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Occupied Territory: Human Rights Analysis

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OCCUPIED TERRITORY: Human Rights Analysis

ON THE BACKDROP OF RECENT, alarming erosions in respect for human rights in the Palestinian territory, two Israeli human rights organizations - Adv. Neta Patrick, Executive Director of Yesh Din and Tania Hary, Director of Gisha - provided the latest analysis from their work on the ground in both the West Bank and Gaza. Neta focused on shifts in policy regarding settlement expansion and the challenges faced by Palestinian landowners seeking to claim their property rights. Tania addressed reconstruction efforts two years since the last military operation in Gaza, as well as recent setbacks in access policy.

Cosponsors

The Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School
The Middle East Institute at Columbia University

 
 
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Regarding critical approaches to Human Rights Law, it may be noted that a related CPS book discussion scheduled for April 8, 2016 unfortunately had to be cancelled. The book in question is The Human Right To Dominate (Oxford, 2015), co-authored by Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon. 

 
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In 2011, as a Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia, Neta gave an incisive paper on the then new phenomenon known as “Price Tag,” which refers to Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property as the settlers’ redirected response to Israeli government policies, typically with these two words scrawled on the burnt out walls of houses or mosques. Providing detailed case illustrations, Neta documented a general pattern of legal impunity, as most of the settler-perpetrators were not prosecuted. In 2014, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Professor at Hebrew University, spoke about this same topic at a CPS cosponsored event, but with reference to acts committed in Jerusalem (see her 2016 article in the British Journal of Criminology-). (on Nadera’s work)

Tamer Marshood