Summary
London criminal barrister, formerly head of an international litigation project at Al Haq, and author of Chapter 14 of For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, “Israel’s Nation-State Law and Its Consequences for Palestinians”, arguing that the 2018 Nation-State Law establishes Israel as an Ethnocracy, violates international law, lays the foundation for Apartheid, and was passed as a response to a crisis of legitimacy (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.243-249).
Details
- Karmi-Ayyoub gave the fourteenth Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture in March 2019 (PDF p.10); her Contributors entry records her Al Haq work (2009-2012) and chairing Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (PDF p.17).
- She notes the Knesset legal advisor’s rejected alternative — including equality and the state belonging to all its citizens — as evidence the law’s ethnocratic effect is deliberate (PDF p.245-246).
Related pages
For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, Nation-State Law, Ethnocracy, Apartheid, Self-determination