Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
Author: Noura Erakat
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Year of Publication: 2019
Print Length: 352 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Law, Political Science
Area: Palestine/Israel, Middle East, The Levant
Topic: Palestine, Ethics, Law, Jurisprudence, Legal Theory, History, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Decolonization & Anti-Colonization, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Governance, Independence & Liberation, Peace, Politics & Power, Social Justice, Zionism
Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict’s most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel’s settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Israel’s military offensives in the Gaza Strip. The Oslo Accord’s two-state solution is now dead letter.
Justice for Some offers a new approach to understanding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, told through the power and control of international law. Focusing on key junctures―from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to present-day wars in Gaza―Noura Erakat shows how the strategic deployment of law has shaped current conditions. Over the past century, the law has done more to advance Israel’s interests than the Palestinians’. But, Erakat argues, this outcome was never inevitable.
Law is politics, and its meaning and application depend on the political intervention of states and people alike. Within the law, change is possible. International law can serve the cause of freedom when it is mobilized in support of a political movement. Presenting the promise and risk of international law, Justice for Some calls for renewed action and attention to the Question of Palestine.
Table of Contents
Maps
Preface
Introduction
1. Colonial Erasures
2. Permanent Occupation
3. Pragmatic Revolutionaries
4. The Oslo Peace Process
5. From Occupation to Warfare
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Noura Erakat is Palestinian-American. She works as human rights attorney and Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including “Gaza In Context” and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.”
Source: https://ccrjustice.org/home/who-we-are/board/erakat-noura
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