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Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and Its Impact on American Muslims
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[The following press release and report were issued by the Muslim American Civil Liberties Coalition (MACLC), and its partner organizations the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsability (CLEAR) project of CUNY School of Law, and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).] New Report Launch: NYPD and Its Impact on American Muslims On March 11, 2013, members of the American Muslim community will release findings from a ground-breaking new report, Mapping Muslims: NYPD Spying and its Impact on American Muslims at 1 Police Plaza, and deliver the report New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy Commissioner ...
Keep Reading »On The Barring of International Observers from Trial Against UAE Activists
![[Alkarama Foundation logo]](/content_images/3/sm_AlkaramalogoTRUEweb.jpg "[Alkarama Foundation logo]")
[The following statement was issued by the Alkarama Foundation on 3 March 2013.] Ninety-four peaceful activists are due to be brought before the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi tomorrow morning, Monday, 4 March 2013, on state security offences. Limited access to lawyers, withholding of evidence and details on the charges by the State Prosecution, no right to appeal the court's decision, detentions in undisclosed locations... before the trial even began, flagrant flaws in the "UAE 94" case have been reported, recalling the irregularities which marred the case of the "UAE 5" in 2011. The refusal to allow Ms Noemie Crotta from the Alkarama ...
Keep Reading »Global Ban on CS Gas is Needed
![[Clashes between protestors and riot police after a funeral in Sitra. 1 January 2012. Image from Saeed Saif.]](/content_images/3/sm_ClashesbetweenprotestorsandriotpoliceafterafuneralinSitraonJanuary1.2012.ImagefromSaeedSaif.jpg "[Clashes between protestors and riot police after a funeral in Sitra. 1 January 2012. Image from Saeed Saif.]")
To mark the second anniversary of the February 14 Bahraini uprising, Pr. Damian McCormack, Pr. David Grayson and Tara O'Grady call for a ban on CS gas. CS gas, 2-chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile, is a chemical weapon which is banned in warfare by the OPCW (Organisation for Prevention of Chemical Weapons) under the Chemical Weapons Convention, 1993. However, its misuse as a crowd control tear gas in peacetime is causing significant mortality and morbidity. We have retrieved and analyzed samples from tear gas canisters used in Bahrain and have unequivocally demonstrated the presence of the CS agent. At least fifty-four deaths have been attributed to the ...
Keep Reading »The Disappearing Frontiers of US Homeland Security: Mapping the Transit of Security across the US and Israel
![[Memebers of an Israeli police SWAT team perform during a training exercise organized by the Anti-Defamation League as part of a exchange program between Israel and US security officials in Holon, Israel on 10 September 2008. A delegation of over a dozen chiefs of police from major cities in the United States observed the training exercise by the Israeli SWAT team. Image by Bernat Armangue via Associated Press.]](/content_images/3/sm_AP08091005774.jpg "[Memebers of an Israeli police SWAT team perform during a training exercise organized by the Anti-Defamation League as part of a exchange program between Israel and US security officials in Holon, Israel on 10 September 2008. A delegation of over a dozen chiefs of police from major cities in the United States observed the training exercise by the Israeli SWAT team. Image by Bernat Armangue via Associated Press.]")
In the wake of the 1995 Israeli bombing of the UN refugee camp at Qana in Lebanon, a videotape of the massacre was distributed across global media. The African American poet June Jordan, who had participated in US-based Palestine solidarity movements and would visit Lebanon in 1996, thought that the video would be a turning point in global opinion of Israel. Writing in the Progressive magazine, Jordan linked the Qana bombing to military and police violence she had witnessed in urban Black communities in the United States. “Here was the Rodney King video of the Middle East. At least, here was incontrovertible evidence of Israeli lies and Israeli savagery that no one could ...
Keep Reading »Gerrymandering in Bahrain: Twenty-One Persons, One Vote
![[Image from bahrainwatch.org]](/content_images/3/sm_bahrain022113thumbweb.jpg "[Image from bahrainwatch.org]")
[The following article was issued by Bahrain Watch on 11 February 2013.] With the the start of yet another “National Dialogue” arranged by the Bahraini government yesterday, the Bahrain Watch team thought it would be appropriate to highlight the issue of gerrymandering which will certainly be brought up during the talks. The question of gerrymandered voting districts has been one of the major sticking points between the government and opposition since 2002, when King Hamad unilaterally imposed a new constitution in Bahrain. The opposition insists that the electoral districts have been unfairly engineered by the government such that the opposition would never ...
Keep Reading »Highly Unorthodox: The Week Lebanon Went Secular (And Ended Up More Sectarian Than Ever…)
![[Mock Lebanese license plate, as part of 2005 anti-sectarian ad campaign. Image from 05amam.org.]](/content_images/3/sm_car_en.jpg "[Mock Lebanese license plate, as part of 2005 anti-sectarian ad campaign. Image from 05amam.org.]")
When some future historian writes a chronicle of twenty-first-century Lebanon, she will likely devote a bemused footnote to the odd events of February 2013, when the country’s leaders saw fit to tear down a pillar of the confessional regime one week, only to erect another one a week later. On 11 February, the Justice Ministry ruled that the recent civil marriage of Khouloud Sukkarieh and Nidal Darwish was legal, thereby establishing a momentous precedent that will likely have serious repercussions on the hold of religious authorities over personal status issues in Lebanon. As I suggested in a piece for Jadaliyya last month: The ...
Keep Reading »SJP National Voices Support for University of California Organizers
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[The following statement was issued by Students for Justice in Palestine on 5 February 2013.] Nearly fifty years ago, students at the University of California fought to win the right to free speech on their campuses. It is deplorable that today, pro-Palestinian students must find themselves fighting once again for their basic rights. As the Ad Hoc Steering Committee for the National Students for Justice in Palestine Conference, we write to express our solidarity with organizers and academics at California public universities advocating for Palestinian rights, and decry the troubling pattern of institutional intimidation and silencing of Palestine solidarity work taken ...
Keep Reading »Lawfare and Armed Conflict: Comparing Israeli and US Targeted Killing Policies and Challenges against Them
![[Lisa Hajjar. Image from below video]](/content_images/3/sm_lisakellan.png "[Lisa Hajjar. Image from below video]")
In this public lecture, I engage the concept of lawfare (an amalgamation of “law” and “warfare”) to compare Israeli and US twenty-first century armed conflicts. Specifically, I focus on both states’ targeted killing policies and the legal rationales that have been advanced to try to project their lawfulness, and legal challenges to these policies in order to tell a larger story about the relationship between contemporary practices of law and war. In order to tell this story, I expand the lawfare concept to include “state lawfare” to describe how officials—in this case Israelis and Americans—have interpreted the state’s rights to combat enemies and wage war in ways that ...
Keep Reading »Military Justice? Palestinians in Israeli Courts (Video)
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The Center for Palestine Studies (CPS) at Columbia University has developed a new project on Palestine and law, which consists of a series of panels with some of the world's leading legal scholars on Palestine. The aim of the series is to promote innovative academic thought on legal questions related to Palestine. The issues covered will include the state question, property issues, from possession to dispossession; the sphere of litigation; the legal status of the refugee; and regimes of imprisonment. On 3 December 2012, CPS hosted a panel entitled, “Military Justice? Palestinians in Israeli Courts,” with the scholars below. Panelists examined litigation before both ...
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 state will undergo the review every three years. As of 2011, all 193 UN member states had undergone a review. The Human Rights Council conducted Israel's UPR in 2009. In response to the ...
Keep Reading »Will Civil Marriage End Lebanon’s Confessional System?
![[Chart showing confessional allotment of parliamentary seats in Lebanon. Image from anigalla.net]](/content_images/3/sm_eliascivmar.jpg "[Chart showing confessional allotment of parliamentary seats in Lebanon. Image from anigalla.net]")
In tying the matrimonial knot last week, Kholoud Succariyeh and Nidal Darwish sliced through a cultural, legal, sectarian knot of Gordian proportions. The pair became the first couple in history to be wed in a civil marriage on Lebanese soil. Until last week, Lebanese citizens (or, only those who can afford it) have generally traveled to Cyprus to get hitched. The only way to do the deed inside Lebanon requires a contract issued by religious personal status authorities, with all the legal implications and bureaucratic entanglements that such a requirement presents. The civil society group that facilitated the union—al-Markaz al-Madani li-al-Mubadara al-Wataniyya (The ...
Keep Reading »Kuwaiti MPs Propose a New Bedoon Law
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[The following report was originally issued by BedoonRights.org on 19 January 2012.] On Sunday, 20 January, a new proposal will be made in the parliament regarding the Bedoon issue. According to MP Khaled AlShlaimi, the law will include 17 articles. The law will define a Bedoon as a person who is registered in the Central Agency for Illegal Residents and lives in Kuwait. He also stated that the law, if passed, will give IDs valid for five years to Bedoon designating their nationality as "undefined." Those IDs would be approved to be used in official places and courts in Kuwait. AlShlaimi added that the law would grant Bedoon ...
Keep Reading »Petition: Stop the "Green Building" Draft Law in Lebanon
For the past six months, the Lebanese government has been stalling in implementing the salary adjustment and wage scale for public employees it had approved in September 2012. The last few weeks have seen an increase in workers’ unions' organized strikes across Lebanese cities demanding the immediate application of the authorized salary increase (see Khaled Saghieh’s article in Jadaliyya for more analysis). The government claims it is still looking into sources of revenue to fund this adjustment. One of ...
Keep Reading »Lebanon's Sect Addiction
Lebanese MPs outraged secularists and campaigners opposed to sectarian politics this past week by provisionally approving a voting law that would make it so citizens could only vote for candidates of their own sect. The so-called Orthodox Gathering draft law still needs to pass a parliamentary vote—but activists and youth groups have already decried it as a step back from representative democracy and a lurch towards confessional – some claimed racist – politics. The bill was championed by ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (February 26)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "In Syria, New Influx of Weapons to Rebels Tilts the Battle Against Assad", Liz Sly, Karen DeYoung Sly and DeYoung of The ...
Keep Reading »قضاة مصر: قدرة تحرك هائلة في خدمة أي وظيفة قضائية؟
حراك جديد لقضاة مصر في غضون أقل من سبع سنوات. ففي خطوة أصبحت جزءاً مألوفاً من المشهد السياسي المصري في العقود الأخيرة، اندفع عدد كبير من القضاة انطلاقاً من ناديهم المركزي ومن أنديتهم الفرعية وأيضاً من الجمعيات العمومية للمحاكم للتعبير عن اعتراضهم الشديد على مقررات الرئيس المصري محمد مرسي، وبشكل خاص ازاء اعلانه الدستوري المكمل الصادر في 21 نوفمبر 2012. وكان الإعلان قد آل باسم الثورة إلى المس بالوظيفة القضائية في معظم مواده: فإلى جانب إقالة النائب العام وتحصين مجلس الشورى واللجنة التأسيسية أزاء الدعاوى ...
Keep Reading »The Silence of the Law: Khaled Fahmy on Shari'a and the Origins of the Egyptian Legal System (Video)
What does it mean to implement shari'a today? Khaled Fahmy, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the American University in Cairo, tackles this question by examining Egypt's encounter with modernity in the nineteenth century and the origins of the Egyptian legal system. The interview was produced the by the American University of Cairo Office of Communications.
Keep Reading »Civil Marriage Fatwas, the Lebanese State, and Renegade Bacteria
For some philosophers, the condition of being contemporary is to actually be anachronistic to and critical of the present, to see its darkness, and to avoid being absorbed by the vortex of neo-liberal capitalism, not to mention by the devastating logics of Lebanese political discourse. When the Sunni Mufti of Lebanon, Mohammad Rashid Qabbani–not a philosopher except in the colloquial sense–declared a fatwa on 28 January 2013 against those who support or endorse civil marriage in Lebanon, stating in clear ...
Keep Reading »The Show Trial of Port Said
The second anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, and the first under Muslim Brotherhood rule, was never going to pass peacefully. Nationwide, pro-democracy demonstrations were planned in protest at undemocratic decrees and increased police brutality under the current government, and the general lack of progress made in meeting the demands of the revolution raised two years earlier. In the Canal Zone cities of Suez, Ismailiyya and Port Said, it was marked by protests and battles between civilians and ...
Keep Reading »Letter from Faculty Union at CUNY in Support of Brooklyn College Israel Forum
[The following letter was issued by the CUNY Faculty Union on 5 February 2013.] Congressman Jerrold Nadler Congresswoman Yvette Clarke Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez Congressman Hakeem Jeffries NY City Council Speaker Christine Quinn NY City Comptroller John Liu NY City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz NY State Senator Kevin Parker NY State Senator Daniel Squadron NY State Assemblywoman Rhoda Jacobs NY State Assemblyman Karim Camara NY ...
Keep Reading »Turkish Progressive Lawyers Association Statement on Lawyers' Arrests
[The following statement was issued by the Progressive Lawyers Association of Turkey on 18 January 2013.] Police terrorism against defense lawyers continues. Lawyers are being taken under custody and searches are carried out in their offices and houses as well as two offices of Progressive Lawyers’ Association. The offices of the Progressive Lawyers’ Association (ÇHD), Istanbul and Ankara Branches, The People’s Law Office (An independent law office defending the basic rights of the suppressed), and a ...
Keep Reading »A Nation Derailed
Just ten days before the second anniversary of the 25 January revolution, Egyptians awoke to another railway tragedy. A train loaded beyond its capacity with security forces recruits heading from Sohag to Cairo derailed in the Badrashin area of Giza leaving nineteen dead and over 120 injured, adding to the toll of deaths on train tracks in Egypt. It was only a month earlier that a rushing train in Asyut obliterated a bus full of children, killing fifty of them. In the late night hours of 14 January, ...
Keep Reading »Reporters Without Borders: Mourning Mothers Spokesperson to be Jailed for 6 Months
[The following statement was issued by Reporters Without Borders on 17 January 2013.] Reporters Without Borders is deeply concerned to learn that Mansoureh Behkish, a netizen and founder of the Mourning Mothers movement, has been told to report to the sentence application court at Tehran’s Evin prison on 29 January to begin serving a six-month jail sentence. “We urge the authorities not to jail Behkish,” Reporters Without Borders said. “The way she has been hounded for years is typical of the ...
Keep Reading »A New Revolt in Morocco?: An Interview with Mohamed El Marouani
[Mohamed El Marouani is the author of Abdessalam Yassine's funeral oration, who died on 13 December 2012. Sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for "conspiring against state security," El Marouani was released during the wake of the February 20 Movement. He is the founder of the Al Umma, which he hopes to transform into a political party, however, he has been barred from doing so. The following interview was orginally published in French on Salah Elayoubi's blog and translated to ...
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