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Under international law, William Schabas is obliged to recuse himself because his repeated calls to indict Israeli leaders obviously gives rise to actual bias or the appearance thereof
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Indeed, earlier this year, the UN Human Rights Council rejected his application for the post of special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories
The man hailed by defenders as a world-class jurist didn't think that having been paid to provide a legal briefing for the PLO might constitute a conflict of interest preventing him from involvement in this commission. The defense he provided in his resignation letter seems almost adolescent: "I was not requested to provide any details on any of my past statements and other activities concerning Palestine and Israel." That he did not turn down the job even though he worked for one of the parties, and that the other party did not reveal that fact either, says much about the whole process.
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