The moral clarity of
Richard Falk
14 November
2014
“The Palestinian struggle for
self-determination has become the great international moral issue of our time,”
the international law expert Richard
Falk declares in his latest book, Palestine: The
Legitimacy of Hope (Just World Books).
Falk calls it “the last major anticolonial struggle.”
In this wide-ranging book, the
professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University embraces the boycott,
divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, advocates abandoning
the two-state solution and argues that the
best way of understanding Israel is as a settler-colonial state.
He notes that the importance of BDS lies in the fact that it is
Palestinian-led and that Israel has “no intention of allowing a viable
Palestinian state to be established.”