Nathaniel Berman

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Jul 22, 2024, 12:00 AM

The World Court’s decision is anti-Occupation, not ‘Anti-Israel’

On Friday, July 19th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared illegal Israel’s occupation of the territories conquered in 1967. The Court based its ruling on pervasive Israeli violations of international law in its conduct of the occupation, which...

Jan 13, 2023, 11:41 PM

Cassandra and the “Reasonable Man”: American Jews Face Israel’s New Government

The Greek god Apollo blessed the Trojan princess Cassandra with the gift of prophecy – but then cursed her by decreeing that others would never believe her. The psychoanalyst Melanie Klein declared that Apollo’s curse was effective because of...

Dec 18, 2020, 1:13 AM

Western Sahara, Israel, and the Death of International Law

The United States announced last week that it now recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. This recognition is part of the quid pro quo for Moroccan consent to a new peace agreement with Israel. American legitimation of Morocco’s longstanding...

Jul 19, 2012, 8:32 AM

San Remo in Shilo: The settlements and legal history

The Levy Commission’s report on the legality of West Bank settlements operates in something of a parallel universe, one in which legal evolution stopped sometime in the 1920s

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About Me

Nathaniel Berman is Brown University's Rahel Varnhagen Professor Emeritus of International Affairs, Law, and Religious Studies. He is the author of 'Passion and Ambivalence: Colonialism, Nationalism, and International Law' (Brill 2012) and 'Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar: the "Other Side of Kabbalah"' (Brill 2018).