Jewish UN Envoy Decries 'Nazi' Israeli Practices

The Palestinian Chronicle, April 8, 2008

LONDON - The incoming UN human rights investigator in the occupied Palestinian territories insisted on Tuesday, April, 8 that Israeli atrocities against Palestinians were similar to those of Nazi Germany. "If this kind of situation had existed for instance in the manner in which China was dealing with Tibet or the Sudanese government was dealing with Darfur, I think there would be no reluctance to make that comparison," Richard Falk told the BBC News. Falk, a world-renowned Jewish-American professor of international law at the prestigious Princeton University, first made the comparison last June. "Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not," he wrote in an essay titled "Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust". "It is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as 'holocaust.'" Continued . . .