Add “Israelis are Nazis” to your CV

by Scoop Shachtman, 8 April 2008

The BBC reports:

The next UN investigator into Israeli conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis.

Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due.

Professor Falk is scheduled to take up his post for the UN Human Rights Council later in the year.

The really shocking thing about this story is that there are actually people who see his views as a reason not to be appointed to the UN Human Rights Council, rather than it being a reason to appoint him.

Comments

  1. sandbasher

    Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 20:20

    Professor Falk is also a supporter of the ‘9/11 Truth’ movement:

    http://www.transnational.org/SAJT/forum/meet/2004/Falk_GriffinForeword.html

  2. Shuggy

    Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 22:15

    Do we know what Professor Falk is a professor of? Obviously it isn’t history.

  3. graeme

    Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 22:41

    As far as I can tell from wikipedia, he has a doctorate in being a bam.

  4. Shuggy

    Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 22:44

    See this also…

  5. Will

    Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 22:54

    Been pointed out by our Scoop already Shuggy - both here and here
    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-uns-farcical-human-rights-council/

  6. Mustafa

    Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 22:56

    From Falk’s profile:

    “it is inescapable that an objective observer would reach the conclusion that this Iraq war is a war of aggression, and as such, that it amounts to a Crime against Peace of the sort for which surviving German leaders were indicted, prosecuted and punished at the Nuremberg trials conducted shortly after the Second World War.”

    How reassuring that we can rely on him to retain a sense of proportionality.

  7. hakmao

    Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 23:29

    Wot? Nazis and *no* sharks?

  8. Will

    Wednesday 9 April 2008 at 0:54

    needs to be nazi sharks in colour to gain attention.

    (fuck off yank spell correction automaton cuntish shit trying to tell me to spell colour as color. I fucking hate that imperialist fucking shit like a real hating bastard — fuck off Bill Gates!!!).