Applying International Law to Israel’s War and Hamas’ Attack
The Israeli Army has issued to people living in Northern Gaza, demanding that they immediately relocate to Southern Gaza in anticipation of a . Israel’s latest war is in retaliation for a series of aimed at Israeli civilians that killed well over a thousand people and trapped several hundred hostages. So far, Israel’s air attacks on Gaza have been indiscriminate, also . Over the weekend there were supporting Palestinian rights.
, professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco and a leading Middle East expert, spoke with è! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on è! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the long-running war and occupation through the lens of international law.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined è! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of è! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (2023) and Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2005). Her forthcoming book is called Talking About Abolition (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women’s Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master’s in Astronomy from the University of Hawai’i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on “My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host” in her 2014 of the same name.
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