"Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept": Meet the Palestinian Lawyer Censored by Columbia and Harvard
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The website of the Columbia Law Review was taken down by its board of directors on Monday after student editors refused a request from the board to halt the publication of an academic article written by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah titled "Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept.” The article argues for the Nakba to be developed as a unique legal framework, related to but distinct from other processes defined under modern international law, including apartheid and genocide. This is not the first time that Eghbariah's legal scholarship has been censored by an Ivy League institution. The Harvard Law Review last year refused to publish a similar, shorter article it had solicited from Eghbariah even after it was initially accepted, fully edited and fact-checked. Eghbariah calls the abrupt rejection of his work "offensive," "unprofessional" and "discriminatory," and says "it is really unfortunate to see how this is playing out and the extent to which the board of directors is willing to go to shut down and silence Palestinian scholarship. … What are they afraid of? Of Palestinians narrating their own reality, speaking their own truth?"
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"Education is not memorizing that Hitler killed 6 million Jews. Education is understanding how millions of ordinary Germans were convinced that it was required. Education is learning how to spot the signs of history repeating itself.” - Noam Chomsky
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This brave man has done a tremendous service to the Palestinians and the Palestine cause. Thank you.
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The CLR Board Members who think their actions will reduce the audience for this piece are delusional. They have effectively promoted it and broadened the readership.
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Thank you Amy for giving him the platform to tell the truth about The Nakhba.
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Is science and university not about free speech and discussion? By shutting down the website the university only draws extra attention to this publication and shines a light on the morals of the university.
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Good for the fascists at Columbia. They achieved nothing but to make the article more well known!! I’m going right now to read it. Power to you, Rabea Eghbariah! Power to Palestine! Stop the scholasticide! Some of the greatest minds of the world are Palestinian. Imagine the world if they could all be free. I’m so glad that there is finally a spotlight on Palestine. From every angle—legal, logical, ethical—Palestine needs to be free. Never forget. 🇵🇸❤️🇨🇦
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For those looking for a link to the article, just google its title.
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Censorship against Palestinians is insane! Some of the most extreme forms of racism and censorship have been expressed during this genocide!
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Thank you for this, Democracy Now! In a world that is now going beyond wild to try hiding the truth, you are more important then ever!
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I’m pretty sure Alan Dershowitz doesn’t have anything to do with this whatsoever
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Shame on hypocrites
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These ppl are the gatekeepers of apartheid state shamelessly! Power to you young man and democracy now!
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Palestinians are the only people under occupation who kicked out of their land; for that reason alone, Nakba should be adopted as a legal term. As we know, occupation occurs for a group of people on their land; but what happened in the Palestine case was kicking the people and replace them with other ethnicity and deny all their rights. In other word, IT WAS A STEALING PROCESS.
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Columbia Law Review..... Hum... Illegally gagging Palestinian voices?
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Coming from a country who was established on "manifest destiny", I'm not surprised. This piece is threatening because it goes to the root and is trying to make it a legal concept. Nakba being made into a concept would change the legal framework for the current war and also past wars. It's a zionist dream to do to the Palestinians what the Europeans did to the Native Americans and maybe in 100 years or so they'd be naming sports teams after the Palestinians and make the Nakba into a national holiday. Being that the US is the last world power who doesnt want to acknowledge Palestine as a nation, the nakba being a legal concept and framework would call into question modern Israels origin story. This in turn could lead to many people questioning if modern Israel is a legitimate state, which is Israel's and the United States nightmare. The only thing worst than Palestine becoming a sovereign state is Israels origin being questioned by connecting it with crimes against humanity, at a time when the world is livid about Israels current ongoing..crimes against humanity
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If you google the following, you will find the paper online > Rabea Eghbaria, The Ongoing Nakba: Toward a Legal Framework for Palestine
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I love democracy now for doing this, just this interview, beautiful ❤
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Also, this is real punk rock. There is nothing more punk than having Harvard afraid of your ideas and being able to say that Columbia shut the whole damn Law Review site down because of you!!!
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Columbia Law Review Board of Directors nakba-izing a Harvard Law School student in order to draw extra attention to his argument!
