In the Shadow of the Holocaust
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today.
Category: Columns
There Can Be No Critique
Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.
Gaza/Palestine: States have a Duty to Prevent Genocide
LEGAL BRIEFER: States’ Duty to Prevent Genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention
Joint Statement General Debate of the 22nd Session of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
On 8 December 2023, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Defense for Children International-Palestine, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) delivered a joint statement at the General Debate of the 22nd session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, in New York.
Civilian deaths in Gaza are a stain on Israel and its allies
Statement from Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council:
‘The Closest There Is to Hell’ | A Personal Plea From a Friend in Gaza
‘What we truly need are bulldozers to dig and lay us deep into our land’
National Statement from Jews for Palestine
We are a coalition of Jewish and Israeli students and affiliates from Harvard, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, and Jewish and Israeli organizations across the United States. In the past two months, there have been grave and chilling instances of antisemitism on our campuses. But when universities and political representatives wrongfully deploy the serious charge of antisemitism as a tool to silence criticism of the Israeli government and calls for Palestinian liberation, they undermine the severity of those horrific incidents. We are disturbed and frustrated by this dangerous conflation.
How the U.S. has fueled Israel’s decades-long war on Palestinians
The skewed numbers of those killed in and around the Gaza Strip so far — around 1,200 Israelis and 15,000 Palestinians — in the latest phase of a more than century-long conflict point to the enormous disparity between these two sides.
Destroying Gaza’s cultural heritage is a crime against humanity
Over the past several weeks, Israel’s assault on Gaza has unleashed all sorts of violence — and not just the obvious kind. As of this writing, the death toll from….
Why Does Israel Have So Many Palestinians in Detention and Available to Swap?
The last week has seen, as of November 28, the release of 69 civilians held hostage in Gaza in exchange for 180 Palestinian prisoners as part of a short-term cease-fire agreement between Israeli authorities and Palestinian armed groups.