Michael Sfard
Michael Sfard is an Israeli attorney who represents various Israeli and Palestinian human rights and peace organizations, movements and activists. He is an expert in international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
Opinion Holding Top Brass Accountable for Their Underlings' Acts? Not in Israel
It feels as if there is a department in the Population and Immigration Authority tasked with ensuring that nothing good enters Israel from the U.S., home of movements like MeToo and Black Lives Matter
Opinion The Flourishing of the Jewish KKK
We have to face reality. We are witnessing the flourishing of a Jewish Ku Klux Klan movement. The whole thing is allowed by Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit, who condones taking land from Musa to give it to Moshe
Opinion It's Every Israeli's Moral Duty to Resist the Occupation
As Israelis, we are all responsible for the injustice of our occupation of the Palestinians, even if we do not man the checkpoints, live in settlements, or hand out permits: it is an Israeli project
Opinion Israel Is Not a Democracy
A democracy doesn't deny millions their civil rights, plunder their land and resources and deprive them of independence and of a say in their future
Opinion Abandoning the Israeli High Court Option Is an Abandonment of Palestinian Rights
It’s easy to sit in Tel Aviv and plan an end to the occupation via the International Criminal Court, but it’s the Palestinians who will suffer from the expropriation in the meantime.
Opinion It’s Every Israeli’s Right, and Duty, to Speak Up - Including at the UN
The occupation is not an internal Israeli matter and human rights are always a matter for the entire international community.
The Israeli Occupation Will End Suddenly
The strength of organizations working to end the occupation and their supporters is greater than we think.
Parashat Vayikra / I Came, I Called, I Spoke
We can deduce that, in the tent of meeting, God first calls out to Moses and then speaks to him. But why does the Torah have to explicitly state this in Leviticus 1:1?
'Catch the Jew!' - An 'Investigation' as an Unintended Parody
Astonishingly, in researching his book, Tuvia Tenebom couldn’t find one opponent of the occupation who isn’t anti-Semitic or doesn’t loathe his nation.
A 'Targeted Assassination' of International Law
We Israelis can blame allegations of war crimes on global anti-Semitism, or we can take a tough look on the way we have waged armed conflict over the past decade.
An Unending Settler Pogrom
It’s time we listened to the sounds emanating from the Palestinian shtetl of Burin. We might recognize familiar sounds from our own collective past.
Israel's Crackdown on UN Aid Organization Part of an Assault on Democracy
Attacks against domestic political opposition and international aid organizations are both symptoms of the same disease.
Occupation No More
The Levy Committee report is an attempt to change reality by denying it. Such attempts usually end in disappointment when they crash into the rocks of the denied reality.
Occupation Double-speak
Zionism's amazing revival of the Hebrew language has morphed into an insidious instrument of repression.