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The use of human shields in war is not a new phenomenon. Militaries have forced civilians to serve as human shields for centuries. Yet,…
Neve Gordon
During the first intifada Neve Gordon was the director of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel. He is the co-editor of Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel, the editor of From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and the author of Israel's Occupation, .
Most people probably don’t know this but Wikipedia has a page called “List of Israeli assassinations”. It begins in July 1956 and…
As the world reels from the World Central Kitchen attack in which seven aid workers in Gaza were struck and killed by…
In a glowing profile, The New York Times recently characterized Israeli particle physicist Dr. Shikma Bressler as “the face of Israel’s protests.” The description could…
On the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, it seems apt to think about how the events of 1948 have shaped not…
Sure, there is democracy in Israel—but it is more similar to the one that existed among whites in apartheid South Africa than…
If Facebook were to adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, this would be detrimental to freedom of speech.
Covid-19 has been uncovering the structural violence that states have instituted against their own populations
As the migrant caravan works its way north, and is further demonized for doing so, the world should reflect on this and how one of the pillars of international law – the category of civilian – is being eroded
The question today is how to preserve a notion of anti-anti-Semitism that rejects the hatred of Jews, but does not promote injustice and dispossession in Palestinian territories or anywhere else