Did you know that there's actually an official position at the United Nations called UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of humaan rights in the Palestinian territories since 1967?
Yep, and you can just imagine what kind of reporting gets done by the person in this position. But maybe you can't imagine that the person filling that position is not only an American academician but a Jew! Well, he may not choose in any way to be Jewish but he's one of the tribe according to Jewish law.
Richard Falk, Princeton professor, is calling for economic sanctions unless Israel removes any efforts to protect itself from Gazans dedicated to its destruction.
Not a newcomer to such calls to arms, even Ehud Olmert, hardly the champion of the Israeli nationalist camp, barred Professor Falk from entering because he compared Israelis to Nazis, saying the Gaza "closure" was the same as the Warsaw Ghetto.
But it gets curiouser and curiouser. He has a theory about 9/11 we've heard from less diploma-ed personage. He actually called for a fresh investigation into the 9/11 attacks in order to examine the possible role that "neocons" may have played in the attacks and made this conspiracy theory official when he wrote a laudatory introduction to a book claiming that George Bush and other "elites" in the US administration very likely played a role in the 9/11 attacks.
Furthermore, when publicly asked at a UN session to state whether he ever made the statements 'that no plane hit the Pentagon,' and that 'the World Trade Center was brought down by a controlled demolition'? Falk did not respond.
Now, the United Nations is hardly the place that Jews can express redress for anti-Israel views or decisions but perhaps we should follow in some of Binyamin Netanyahu's more laudable footsteps (and there seem to be few to choose from lately) and not leave the UN in peace to say and do as it might.
In the case of Richard Falk, you can write letters to papers that present his latest attacks on Israel and set them straight on his record.
You can tell your friends about it.
You can send this information around so that people who don't already "get it" can see what a farce the UN is and how blatant is its anti-Israel animus.
And DO write to the US Ambassador to the UN, telling her to exercise good moral judgment and denounce Falk's bias and inflammatory attacks. Of course, she's not likely to share our position, but the more she hears from interested citizens perhaps the more she will at least be careful about how she comports herself. Here's her contact info:Ambassador Susan Rice
Permanent Mission to the United Nations
799 UN Plaza
New York, NY 10017-3505
(212)415-4000; fax: (212)415-4443
E-mail: usa@un.int
