{"id":306440,"date":"2025-11-03T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=306440"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:52:54","slug":"the-gaza-tribunal-charts-a-new-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/11\/the-gaza-tribunal-charts-a-new-path\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gaza Tribunal Charts a New Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>28 Oct 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"> Prof. Richard Falk reflected on the final session of the Gaza People\u2019s Tribunal held in Istanbul and described how it began in London, continued in Sarajevo, and gathered evidence and testimonies from witnesses and experts to document the ongoing genocide in Gaza. He explained that the tribunal\u2019s findings were captured in the Sarajevo Declaration, a detailed account of the legal and moral case against Israel\u2019s actions. He noted how participants, including survivors and scholars such as Haider Eid, exposed the depth of Gaza\u2019s suffering before and after October 7. Falk also discussed how Israel\u2019s manipulation of global narratives\u2014through decontextualizing events and denying Palestinian provocation\u2014has distorted public understanding of Gaza\u2019s reality. The conversation highlighted the importance of confronting these distortions and recognizing the genocide as both incremental and ongoing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gaza &amp; the World Episode 2 Featuring Richard\u00a0Falk:\u00a0The Gaza Peoples Tribunal Charts a New\u00a0Path\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bfJ94pxjiFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Prof. Richard Falk is a member of the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><strong><em>TRANSCEND Network<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>, of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em><\/a><em> Editorial Committee, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute. He directed the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly served as director the North American group in the World Order Models Project. He also is a member of the editorial board of the magazine <\/em>The Nation<em>. Between 2008 and 2014, Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. His book,\u00a0<\/em>(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance<em>\u00a0(2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are\u00a0<\/em>Power Shift\u00a0<em>(2016);\u00a0<\/em>Revisiting the Vietnam War<em>\u00a0(2017);\u00a0<\/em>On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament<em>\u00a0(2019); and\u00a0<\/em>On Public Imagination: A Political &amp; Ethical Imperative<em>, ed. with Victor Faessel &amp; Michael Curtin (2019).\u00a0He\u00a0is the author or coauthor of other books, including\u00a0<\/em>Religion and Humane Global Governance<em>\u00a0(2001),\u00a0<\/em>Explorations at the Edge of Time<em>\u00a0(1993),\u00a0<\/em>Revolutionaries and Functionaries<em>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>The Promise of World Order<em>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>Indefensible Weapons<em> (with Robert Jay Lifton, 1983),\u00a0<\/em>A Study of Future Worlds<em>\u00a0(1975), and\u00a0<\/em>This Endangered Planet\u00a0<em>(1972).\u00a0His memoir,\u00a0<\/em>Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim<em>\u00a0was published in March 2021 and received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyala Marymount University as \u2018<strong>the best book of 2021.<\/strong>\u2019 He has been nominated frequently for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>TRANSCEND VIDEOS <\/em>STAY POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS BEFORE BEING ARCHIVED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>JOIN THE BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS CAMPAIGN TO PROTEST THE ISRAELI BARBARIC GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>DON&#8217;T BUY PRODUCTS WHOSE BARCODE STARTS WITH <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>729, WHICH INDICATES THAT THEY ARE PRODUCED IN ISRAEL. 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MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR HUMAN JUSTICE!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Oct 2025 &#8211; Prof. Richard Falk reflected on the final session of the Tribunal held in Istanbul and described how it began in London, continued in Sarajevo, and gathered evidence and testimonies from witnesses and experts to document the ongoing genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[1854,3412,865,88,2571,427,944,70,965],"class_list":["post-306440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-gaza-tribunal","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-palestine","tag-richard-falk","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306441,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306440\/revisions\/306441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}