Date
June 25, 2013
Title
Blog Ethics and Politics, Richardfalk.wordpress.com
Author(s)
Richard Falk
Original Source
http://richardfalk.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/blog-ethics-and-politics/
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When speaking at the UN Human Rights Council earlier this month, UN human rights authority Richard Falk was publicly accused directly in an "interactive dialogue" with being an antisemite. In response, Falk has now written: "I reject this broad conception of anti-Semitism, and limit this term of extreme opprobrium to hatred of Jews as an ethnicity and religion, expressed by opinions and hostile behavior." In fact, as recently as June 7, 2013 Falk used the familiar antisemitic trope that Israel "control[s] the world media." His own website has included obvious antisemitic images (which he has also claimed not to recognize as antisemitic.) This behavior is on top of his pathological hatred and hostility towards Israel, that extends to disapproval of a two-state solution which leaves the Jewish state still standing. Richard Falk - who the UN human rights system continues to tolerate as one of its own - is the poster-boy for modern antisemitism.