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  • 1 month ago | jadaliyya.com | Noura Erakat

    Who is Noura Erakat? Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and a Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory.

  • 2 months ago | bostonreview.net | Noura Erakat

    This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. Subscribe to get a copy. In the fallout of the election, a stream of social media content—some from passionate Harris supporters, some from lesser-evil Democratic voters, and some, presumably, from people simply lashing out, horrified and distraught at Trump’s win—took to blaming Palestinians for the outcome. My initial fury at these statements eventually gave way to analysis.

  • Nov 20, 2024 | tehrantimes.com | Noura Erakat |Josh Paul |Charles Blaha |Luigi Daniele

    The current war in Gaza is not an isolated conflict that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants launched an attack inside Israel. Framing the war this way, as John Spencer does in a recent article in Foreign Affairs (“Israel Is Winning,” August 21, 2024), invites many dubious assertions about Israel’s purported progress toward its war aims and its supposed efforts to protect civilians.

  • Nov 18, 2024 | almendron.com | Charles Blaha |Josh Paul |Luigi Daniele |Noura Erakat

    The current war in Gaza is not an isolated conflict that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants launched an attack inside Israel. Framing the war this way, as John Spencer does in a recent article by John Spencer in Foreign Affairs (“Israel Is Winning”, August 21, 2024), invites many dubious assertions about Israel’s purported progress toward its war aims and its supposed efforts to protect civilians.

  • Nov 18, 2024 | foreignaffairs.com | Noura Erakat |Josh Paul |Charles Blaha |Luigi Daniele

    Noura Erakat, Josh Paul, Charles O. Blaha, and Luigi DanieleThe current war in Gaza is not an isolated conflict that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants launched an attack inside Israel. Framing the war this way, as John Spencer does in a recent article in Foreign Affairs (“Israel Is Winning,” August 21, 2024), invites many dubious assertions about Israel’s purported progress toward its war aims and its supposed efforts to protect civilians.