#GazaUnderAttack | Richard Falk: Maintaining the Unlawful Siege of Gaza is a Crime against Humanity

Interview with Richard Falk by Kourosh Ziabari By Richard Falk and Kourosh Ziabari | Global Research, August 10, 2014 As the dust surrounding Israel’s one-month aggressive incursion into the beleaguered Gaza Strip begins to settle, the international law experts, UN officials, scholars and intellectuals are reviewing and examining the different aspects of the massive onslaught […]

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UN justice champion Richard Falk targeted (again) ~ by Stuart Littlewood

Vengeful Zio-schemers sharpen their knives June 15, 2013 | by Stuart Littlewood | Redress Information & Analysis The US ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, has branded Richard Falk as “unfit to serve in his role as a UN Special Rapporteur.” It seems that in his role monitoring the occupied Palestinian […]

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Investigate the Death of Arafat Jaradat ~ by Prof. Em. Richard Falk

LIVE BLOG ABOUT THE DEATH OF ARAFAT JARADAT Continuous Updates Richard Falk Weblog | March 1, 2013 What follows is a news report prompted by my press release on the shocking treatment of Arafat Jaradat who died while being held in an Israel prison. 27 February 2013 – A United Nations human rights expert today […]

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Urgent UN Press Statement: Release Palestinian Hunger Strikers Now ~ by Prof. Em. Richard Falk

Richard Falk Weblog | Prof. Em. Richard Falk | Febr 13, 2013 The following press statement was issued 13 February 2013 under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council in my capacity as Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967. This nonviolent resistance to unlawful and abusive detention practices by Israel is a […]

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Prof. Em. Richard Falk: Boycott firms profiting from Israel settlements

Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories PressTV | Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:47AM The focus on business activities is partly an expression of frustration about…the ineffectiveness of the UN efforts to condemn settlement expansion.” Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the […]

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UN expert Prof. Em. Richard Falk calls for Palestine membership

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood Maan News Agency | September 22, 2011 GENEVA (AFP) — The UN expert for the Palestinian territories Richard Falk on Thursday called on UN member states to recognize Palestine as a state, saying its right of self-determination should be respected. In a statement, Falk “called […]

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UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Em. Richard Falk: Israel Killed 1300 Palestinian Children Since 2000

UN Special Rapporteur: Israel Killed 1300 Palestinian Children Since 2000 03.05.11 – 13:33| PNN – Palestine News Network Amman – PNN – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk, announced a new report documenting 1300 Palestinian children killed by Israel since 2000. UN […]

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The toxic residue of colonialism

The overt age of grand empires gave way to the age of covert imperial hegemony, but now the edifice is crumbling. Richard Falk Last Modified: 14 Feb 2011 15:44 GMT As traffic returns to Tahrir Square, Egyptians are left to wonder if they’ve been sold out – like so many revolutionaries before them – and if the […]

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Egypt’s Berlin Wall Moment – by Prof. Em. Richard Falk

The recent uprisings do not exist merely in a historical vacuum, but must be considered within a geopolitical context. by Richard Falk Last Modified: 08 Feb 2011 14:05 Two boys, their faces painted in patriotic colours, support each other during the tense standoff in Tahrir Square [Getty] Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, […]

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Falk: Tribalism is genocidal; while a diverse religious identity thickens the fibers of global civilization

by Richard Falk on January 16, 2011 Editor’s note: This is exciting. Richard Falk, the international law prof at Princeton, emeritus, has done what all 80-year-olds should do, and started a blog. This entry, which he has allowed me to repost in full, is called “On Jewish Identity.” This is really everything I’ve asked for […]

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Despairing Angels « Poem by Richard Falk

Despairing Angels Carnalized in our time Wingless floating floating Serenading cities aflame far below Lyrics of death descending Shrill with despair Not not the sweet Tiepolo angels Now now a lost imagining: the sweetest among angels are being tutored to die While wingless beings graceless and grotesque float above our menaced planet Despairing Angels «.

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Stuttgart Declaration on Palestine (with short commentary) By Prof. Richard Falk

28 Dec       I am using my blog to indicate support for the Stuttgart Declaration that emerged from an outstanding conference held in that German city last November. The convenors of the conference are seeking signatures. To sign go to this url <http://senderfreiespalaestina.de/&gt; The importance of the Stuttgart Declaration can be expressed briefly […]

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Falk: UNHRC should not drop Article VII

[ 02/11/2010 – 09:28 AM ]   DOHA, (PIC)– Richard Falk, the UNHRC Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, has accused the United States of blindly backing Israel and of striving hard to drop Article VII of the UNHRC charter that would make conditions in occupied Palestine more complicated. In a televised interview with Al-Jazeera […]

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Falk: Palestinian state is an illusion

[ 24/10/2010 – 10:01 AM ]   NEW YORK, (PIC)– The establishment of a Palestinian state is an “illusion” because it necessitates a root change in the Israeli settlement drive and the de facto political conditions, Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian land, said. Falk said in a […]

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