‘Violence is the weakest expression of power’

In a conversation titled “Justice or Vengeance?” Israeli-Jewish human rights lawyer and activist Sari Bashi discussed the treatment of Palestinian detainees; including the use of torture and the limits of legal protections under Israeli rule. The event was sponsored by the Provost Office, First Year Seminar, the political science and legal studies department and the communication, journalism and Media and film department. Suffolk PSLS professor Dr. Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch moderated the event. For Palestinian detainees held in Israeli custody, a meeting with an attorney can be their only connection to the outside world. But according to Israeli human rights lawyer and executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Bashi, some detainees have asked their lawyers to stop visiting them, fearing they would face further abuse before and after the meetings.

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