Richard Falk
 Richard A. Falk        ( academic, 9-11/Dissident) | |
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| Born | Richard Anderson Falk 13 November 1930 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | • University of Pennsylvania • Yale University • Harvard University |
| Religion |  Jewish |
| Spouse | Hilal Elver |
| Member of | "The New Humanitarians", American Herald Tribune, Council on Foreign Relations/Members, Institute for Policy Studies |
Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories
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Richard Anderson Falk [1] is Emeritus Professor of international law at Princeton University and the former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories (2008–2014).[2] Following his UN appointment, Falk has been subjected to vicious criticism by US ambassador Susan Rice, various Israeli politicians and Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon for his positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for his 9-11 dissidence.
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Genocide in Gaza
On 5 September 2025, giving evidence to The Gaza Tribunal in London, Professor Falk called upon governments to bypass the UN Security Council and empower the UN General Assembly to authorise armed intervention against the Israeli Occupation Forces. Falk said:
- "If we do not take action of a serious and drastic kind at this time, anything done in a more moderate fashion will be too late, too late to save the surviving people who have already been traumatised by more than 22 months of genocide.
- "The eyes and the ears of the world have been exposed, as never before, including the Holocaust, to the transparency of genocide carried out in real time. It challenges our humanity.
- "We are trying to address the conscience of all people and encourage the kind of activism that will produce changes in government ahead, particularly an arms embargo and various forms of sanctions … including the kind of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle that proved so effective in the anti-apartheid campaign."[3]
Opinions on 9-11
In 2008, Falk posted the following on his personal blog:
“The arguments swirling around the 9/11 attacks are emblematic of these issues. What fuels suspicions of conspiracy is the reluctance to address the sort of awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations that David Ray Griffin(and other devoted scholars of high integrity) have been documenting in book after book ever since his authoritative The New Pearl Harbor in 2004 (updated in 2008). What may be more distressing than the apparent cover up is the eerie silence of the mainstream media, unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events: an al Qaeda operation with no foreknowledge by government officials. Is this silence a manifestation of fear or cooption, or part of an equally disturbing filter of self-censorship? Whatever it is, the result is the withering away of a participatory citizenry and the erosion of legitimate constitutional government. The forms persist, but the content is missing.”
Richard Falk (11 January 2008) [4]
In response, various people, including Susan E. Rice and Hillel Neuer called for his sacking.[5] In 2014, The Tower termed him an "Anti-Semitic, Anti-American Conspiracy Theorist".[6]
He was quoted on 911 Blogger in November 2008 that "Any close student of 9/11 is aware of the many serious discrepancies between the official version of what took place and the actual happenings on that fateful day in 2001."[7]
Career
Falk has worked as professor of international law at Princeton University.[8] He is the author or co-author of 20 books and the editor or co-editor of another 20 volumes,[9]
Documents by Richard Falk
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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| Document:Open letter to Ban Ki-Moon from Richard Falk | open letter | 7 February 2016 | Israel Israeli–Palestinian conflict Palestine Ban Ki-moon | On-the-button open letter from Richard Falk to Ban Ki-moon about Israeli attacks on the latter for his modest, reasonable and accurate criticism of Israeli policy - Schadenfreude would be understandable in light of Richard Falks experience at Moon's hands. |
| File:Un-escwa-israel-apartheid-report.pdf | report | 17 March 2017 | Israel Palestine Apartheid | The Apartheid nature of the Israeli State in its treatment of its non-jewish Palestinian population |
Event Witnessed
| Event | Description |
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| Truth And Reconciliation Committee on the Assassinations Of The 1960s | A call for a Truth And Reconciliation Committee |
References
- ↑ American Jewish Archives website, p. 146 of listing of individuals by name.
- ↑ http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.nsf/2ee9468747556b2d85256cf60060d2a6/0da4ba56ade85249852574190058d462!OpenDocument
- ↑ "Gaza Tribunal calls for armed UN intervention to halt 'most lethal phase of genocide'"
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20110116044858/http://richardfalk.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/interrogating-the-arizona-killings-from-a-safe-distance/ Internet Archive
- ↑ https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/01/28/richard-falk-im-not-a-911-conspiracy-theorist/
- ↑ http://www.thetower.org/princeton-falk/
- ↑ http://911blogger.com/node/18483
- ↑ Martin Griffiths, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations, Routledge 1999 p.74
- ↑ Dean’s Open Forum, Richard Falk, USC Center on Public Diplomacy, November 4, 2004.
