As UN Guterres
Spins Terror Role of UNRWA Taps
Colonna to Cover up as Ian
Phillips Lies
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Feb 5 – For weeks Inner City
Press has asked the UN and its
media people, including
Stephane Dujarric and News and
Media chief Ian Phillips,
about evidence that UNRWA
workers took part in the
October 7 attacks. No answers
at all - censorship.
Now after SG
Antonio Guterres' belated and
begrudging acknowledgment, the
UN assigned its OIOS to cover
up, as it has done before, see
here.
Then to complete
the cover up, Guterres named
Colonna. Inner City Press
immediately in writing asked
his spokesperson: "state
how SG
Guterres
selected
Catherine
Colonna, the
former
Minister of
Foreign
Affairs of
France, who
will work with
three research
organizations:
the Raoul
Wallenberg
Institute in
Sweden, the
Chr. Michelsen
Institute in
Norway, and
the Danish
Institute for
Human Rights -
and summarize
/ provide
copies of all
communications
with these on
this topic
(UNRWA) before
SG Guterres
selected them." No answer,
and no
one they let
in asked.
Tellingly, even
of Guterres cries poor to 35
member states, UNRWA is still
hiring, with applications for
post until through Feb 7,
posted five days ago. No
answers.
Does the UN
corrupt everyone that goes to
work for it?
Given the
inflated salaries it pays its
officials, the UN can collect
and try to buttress its
credibility with for example
name-brand journalists. But
what freedoms do they give up,
and how low do they
go?
In 2023 the UN
hired Ian Phillips, once the
Associated Press' head of (get
this) journalist safety. His
LinkedIn profile,
after moving to the UN, states
that his "role includes
advisory and policy work, with
particular focus on press
freedom."
So Inner City
Press, having been roughed up
by UN Security and then banned
from entering or getting even
its written questions asked,
last week wrote to Ian
Phillips at the UN - and
through his LinkedIn profile:
Hello Mr.
Phillips. I am asking you to
look into this and ensure that
the UN Media and Accreditation
Unit fairly process, and rule
on, my pending application
for (re)
accreditation. Two
separate law firms have
written the UN pro bono on my
behalf, without answer."
No
answer at all.
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