Richard Falk is a renowned international law and international relations scholar who in 2014 completed a six-year term as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. The author of more than 70 books on international law and international affairs and a campaigner against the horrors of war since the days of the U.S. war in Vietnam, Falk is Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is currently affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara and directs a project on Middle Eastern politics at Istanbul's Sabanci University.
""Richard Falk writes that he has sought to be a 'truthful observer.' He has succeeded admirably, and gone well beyond."" --Noam Chomsky ""This volume, like Richard Falk himself, is equal parts brilliance and compassion. What began as blog posts blends into a distillation of a lifetime of thinking about and working on Palestine and Israel. This book has no peer."" --Lisa Hajjar, Law and Society program chair, University of California, Santa Barbara ""This is the voice of reasoned outrage. The blogosphere and legal scholarship are combined in an extraordinarily moving, detailed, and perceptive account of what Richard Falk calls the 'legitimacy struggle' of the Palestinian people. Anyone who cares about human solidarity and wants to understand what is happening now in Gaza must read this book."" --Mary Kaldor, professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics