The club of tyranny’s Falked tongue

Melanie Phillips
April 9, 2008
The Spectator
Original Source: http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/598596/the-club-of-tyrannys-falked-tongue.thtml

The UN has appointed a man to investigate Israel’s behaviour who is incapable of telling the difference between genocide and the attempt to defend a people from becoming its victims, and accuses those defenders instead of being the perpetrators of genocide despite the demonstrable evidence to the contrary. Professor Richard Falk, the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories (whose remit, however, will not include reporting on the Palestinians!) has compared Israel’s behaviour in Gaza to the Nazis. He tells the BBC he is unrepentant about this comparison because he 
wanted to shake the American public from its torpor.

Isn’t it time the American public was shaken from its torpor over the fact that the UN now stands for the abandonment of free societies, the demonisation of their defenders and the extinction of truth and justice, and the endorsement, justification and incitement of terror, tyranny and hatred? The virulent malice towards Israel openly displayed by both the terms of Falk’s appointment and the prejudice of the man himself is but the latest illustration of the UN’s true character as a club of tyranny. Its amusingly named Human Rights Council, after all, was responsible for the frenzied hate-fest against Israel and the Jews in its grotesquely named World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance which it staged in Durban a few days before 9/11, and which demonised Israel as a Nazi and apartheid state, promoted Holocaust denial and used images of anti-Jewish hatred straight out of the Nazi lexicon (and is to have a threatened sequel, Durban II, next year to implement this vile agenda).

John McCain has it exactly right when he talks about replacing the UN by a union of democracies —a suggestion I have myself repeatedly made over the years. But in the meantime, questions should be asked in the US about this poisonous bigot Professor Falk — an emeritus Professor of International Law and Practice; a member of the Princeton faculty, with a joint appointment in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public International Affairs and the Department of Politics between 1961 and 2001; Visiting Professor, Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001-2004; Chair of the Board, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; an Honorary Member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and a Member of the Editorial Board of The Nation and The Progressive.

Isn’t about time America woke from its torpor about such a man whom it has honoured with such distinction?