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You’d have to be an undergraduate to believe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “complicated” and “controversial,” or to think there is right on both sides. So says Professor Duncan Kennedy, who sneers that these are ?...
Kennedy, like many other anti-Israel academics, attempts to reduce the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a complex puzzle to a simplistic moral fable in which the apparently stronger Israelis, by dint of their strength and success, are always wrong and the apparently weaker Palestinians are always right. But he obscures...
Israel was formally established after the United Nations voted to divide the land of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. In its very declaration of independence, Israel guaranteed equal rights to its Arab citizens. The Israeli courts protected Arab land rights and later outlawed discrimination in residential housing. Today, Israel?...
Kennedy describes the 1967 war as though Israel set out aggressively to “generate” Palestinian refugees in some grim industrial process. He also gives bizarre dates and numbers to describe the growth of Israeli settlements in the territories it occupied. The first settlements began in 1967...
He adopts the same peculiar interpretation of human rights law as the UN Human Rights Council, which is dominated by dictatorships and which denounces Israel as a matter of course but never considers Palestinian violations of Israeli rights—or Palestinian rights, for that matter. He even slips in...