Prof. Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus at Princeton and former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights, and his wife, were stopped and interrogated at the Canadian border three days ago, on their way to speak at a conference of the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility for the Genocide in Gaza. Falk, who is also the president of the Gaza Tribunal on Genocide in Gaza, an international organization, and his wife Hilal Elver, a UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, were detained and questioned for four hours.
Falk told Al Jazeera: “A security person came and said, ‘We’ve detained you both because we’re concerned that you pose a national security threat to Canada. It was my first experience of this sort—ever—in my life.’” This occurred on Professor Falk’s 95th birthday, and a week before he plans to address the International Peace Coalition on the work of the Gaza Tribunal.
The Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility conference brought together international human rights and legal experts on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14 and 15, to examine the Canadian government’s role in Israel’s two-year bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
