Peter Hansen, the execrable Israel-hating head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, is stepping down as Kofi Annan shuffles his cronies around to divert attention from the massive Oil-For-Food scandal: UNRWA head to step down.

Hansen has long been criticized by pro-Israel advocates as biased against the Jewish state—a charge he has denied. Last October, Hansen told a Canadian interviewer there were Hamas members on the payroll of UNRWA, which employs about 12,000 people, most of them Palestinians.

“Some people are retiring and it will offer us an opportunity to make some changes,” Annan said Monday after announcing Hansen’s imminent departure.

“I don’t think one should associate any departure with a management shakeup. Several people were going to leave anyway,” Annan said, “so I decided to take a look at the whole team.”