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Facing recurrent cycles of terror-violence in a “state of nature,” Israel must defend itself in both law and strategy. Though generally unacknowledged, this dual-level defense could prove gainful not just for Israel, but also for other “civilized nations” in world politics. A patently core obligation, it is universal in scope and justice-seeking in objective. Multiple [...]

Israel’s Supreme Court issued an injunction on Friday, temporarily freezing the dismissal of Ronen Bar, the head of the domestic intelligence service, known as Shin Bet. This comes hours after the Israeli cabinet voted unanimously to dismiss Ronen Bar by April 10 at the latest. According to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement, Ronen Bar’s “directives [...]

Amnesty International condemned the EU on Thursday for refusing to condemn Israel’s recent airstrikes in Gaza, calling it “another shameful attempt to justify Israel’s genocide and war crimes against Palestinians.” In response to a statement from the European Council, the director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, Eve Geddie, observed that the EU refused to [...]

Darina Boykova is a 1L at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (CA). Last week, after a six-hour drive, I arrived in Charlevoix, Quebec, where G7 Foreign Ministers met from March 12 to 14. Hosted by Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly, the meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of the UK, Germany, [...]

The UN Human Rights chief expressed concerns over Israel’s escalation in Gaza, in a statement released on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday. Numerous airstrikes and shelling took place overnight which led to the death of hundreds of Palestinians. The Israel Defence Forces stated that they continued to strike terror targets belonging to “Palestinian Islamic Jihad [...]

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s actions to deport Palestinian activists. The lawsuit seeks a nationwide injunction against executive orders that violate scholars’ freedom of speech. ADC filed the complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York against President [...]

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday arrested another Palestinian who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and announced the self-deportation to India of another student whose visa had been revoked in 2022. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested by ICE [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Friday for the immediate release of investigative journalists Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwani, stating that their detention by authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan is on “baseless” grounds, and intended to silence critical reporting. Bazyani, the founder of the newly established digital media outlet Media21, was arrested by Kurdish security forces [...]

A report presented to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday found that Israel’s military operations in Gaza since October 7, 2023 have disproportionately impacted Palestinian women and girls, through their systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence. The report, which was presented by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on [...]

Last month, actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their Santa Fe home. Along with their bodies, one of the couple’s dogs, a 12-year-old Australian kelpie named Zinna, was also found dead. How they died matters, as in all cases of unexplained death. When death appears to be criminal, investigators [...]