Source: Counterpunch
The
Zionist organization UN Watch has cited a commentary by Professor
Richard Falk on the Boston bombings in a letter to U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon demanding that that Prof. Falk be
reprimanded for it. Prof. Falk, who serves as the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian
territories occupied since 1967, originally posted the commentary on his blog and I republished it, as I often do his writings, with his kind permission, in Foreign Policy Journal, which version UN Watch links to in its letter. As one should expect, the letter
from UN Watch is characterized by its dishonesty and vain attacks on
Prof. Falk’s character that deflect attention away from and fail to
address the substance of what he wrote.
The UN Watch letter begins with the lie that Prof. Falk in his article “justifies the Boston terrorist attacks”. The UN Watch letter also falsely claims that Prof. Falk blamed the Boston terrorist attacks on Israel and characterized the attacks as “due ‘retribution’ for American sins”. Where Mr. Falk discusses Israel in the article, it is in the larger context of blowback for U.S. foreign policies, including the 9/11 attacks, which, as the 9/11 Commission noted in its report, were motivated in no small part by U.S. support for Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. Nowhere in his commentary does Mr. Falk blame Israel for or otherwise connect Israel to the bombings in Boston. As for the word “retribution”, where it appears in Mr. Falk’s article, it is in the context of a quote from someone else. . .
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