Tekoah Protests Publication of Anti-israel ‘diatribes’ by UN Office of Public Information

Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah has protested to the UN Office of Public Information for publishing “the anti-Israel diatribes” submitted in London to the special committee to investigate human rights in Israeli-occupied territories by Michael Adams and John Reddaway. Mr. Tekoah said Mr. Adams is “a well-known Arab propagandist in the employ of Arab information services in London” and “receives regular remuneration from them.” The Israeli ambassador said that Mr. Reddaway, former deputy commissioner of UNRWA, had “already gained notoriety by his hostility to Israel and that his activities were the subject of an official complaint by Israel to UNRWA–it was shortly thereafter that he left the agency.” “The fact that the special committee opened its hearings with these two persons is “not surprising in view of the openly biased attitudes of its three members–Somalia, Yugoslavia and Ceylon,” Mr. Tekoah declared. “It is regrettable, however, that the OPI should lend its services to this type of Arab propaganda.” The committee began its hearings last Wednesday in London and has since then continued them in Beirut and Damascus and will continue them further in Cairo, Amman and Geneva.