<p>The cartoon shows a dog wearing an Israeli skullcap with the US written on its body. It is urinating on a statue of justice and eating a pile of bones.<br /><br />The image is to make the point that the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for Col Muammar Gaddafi was politically motivated.<br /><br />"I am deeply disturbed that once again UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has used his personal blog to publish abhorrent material," said Joseph M Torsella, US representative for UN Management and Reform.<br /><br />"His shameful and outrageous behaviour is an embarrassment to the United Nations.<br />"Someone who vicious images has no place in the United Nations," Torsella said.<br />"We reiterate our call for him to step down."<br /><br />An earlier post by Falk connected with 9/11 conspiracy theories had also upset the Americans.<br /><br />He had written "what fuels suspicions of conspiracy is the reluctance to address the sort of awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations."<br /><br />"Why not Syria in the current regional setting?" Falk had written under the cartoon, which he has now removed.<br /><br />"And even more starkly, why not Gaza back in 2008-09 when it was being mercilessly attacked by Israel? The answers to such questions are blowin' in the wind."<br /><br />In a post entitled - "my final attempt to clarify my posting of the cartoon", Falk says that he did not realise that the cartoon could be seen as anti-Semitic and pointed out that it would not have been on the Google search engine if it had.<br /><br />"Even now I needed a magnifying glass to identify the anti-semitic character of the dog. My vision (at 80) is pretty good, but not good enough. It looked like a helmet to me, and the main visible symbol on the dog was the USA midriff covering," Falk writes.</p>
<p>The cartoon shows a dog wearing an Israeli skullcap with the US written on its body. It is urinating on a statue of justice and eating a pile of bones.<br /><br />The image is to make the point that the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for Col Muammar Gaddafi was politically motivated.<br /><br />"I am deeply disturbed that once again UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk has used his personal blog to publish abhorrent material," said Joseph M Torsella, US representative for UN Management and Reform.<br /><br />"His shameful and outrageous behaviour is an embarrassment to the United Nations.<br />"Someone who vicious images has no place in the United Nations," Torsella said.<br />"We reiterate our call for him to step down."<br /><br />An earlier post by Falk connected with 9/11 conspiracy theories had also upset the Americans.<br /><br />He had written "what fuels suspicions of conspiracy is the reluctance to address the sort of awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations."<br /><br />"Why not Syria in the current regional setting?" Falk had written under the cartoon, which he has now removed.<br /><br />"And even more starkly, why not Gaza back in 2008-09 when it was being mercilessly attacked by Israel? The answers to such questions are blowin' in the wind."<br /><br />In a post entitled - "my final attempt to clarify my posting of the cartoon", Falk says that he did not realise that the cartoon could be seen as anti-Semitic and pointed out that it would not have been on the Google search engine if it had.<br /><br />"Even now I needed a magnifying glass to identify the anti-semitic character of the dog. My vision (at 80) is pretty good, but not good enough. It looked like a helmet to me, and the main visible symbol on the dog was the USA midriff covering," Falk writes.</p>