This week [22 Dec 2012] we learned that Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expelled from its ranks top U.N. official Professor Richard Falk.<\/i><\/p>\n
The juicy details have been kindly supplied by Israeli Hasbara outlet UN Watch blog<\/a><\/span>.\u201cWe commend Human Rights Watch and its director Kenneth Roth for doing the right thing, and finally removing this enemy of human rights from their important organization,\u201d<\/i> said Hillel Neuer, a rabid Israeli supporter as well as Executive Director of UN Watch. \u201cA man who supports the Hamas terrorist organization, and who was just condemned by the British Foreign Office for his cover endorsement of a virulently antisemitic book, has no place in an organization dedicated to human rights,\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Hasbara stooge that he is, Neuer using every Zionist trick in the book, misinforms and misleads his readers. First of all, Hamas is not a \u2018terrorist organisation\u2019, it is a democratically elected government and the book to which Neuer refers is obviously mine – \u2018The Wandering Who\u2019<\/a><\/span> \u2013 which, was endorsed by Richard Falk and some of the most important humanists and scholars<\/a><\/span> of our time\u2013 a book which has been a best-seller for six months in both Britain and the USA, has been translated into 10 languages and is available in seven editions in countries that all strictly legislate against any form of racial incitement as well Holocaust denial. The fact is that the Zionists and their \u2018Progressive\u2019 twins will have to accept that The Wandering Who is, after all, strictly kosher.<\/i><\/p>\n So, Professor Falk did indeed endorse my book and, like all my other endorsers, did not cave into pressure. This should indeed concern all Zionists and their agents.<\/p>\n “A transformative story told with unflinching integrity that all (especially Jews) who care about real peace, as well as their own identity, should not only read, but reflect upon and discuss widely.” Professor Richard Falk on The Wandering Who<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n But the problem is not the tribally oriented UN Watch and its Zionist Executive Director. After all, they only do what we expect Zionists to do – lie, harass, abuse, and, if necessary, fabricate evidence. No, far more interesting is the behaviour of the allegedly \u2018progressive\u2019 \u2018Human Rights Watch\u2019 and its director Kenneth Roth.<\/p>\n On the face of it, HRW is an independent, Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) \u2018dedicated to defending and protecting human rights\u2019. But it takes no more than a few seconds of research to find out that the primary donor of the HRW is liberal-Zionist George Soros and his Open Society Foundation<\/a><\/span> – the same Soros and \u2018Open\u2019 society that supports most Palestinian NGOs including BDS which may perhaps explain why the BDS in Ramallah was so eager to compromise on that most precious Palestinian right i.e. The Right of Return<\/a>. Nor will it surprise you to learn that the same Soros funded HRW has been dedicated to \u2018exposing\u2019 of Hamas\u2019 failures on human rights issues<\/a><\/span>? Is this not what you would expect from a liberal Zionist spin meisters<\/i>?<\/p>\n In my new satirical work, A Glossary of Zionist Power which I am now completing, I include entries for Soros and his Open Society. In the book, Soros is a \u2018Jew who supports a lot of good causes that are also very good for the Jews\u2019 and The Open Society Foundation \u2018is dedicated to the transformation of deprived people into Guardian readers\u2019. Surely I will now have to add an entry for the HRW and Roth. Both are nothing short of \u2018Zionist fig-leaves\u2019 and, like all Jewish progressive outlets that are dedicated to Jewish tribal and ethno centric campaigning, HRW is there to monitor, control and even stifle any criticism of Israel if it should ever get too close to the bone, i.e. touching on the Jewish character of the Jewish state,<\/p>\n Prof\u2019 Falk had little chance of surviving within such a tribal milieu and the reason is pretty simple. Unlike Zionist Neuer, Liberal Zionist Soros, and \u2018Anti-Zionist Zionist\u2019 Roth, Prof\u2019 Falk actually represents the ultimate success of the Zionist project. Early Zionism promised to transform the Jews into \u2018people like all other people\u2019. Zionism vowed to bring to life a Jew who transcends the tribal, a Jew who thinks universally and ethically. Early Zionists also believed that such a transformation could be achieved only in Palestine. Of course, they were wrong but no one can ignore the fact that the greatest and most prolific Jewish universalists are actually Israelis (Prof\u2019 Yishayahu Leibovitch, Prof’ Israel Shahak, Nurit & Miko Peled, Gideon Levy, Amira Hass, Uri Avneri, Ilan Pappe, Israel Shamir and many, many more). But Prof\u2019 Falk and a few others have managed to achieve a similar goal in the Diaspora. Those Jews whom we most admire and whose integrity we most trust such as Prof\u2019 Norton Mezvinsky, Prof’ Norman Finkelstein, Prof\u2019 Falk\u00a0 – all have something in common – they do not operate within Jews-only political cells. Unlike JVP,<\/a> IJAN<\/a>, HRW and Mondweiss<\/a>, all of whom are dedicated primarily to promoting Jewish interests, they are dedicated to universal values.<\/p>\n So I argue that Prof\u2019 Falk provides us with a glimpse into the possibility of true Jewish emancipation – the capacity to break out of the mental, intellectual and non-ethical ghetto. Moreover, this latest tale of HRW\u2019s Herem (<\/i>Kosher expulsion) of one of the greatest humanists of our generation is actually an educational event.<\/p>\n For many years, many of us saw Zionism and Israel as the mother and father of contemporary evil, but now, many of us have come to realise that Jewish progressive politics is every bit as sinister but, unlike Zionism that is only tainted with deception, the Jewish progressive discourse is inherently dishonest – it speaks universal but it thinks tribal.<\/p>\n While our disagreements with Israel and Zionism are clear, the Modus operandi <\/i>adopted by AZZs and their relentless attempt to dominate the progressive discourse while, at the same time, stifling freedom of expression leaves more and more humanists suspicious of any form of Jewish politics – be it right, left or centre.<\/p>\n I like to think that my Wandering Who was the first attempt to discuss these issues openly. I wrote it because I, too, am a wanderer who decided, instead of dwelling on someone else\u2019s land, to leave my homeland. Perhaps Prof\u2019 Falk endorsed my work, because, like myself, he too is a wanderer. He self-reflects, examining his identity and his notion of justice from a transcendental point of view. Like myself, he is an artist, a poet, a man who searches, against all the odds, for beauty, peace and truth. On the other hand, George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundation\u00a0 contributed $100 million to HRW just to silence ethically and aesthetically driven souls such as Prof\u2019 Falk and others.<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n Richard Falk is a member of the TRANSCEND Network, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, author, co-author or editor of 40 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs. He is currently serving his fourth year of a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights.<\/em> Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies, and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. <\/i>His most recent book is <\/i>Achieving Human Rights (2009).<\/i><\/p>\n