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The recent parallel hunger strikes in Israeli prisons reignited the political imagination of Palestinians around the world, strengthening bonds of ‘solidarity’ and…
Richard Falk
Richard Anderson Falk (born November 13, 1930) is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He is the author or coauthor of over 20 books and the editor or coeditor of another 20 volumes. In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Since 2005 he chairs the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
Ché Guevara was once asked what was at the root of his revolutionary commitment. His response, which we should all take some…
Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the…
The unsurprising announcement that the Board of the World Bank had voted in favour of the American candidate, Jim Yong Kim, presents…
A few days ago I was a participant in a well-attended academic panel on "the decline of violence and warfare" at the…
As with Khader Adnan, Israel supposedly compromised with Hana Shalabi on day 43 of her hunger strike in protest against administrative detention and…
The American electorate is facing a presidential election in which there is almost no prospect of a constructive debate. On the Republican side…
In his important article in the New York Times, March 17, 2012, James Risen summarized the consensus of the intelligence community as concluding that…
The respected human rights NGOs, Addameer-Palestine and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, have expressed their deep concern for the mortal danger facing Hana Shalabi…
The latest occupation crime in Afghanistan is a shooting spree on March 11 by a lone American soldier in the village of Balandi in…