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September 9, 2025

The Bogus Legal Theories Used as Weapons against Israel

“Third World approaches to international law.”

Listening to the sort of legal experts who get jobs with major international organizations and whose opinions get cited in influential Western media outlets, one could be forgiven for thinking that international law functions on a single principle: if Israel does it, it’s illegal. Some of these authorities at least make a show of following rulings and precedents. But Tirza Shorr describes the increasing influence of academic trends, based on such ideas as critical race theory (CRT) and its jurisprudential offshoot, critical legal theory, that aim to reduce international law to a complete parody of itself:

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