UN Authority Figures

Special Rapporteur on the right to food: Hilal Elver



On May 8, 2014 the wife of notorious antisemite Richard Falk and his close professional
"collaborator" Hilal Elver (pictured), was officially appointed by the UN Human Rights
Council to be the new UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

Rapporteur's mandate:
"General principles of conduct
Mandate-holders are independent United Nations experts. While discharging their mandate, they shall...Act in an independent capacity, and exercise their functions in accordance with their mandate, through a professional, impartial assessment of facts...Uphold the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity, meaning, in particular, though not exclusively, probity, impartiality, equity, honesty and good faith...
Private opinions and the public nature of the mandate
Mandate-holders shall:...ensure that their personal political opinions are without prejudice to the execution of their mission, and base their conclusions and recommendations on objective assessments of human rights situations". (Human Rights Council Resolution 5/2 Code of Conduct for Special Procedures Mandate-holders of the Human Rights Council, June 18, 2007)

Term of office: May 8, 2014-2020

Hilal Elver's record on "impartiality, objectivity, probity, professionalism":
  • "The working of the JWC (Israel-Palestine Joint Water Committee) has been criticised by several water policy experts, as "domination dressed up as cooperation", a "pretence of cooperation", and even as "water apartheid". ... the World Bank preferred to overlook this detrimental feature and celebrate a new project in a region where water injustice and apartheid are so visible and widely known." (Celebrating water cooperation: Red Sea to Dead Sea, by Hilal Elver, January 24, 2014, Al-Jazeera)

  • "...The strong Zionist lobby in the United States influences American foreign policy in the Middle East...
    Muslims organizations are being controlled, attacked, and diminished in the American political arena by pro-Israel lobbyist groups... there is an "orchestrated drive" behind the scenes that began in the middle of the 2000s, in Brooklyn "in the office of a little-known lawyer,...a Hasidic Jew...[A]nti-Islam sentiment goes hand in hand with conservative right-wing organizations and extreme Zionist groups, just like what happened in the pre-9/11 era in the United States." (Racializing Islam Before and After 9/11: From Melting Pot to Islamophobia, by Hilal Elver, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 21:119, Spring 2012)

  • "Over the years... Muslims encountered even greater rejection as a result of American foreign policy in the Middle East, especially in response to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Islamic Revolution in Iran. The 1980s saw an increase in discrimination against Muslim Americans with the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab propaganda carefully designed by right-wing religious groups and a powerful pro-Israel lobby...[T]he main person behind this campaign against Shariah law is a Hassidic Israeli lawyer who moved to the United States after 9/11 to carry on a fight against Muslims in America. He may be worried that Muslim Americans will gain so much power in the country as to neutralize the Jewish lobby, which has very effectively and for years been manipulating American politics in a bid to ensure unlimited support for Israel." (10 years after 9/11: Islamophobia in the West, by Hilal Elver, Today's Zaman, September 11, 2011)

  • In 2007, in a paper Elver co-authored with husband Richard Falk, she accused Israel of "genocide" and compared Israelis to "Nazis."

  • 9/11 conspiracy book author thanks Hilal Elver, and husband Richard Falk, in his acknowledgments. "ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In writing this book, I received an enormous amount of help and support... including ... Hilal Elver, Richard Falk." (The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11, by David Ray Griffin, 2004, Olive Press Branch)