The Palestinian Hunger Strike: “Our chains will be broken before we are…”
We may look back on Marwan Barghouti’s hunger strike as the beginning of a winning Palestinian endgame.
Read MoreRichard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. From 2008 until May 2014, he was the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Posted by Richard Falk | May 17, 2017 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics |
We may look back on Marwan Barghouti’s hunger strike as the beginning of a winning Palestinian endgame.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | May 5, 2017 | Palestine, Politics, Viewpoints |
The real scandal is not that the UN is obsessed with Israel but that it is blocked from holding Israel accountable for its violations of international law.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 21, 2017 | Viewpoints, Europe, Palestine |
As a Jew, and even more as a human being, I feel morally comfortable and politically responsible in calling upon Israel to dismantle its apartheid regime.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Apr 12, 2017 | News & Analysis, Middle East, Politics, US |
Does the Trump administration’s reversion to unilateral use of force heighten the risks of geopolitical escalation and large-scale warfare?
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Mar 9, 2017 | News & Analysis, Politics, US |
Does it serve the interests of the United States to unilaterally set the rules of the game in international relations?
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Feb 24, 2017 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics |
Despite these circumstances that makes the ICC seem such an attractive option, a PA decision to take this path is far from obvious.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jan 18, 2017 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics |
The years 1917, 1947, and 1967 mark dark moments for the Palestinians, still struggling against their oppressors to be able to exercise their rights.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Jan 5, 2017 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics, US |
Resolution 2334, and especially the Kerry speech, do not depart from fundamentally mistaken presentations of how to move diplomacy forward.
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Dec 20, 2016 | Viewpoints, Politics, US |
The Russians (allegedly) violated the US’s First Law of Geopolitics: “You are prohibited from doing to us, what we are doing to you and others.”
Read MorePosted by Richard Falk | Dec 13, 2016 | Viewpoints, Americas, Politics, US |
There are many reasons to celebrate the life of Castro and numerous reasons to lament the severe hardships imposed on the Cuban people by the US.
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