The Israeli military does engage in targeted killings of high-level Palestinian terrorists, such as senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Baha Abu al-Ata. However,
Blanket claims like this divorce these terms of their legal meaning and suggest that Israel must allow its own citizens to be attacked or killed
Framing the Gaza border events as civilian “distorts reality,” said military law expert Lt. Col. Geoffrey Korn at the UN Human Rights Council, at a
Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahhar admitted to Al-Jazeera on May 13, 2018 that using the term “peaceful resistance” to describe the March of Return border confrontations
The United Nations itself, in the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry report of 2011 concerning the Mavi Marmara incident from the previous year, found that Israel’s
These statements blame Israel for the plight of Palestinians who fled their homes in Mandatory Palestine or were forced to leave as a result of
Ethnic cleansing, according to the United Nations, “has not been recognized as an independent crime under international law.” However, the term, which originated in the
Discrimination against Arab and other minority groups in Israel exists. But the notion that this is akin to apartheid South Africa—where the black majority was
Historically, dating back to the 1947 UN Partition Plan and before, it is the Palestinians who have categorically rejected opportunities for peace with Israel on
Accusing Israel of 70 years of occupation — meaning, from the moment of its birth — is to deny Israel’s right to exist. Israel recently