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Sep 4, 2024, 2:14 AM

Is Teaching Hate Coming to a U.S. K-12 Public School Near You?

With the news on September 1, 2024 that six more Hamas hostages were executed by their captors a short time before they were found, following news about ten days earlier when the bodies of six other Hamas hostages were...

Aug 6, 2024, 10:43 PM

ICJ Ruling Deforms International Law into Non-Law

There is no way to sugarcoat it. As a lawyer, it is abundantly clear that the majority opinion, titled “Legal Consequences Arising From The Policies And Practices Of Israel In The Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem,” is so...

Mar 25, 2024, 12:13 AM

Why Are “Red Lines” Only On Israel?

As an American Zionist Jew with Israeli family, I’d have been out at the protests against the Netanyahu government every week during the judicial reform efforts. The actions of Netanyahu’s coalition forfeited any presumption of good faith or legitimacy. Nonetheless,...

Feb 24, 2024, 9:22 AM

A Lawyer’s Review – the International Court of Injustice

As a practicing litigation attorney for nearly 45 years, I know that no lawyer wins every case. Sometimes the facts or the law are against the lawyer’s side of the case. Sometimes the judges and juries just get it...

Feb 14, 2024, 2:29 PM

Anthony Blinken’s false moral equivalency

There is always a “but.” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, speaking at a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 7, 2024, compared Hamas’s October 7 barbarity with Israel’s defense of its citizens: “Israelis were dehumanized in the...

Nov 25, 2023, 4:51 PM

Want Peace? Time to Try Something Different

Even as the current Israel/Hamas war continues, discussion is ongoing about how Gaza will be governed at its conclusion, once Hamas has been removed from Gaza. In a sense, though, it will not matter what governance structure replaces Hamas...

Nov 21, 2023, 1:12 AM

Hamas Supporters Have Blood On Their Hands

Does anyone remember former NFL football player Michael Vick? A gifted athlete, his career came to a screaming halt when he was convicted, and sentenced to 23 months in a federal prison, arising out of participation in dog-fighting. Yet...

Oct 24, 2023, 7:33 PM

‘Yes, But’ and the Law of Armed Conflict: Sieges

It didn’t take long – less than a week in most cases – for the finger-waggers and tsk-tskers to change from condemnation of Hamas’s atrocities and statements agreeing Israel has the right to defend itself to lecturing Israel, from...

Oct 9, 2023, 9:33 PM

Hamas’s War: It’s Not About Rights – It’s About Hate

Nine hundred people killed by Hamas terrorists. Not by "freedom fighters" because their goal isn’t freedom, and never has been – the Hamas Charter makes that unmistakably clear. Of that 900, over 260 unarmed civilians deliberately targeted and murdered...

Feb 12, 2023, 11:34 PM

Free Speech vs. Hate Speech: Finding the Right Test Case

The question of whether hate speech can or ought to be restricted is hotly debated in both academic and non-academic circles. I believe and will explain that while protected, the protection afforded is and ought to be limited in...

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David H. Levitt practices intellectual property and commercial litigation law in Chicago, and is a pro-Israel activist.