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Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants. As a Jewish-Israeli lawyer who has represented political prisoners for five decades, Tsemel, in her tireless quest for justice, pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits. As far as most Israelis are concerned, she defends the indefensible. As far as Palestinians are concerned, she's more than an attorney, she's an advocate

"Since the early 1970s, attorney Lea Tsemel has made a career out of defending Palestinians in Israeli courts: feminists and fundamentalists, non-violent demonstrators and armed militants. As far as most Israelis are concerned, she defends the indefensible. As far as Palestinians are concerned, she's more than an attorney, she's an advocate. Advocate follows Tsemel's caseload in real-time, including the high-profile trial of a 13-year-old boy -- her youngest client to date -- while also revisiting her landmark cases and reflecting on the political and professional significance of her work, as well as the personal price one pays for assuming the role of "devil's advocate." As a Jewish-Israeli woman who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years, Tsemel pushes the definition of a human rights defender to its limits."-- Container

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Context
• 2. Beginnings
• 3. Founders
• 4. Organization
• 5. Interventions and Allies
• 6. Field and Legal Research
• 7. Fallouts
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of its time and that proved foundational for many strands of today's human rights work in Palestine and elsewhere. Lynn Welchman looks at both al-Haq's history and legacy to explore such questions as: Why would one set up a human rights organization under military occupation? How would one go about promoting the rule of law in a Palestinian society deleteriously served by the law and with every reason to distrust those charged with implementing its protections? How would one work to educate overseas allies and activate international law in defense of Palestinian rights? This revelatory story speaks to the practice of local human rights organizations and their impact on international groups. .
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• Writing al-Haq
• Scholarship : al-Haq and human rights
• Framing the work
• Al-Haq contributions
• The occupied territories, Israel and the PLO
• West Bank legal profession
• Camp David
• Human rights organisations
• International law
• Human rights in the region
• Raja Shehadeh
• Jonathan Kuttab
• Charles Shammas
• LSM Steering Committee
• Who are we? 1983
• The politics of LSM
• Participation, voluntarism and Wednesday evening meetings
• The role of a human rights organisation under occupation
• Members and staffers
• Into the intifada
• Twenty years of occupation-: a time to reflect
• Interventions
• Allies
• The ICRC
• The Enforcement Project
• Fieldwork methodology
• The risks of fieldwork
• Intifada expansion
• From affidavit to publication and campaign
• Affidavits and the Palestinian audience
• Fieldwork and the database
• Publishing on prisons
• Structural work
• Legal advice and know your rights
• Invoking the law

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The leadership and legacy of al-Haq, from its origins in Palestine to its international impact Established in Ramallah in 1979, al-Haq was the first Palestinian human rights organization and one of the first such organizations in the Arab world. This inside history explores how al-Haq initiated methodologies in law and practice that were ahead of its time and that proved foundational for many strands of today's human rights work in Palestine and elsewhere. Lynn Welchman looks at both al-Haq's history and legacy to explore such questions as: Why would one set up a human rights organization under military occupation? How would one go about promoting the rule of law in a Palestinian society deleteriously served by the law and with every reason to distrust those charged with implementing its protections? How would one work to educate overseas allies and activate international law in defense of Palestinian rights? This revelatory story speaks to the practice of local human rights organizations and their impact on international groups. .
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Writing al-Haq
• Scholarship : al-Haq and human rights
• Framing the work
• Al-Haq contributions
• The occupied territories, Israel and the PLO
• West Bank legal profession
• Camp David
• Human rights organisations
• International law
• Human rights in the region
• Raja Shehadeh
• Jonathan Kuttab
• Charles Shammas
• LSM Steering Committee
• Who are we? 1983
• The politics of LSM
• Participation, voluntarism and Wednesday evening meetings
• The role of a human rights organisation under occupation
• Members and staffers
• Into the intifada
• Twenty years of occupation-: a time to reflect
• Interventions
• Allies
• The ICRC
• The Enforcement Project
• Fieldwork methodology
• The risks of fieldwork
• Intifada expansion
• From affidavit to publication and campaign
• Affidavits and the Palestinian audience
• Fieldwork and the database
• Publishing on prisons
• Structural work
• Legal advice and know your rights
• Invoking the law

• Introduction
• The military law enforcement system and the investigation of offenses in the OPT
• Operational debriefing hinders criminal investigations
• There are no MPCID bases in the West Bank
• Key flaws in criminal investigations
• Refusal of victims and witnesses to file complaints and testify
• Conclusion and recommendations.

"Out of all the complaints received by Israel's Military Police Criminal Investigations Division (MPCID) and Military Advocate General's Corps of criminal offenses allegedly committed by soldiers against Palestinian civilians and their property in the West Bank, only 3.5 percent ultimately led to indictments. In other words, complaints made to military law enforcement bodies regarding offenses by Israeli soldiers have a 96.5 percent chance of being dismissed without indictments being filed against the suspected soldiers. This report attempts to examine the reasons for this phenomenon. The report's findings are based upon the monitoring of the military law enforcement agencies' handling of 192 separate complaints filed in the past few years by Palestinians concerning attacks on them and their property by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) solders, the review of dozens of MCPID files and additional information provided by the IDF in response to requests by Yesh Din. Alongside a review of the predominant professional failures in the work of the military law enforcement agencies, the report also shows the effect of the investigatory policy the IDF has enforced since September 2000, which undermines the chance of conducting proper investigations into offenses allegedly committed by IDF soldiers during operational activities. Finally, the report presents recommendations to correct the main flaws identified by this research"--Provided by publisher.