UNHR in The Guardian: We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid
Originally published in The Guardian, May 15, 2025
Sandra L Babcock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro
We are university professors and human rights advocates who teach and write about Palestine and Israel. We have collectively taught thousands of classes on human rights law, international law and government repression. We have defended death row prisoners in Malawi, documented forced labor in Brazil, helped women seeking gender equality in Burma, chronicled the struggle of the Sahrawi people for self-determination in Western Sahara, and advocated on behalf of families of disappeared immigrants in the United States. As human rights defenders, our job is to expose government abuses of power where we find them. And that includes Israel.