A Legal Obligation to Assist Iran
Earlier today Iran began large-scale war games to simulate a response to attacks on its nuclear sites. But these games are hardly for fun, as the country intends to showcase its capability of defending against…
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My Fourth Year of Law School
From the October 2009 issue of Amicus Curiae Many law students find law school to be so painful that few can understand or relate when I say I actually enjoy the ordeal. They would probably…
Goldstone Report Could Lead to ICC Charges
The report by Justice Richard Goldstone on the Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, released yesterday, is raising some interesting legal questions. The report concluded that both Israel and the Palestinians had committed war…
Foreign state denies Canadians entry because of names
Israel targets Palestinian-Canadians Since Americans appearing to have Palestinian heritage are hit also, the US Administration is twisting Israelis’ arms to change the policy. Predictably, the Canadian government is silent.
Israeli Prof Thinks Boycott Only Way to Save Country
Prof. Neve Gordon of Ben-Gurion University, a third-generation Israeli who suffered severe war wounds resulting in physical disabilities, has come out with a strange proposition. The only way that Israel can save itself from what…
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BBC:Â Paralysed girl’s story reflects Gaza’s plight
Constitutional Lessons from an Israeli Supreme Court Justice
ÂÂI had the opportunity to hear one of the Chief Justices speak at the Israeli Supreme Court today. He explained some of the basics of the Israeli judicial system, and shared some of the challenges…
Michael Yadegari Gets In The Mind of Israel
I’m doing a law program in Israel right now with an interesting guy – Michael Yadegari, a Persian-Jewish law student from Los Angeles who did this program last year. He is currently a JD/MBA student…
Comfortable in a kippa or a kaffiyeh
Published in today’s Star and reproduced here at the request of the authors. Apartheid or no apartheid, what is going on across Canadian university campuses this week is not a mature and helpful way to…
Phyllis Bennis on Israel and International Law
Phyllis Bennis, Senior Analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies, and author of Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis, Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power,…
CUPE Seeks to Ban Israeli Academics from Ontario Campuses
In the latest idiotic move by CUPE, the union representing striking York University graduate students and contract faculty, the university workers committee will be lobbying in favour of banning Israeli academics from Ontario campuses due…
Israel and Syria Engaged in Fresh Peace Talks
Israel and Syria are publicly engaged in a new round of peace talks aimed at ending the bitter conflict between the nations that has been going on for half a century. Israel, Syria, and Turkey…