For Zion-Loather Richard Falk and His Like-Minded Missus, Life is a Special Rapporteur's Banquet

Nice work if you can get it:

GENEVA – As UN chief Ban Ki-moon today joins foreign ministers from around the world in Geneva to inaugurate a month-long session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, he should tell the 47-nation body to stop a controversial appointment that will expose it to ridicule.

The secretary-general is surely looking forward to the upcoming exit of Richard Falk, the council’s pro- Hamas investigator of “Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law.”

More than once, Ban had to take the extraordinary step of condemning one of his organization’s own human rights experts – Falk – for spreading “preposterous” 9/11 conspiracy theories. After six years, term limits finally require Falk to go.

Yet it turns out that Falk may not really be leaving after all: the Human Rights Council is set to appoint his wife and closest collaborator to a similar post at the end of the month, days after Falk makes his final presentation to the plenary. 

According to a UN document circulated in Geneva, Hilal Elver – a Turkish academic on law and climate change who has been married to Falk for the past 18 years, co-authoring many of his articles – is rated first among three nominees to become the council’s next “Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.”...

Oh, look--the Missus is an expert on "Islamophobia," too: