Human Rights, Jewish Politics, and Israel/Palestine

Over the course of three days in December 1948, the United Nations adopted three momentous decisions creating the Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and UN Resolution 194 to end the Israel/Palestine war and grant Palestinian refugees a right of return. Seventy-five years later, all three of these projects are in crisis. International law has too often failed to halt mass atrocity and secure human rights while Israelis and Palestinian remain locked in violent conflict. What went wrong? Join James Loeffler as we mark this triple anniversary by revisiting those three fateful days and exploring their relationship to one another, tracing their intertwined legacies into the present.  

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This program is part of Ideas for Today, curated courses by Hartman Institute scholars on the big Jewish ideas we need to think better and do better.