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Ex-UN investigator Richard Falk and his
wife attack UN Watch
Falk: "I
have been the continuous target of a sustained defamation campaign spearheaded
by the Zionist UN Watch....
On at least one occasion I was
informed that a previous offer of a visiting appointment at an overseas
university, Kings College London, was reduced from year-to-year to a single year
due to my alleged anti-Semitism"
Richard Falk and his wife, new UN special rapporteur
on the right to food Hilal Elver Falk
GENEVA, Dec. 8 - For the third time in three months, former UN
official Richard Falk has lashed out at UN Watch, this time in an interview
that purports to be in the voice of his wife, new UN expert on hunger Hilal
Elver Falk, but which appears to have been written by him.
Asked by the interviewer from the Moon Magazine why the U.S.
condemned her appointment, Elver, who has famously accused Israel of "water
apartheid", misleadingly answered by insisting that the U.S. did not
vote against her appointment, which is true -- largely because the
appointment of numerous experts was a package deal -- but non-responsive to the
question asked.
Elver claims that "the U.S. government did not oppose my
appointment." In fact, the U.S. strongly condemned her appointment, following a
UN Watch letter to Ambassador Samantha Power
documenting Elver's utter failure to meet the basic requirements of the
position. The U.S. slammed Falk's wife for her “lack of relevant experience,”
questioned “her readiness for this assignment,” and pointed to her “biased and
inflammatory views” which “run counter to the dispassionate professionalism
central to the work of a Special Rapporteur.” Canadian Foreign Minister John
Baird sent a letter to the UN condemning Elver’s “abysmal judgment.”
Elver omitted all of this, and instead accused UN Watch of
mounting a "politically motivated publicity campaign" against her.
"A small Geneva NGO called UN Watch came out against my
appointment, not because of my qualifications, but because I am married to
Richard Falk, said Elver. "This NGO consistently and irresponsibly accused my
husband of being anti-Semitic, and I was presumed guilty merely as a result of
being his wife. I was also falsely alleged to be collaborating with his writings
on the Palestine-Israel conflict."
The truth is that Elver's original application form was riddled with self-disqualifying answers,
non-sequiturs, and spelling mistakes. Her English, as one can also see on
YouTube, is very poor and at times incoherent. Curiously, however, while the
interviewer claims to have "talked" to Elver, her English is flawless, and also
includes all of her husband's usual manipulative arguments.
Falk: 'I Lost Academic Appointment
Because of UN Watch"
Richard Falk, the infamous 9/11 Truther and author of the New York
Times 1979 op-ed “Trusting Khomeini,” has not received a moment of UN Watch
attention once his 6-year term as the UNHRC’s special investigator of “Israel’s
violations of the bases and principles of international law” expired, at long
last, in June of this year.
Yet Falk continues to evince a profound bitterness to UN Watch,
the only human rights group at the United Nations that dared to expose his toxic
mix of pro-Hamas appeasement, anti-Western invective, support for 9/11
conspiracy theorists and demonization of Israel.
Asked in an October interview about obstacles to his UN work, Falk
said: "I was very much attacked in a kind of defamatory way by UN
Watch and other very extreme Zionist organizations, which tried -- wherever I
went, anywhere in the world, they would try to prevent me from speaking and
mounted a kind of defamatory campaign, called me an anti-Semite, a leading
anti-Semite."
In truth, UN Watch allies in condemning Falk’s poison included UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the U.S., the UK, Canada — and the Palestinian
Authority, which famously tried to fire him. For a glimpse into Falk’s numerous
statements supporting terrorism against America, the West and Israel, click here.
Here is Falk’s tirade against UN Watch, from his September essay on the
alleged misuses of anti-Semitism:
I do not claim neutrality on these
issues. During the past six years, while serving as UN Special Rapporteur for
Occupied Palestine on behalf of the Human Rights Council, I have been
the continuous target of a sustained defamation campaign spearheaded by a
Zionist-oriented NGO, UN Watch, based in Geneva. I was repeatedly
accused of anti-Semitism, and my views on other issues were likewise distorted
to create an impression of bizarre judgment. I was called a supporter of
terrorism, a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and the like…
Because of the atmosphere in North America where
demonstrating 100%+ support for Israel has become an indispensable ingredient of
political credibility, these defamatory attacks were accepted as valid by
several public officials who never bothered to check with me or examine my
actual views on such controversial topics.
As a result I was attacked
by such luminaries as the UN Secretary General, two U.S. ambassadors to the UN
(Susan Rice, Samantha Powers), Foreign Minister of Canada, among others, and a
favorite target for Fox TV and the Murdock [sic] media
empire.
Additionally, efforts were made to
have my lectures cancelled at universities in various places around the world
(including McGill and McMaster in Canada, AUB in Beirut, ANU, Melbourne, and
Sydney in Australia, Norfolk in the UK, and Princeton, University of Texas,
University of Iowa and others in the USA) These universities were warned that
unless my campus appearance was cancelled, funding would suffer.
On at least one occasion I
was informed that a previous offer of a visiting appointment at an overseas
university, Kings College London, was reduced from year-to-year to a single year
due to my alleged anti-Semitism.
Even my wife was defamed by such
Zionist zealots who tried to defeat her candidacy in the UN Human Rights Council
in 2014 to become Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food. She was accused of
writing inflammatory anti-Israeli tracts in collaboration with me, a complete
lie as we had never collaborated on this subject-matter, and it was further
alleged that she shared my anti-Semitic views, which is a double
lie.
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GENEVA, September 3, 2015 - UN
Watch submitted a report today to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon documenting
12 different Facebook accounts operated by supposedly neutral UNRWA officials
that openly incite to violence and hatred against Jews, urging him and agency
chief Pierre Krähenbühl to fire the culprits pursuant to their promises.
