Richard Falk, a professor of international law at Princeton and the UN Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, was recently barred from entry into Israel because of what its government views as his hostility toward the country.

Israel has a point, for Falk has compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Nazi atrocities and called for more serious analysis of the conspiracy theories swirling around the 9/11 attacks. Falk also described Israel’s recent embargo on Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, as a crime against humanity, while glossing over Hamas rocket attacks against Israeli civilian centers. (New York Times)