Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health in October 2024. Photo: Screenshot

Tlaleng Mofokeng, the United Nations’ “special rapporteur on the right to health,” has come under fire for recently lambasting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a profane post on X/Twitter, expressing her discontent over the Jewish state’s military operations in Gaza.

“F—k him,” Mofokeng wrote last Sunday in response to a report that Netanyahu ordered the Israel Defense Force (IDF) not to begin the ceasefire in Gaza until the Hamas terrorist organization named the hostages it had agreed to release. Notably, the UN special rapporteur was responding to a news article from Al Jazeera, which receives funding from the government and has long been criticized for pushing an anti-Israel bias.

Israel insisted that Hamas violated the terms of the recently brokered ceasefire deal by refusing to submit the names of the three hostages to be released — Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher — 24 hours prior to their planned release.

“We will not move forward with the outline until we receive the list of hostages to be released, as agreed. Israel will not tolerate violations of the agreement,” Netanyahu said at the time. “The sole responsibility lies with Hamas.”

The dispute was later resolved and the hostages were released in exchange for dozens of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Warning: The social media post embedded below contains explicit language.

BREAKING: Top U.N. official deletes “F**k him” tweet about Israel’s leader. This comes despite Mofokeng’s expletive-filled tirade calling me an “evil scum” “white man” for having demanded that she be disciplined for her reckless and inappropriate conduct. https://t.co/ARhEj5l5mg https://t.co/EiIzsr728L pic.twitter.com/oIIvx5cTA1

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 23, 2025

Mofokeng’s post caught the attention of Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based NGO that monitors the UN. After Neuer called for Mofokeng to be punished for her posts, the special rapporteur went on a tirade, rebuking Neuer as an “evil man, a “bastard,” and “scum” in a string of posts.

The UN special rapporteur has a history of issuing condemnations of Israel on social media. In February 2024, for example, Mofokeng wrote “that Hamas are not terrorists is fact.” She argued that previous UN resolutions defended the “legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity [the] liberation from colonial domination, apartheid [and] foreign occupation by ALL means, INCLUDING armed struggle.”

Then earlier this month, Mofokeng seemingly compared the Palestinian experience to her plight as a black South African under apartheid, writing, “I will continue to fight like hell for Gaza, Sudan, Congo because someone once fought like hell for me.”

She has also explicitly accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza multiple times.

In October 2024, Mofokeng wrote that she felt “rage and fury” regarding the supposed “horrific genocidal acts” occurring “in real time in Gaza without any result from the international community.”

Last month, she penned a letter to Pope Francis, asking him to speak on “the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”

“I reiterate the call to end the genocide, and for you Pope Francis to take all measures to end this evil,” Mofokeng wrote.

Israeli officials have long accused the UN of maintaining a bias against the Jewish state. In 2023, the UN General Assembly condemned Israel twice as often as it did all other countries. Meanwhile, of all the country-specific resolutions passed by the UN Human Rights Council, nearly half have condemned Israel, a seemingly disproportionate focus on the lone democracy in the Middle East.

Weeks following Hamas’s invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the UN adopted a resolution calling for a “ceasefire” between Israel and the terrorist group. The UN failed to pass a measure condemning the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7.

In June, the UN put Israel on its so-called “list of shame” of countries that kill children in armed conflict. Israel is considered to be the only democracy on the list.

During US Senate confirmation hearings on Tuesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who is President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as the next US ambassador to the UN, lambasted the “antisemitic rot” in the international body, vowing to restore “moral clarity” at the intergovernmental organization.

“If you look at the antisemitic rot within the United Nations, there are more resolutions targeting Israel than any other country, any other crisis combined,” Stefanik said.