Israel’s Continuing Defiance of International Law and Contempt for Palestinian Lives

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

“In the beginning was the word,” John 1:1 commences like Genesis, connecting the God of Israel to the word. And the deliverance of the word is confirmed by the Ten Commandments being physically handed to Moses and the Israelites, legend has it, on Mount Sinai. It was a defining moment in Jewish reverence for words and the law. But much has changed since those Biblical times.

The United Nations General Assembly (GA) asked the International Court of...