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WEBINAR: Israel-Palestine at the International Criminal Court

WEBINAR: Israel-Palestine at the International Criminal Court

I`m excited to invite you to join this event with B`Tselem`s Research
Director, Yael Stein, and our colleagues from leading human rights
organizations — Center for Constitutional Rights, Adalah, and Al-Haq —
hosted by the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

I hope you`ll join us! - Simone, B`Tselem USA

The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) invites you to attend

Israel-Palestine at the International Criminal Court: What Next?

Thursday, February 25, 2021

11am – 12:30pm EST

Featuring:

Katherine Gallagher (Center for Constitutional Rights)

Hassan Jabareen (Adalah)

Michael Kearney (Al-Haq)

Yael Stein (B’Tselem)

In conversation with

Lara Friedman (FMEP)

RSVP Here

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pmO2VNhMTpe_HC9GqwCylw

FMEP is pleased to invite you to join us for this webinar — featuring a
panel of Israeli, Palestinian, and international legal experts — examining
the latest ICC ruling and its implications for the fight for accountability,
justice, and human rights in Israel/Palestine.

On February 5, 2021, the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal
Court (ICC), found that “the Court’s territorial jurisdiction in the
Situation in Palestine, a State party to the ICC Rome Statute, extends to
the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely Gaza and the West
Bank, including East Jerusalem.” This ruling – explained by the ICC itself
here – opens the door for investigations into alleged war crimes perpetrated
by “members of the Israeli Defense Forces, Israeli authorities, Hamas, and
Palestinian armed groups.”

This webinar is a follow-up to the ICC-focused webinar FMEP convened in
April 2020, in the context of the ICC’s then-ongoing consideration of
opening a formal probe into Israeli and Palestinian actions in the Occupied
Territories. That webinar — which attracted nearly 1000 viewers in real
time, and which has been viewed nearly 1000 times since — can be watched
here.

Participants

Katherine Gallagher is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for
Constitutional Rights, where works on holding U.S. and foreign officials,
and corporations, including private military contractors, accountable for
serious human rights violations through domestic civil actions, criminal
cases under universal jurisdiction laws and actions using human rights
special procedures mechanisms. She has represented victims before the
International Criminal Court, regarding sexual violence by Catholic Church
officials; U.S. torture in the Situation of Afghanistan et al, and
persecution by Israeli officials in the Situation of Palestine. Prior to
joining CCR, she worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 2001-2006.

Hassan Jabareen is the founder of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority
Rights in Israel, serving as Adalah’s general and legal director since its
establishment in 1996. He has litigated scores of landmark constitutional
law cases regarding Palestinian citizens of Israel, including the
Palestinian leadership, and international humanitarian law cases concerning
Palestinians in the 1967 Occupied Territory before the Israeli Supreme
Court. Also, since 1998, he has been an adjunct lecturer for a course that
he initiated on the legal status of the Arab minority in Israel and other
law courses in the Faculties of Law at Tel Aviv, Hebrew, and Haifa
Universities. He has received awards for outstanding public interest
lawyering and top human rights law prizes. @AdalahEnglish

Dr. Michael Kearney lectured on human rights and international law at the
University of York, LSE, and University of Sussex, and is a legal researcher
with Al-Haq. His academic publications include works on propaganda and
incitement, statehood and self-determination, and various elements of
international criminal law, including extensive analysis of legal aspects of
the situation in Palestine.

Yael Stein is the Research Director of B’Tselem. She holds an LLB from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA in human rights from the Institute
of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. Yael has authored
several of B’Tselem reports, including The Occupation’s Fig Leaf (2016),
Getting Off Scot-Free (2017) and Fake Justice (2019).

Moderator

Lara Friedman is the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace
(FMEP) and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East,
with particular expertise on the Israeli-Arab conflict, Israeli settlements,
Jerusalem, and the role of the U.S. Congress. She is published widely in the
U.S. and international press and is regularly consulted by members of
Congress and their staffs, by Washington-based diplomats, by policy-makers
in capitals around the world, and by journalists in the U.S. and abroad. In
addition to her work at FMEP, Lara is a Contributing Writer at Jewish
Currents and a non-resident fellow at the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP).
She tweets at @LaraFriedmanDC

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