The Washington Post reports today that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) publicized that it was selling captured Yazidi women and children  as “spoils of war.” Specifically, ISIS claimed that it sold Yazidi women to its fighters as concubines. The women and children were divided among fighters according to Islamic law, the...

UN Watch revealed Tuesday that European Union (EU) representatives had stopped attending United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions that focused on permanent agenda item 7 since last month. The move prompted outrage among Arab and Muslim nations. UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer was quoted (video embedded below) on the...

Ghoncheh Ghavami, the female British-Iranian law student who was arrested by Iranian authorities for trying to attend volleyball game played by male athletes in Iran, has begun a hunger strike yesterday, as reported by Fox News. She has been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for 100 days. Law student Ghoncheh...

The Israel-based NGO B’Tselem acknowledged yesterday on its Facebook page that one of its researchers is a Holocaust denier. After initially accepting the word of the researcher, Atef Abu Roub, that the Holocaust denying statements recorded in a video were not made by him, but a third person off screen,...

Blogger “Elder of Ziyon” noted in a post today that controversial law professor William Schabas, who has been chosen to head a commission investigating Israel’s conduct during Operation Protective Edge by United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), participated in the Russell Tribunal after a man he greatly respected, Judge Richard Goldstone, described the...

In Everything You Need to Know about International Law and the Gaza War, published in the September 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, David Daoud systematically outlined the laws of war and their relevance to Israel’s Operation Protective Edge. Daoud began his analysis by acknowledging that “when a respected jurist like Navi...