Summary
Falk is the author of Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope and, as he states in its Introduction, acted as Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestine for the UN Human Rights Council from March 2008 through March 2014 (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.18). The book collects posts from his blog between 2010 and 2013 around his concept of the Palestinian Legitimacy struggle.
Details
- Falk describes his own stance as that of “a truthful observer and a progressive interpreter”, premised on allowing inquiry into zones declared “off limits” by defenders of “brand Israel” (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.19).
- Blocked, in his account, by mainstream media’s ideological filter, he “took refuge in the blogosphere, which has no censors and is an open forum for expressing views”; his blog is named as “Global Justice in the 21st Century” (PDF p.18, p.20).
- He records a private conversation in Cairo in which Hamas deputy Mousa Abu Marzook told him the Hamas Charter’s pledge to destroy the Zionist state had become “a false issue” (PDF p.47).
- He remembers a late-1970s private meeting with World Bank president Robert McNamara over loans to the Pinochet regime in Chile, told as evidence for how legitimacy pressure works (PDF p.67-68).
- The copyright page lists him as Richard A. Falk and the volume as his work of 2014; a list of his fourteen earlier books, 1963-2014, is printed at PDF p.8 (PDF p.8, p.10).
Related pages
Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, Legitimacy struggle, Hamas, Goldstone report