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إعادة التفكير بإسرائيل – فلسطين
![[انعكاس لمنزل فلسطيني على زجاج بناء إسرائيلي في حيفا. المصدر: شيرين صيقلي]](/content_images/3/sm_nourashirin.jpg "[انعكاس لمنزل فلسطيني على زجاج بناء إسرائيلي في حيفا. المصدر: شيرين صيقلي]")
إعادة التفكير بإسرائيل – فلسطين فيما وراء موطن البانتو وفيما وراء المستوطنات بينما باشر الرئيس باراك أوباما رحلة الاستماع في الشرق الأوسط، فمن المرجح أنه شهد أثر عقدين من عملية أوسلو للسلام؛ عشرون عاماً وعشرات القمم وملايين الدولارات جميعها لم تقرّب الفلسطينيين والإسرائيليين من تأسيس سلام قابل للنجاح. لقد ارتبطت الاتفاقية التي رعتها الولايات المتحدة برُقْية تأسيس دولتين لشعبين تعيشان جنباً إلى جنب. في الواقع، فإن إسرائيل موجودة كدولة منذ 1948 وقد بقي ...
Keep Reading »Obama's Drone Leaks: New Imminence, Old Tactics
![[A Predator drone akin to those in service over Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Image by Ryo Chijiiwa.]](/content_images/3/sm_3782013422_6cd6276496_z.jpg "[A Predator drone akin to those in service over Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Image by Ryo Chijiiwa.]")
The Senate Armed Services Committee did not mention drones a single time during Senator Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearings last week. That oversight, however, says a lot more about the politics surrounding the hearings than it does about the enduring salience of drone technology to US national security policy. The Department of Justice's "white paper" obtained by NBC on Monday affirms that. The paper, drafted for some members of ...
Keep Reading »Setting New Precedents: Israel Boycotts Human Rights Session
![[Damaged and destroyed buildings in Gaza, January 2009. Image by Al-Jazeera Creative Commons Repository. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-War_in_Gaza_021_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg "[Damaged and destroyed buildings in Gaza, January 2009. Image by Al-Jazeera Creative Commons Repository. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique mechanism that intends to review the behavior of states without distinction. The UN General Assembly established it in 2006 as part of the functions of the Human Rights Council. It is a state-driven process to comprehensively assess a state's compliance with human rights law. The Human Rights Council is to hold three two-week sessions each year during which time they review the files of sixteen member states. Accordingly each ...
Keep Reading »No, Israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense In International Law Against Occupied Palestinian Territory
![[Smoke over Gaza following an Israeli airstrike. Image by Scott Bobb. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_95462168-gaza.jpg "[Smoke over Gaza following an Israeli airstrike. Image by Scott Bobb. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
On the fourth day of Israel's most recent onslaught against Gaza's Palestinian population, President Barack Obama declared, “No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.” In an echo of Israeli officials, he sought to frame Israel's aerial missile strikes against the 360-square kilometer Strip as the just use of armed force against a foreign country. Israel's ability to frame its assault against territory it occupies ...
Keep Reading »Quick Thoughts on the Significance of the November 2012 Palestine UN Bid
![[Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, addresses the general debate of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly on 25 September 2009. Image by Marco Castro via Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_3962423005_03f766623c.jpg "[Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, addresses the general debate of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly on 25 September 2009. Image by Marco Castro via Flickr.]")
The Palestinian UN bid for non-member observer status will certainly pass today as the majority of UN member states have expressed their support for the initiative. The positive vote will do little to alter the course of Israel's ongoing settler-colonial expansion in the West Bank, or its racially motivated policies aimed at the forced population transfer of non-Jewish Palestinians throughout Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Still, the significance of ...
Keep Reading »The UN at ASIL: R2P and the Arab Uprisings
![[Image of a UN Peacekeeping Forces Helmet. Image by Daniel Košinár. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_bluehelmetschmelz.jpg "[Image of a UN Peacekeeping Forces Helmet. Image by Daniel Košinár. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
The Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, Patricia O Brien, recently addressed the American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting at the University of Georgia School of Law. In her representative capacity, O’Brien dedicated her luncheon remarks to a discussion about the still-developing concept of responsibility to protect. (She contributed the full remarks as an IntLawGrrls post.) Also known by its shorthand abbreviation, R2P, the ...
Keep Reading »The US on Trial in NY: The Russell Tribunal on Palestine
![[President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the South Lawn of the White House. Image by Peter Souza. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Barack_and_Bibi.jpg "[President Barack Obama talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the South Lawn of the White House. Image by Peter Souza. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
Last week at the UN General Assembly, Barack Obama, President of the world's most powerful country, exalted the United Nations and the ideals upon which it was built. Namely, that "people can resolve their differences peacefully, that diplomacy can take the place of war; and that in an interdependent world, all of us have a stake in working towards greater opportunity and security for our citizens." Yet, as global superpower and a veto-holding ...
Keep Reading »Statehood Bid One Year Later: No State, No Bid, No Freedom
![[Palestinians wave flags during a rally in support of the Palestinian bid for statehood recognition in the United Nations, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Image by AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh]](/content_images/3/sm_psb3.jpg "[Palestinians wave flags during a rally in support of the Palestinian bid for statehood recognition in the United Nations, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Image by AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh]")
In early August 2012, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to renew the United Nations statehood bid in September: "Even if this step conflicts with other parties' interests … [W]e will not step back. . . . Israel neither halted settlement activities, nor recognized the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967 as occupied territory. Thus, the only choice we have is to go to the UN equipped with a united Arab mandate." Yet, only a few ...
Keep Reading »Palestinian Politics: Representation and Accountability (Lecture)
![[Image from video below.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-07-23at9.57.35AM.png "[Image from video below.]")
This is a video and transcript from a lecture I delivered on 18 July 2012 at the Palestine Center. It is the third and final installment of the Center's Summer Intern Lecture Series. In this talk, entitled Palestinian Politics: Representation and Accountability, I revisit the the UN Statehood Bid and discuss how the Palestinian leadership has and has not taken necessary steps to lead the Palestinian nation to independence and self-determination. I conclude by ...
Keep Reading »The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival: Showcasing Subjectivity
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In September 2011, a group of young Arab women, myself included, conspired to organize a DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival (DC-PFAF). Inspired by the gigantic models established in Toronto, Chicago, London, Houston, Ann Arbor, and Boston, we decided to emulate this model in Washington, DC. We believed it would also provide an on-going artistic project for young Palestinian organizers, many of whom are active with the US Palestinian Community Network-DC ...
Keep Reading »My 2MAS [Two-Minute Audio Sense] on Eltahawy's "Why Do They Hate Us?"
![[Image from foreignpolicy.com]](/content_images/3/sm_Foreign-Policy-magazine--001.jpg "[Image from foreignpolicy.com]")
Foreign Policy Magazine's latest edition is a special issue on Sex. Unfortunately, the Magazine considers sex in the Middle East mostly with a single article on China and a mention of it every where else across the Globe. Jadaliyya co-editors Sherene Seikaly and Maya Mikdashi wrote a stellar piece evaluating the issue and Mona Eltahawy's controversial piece, "Why Do They Hate Us?" Below, I respond to Eltahawy's piece in a two-minute audio ...
Keep Reading »Bio
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and writer. She is currently a Freedman Teaching Fellow at Temple University, Beasley School of Law and is a member of the Legal Support Network for the Badil Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights. She has taught International Human Rights Law and the Middle East at Georgetown University since Spring 2009. Most recently she served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, chaired by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich. She has helped to initiate and organize several national formations including Arab Women Arising for Justice (AMWAJ) and the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). She is a board member of the Trans-Arab Research Institute (TARI); a Policy Advisor of Al-Shabaka; a founding member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival; the development consultant for Legal Agenda; and a contributor to IntLawGrrls. Noura has appeared on MSNBC's "Up With Chris Hayes," Fox’s “The O’ Reilly Factor,” NBC’s “Politically Incorrect,” Democracy Now, and Al-Jazeera Arabic and English. Her scholarly publications include: "Litigating the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Politicization of U.S. Federal Courts" in the Berkeley Law Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, "BDS in the USA: 2001-2010," in the Middle East Report, and "U.S. vs. ICRC-Customary International Humanitarian Law and Universal Jurisdiction" forthcoming in the Denver Journal of International Law & Policy. She is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya.com. You can follow her on Twitter at @4noura.
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