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Western Feminism Before And After October 7, Lama Abu-Odeh Jan 2024

Western Feminism Before And After October 7, Lama Abu-Odeh

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this interview, I provide my view on the state of Western feminism before and after the assault on Gaza. The interview includes discussion of the various strands of emergent feminisms in the West and some of their offshoots as they appear in Palestine in the context of Israeli colonialism and resistance to it.


The Lessons Of 9/11 For October 7, Mary Ellen O'Connell Oct 2023

The Lessons Of 9/11 For October 7, Mary Ellen O'Connell

NDLS in the News

October 7 is being called Israel’s 9/11. The comparison is apt for the lessons that can be learned as to the legality of launching a ground offensive to respond to terrorism.


Framing Israel: The U.N. Commission Of Inquiry On The Spring 2018 Gaza Border Confrontations, Peter Margulies, Geoffrey S. Corn Mar 2019

Framing Israel: The U.N. Commission Of Inquiry On The Spring 2018 Gaza Border Confrontations, Peter Margulies, Geoffrey S. Corn

Law Faculty Scholarship

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The Idf Mag’S Gaza Report And Its Critics: Context, Compliance, And Credibility, Peter Margulies, Geoffrey Corn Sep 2018

The Idf Mag’S Gaza Report And Its Critics: Context, Compliance, And Credibility, Peter Margulies, Geoffrey Corn

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Captive: Zoometric Operations In Gaza, Irus Braverman Jan 2017

Captive: Zoometric Operations In Gaza, Irus Braverman

Journal Articles

“We are the only people in this world who are living under such total occupation. Israel sees us as being equal to our animals, and sometimes they even value us less than our animals.” This quote, from the founder of the Gaza Zoo, demonstrates both the significance and the complexities of human-animal relations in Gaza, especially at times of siege and war. My article draws on ethnographic encounters and investigative analysis to relay how Gaza’s spatial confinement generally, and the Israeli incursion into Gaza of summer 2014 in particular, has lent itself to a radicalized discursive interplay between the animalization …


Civilian Deaths In Gaza Conflict Are Not Automatically A War Crime, Gregory L. Rose Jan 2014

Civilian Deaths In Gaza Conflict Are Not Automatically A War Crime, Gregory L. Rose

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Inevitably, the United Nations Human Rights Council has expressed its condemnation of Israel and launched a war crimes inquiry. The vote on July 23 followed the usual political lines that have previously resulted in the 47-member council being critiqued for bias even by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The resolution was supported by 29 council members (for example Organisation for Islamic Co-operation states, Latin American nations, China, India), opposed by the US and abstained from by 17 mostly European countries.


Foreign Private Investment In Palestine: An Analysis Of The Law On The Encouragement Of Investment In Palestine, David P. Fidler Jan 1995

Foreign Private Investment In Palestine: An Analysis Of The Law On The Encouragement Of Investment In Palestine, David P. Fidler

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This Article analyzes the Investment Law and its prospects for encouraging foreign businesses to invest in Gaza and the West Bank (collectively, "Palestinian Territories"). A brief analysis of the importance of foreign private investment to the peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and the progress made towards attracting such investment in Gaza and the West Bank since the September 1993 signing of the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, serves as a prelude to a detailed examination of the text of the Investment Law. The author then compares the Investment Law to the latest international practices …