Synopses & Reviews
In times of war, human rights violations often go unreported. In Israel and the Occupied Territories, where ongoing conflict has killed many thousands, abuses of human rights are commonplace, but these stories seldon reach the outside world.
This book redressses that imbalance: taken from documents produced by international human rights groups - and assembled by the international journalists' organisation Reporters sans Frontieres - itprovides an authorative account of human rights violations that have taken place on both sides of the conflict since the start of the second Intifada in Spetember 2000.
Unlike conventional reportage, these accounts are careful not to overdramatise the story. Instead, they offer as objective an account as possible of the degradations that both Israelis and Palestinians have suffered.
The reports are taken from groups including Amnesty International, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, Human Rights Watch, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, B'Tselem and Reporters sans Frontieres.
Bringing these abuses to public attention for the first time, this book is both an important historical document, and a sobering account of what is going on in Israel and Palestine, that will be of interest to politicians, NGOs, students and activists everywhere.
Synopsis
Previously unseen records from human rights groups - including Amnesty. Documents abuses on both sides of the conflict.
Synopsis
Chomsky offers a devastating critique of conventional definitions of the 'new world order'. Includes a new chapter on the Middle East peace process.
About the Author
David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. He has written widely on democracy, human rights and international relations and is also the author of From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention (Pluto Press) and Constructing Global Civil Society: Morality and Power in International Relations (2004), editor of Rethinking Human Rights: Critical Approaches to International Politics (2002) and Peace without Politics: Ten Years of State-Building in Bosnia (2005), and co-editor of Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (2005).
Table of Contents
Preface by Reporters Without Borders
Table of Contents
Introduction
I Israel
1. Murders committed by Israelis, Amnesty International
2. Excessive force by the Israeli military, BTselem
3. Demolition of houses and destruction of farmland, BTselem
4. Press freedom violations by Israel, Reporters Without Borders
5. The heavy toll of Israeli incursions, Amnesty International
6. Operation Defensive Shield, International Federation of Human Rights Leagues
7. Operation Protective Wall, Jenin, Human Rights Watch
8. The Israeli army turns on the media, Reporters Without Borders report
9. Torture in Israel, Public Committee against Torture in Israel
10. Status of the Palestinian minority in Israel, International Federation of Human Rights
II Palestine
11. Murders committed by Palestinians, Amnesty International
12. Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians, Amnesty International
13. Shortcomings of the Palestinian justice system, Human Rights Watch
14. The right to free expression in Palestine, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
15. Death penalty in Palestine, The Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
16. Press freedom violations by the Palestinian Authority, Reporters Without Borders
Appendix: useful addresses
Index
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