Tag: Eugene Kontorovich

Blinken: "New settlements are counterproductive to reaching an enduring peace. They’re also inconsistent with international law." But no new settlements were authorized by Israel this week!

“Arguments that anti-BDS laws violate the Constitution threaten to put Jews outside the protection of anti-discrimination principles.”

US law professor Eugene Kontorovich stated that the ECJ’s ruling “is putting a new ‘Yellow Star’ on Jewish-made products.”

"The purpose of opening the consulate is to recognize Palestinian claims on Jerusalem."

"The San Remo Conference is maybe the most unknown conference in Israel."

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened the conference by announcing that the United States is “disavowing” the 1978 Hansell Memorandum, a State Department memo that claimed Israeli settlements violate international law.

International law expert Prof. Eugene Kontorovich added the ECJ’s ruling “is putting a new ‘Yellow Star’ on Jewish-made products."

Eugene Kontorovich: Airbnb has become "silent partners" with the Palestinian Authority's "judenrein policy."

Among the most salient examples are Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara and Turkey’s of northern Cyprus.

'Never has there been a national independence movement that has refused an independence offer on the grounds that it does not include all the territory the movement seeks.'

Unlike the Greek Marathon, commemorating the run of a messenger to announce the victory of the Greek army over the invading Persians, the Israeli Bible Marathon commemorates a terrible defeat of the Israelites in the hand of the Philistines.

This tweet by Eugene Kontorovich sums up the Kotel conflict in 140 letters or less.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 is trying to make it illegal (and a WAR CRIME) for a Jew to live in eastern Jerusalem!

Professor Kontorovich of Northwestern University, an expert on International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict, gives his take on Israeli settlements.

Can Israeli 'human rights' organizations that are World Vision's 'partners' in 'co-resistance' please comment on that partnership?

'A handful of zealots hijacked the ASA' to promote their own anti-Israel position' claims the lawsuit against the ASA Israel boycott .

“The problem is not that the European Union fails to live up to its standards in some cases, like that of Morocco,” he argues, “Rather, in these other cases the union explicitly denies the existence of these standards.”

The French-based telecom company operates in an area of Azerbaijan that the United Nations and US consider occupied territory.

Zivotofsky should have Israel on his passport and the Executive branch should retain authority over foreign policy. Here's how:

Hysteria over 'land appropriation" by Israel made headlines around the world. But Israel did nothing of the sort.

J Street and Open Hillel claim they want openness and honesty in the discussion about Israel, but that's only for those who agree with them.

The D.C. applellate court declared unconstitutional the legislative effort by congress to force the US to recognize that Jerusalem is part of Israel. That they did so is not surprising, but why the Executive branch is so afraid of having Jerusalem next to Israel even just on a piece of paper should be shocking.

Kontorovich says, "international opinion is squarely against Israel, and if international law were a popularity contest, Israel would be voted off the island. But the whole point of international law is to buffer international politics, rather than serve them."