Israel must leave Syria
The country’s massive assault on Syrian sovereignty at a time of crisis is framed as an act of self-defense
Neve Gordon
Neve Gordon is a professor of human rights law at Queen Mary University of London.
Thursday
Israel must leave Syria
As I walked through Vienna last weekend, I happened upon several protests organised by Syrian refugees celebrating the downfall of Bashar al-Assad, the butcher from Damascus. People were singing, some even crying, as they rejoiced the end of the father-and-son al-Assad dictatorship, which had lasted 53 years. The protestors had not yet seen the images
Sunday
The ICC is right to pursue Benjamin Netanyahu
On 20 May, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan tried to push the borders of the ‘permissible’. In an extraordinary rebuke of existing practice, he not only sought arrest warrants for Hamas leaders who allegedly planned the 7 October, 2023, attack on Israeli military bases, kibbutzim, towns and the Nova music festival where 815 civilians, among them
The ICC is right to pursue Benjamin Netanyahu
Khan probably thought to himself that if he did not make a move, nothing would change