Yousef Bashir is the author of The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine and an expert in Israeli-Palestinian affairs. He is currently a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Yousef Bashir
By Yousef Bashir
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Opinion For years, Israel has denied that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over the Jewish state. After the Hamas attack, that changed.
When Palestinians have attempted to sue Israel for war crimes in the ICC in the past, Israel said the court was not legitimate
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Opinion My family is trapped in Gaza. They’re not the ‘other team’
Palestinian lives have been consistently devalued and dehumanized by US and Israeli officials
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Opinion Israeli soldiers occupied my home for years. 75 years in, have the protesters forgotten us in Gaza?
I can’t help but support Israelis protesting their own government, but the justice system they're fighting for failed my people
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