Legal Affairs
“It’s a painful way to kill a person, and it’s fundamentally inhumane,” said Janice Friebaum, former vice president and spokesperson for the Phoenix Holocaust Association. “To think that it was done to millions during the Holocaust is horrific enough.”
Alexander Giannakakis, 35, previously of Quincy, Mass., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for “making false statements in a matter involving domestic terrorism,” among other related charges.
The initiative is being sent with the goal of making the voices heard of hundreds of thousands of Israelis who experienced the rocket terror that targeted them with the intent to maim, injure, terrorize and kill as many people as possible—a war crime and blatant violation of international law.
In his U.S. debut, Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas says he’d rather focus on the future than the past, and on what’s useful rather than what’s “right.”
Avi Bell, a law professor at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan and the University of San Diego, said “it is well-established in international law and international practice that states have near-plenary discretion in establishing their immigration.”
First approved as a temporary measure in 2003 • Legislation must now pass a second and third reading before it can become law.
The Palestinian terrorist organization has attempted to exploit conflicting loyalties and Israel’s “family reunification” policies, according to the Internal Security Service.
Professor Avi Bell: “The accusation that Israel is committing war crimes with plans to build an Arabic-language special-needs school for Israeli and Palestinian Arab residents of the neighborhood shows that European officials harbor equal contempt for common sense, international law and the Jewish state.”
While U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman described the killing as horrific, he concluded in a Jan. 6 decision that he could not exercise jurisdiction over the case, despite being allowed to by the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act.
“The concern is that you have three or four different legal proceedings in which allegations of apartheid have been made and that at least one of them may end up endorsing these allegations,” Yuval Shany, professor of international law at Hebrew University and research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, told JNS.
On Dec. 2, the LSGA passed a resolution that calls on CUNY to cut all ties with companies that “aid in or profit from Israeli colonization, occupation and war crimes.”
A probe into the breach that allowed someone with multiple criminal convictions to work as a cleaner at Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s home ends with the reprimand of two senior Israel Security Agency officials.
