Episode 056 - Guerrilla Diplomacy with Dr. Noura Erakat

This week Lara and Michael sit down with human rights attorney, American activist, university professor, and legal scholar Dr. Noura Erakat. Dr. Erakat discusses the legal structure of Palestine from the Balfour Declaration to the Oslo Accords through ongoing UN claims and treaties. She touches on the four types of international law as defined by the International Court of Justice; 1) international conventions, 2) international custom, 3) the general principles of law, & 4) judicial decisions. Dr. Erakat frames the Palestinian resistance movement through the lens of legal precedents and examines ways in which the international court has failed to guarantee Palestinians basic human rights.

To consult the sources used in the preparation of this episode, please see:

• Noura Erakat (Twitter)

• Noura Eraket (Instagram)

Books/Legislation

• Justice for Some, Law & the Question of Palestine Dr. Noura Erakat (Stanford University Press)

• The Balfour Declaration (Teach Palestine)

• The Covenant of the League of Nations (Yale Law School)

• Statement by President Truman, March 25, 1948 (United Nations)

• British White Paper of 1939 (Yale Law School)

• Palestinian National Covenant (Wikipedia)

• Question of Palestine (United Nations)

• Security Council Resolution 242: The Situation in the Middle East (United Nations)

• Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, UN Resolution 3379 (United Nations)

• Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols I and II of 1977 (Medecins Sans Frontieres)

• The Global Offensive The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (Paul Chamberlin, Oxford University Press)

• Palestine + 100 (Comma Press)

• STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE)

• The Geneva Convention (Library of Congress)

Articles

• October 2000 vs May 2021: How Palestinians defied fragmentation (Al Jazeera)

• "What Good Can There Be In This Kind of Human?" Spanish

• Justification for the Conquest of the Americas (John R. Pittenger, the Gettysburg Historical Journal)

• How Britain broke International Law to stop Palestinian independence 100 years ago (Mondoweiss)

• United States Proposal for Temporary United Nations Trusteeship for Palestine

• Johnson v. M’Intosh: 200 years of legal misery for Native people (ICT News)

• Operation Protective Edge (MERIP)

• Yom Kippur War (Britannica)

• The first Intifada against Israel (Al Jazeera)

• The Goldstone report: a history (The Guardian)

• Middle East Human Rights Groups Call on the General Assembly to Adopt the Goldstone Report (Human Rights Watch)

• Palestinians win de facto U.N. recognition of sovereign state (Reuters)

• Killing of Palestinian Journalist Israeli Police Attack Mourners at Palestinian Journalist’s Funeral (NYT)

• Israeli targeted killings in Gaza and beyond: A timeline (Al Jazeera)

• “Enhanced Interrogation” Explained (Human Rights First)

• Dismantling the Apartheid of Our Time: the Palestinian Liberation Movement as an antiracist struggle (The London School of Economics)

• United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (1975) (Economics Cooperation Foundation)

• MOSLEMS PROPOSE U.N. EXPEL ISRAEL (The New York Times)

• Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965) (Fayez Sayegh, OHCHR)

• Prime Minister Ben-Gurion Statement to the Knesset Regarding the Tripartite Arab Pact (May 6, 1963) (Jewish Virtual Library)