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The United Nations and Palestine: Stranded Between Promise and Performance with Richard Falk, John Dugard and Michael Lynk

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Diana Safieh

12 April 2023 Richard Falk is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Falk has published extensively with multiple books written about international law and the … Continue reading →

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Britain’s betrayal of the sacred trust in Palestine, Prof John Dugard

Posted on July 8, 2013 by admin

  British policy towards Palestine for the past 100 years has been informed by two narratives, two visions. The first is the vision of a Jewish state in Palestine, captured in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The second is the … Continue reading →

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Why Israel fears the facts: reporting on Israel’s human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the UN

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Diana Safieh

By Mandy Turner, originally for Jadaliyya [This is a review essay of Richard Falk, John Dugard, and Michael Lynk (with a foreword by Francesca Albanese), Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2022).] … Continue reading →

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How the US persistently shields Israel from accountability at the UN

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Diana Safieh

By Michael Lynk In his eloquent 2012 memoir, Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, wrote that the failure of the U.N. to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East was a deep internal wound as old … Continue reading →

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Is Israel’s rule in the occupied territories apartheid? Yes, finds report by the UN Human Rights Rapporteur

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Diana Safieh

This is the full text of the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Michael Lynk, to the UN Human Rights Council on March 21, 2022. In it, he comes to the … Continue reading →

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The label of ‘terrorist’: a bid to discredit and silence opponents

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Diana Safieh

By John Dugard The apartheid regime of South Africa initially sought to discredit its political opponents by labelling them “communists”. When the international community realized that the term was abused the regime resorted to labelling its opponents “terrorists”. This proved … Continue reading →

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The banning of human rights defenders: Israel and South Africa compared

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Diana Safieh

By John Dugard, writing for Mondoweiss, Nov 16, 2021. Even the apartheid regime in South Africa never outlawed human rights defenders in the manner that Israel just did when it declared six Palestinian organizations to be “terrorist organizations. Israel has … Continue reading →

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Britain and Palestine 1918-23

Posted on June 16, 2021 by admin

Following the Balfour Declaration of November 2nd 1917 and the fall of Jerusalem to Allenby’s troops in December 2017, Britain’s involvement in Palestine continued unabated. In spite of serious questioning from several sources, including the Mandate being voted down in … Continue reading →

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Book Reviews

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Diana Safieh

Lobbying for Zionism: On both sides of the Atlantic, Ilan PappePeter Oborne Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations, Richard Falk, John Dugard, and Michael LynkMandy Turner In Search of the River Jordan A Story of … Continue reading →

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Webinars

Posted on August 13, 2020 by Diana Safieh

The Palestinians of Israel: the historical development from 1948 to present with Thair Abu-RasDecember 2024 The role of non-violent resistance for Palestinians in the light of the Gaza war with Jonathan KuttabNovember 2024 Palestinian resistance from the PLO onwards with … Continue reading →

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