Summary
Geneva-based NGO that Falk, in Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, presents as the organisational spearhead of the campaign to discredit him and the Palestinian Legitimacy struggle: it manages “hatchet jobs” against critics of Israel, pressed for his removal from a Human Rights Watch committee, denounced the UN’s 2014 International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, and, in his Acknowledgments, carried on “an incessant campaign of defamation” against him, “spearheaded by its notorious leader, Hillel Neuer” (Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, PDF p.224, p.266, p.281-282).
Details
- In Falk’s Deflection post, UN Watch and “UN Monitor” (as printed; see the source page’s Open questions) are the NGOs managing “hatchet jobs” against critics of Israel (PDF p.224).
- Falk records that Human Rights Watch removed him from a committee under UN Watch pressure, as part of his first-person account of vilification (PDF p.224-225, p.227).
- In the Solidarity Year post, UN Watch and others denounce the UN initiative proclaiming 2014 the International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People because it unfairly singles out Israel and ignores countries with worse human rights records — the charge Falk’s post answers at length (PDF p.266).
- In the Acknowledgments, Falk writes that instead of debate and refutation, “the most organizationally dedicated defenders of Israel, above all UN Watch (spearheaded by its notorious leader, Hillel Neuer), carried on an incessant campaign of defamation” against him (PDF p.281-282).
Related pages
Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope, Richard Falk, Politics of deflection, Human Rights Watch