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Arsen Ostrovsky

Arsen Ostrovsky is an Israel-based international human-rights lawyer and activist. You can follow him on Twitter at: @Ostrov_A.

Then-director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth at the Media Security Conference in Munich, Feb. 19, 2017. Credit: Kuhlmann/MSC via Wikimedia Commons.

Does Harvard’s ‘Veritas’ apply to Israel?

There can be no other way to look at the university’s decision on former Human Rights Watch head Ken Roth than as a cowardly and pitiful.

Arsen Ostrovsky

January 23, 2023

A Hanukkah menorah on the last night of the eight-day Jewish holiday, at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on Dec. 19, 2017. Photo by Mendy Hechtman/Flash90.

Religious freedom as a universal message of Hanukkah

Although a uniquely Jewish story, the lessons of the holiday apply to everyone, irrespective of individual faith or background.

Arsen Ostrovsky

December 9, 2020

Israelis participate in a march to celebrate Israel's 71st Independence Day near Havat Gilad in Judea and Samaria on May 9, 2019. Photo by Hillel Maeir/Flash90.

Annexation vs. sovereignty: Words matter

It is factually incorrect to assert that Israel intends to “annex” territory to which it has legitimate claim and that never has been part of a “state of Palestine.”

Arsen Ostrovsky and Richard Kemp

June 8, 2020

International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands. Source: United Nations.

The ICC just became a tool of Palestinian lawfare

By becoming a willing pawn of the Palestinians, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has politicized the court and brought its very legitimacy into question.

Arsen Ostrovsky and Maurice Hirsch

May 6, 2020

The scene where a house was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Nov. 13, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

International community must hold Hamas accountable

Hamas in Gaza rained down more than 450 rockets in the space of four to five hours. Imagine if even one—just one—rocket was to hit an American city?

Arsen Ostrovsky

November 13, 2018

Damage to a shop in Magdeburg, Germany, as a result of Kristallnacht (“Night of the Broken Glass”), Nov. 9-10, 1938. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Lessons from Kristallnacht

As the great Spanish American philosopher George Santayana said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Arsen Ostrovsky

November 9, 2018

New immigrants arrive in Israel on July 4, 2017, on a flight chartered by the Nefesh B’Nefesh aliyah agency. Credit: Shahar Azran/Nefesh B’Nefesh.

Advocating for Israel, from Israel: Reflections on ‘aliyah’

It’s not that I ever felt out of place in Australia. It’s just that in Israel, I have at last found a place where I truly belong.

Arsen Ostrovsky

October 22, 2018