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Oct 19, 2026, 2:05 PM

Nobel Gold Cannot Conceal Pillay’s Genocide Travesty

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The Nobel Committee can award Navi Pillay a medal. It cannot award her commission the evidence, credibility or judicial authority its accusation against Israel so conspicuously lacks. As Pillay receives the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, the foundations of her commission’s...

Oct 15, 2026, 10:06 PM

Hamas celebrates a Nobel Peace Prize: Meet Navi Pillay

The former UN human rights chief built a career accusing Israel of atrocities while undermining the standards she was supposed to uphold

Oct 11, 2026, 1:12 AM

Peace Requires Justice. The Nobel Peace Prize Requires None

When Henry Kissinger, who oversaw devastating bombing campaigns in Vietnam, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, two members of the Nobel Committee resigned in protest. When Yasser Arafat, leader of a terror organization, received it in 1994, another...

Sep 23, 2026, 5:46 AM

When Law Becomes Political Theatre

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When Law Becomes Political Theatre New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has once again called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal and an architect of genocide, while repeating that Netanyahu should be arrested when he visits New York to...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 22, 2026, 2:37 AM

Bag Ortega Before the Houthis Bag Haifa

Houthi missile batteries have officially entered a kamikaze phase, mimicking the exact suicide tempo that the Iranian regime deploys against global shipping and sovereign cities on this side of the world. Illustrating the stakes, Saudi air defenses intercepted a...

Aug 28, 2026, 7:41 PM

Mamdani, Netanyahu, and the Limits of Municipal Power

As an expert witness against the medicalization of punishment, I have spent a good portion of my career in courtrooms, explaining to juries and judges the precise boundary of what the law permits a person to do with someone...

Aug 10, 2026, 3:37 PM

Independent Observers? Define ‘Independent’

Calling someone independent doesn’t make them independent; the relevant question is independent from whom? Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

International Is Not a Synonym for Independent Why doesn’t Israel allow independent observers into Gaza? Why does Israel block an independent investigation into October 7? If Israel has nothing to hide, why does it prevent independent scrutiny? I hear variations of this question...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Aug 8, 2026, 1:01 AM

The genocide argument before the genocide argument

TL;DR: The Gaza genocide debate often begins after the crucial question has already been skipped. Death, deprivation and destruction can be evidence of genocide, but only if they also establish the specific intent to destroy a protected group. A...

Aug 6, 2026, 6:54 PM

Into the Fray: USA vs ICC

Rubio vows to dismantle International Court 'brick by brick'

Jul 30, 2026, 6:49 PM

Abolish the International Criminal Court

For what they are worth, I have made my views on the International Criminal Court (ICC) as clear and as often as possible for about twenty years. The Court, as they would like us to politely call it (it...

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