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Dec 3, 2024, 6:04 AM

Institutions of International Law Need a Reboot

The Israel Defense Forces, arguably the most moral army in the world, is fighting a terrible multi-front war that Israel did not start against arguably the most immoral armies in the world, and who does the International Criminal Court...

Oct 23, 2024, 10:14 PM

What I saw at Columbia on October 7

Columbia University on October 7, 2024

On the first anniversary of the most ghastly terrorist attack in modern history, the worst pogrom committed against Jewish people since the Holocaust, I took the subway up to 116th Street. Some Columbia students and staff were hosting a...

May 31, 2024, 7:13 PM

Have the ICC and the ICJ Hit Rock Bottom Yet?

This is a challenging time for international law and the established world order. The United Nations’ two most important legal organs have “lost the plot” and seem to be joining the contemptible UN Human Rights Council in competing to...

May 24, 2024, 12:47 AM

Sound of the Siren: New Forms of Antisemitism

I am very honored to be included on this esteemed panel. I wish I could also say I am pleased to be here, but I am not at all pleased that this conference is necessary. I had never imagined that...

May 8, 2024, 6:54 AM

On Open Letter to Congressman Jamaal Bowman

Dear Representative Bowman: You have to stop with the irresponsible anti-Semitic blood libels. There is hardly a statement emanating from your campaign lately that does include grotesque Holocaust-inverting fabrications accusing Israel, the homeland and nation-state of the Jewish people, of “genocide”...

Mar 30, 2024, 9:44 AM

An Open Letter to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Dear Representative Ocasio-Cortez: A few days ago, you stood up in Congress and accused Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people, of committing genocide. Since then you have doubled-down in a television interview saying that you fully understood the gravity...

Feb 7, 2024, 3:19 AM

Open Letter and Invitation to ICJ Judge Sebutinde

Judge Julia Sebutinde International Court of Justice Peace Palace The Hague The Netherlands An Open Letter and an Open Invitation Dear Judge Sebutinde: I am writing to you as a fellow lawyer and as a member of the Jewish faith, but mostly as a human being,...

Jan 31, 2024, 10:52 AM

The ICJ: Another One Bites the Dust

Both Israel and South Africa/Hamas claim a bitter victory following the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on South Africa’s application for preliminary measures to prevent Israel from committing genocide in Gaza. Unsatisfying as that is, both are right. ...

Jan 6, 2024, 4:19 PM

Response to the IBA Human Rights Institute’s Statement on the Situation in Gaza

Last week, the IBA Human Rights Institute (“IBAHRI”), an independent entity associated with the International Bar Association (the “IBA”), issued a second statement on the war between Israel and Hamas. Unfortunately, this statement is dishonest and injudicious, and threatens...

Nov 16, 2023, 3:19 AM

The Big Lie About “Apartheid” Israel

In Mein Kampf, he-who-shall-not-be-named posited that it is easier to sell a big lie (in German, große Lüge), a falsehood so huge no-one would believe anybody could have the impudence to distort the truth so outrageously, than a small...

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Trevor Norwitz is a practicing lawyer in New York, who also teaches at Columbia Law School.