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June 19, 2005
Hassan Jabareen: Ignoring The 'Other'
Hassan Jabareen, an attorney and the general director of Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel and an adjunct lecturer in the faculties of law at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, wrote in the June 17, 2005 issue of Haaretz that: Israeli lawyers took part in an international conference this year on human rights violations in the occupied territories. At the conference, the Israeli embassy distributed a paper with selected quotes from the decisions of the president of the Supreme Court, Aharon Barak. The lawyers were taken aback. They had planned to use these very decisions to accentuate the great discrepancy between the rhetoric and the results. This is not an isolated case. Israel's defense before the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva rests not on government resolutions, ministerial statements or Knesset legislation, but almost exclusively on the rhetoric of Aharon Barak. In effect, the political establishment has turned Justice Barak into Israel's public defender abroad.
He said, "the irony is that this rhetoric creates tension at home between Barak and the political establishment, which also consists of senior jurists from the academic world. Barak's book explores this tension and the issues at the core of the dispute between Barak and those who are at odds with his judicial approach." See "Ignoring The 'Other'" for more.
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