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The United Nations and Palestine: Stranded Between Promise and Performance with Richard Falk, John Dugard and Michael Lynk
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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The United Nations and Palestine: Stranded Between Promise and Performance with Michael Lynk, Richard Falk and John Dugard
530pm UK time, Wednesday 12th April 2023 (please note the later start time) Richard Falk, John Dugard and Michael Lynk have agreed to come speak to us to celebrate the launch of their book, Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: … Continue reading
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Britain’s betrayal of the sacred trust in Palestine, Prof John Dugard
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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Israel and Palestine – A durable peace must be based on human rights & justice with Kristyan Benedict, Amnesty International UKJuly 2024 Upholding international law: dream or reality? With Dr. Ardi Imseis, Assistant Professor of Law, Queen’s UniversityJuly 2024 CONFERENCE: … 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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