Richard Falk is the UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestinian Territories, Board Chair, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and nominee for Nobel Peace Prize 2008-2010.
“The Olympia Food Co-op boycott of Israeli product bravely joins a growing worldwide movement on the part of citizens and the private sector to support by non-violent tangible acts the Palestinian struggle for justice and self-determination. When the UN and governments, most notably our own, fail to uphold basic rules of international humanitarian law and bring suffering to people anywhere, then there exists a human responsibility to act in solidarity. The Palestinians have been abused, and suffered for far too long, waiting futilely for their most fundamental rights to be respected.”
