Monday 16 September 2013

Noxious Visitor Richard Falk Provokes Protests From Jewish Melburnians

Australia's multicultural public broadcasting channel SBS has covered Richard Falk's controversial visit Down Under.

This evening Israel-demonising Falk, who as I've already noted, had on Erev Yom Kippur  addressed the International Law Association's Australia branch at the Melbourne University Law School, gave a free talk entitled "Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territories" in a theatrette at the State Library of Victoria in central Melbourne,.

Melbourne's infamous weather ("four seasons in one day") was not kind to those arriving for the event, nor to the demonstrators who gathered outside to protest the talk,sponsored by the Swinburne University of Technology in addition to the Australian University, for rain pelted down.

See also: http://washingtonnote.com/richard_falk_go/
Here is a video report of the event by SBS (hat tip: reader Ian) in which the odious Falk claims to the reporter  that his infamous remarks regarding the Boston bombing were "taken out of context". 


If I obtain anymore information I'll post or link to it here.

1 comment:

  1. The night that the rains came down may explain the lack of support for the pro-Israel counter-rally mentioned in this video, aside from the fact that the counter-rally was not generally publicised beforehand.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1onssEQQhWs

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