Richard Falk Chided for Linking Boston Bombings to U.S. Support for Israel

[King_David]

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon rejected on Wednesday remarks by a U.N. rights investigator, who suggested the Boston bombings were a response to U.S. foreign policy, and warned U.N. envoys that their public comments could undermine the world body’s credibility.

Richard Falk, U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, wrote on his blog on Sunday that “the American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world.”

U.S. officials say ethnic Chechen brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted and detonated two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, killing three people and injuring 264. Ten people lost limbs.


http://m.forward.com/articles/175403/richard-falk-chided-for-linking-boston-bombings-to

[King_David]

1. This man is a fucking disgrace ,

The UN's "expert " on Palestine is a fucking disgrace.

[holdencaufield]

3. An antisemite at the UN?

Who'd have thunk it?!

On the other hand "U.N. special rapporteur" has to be the coolest title on the planet.

[King_David]

4. I'm not even surprised that he still gets to keep his UN position. nt

[holdencaufield]

5. I am ...

... I'm surprised they didn't promote him years ago to run the HRC.

[King_David]

6. Wait it will happen

Or the BDS movement

[King_David]

8. Piece of Shit

Hard to believe I've seen praise for him here in this progressive , tolerant forum.

[holdencaufield]

9. Not hard to believe at all ...

... our party ... in which Jews have been integral in leading over the decades (including my parents and grandparents) ... is choosing to reject them in favour of a larger demographic (at least some of the more radical factions of our party).

We know why, but it can't be spoken of. After all, they have "Jewish friends".

[leftynyc]

10. Not hard to believe at all

Don't you see - if it weren't for Israel and the US the mideast would be filled with democracy loving, tolerant societies with equal rights for all. It's the US and Israel that are keeping them from utopia. Just ask the UN.

[King_David]

2. Disgraceful

"Falk has long been a controversial figure. In 2011, he wrote on his blog that there had been an “apparent cover-up” by U.S. authorities over the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. He also posted an anti-Semitic cartoon, which was later removed."

[King_David]

7. No surprise the Right are defending this creep,

Smearing Richard Falk


Amazing for its viciousness and rank dishonesty is the campaign waged against UN special rapporteur for human rights in occupied Palestine Richard Falk for making some pretty straightforward “blowback” points in the aftermath of the Boston terrorist attack. Falk’s piece is here; written before the perpetrators were discovered, it notes chiefly the relative calm compared to 9/11, and the greater reflectiveness of many of the callers to PBS and other venues, who noted (as have several other commentators) that many innocents are also victims of American violence. Falk also laments what he perceives as Obama’s apparent obeisance to Israel and fears a war with Iran. Falk is a lucid and often deep thinker, but this was not an unusual piece.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/smearing-richard-falk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=smearing-richard-falk

[shira]

11. The hard left supports his appointment by the UN as special rapporteur.

No difference b/w the hard left and extreme right anti-Israel goons.

[LeftishBrit]

15. Not surprising at all.

Falk passes as a progressive with some, because of his anti-war views; but he is not fundamentally progressive at all. He has far more in common with the xenophobic-isolationist variety of right-wingers (who are frequently anti-Semitic, of course).

[King_David]

17. Agreed nt

[oberliner]

12. Typical

He should go back to blogging antisemitic cartoons and offering weaselly semi-apologies for same.

[King_David]

13. He hasn't been fired,

Just "chided".

[LeftishBrit]

14. Falk is a lunatic.

[King_David]

16. He has his fans here on DU

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/113419685

[Purveyor]

18. I just 'knew'...it had to be me!

[King_David]

19. Your a fan of Richard Falk ?