Word: dershowitz
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Palestinians challenged the legality of Israel’s West Bank separation barrier before an international court yesterday while the Israelis, after consulting with legal experts including Harvard professor Alan M. Dershowitz, refused to participate in the hearings...
...advised the Israeli government not to become involved in the case at all since it’s an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ legal proceeding,” said Dershowitz, who is Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School...
...General Assembly already declared the fence illegal and they’re just sending it to this court for a rubber stamp,” said Dershowitz, whose advice was solicited by the Israeli government...
...Dershowitz, however, characterized the 15-judge panel of the ICJ as a “kangaroo court,” likening it to a southern United States court during an era of heightened racial tension...
...Hamdi and Weinfeld face an uphill battle. The first three sessions revolved around factual disputes rather than substantive exchanges. Meanwhile, as Dershowitz notes, faculty have failed to provide any model for dialogue on Arab-Jewish issues. Most importantly, in a phenomenon not limited to Harvard, increasingly extreme viewpoints are drowning out more conciliatory ones...