The United Nations, international law and “lawfare”

Highlights of the Israel on Trial Conference 2023 - Greg Rose, thinc.
The United Nations, international law and “lawfare”

Highlights of the Israel on Trial Conference 2023

Gregory Rose, law professor and Director of Research at thinc., discusses the concept of “lawfare,” and explains how legal mechanisms and legal jargon are often disingenuously deployed against the State of Israel. Unlike “Rule of Law,” Lawfare is a tool for the powerful to pursue selfish ends at the expense of the weak. And so Rose shows us how nefarious actors have hijacked the term “Apartheid,” have infiltrated the International Criminal Court, and have successfully manipulated a coterie of Human Rights organizations into producing legalistic-sounding reports that have no basis in law or the reality of the Israeli-Palestinian situation.

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