Russell Shalev

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The ICJ’s moral rot

May 26, 2024 | clevelandjewishnews.com | Russell Shalev

The decision handed down by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to terminate its military operation in Rafah exposed the moral rot that has spread through our international institutions. Headed by a judge from an enemy state, the ICJ exploited the Genocide Convention in order to rescue Hamas rapists and genocidaires. This distortion makes it essential that Israel change its approach to engaging with international legal institutions.
The ICJ’s moral rot

May 26, 2024 | columbusjewishnews.com | Russell Shalev

The decision handed down by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to terminate its military operation in Rafah exposed the moral rot that has spread through our international institutions. Headed by a judge from an enemy state, the ICJ exploited the Genocide Convention in order to rescue Hamas rapists and genocidaires. This distortion makes it essential that Israel change its approach to engaging with international legal institutions.
Is Israel justified to act against Hezbollah? - opinion

Dec 31, 2023 | jpost.com | Russell Shalev

Hezbollah is a terrorist army that violates international law and threatens millions of Israeli lives. If the international community will not act, Israel would be fully justified to act. As the war against Hamas in Gaza drags on, the eyes of Israel’s citizens and the international community are drawn to Israel’s northern border. Lebanon’s terrorist army, Hezbollah, has been attacking Israel’s civilians and military since the day after the October 7 massacre.
Israeli Democracy: An Audit and a Proposal for Reform

Nov 28, 2023 | fathomjournal.org | Calev Ben-Dor |Amichai Cohen |Russell Shalev |Suzie Navot

Sir Vernon Bogdanor is Professor of Government, King’s College London and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Israel Democracy Institute. His most recent book is The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain. IIsrael is a puzzle for political science. In theory, it ought not to exist as a stable democracy.
Don't reward Hamas's war crimes - opinion

Nov 26, 2023 | jpost.com | Russell Shalev

Hamas intentionally hides in Gazan hospitals, schools, and homes because it understands, perversely, that a higher Gazan casualty rate will bring about greater international pressure on Israel. Hamas’s exploitation of Shifa Hospital in Gaza has long been referred to as Gaza’s worst-kept secret.
חוסל בכיר בחמאס שהיה אחראי על תיק שליט

Oct 16, 2023 | inn.co.il | Russell Shalev |Uziel Baruch
Diary from Jerusalem | Calev Ben-Dor | Israel’s Rebellion

Mar 27, 2023 | fathomjournal.org | Calev Ben-Dor |Amichai Cohen |Russell Shalev

Fathom deputy editor Calev Ben Dor reflects in a tumultuous few days in Israel and tries to make sense of ‘a Prime Minister we’ve never seen before’. Saturday night 25 MarchDuring the twelfth week of protests, I ran into a politically engaged but self-defined lazy friend outside the President’s Residence who had come for the first time. He said Netanyahu’s speech on Thursday night promising that legislation would continue, had (finally) brought him off his couch.
‘I am one of those liberals who got mugged by reality’: An Interview with Gadi Taub

Mar 16, 2023 | fathomjournal.org | Russell Shalev |Calev Ben-Dor |Gadi Taub |Gabriel Noah Brahm

March / 2023 ‘I am one of those liberals who got mugged by reality’: An Interview with Gadi Taub Options comment tweet share email print When Fathom launched we promised there would likely be a piece in every issue with which you would disagree. Though our centre of gravity remains the two-state paradigm, our ambition was always to make available the full breadth of debate in Israeli society. And so we have published voices from the ‘left’—Palestinian writers, the lawyer Michael Sfard, and...
Opinion | Western Democracies Face Two Threats: The Tyranny of the Majority and The Tyranny of the Minority

Feb 20, 2023 | fathomjournal.org | Suzie Navot |Russell Shalev |Calev Ben-Dor |Amichai Cohen

Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom, He writes here in a personal capacity. Against the Tyranny of the MajorityIn his wonderful little book Liberalism and Democracy (1988), in a chapter titled ‘The Tyranny of the Majority’, the great Italian political theorist Norberto Bobbio warned us that whenever power, even the power of an elected parliamentary majority, is not limited, there lies grave danger.
Israel is a juristocracy: The judges' rule over the people must end

Feb 17, 2023 | jpost.com | Russell Shalev

President Isaac Herzog’s Sunday night plea for unity and compromise included many positive elements. Herzog explicitly identified that the Knesset, as the representative of Israel’s citizens, is the sovereign. He underscored the legitimacy of the democratically elected government to pursue its policies and advance reforms. He also highlighted the homogeneous nature of the Supreme Court and called for its diversification.