry O’Halloran
Spiked. Feb. 11, 2025
“Internally, Nderitu was coming under fire from UN staffers for refusing to go along with the anti-Israel consensus. Externally, pressure was also mounting on her to conform to the genocide-in-Gaza narrative.”
Alice Nderitu, a special adviser on genocide, was sacked for refusing to lie about the war in Gaza.
The United Nations – unlike the US, the EU, the UK and other Western states – does not consider Hamas to be a terrorist organisation. This was true before the Hamas invasion and massacre on 7 October 2023. And it has remained true in the months that have followed.
In February 2024, Martin Griffiths, a British diplomat then serving as UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, explained the UN’s position in the starkest of terms: ‘Hamas is not a terrorist group for us’, he told Sky News, ‘it is a political movement’. He gave that interview just four months after Hamas had slaughtered, raped, kidnapped and literally terrorised Jewish men and women in southern Israel.
The recent sacking of a senior UN official provides further evidence of the organisation’s warped perspective. Alice Nderitu is a longtime human-rights advocate involved in conflict resolution in many different parts of the world. In November 2020, she arrived at the UN headquarters in New York, from her native Kenya, to take up her new role as the UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide. ...SOURCE