Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine
Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine
Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781009019842
Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood in Israel/Palestine
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In this book, Hedi Viterbo radically challenges our picture of law, human rights, and childhood, both in and beyond the Israel/Palestine context. He reveals how Israel, rather than disregarding international law and children s rights, has used them to hone and legitimize its violence against Palestinians. He exposes the human rights community s complicity in this situation, due to its problematic assumptions about childhood, its uncritical embrace of international law, and its recurring emulation of Israel s security discourse. He exam