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Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine and a leading voice in international law, has spent decades exposing the structures of power that shape the lives of Palestinians. In this conversation with John Kiriakou, he explains why Gaza remains under unrelenting destruction, why the so-called ceasefire is a diplomatic fiction, and why third party complicity keeps a collapsing system alive.
He first revisits his recent incident in Canada, when he was interrogated on his ninety-fifth birthday as a supposed security threat, revealing how far governments go to block scrutiny of their actions. The tribunal he was traveling to gathered survivors of the genocide in Gaza and experts tracing the chain of complicity from Washington and Ottawa to private actors. That alone triggered pressure and intimidation.
Falk stresses that the ceasefire is not a real pause but continued suffering under a softer label. Violations persist and Palestinians still face destroyed homes, blocked aid, and a landscape made deliberately unlivable. Gaza has become a flooded wasteland of tents. The aim is to make life so unbearable that Palestinians die or leave, a modern form of ethnic cleansing defended by governments claiming moral authority.
He also highlights the deeper political project. These policies are not a deviation but the continuation of a plan to secure a single state built on Jewish supremacy, anchored in the 2018 Basic Law that grants self-determination only to Jews and backed by an ultraright coalition that greenlights settler violence. This is not a fringe dynamic but a state-driven effort to tighten control and push Palestinians out of their land.
Falk argues that Western governments, especially the United States and Europe, are not neutral. They finance, shield, and legitimise the system while posing as mediators. Even the proposal to place Gaza under Western administration is a colonial project dressed as transition, an effort to manage a population rather than respect its rights. He calls it 'zombie colonialism', a revival of structures that should have ended with European empire.
He warns that the Palestinian struggle resembles other anticolonial turning points. Either the system escalates into more extreme violence or it breaks under its own contradictions, much as apartheid South Africa eventually did when external pressure and internal resistance converged. Public opinion in Western societies is shifting and political elites are increasingly out of step, widening a gap that becomes harder for governments to ignore.
Falk ends by showing how pressure shifts power. Israel's leadership is fracturing, allies are more cautious, and the pro-Israel lobby in the United States has weakened after months of atrocities, creating space to question policies once seen as fixed.
Full interview: https://lnkd.in/ekKnu5bD
hashtag#humanrights hashtag#ceasefirenow hashtag#palestine hashtag#gaza
Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine and a leading voice in international law, has spent decades exposing the structures of power that shape the lives of Palestinians. In this conversation with John Kiriakou, he explains why Gaza remains under unrelenting destruction, why the so-called ceasefire is a diplomatic fiction, and why third party complicity keeps a collapsing system alive.
He first revisits his recent incident in Canada, when he was interrogated on his ninety-fifth birthday as a supposed security threat, revealing how far governments go to block scrutiny of their actions. The tribunal he was traveling to gathered survivors of the genocide in Gaza and experts tracing the chain of complicity from Washington and Ottawa to private actors. That alone triggered pressure and intimidation.
Falk stresses that the ceasefire is not a real pause but continued suffering under a softer label. Violations persist and Palestinians still face destroyed homes, blocked aid, and a landscape made deliberately unlivable. Gaza has become a flooded wasteland of tents. The aim is to make life so unbearable that Palestinians die or leave, a modern form of ethnic cleansing defended by governments claiming moral authority.
He also highlights the deeper political project. These policies are not a deviation but the continuation of a plan to secure a single state built on Jewish supremacy, anchored in the 2018 Basic Law that grants self-determination only to Jews and backed by an ultraright coalition that greenlights settler violence. This is not a fringe dynamic but a state-driven effort to tighten control and push Palestinians out of their land.
Falk argues that Western governments, especially the United States and Europe, are not neutral. They finance, shield, and legitimise the system while posing as mediators. Even the proposal to place Gaza under Western administration is a colonial project dressed as transition, an effort to manage a population rather than respect its rights. He calls it 'zombie colonialism', a revival of structures that should have ended with European empire.
He warns that the Palestinian struggle resembles other anticolonial turning points. Either the system escalates into more extreme violence or it breaks under its own contradictions, much as apartheid South Africa eventually did when external pressure and internal resistance converged. Public opinion in Western societies is shifting and political elites are increasingly out of step, widening a gap that becomes harder for governments to ignore.
Falk ends by showing how pressure shifts power. Israel's leadership is fracturing, allies are more cautious, and the pro-Israel lobby in the United States has weakened after months of atrocities, creating space to question policies once seen as fixed.
Full interview: https://lnkd.in/ekKnu5bD
hashtag#humanrights hashtag#ceasefirenow hashtag#palestine hashtag#gaza
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