The movie is billed as the story of Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish linguist born in Poland in the interwar period. As a young man, Lemkin was intrigued and, some may say, obsessed, by the Turkish massacre of the Armenian people. When Hitler moved on Poland in 1938, he knew what was coming and he fled, but he...
On April 1st, The Palestinian Authority formally acceded to the Rome Statute, the treaty that governs the International Criminal Court, much to the anger and apprehension of Israelis and Israel’s supporters worldwide. However, this outrage is largely misplaced. A careful analysis of the Rome Statute and...
In the aftermath of the parliamentary elections in Israel, the two primary points of focus have been two of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s statements. First was his assessment that there is no Palestinian partner for a negotiated two-state solution and, therefore, that a Palestine state would not...
