Date: November 16, 2010
Speaker: Anne Herzberg
The exploitation of international legal rhetoric by NGOs has become a major weapon in the political war to delegitimize Israeli responses to terrorism. This strategy, adopted at the NGO Forum of the UN's 2001 Durban Conference, is used to support the BDS movement and "war crimes" trials against Israelis. In her presentation, Herzberg analyzes these tactics and highlights several examples, including the recent effort to bring Israelis to trial at the International Criminal Court.
Anne Herzberg is the Legal Advisor for NGO Monitor, the Jerusalem-based research institution. Her areas of expertise include universal jurisdiction, international criminal and human rights law, NGOs and the UN system, and the laws of armed conflict. Her op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Ha'aretz, and the Jerusalem Post.
