The Hague Group Must Become a Global Initiative
The formation of The Hague Group is a critical step toward saving the international legal order. More states need to follow through to ensure the end of systemic impunity.
Category: Columns
Academic freedom and democracy: to say everything, not anything
Revue des droits de l’homme – N°26
Éric Fassin
https://doi.org/10.4000/12hrc
I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office
Ministers and senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen. I urge my former colleagues to resist them
Jabaliya Is Now a City of Rubble
I saw northern Gaza for the first time in 15 months: debris and dust—that is all that is left.
As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it
I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction?
Albina Abu Safiya: ‘The Israeli army deliberately targeted my husband’
Following Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s arrest in northern Gaza, his wife describes her fears over the hospital director’s fate and the tragedy of their son’s killing.
Whose Holocaust is This?
Even those with the most vivid imaginations could not have envisioned the turn that the lessons of the Holocaust, commemorated internationally today, would take. Never before has Israel been in such a morally diminished position to represent the survivors who rebuilt their lives here after the Holocaust. Never before has it so starkly contradicted its ability to uphold the messages of the Holocaust and advocate for its universal lessons.
‘No Innocents in Gaza’: Reflecting on Israel’s First Fascist War
The war that is supposed to end Sunday will go down in history as the First Kahane War. It is fundamentally different from all of Israel’s previous wars.
In Solidarity With Katherine Franke, Our Former Board Chair
Prof. Franke Will No Longer Teach at Columbia Law School, Stemming from her Defense of Palestinian Students
The Growing Rift between Holocaust Scholars over Israel/Palestine
A chasm has formed between Holocaust scholars concerning Israel/Palestine, deepening immeasurably since 7 October 2023. Unlike previous controversies in the field, the divide is not just historical or methodological; it revolves around academics’ role in the world today, particularly the public stand they choose to take on Palestine/Israel and Zionism. Two main camps have formed. Put reductively, one camp defends Israel, while the other defends Palestinians, although differences between individual scholars within each camp make for more of a spectrum than a clear-cut divide. How, despite a diversity of ideas and foci within each camp, did two academic-political antipodes solidify over several decades, and how have 7 October and the ensuing war widened the rift between them?