Forward photo (from Getty Images) and caption: Israel’s government regularly violates international law. By holding the government to account, watchdogs are protecting Israel from greater dangers down the road, Naomi Chazan writes. |
Our friend, Naomi Chazan, a former Meretz MK and deputy speaker of the Knesset, is often in the news as president of the New Israel Fund. In a new op-ed in The Jewish Daily Forward, she argues that “By constantly reminding our government of its obligations according to international law, and of the human, legal and moral cost of 45 years of occupation, human rights activists are guarding the last barrier against Israel’s complete global marginalization.”
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