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October 24, 2024 | David Daoud |

Explaining UNSC Resolution 1701 and its relation to Resolution 1559

A specious argument fueled by DC-based Lebanese activists is gaining traction. It alleges that UN Security Council Resolution 1559 (2004) takes a stronger stance against Hezbollah than its successor, Resolution...

October 10, 2024 | |

Israel Foils ISIS-Linked Terror Cell Plot to Bomb Tel Aviv Mall

An ISIS-linked plot to bomb a major mall in Tel Aviv has been foiled, according to a joint statement issued by the Israeli police and the Shin Bet security service on October...

August 5, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: August 5, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IAF Eliminates Hamas Minister Who Played ‘Significant Role’ in Seizing Humanitarian Aid Entering Gaza | Kfir Infantry Brigade Completes Training Exercise on Northern Front | IDF...

February 22, 2024 | |

U.S. Defends Israel at International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice “should not find that Israel is legally obligated to immediately and unconditionally withdraw from occupied territory,” a U.S. representative...

February 1, 2024 | Orde Kittrie |

Israel’s Day in Court and the Future of Unrwa

The head of the U.N.’s refugee agency for Palestinians must resign.

November 14, 2022 | |

Turkey Seeks Sovereign Immunity in Two Cases Before the Supreme Court

Two recent Supreme Court rulings in the United States may shed light on whether entities owned by foreign governments can claim immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA)...

June 17, 2022 | Juan C. Zarate, Sarah Watson

The Lexicon of Terror: Crystallization Of The Definition Of “Terrorism” Through The Lens Of Terrorist Financing & The Financial Action Task Force

Excerpt It is widely assumed that there is no accepted international definition of terrorism, in part because global views on what constitutes terrorism are so politically polarized as to prevent arriving...

July 25, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkish Court Takes a U-Turn, Releases American Pastor to House Arrest

In response to an appeal by U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson’s attorney, a Turkish court...

January 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Court Calls Synagogue Torching an Act to ‘Criticize Israel’

A German regional court in the city of Wuppertal affirmed a lower court decision last Friday stating that a violent attempt to burn the city's synagogue by three men in 2014 was a justified...

January 4, 2017 | Orde Kittrie |

What UNSCR 2334 Could Mean Beyond the United Nations, and How the Trump Administration Can Respond

Notwithstanding the distractions of the holiday season, a considerable debate has erupted over the significance of U.N. Security Council ...

April 11, 2016 | Grant Rumley |

Abbas Establishes New Court to Consolidate Hold on Power

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has formed a new constitutional court that will have primacy over lower courts and further entrench his hold on power, Reuters reported on Monday....

June 16, 2015 | FDD Policy Brief

South Africa Flubs its Chance at Justice for Bashir

Suspected war criminals scored a victory Monday as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir defied a South African judge’s order and...

May 29, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer, Merve Tahiroglu

If All Else Fails, Blame The Israelis

An eleventh-hour Turkish lawfare initiative may prevent Ankara's long-awaited rapprochement with Israel. Days shy of the four-year anniversary of the 2010 Mavi Marmara raid, the Istanbul Hig...

August 24, 2012 |

Mocking Justice in Norway: The Breivik Trial Targets Contrarian Intellectuals

“Wow.” This is the only word Tonje Brenna heard Anders Behring Breivik utter as he methodically killed sixty-nine of her fellow Norwegian Labor Party acti...

July 24, 2012 |

Egypt and the Rule of Law

Last week, Egypt’s administrative court tried to invalidate the assembly charged with drafting the country’s first constitution since protesters overthrew president Hosni Mubarak over...

July 17, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Gunpowder & Lead |

Islamism in the Popular Imagination

Co-authored by Lauren Morgan The term “Islamist” has been bandied about frequently since revolutionary events gripped the Arab world last year. It is a term meant to...

May 30, 2012 | Robert Barnidge Boston University International Law Journal

A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...

May 22, 2012 | Andrew McCarthy Ordered Liberty

The Supreme Court Enters the Surveillance Debate

Since 2004, the Supreme Court’s transnational progressive bloc has forged a novel — and, in my view, a damaging — judicial oversight role in American national security. The whim...

June 15, 2011 |

A Quick Way Forward After Boumediene

Either Congress reasserts itself, or terror-friendly bedlam ensues.

June 13, 2011 | Human Events

Supreme Court Wisdom Prevails in Stoneridge Case

These are challenging days for American business. Overreaction to the Enron scandal resulted in crushing regulation that has sent corporations scampering for friendlier foreign climes. Worse, a l...