The Flimsy Legal Case That Jews Don’t Belong in the West Bank
A law jurists have only applied to Israel.
August 14, 2023
The Flimsy Legal Case That Jews Don’t Belong in the West Bank
A law jurists have only applied to Israel.
Conventional wisdom holds that Israeli settlements in the West Bank—that is, any case of a Jew residing in territory that was under Jordanian control at the end of the 1948 war—are in violation of international law. In its most cogent articulation, this wisdom rests on Article 49(6) of the fourth Geneva convention, which regulates military occupations of territory in wartime. But, argues Eugene Kontorovich, this law is not necessarily applicable to the West Bank:
August 14, 2023
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