The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: A Legal Farce and Total Failure

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: A Legal Farce and Total Failure

It is not a “tribunal.” The “evidence” is going to be one-sided and the members of the “jury” are critics whose harsh views of Israel are well known.
– Judge Richard Goldstone, “Israel and the Apartheid Slander,” New York Times, October 31, 2011

On November 5-6, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) held a session in Cape Town, South Africa. The session was convened, under the façade of a legal framework, ostensibly to consider “Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people fits the international legal definitions of the crime of apartheid.”…