Richard A. Falk

July 17, 2023 | David May |

UNHRC Special Rapporteur Report Justifies Terrorism, Ignores Israeli Security Needs 

United Nations special rapporteur Francesca Albanese released last Monday her latest assessment of “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” In her report,...

January 13, 2023 | David May |

At the United Nations, Israel is ‘the Jew Among the Nations’

China presented itself as a champion of Muslim rights last Tuesday, when it asked the United Nations Security Council to hold a special session to address an Israeli minister’s visit to the Temple Mount,...

January 18, 2017 | Clifford D. May |

Defining violent extremism down

Death, where is thy sting? For Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, it certainly didn’t come from the mainstream media. The 82-year-old former Iranian president died of a heart attac...

July 8, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Erdogan’s Weathervane Foreign Policy

On June 27, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey would be normalizing relations with ...

August 19, 2014 | |

William Schabas’ Casual Anti-Israeli Bias Makes Him a Perfect Fit For a UN ‘Fact-Finding’ Inquiry

Not too long ago, Canadians would have been beaming with pride at the news that one of their own — renowned international human-rights law expert William Schabas — had been ap...

November 20, 2012 | Claudia Rosett National Review Online |

The U.N. Tilt to Terrorists

As the attacks out of Gaza continued, Israel pleaded. The U.N. ignored it.

April 3, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi The Commentator |

Iran’s March for ‘Martyrs’ in Jerusalem

Co-authored by Wahied Wahdat-Hagh Every year since 1976, on March 30, Israeli Arabs commemorate clashes with Israeli police over Israel’s land policy that left six de...

August 2, 2011 |

Once Again, the Jewish Question

If money could buy peace, this would be a golden era for Middle East peacemaking. Notwithstanding activists' much-hyped "boycott, divestment and sanctions" campaign, Israel's economy is...

April 27, 2011 | The Rosett Report |

Just Move the UN Human Rights Council to Syria

With the Assad regime murdering hundreds of protesters, it’s patently grotesque that Syria might get a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council. And yet, when the General Assembly vo...

May 28, 2010 | Forbes

Hamas Ahoy!

With a flotilla of "peace activists" steaming toward the blockaded Gaza strip, Israeli authorities have been worrying about a showdown turning into a public relations disaster. That's a sorr...

April 16, 2009 | Clifford D. May |

Romancing the Jihad

Why are so many on the Left enamored with Islamism?