Richard Falk, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur Accuses Israel of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

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By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

In leaked report, outgoing rapporteur suggests United Nations should take a more active role in ‘legitimacy war’ against Israel

WASHINGTON — Richard Falk, the United Nation’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, is no stranger to criticism for his harsh language on Israel, but his final report to the United Nations challenged previous records, going so far as to coin a Hebrew equivalent for the Afrikaans term “apartheid” to describe conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He also called for the UN to be more supportive of a “legitimacy war” against Israel...   ....The bulk of the 22-page report, however, dealt with alleged Israeli offenses against Palestinians – and Falk’s opinion of the appropriate response. He wrote that Israel has consistently failed to “comply with clear legal standards embodied in theGeneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War” and in other humanitarian law....