Richard Falk at it again.
(CNSNews.com) – A non-governmental organization accredited to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday circulated a “draft resolution” calling on the council to terminate the mandate of an appointed human rights expert after fresh comments viewed as blaming U.S. foreign policies for the Boston Marathon terror attack.
The text drafted by U.N. Watch text accused Richard Falk, the HRC’s “special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,” of grossly and systematically violating his duties as a council expert.
Three weeks ago Falk, an international law scholar at Princeton, provoked a storm of protest with a commentary suggesting that attacks like the Boston bombing were the understandable consequence of what he called the “American global domination project,” citing in particular U.S. support for Israel. […]
But in a subsequent interview with The Daily Princetonian, published early this week, Falk waded into fresh controversy.
“The U.S. is really the only country that projects its military power to all parts of the world,” the paper quoted him as saying, adding that “engaging in military undertakings around the world is bound to produce some kinds of resistance, and that resistance as in the Boston incident can assume a pathological form.”
“One would have thought and hoped that these kinds of experiences would give rise to more self-awareness, self-scrutiny – looking at the mirror and seeing how others perceive what we’re doing in the world,” Falk said.
(“Resistance” is the euphemistic term favored by Hezbollah, Hamas and the Iranian and Syrian regimes – the self-described “resistance front” – for anti-Israel terrorism.)