UN official slams Israeli ‘apartheid’ and the ‘trick’ of the peace process
Richard Falk, UN special rapporteur on Palestinian rights, has a long history of excoriating the Jewish state
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip launched a verbal attack on Israel and the international community on Monday, telling reporters in Geneva that the Jewish state’s treatment of Palestinians amounted to apartheid and that the world was conspiring to perpetuate settlements rather than settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Richard Falk, a law professor at Princeton University, has compared Israel to South Africa’s apartheid regime before — as well as the Nazi regime — and accused it of ethnic cleansing, genocide and state terrorism, while defending Palestinian suicide bombings.
On Monday, AFP quoted Falk as saying that Israel’s “discriminatory” legal system was comparable to apartheid and that the peace process is “a trick” being played by the international community “rather than a way to find a solution to the problem” of Israeli settlements.
“The international community is conspiring — maybe unwillingly — in a process that has no way of bringing justice to the people involved in this conflict,” Falk said, referring to the Palestinians.
