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Neve Gordon is a Professor of International Law at Queen Mary University of London. He is also the author of Israel's Occupation and co-author of The Human Right to Dominate and Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire.
During the first intifada, he was the director of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel. Gordon is the co-editor of Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel, the editor of From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, and most recently the author of Israel's Occupation. His writings have appeared in numerous scholarly journals as well as in publications like The Washington Post, LA Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education and The National Catholic Reporter.
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Sunday, April 3, 2022Why we need to challenge Russia's human shields narrative Faced with the devastating consequences of its actions, Russia has increasingly fallen back on a single legal justification: human shields. Indeed, Moscow repeatedly suggested that Ukraine's military is deliberately using civilians as a screen to defend legitimate military targets.
Friday, August 11, 2017Does it really matter if Netanyahu ends up behind bars? To create an ideological shift, it is insufficient to cut off the king's head; rather, what is needed is a sea change in public opinion. Tragically, even if Netanyahu ends up behind bars, it appears that the colonial common sense will continue to reign for many years to come.
Monday, September 12, 2016The human rights of the settler Netanyahu's description of any potential evacuation of the West Bank colonies reflects the ethics of settler colonialism in which any attempt to dislocate the settlers is now equated with injustice. Despite Netanyahu's attempts to revise history, it is crucial to remember that state-sanctioned ethnic cleansing and ongoing human rights violations is what enabled the Jewish settlers to occupy the lands in the first place.
