Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations

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Notes

1 Joshua Kern and Anne Herzberg, “False Knowledge as Power: Deconstructing Definitions of Apartheid that Delegitimise the Jewish State,” NGO Monitor, (Jerusalem, December 2021), https://ngo-monitor.org/pdf/NGOMonitor_ApartheidReport_2021.pdf.

2 Full disclosure: I have clashed with Falk on a number of occasions, including at a conference where he again deployed his Jewish background as a shield. I noted that this does nothing to make his false accusations and obsessions credible.

3 Richard Falk, “Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust,” The Plight of Palestine: A Long History of Destruction, William A. Cook (ed.) (London, 2010); Jeremy Sharon, “UN's Richard Falk under Fire for ‘Anti-semitic’ Cartoon,” The Jerusalem Post, July 8, 2011, https://www.jpost.com/International/UNs-Richard-Falk-under-fire-for-anti-Semitic-cartoon; Alan Dershowitz, “Why are John Mearsheimer and Richard Falk Endorsing a Blatantly Anti-semitic Book?” The New Republic, November 4, 2011, https://newrepublic.com/article/97030/atzmon-wandering-who-anti-semitism-israel.

4 “Victory for Decency: Ban Ki-moon ‘Condemns’ U.N. Palestine Expert for Denying 9/11 Terror Attacks,” UN Watch, January 24, 2011, https://unwatch.org/un-watch-victory-ban-ki-moon-condemns-u-n-palestine-expert-for-denying-911-terror-attacks/.

5 Full disclosure: I am the founder and president of NGO Monitor.

6 David Bernstein, “The Cult of ‘International Law,’” The Volokh Conspiracy, June 27, 2006, https://volokh.com/posts/1151381243.shtml.