Policy Analysis

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Palestine/IsraelInternational Law
Accountability for War Crimes in Gaza: Where We Are
Aug 13, 2025Sarah Leah Whitson
The global struggle to hold Israel accountable for war crimes in Gaza represents a critical test for international justice. At stake is not only the enforcemen…
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LevantJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Israel’s Justice System and the Genocidal War on Gaza
May 30, 2025Nareman Shehadeh-Zoabi
IntroductionDespite attempts to portray it as liberal, many consider the justice system in Israel to be part of Israel’s illiberal political system. This is b…
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LebanonJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Resumption of Beirut Port Blast Investigation Offers Lebanon New Hope
May 15, 2025Patricia Karam
Nearly five years after the devastating explosion at the Port of Beirut that killed some 220 people, injured some 7,000, and left a large portion of the city i…
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Palestine/IsraelIsraeli War Tactics and Genocide
Israeli Practices in the Occupied West Bank: A Prelude to Annexation
May 7, 2025Jonathan Kuttab
While world attention has focused on the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for the past year and a half, significant events in the occupied West Bank have gone les…
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US Foreign Policy
Restructuring the US Department of State: The De-prioritization of Human Rights?
May 2, 2025Annelle Sheline
On April 22, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a proposed “comprehensive reorganization plan” of the US Department of State. The information that he pos…
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LevantIsraeli War Tactics and Genocide
The Lessons from Gaza Manifest in the West Bank: Israel’s Escalating Threats to Palestinian Life
Feb 26, 2025Yara M. Asi
Palestinian fatalities from Israeli military actions and settler violence have reached unprecedented heights since October 2023.
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Palestine/IsraelInternational Law
The Slowdown in Enforcing International Law
Jan 29, 2025Jonathan Kuttab
International law has helped govern the behavior of states for hundreds of years. Early principles like the prohibition on poisoning wells (rooted in just war …
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SyriaJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Liberation from the “Human Slaughterhouse”: A Dark History of Imprisonment in Syria
Jan 28, 2025Yara M. Asi
Assad's regime imprisoned more than 150,000 people, including some 5,000 children. Multiple reports have emerged of horrific torture, neglect, and murder insid…
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Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
“A Cycle of Deprivation”: The Challenges of Getting Humanitarian Aid into Gaza
Aug 14, 2024Yara M. Asi
On March 7, exactly five months after Israel initiated a military campaign in the Gaza Strip that has been increasingly described as a genocide, President Joe …
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LevantIsraeli War Tactics and Genocide
Explosive Remnants of War in Gaza: A Long-Term Threat to Palestinian Life
Jul 17, 2024Yara M. Asi
Before Israel’s current war on Gaza, the deadliest of the previous four Israeli assaults on the Strip occurred in 2014. Over 50 days, Israel killed at least 2,…
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LevantEducation and Development
The US Academy and the Destruction of Gaza’s Education System
Jul 3, 2024Hanna Alshaikh
After Columbia University students set up a pro-Palestinian encampment on April 17, similar ones formed on campuses not only in the United States but worldwide…
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LevantIsraeli War Tactics and Genocide
Israel’s War on Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
Jun 21, 2024Jonathan Kuttab
Since October 7, 2023, much of the world’s attention has rightly been focused on the Gaza Strip, which had been largely forgotten for many years. The intensity…