Professor of Law, Mamdouh Abu Al Husna, has just been assassinated along with his father and two of his sons in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their home in Jabalia.
There is consensus within European legal communities that Israel is committing genocide. A number of lawyers in the UK and Netherlands are making an effort to hold their governments accountable for their complicity in this genocide, but legal professionals in other countries remain very quiet. At this point, we must all ask ourselves what the legal industry is for: is it to uphold justice or is it to protect systems that deny justice?
In the end, it is legal professionals who determine the nature of our legal industries. Unfortunately, the majority of these professionals are too concerned with protecting themselves, protecting their business interests, and thus upholding deeply discriminatory systems. So it was during the heights of Western Imperialism, so it was in 1930s Germany, so it was when Britain invaded Iraq under false pretences, and so it is today.
Rest in peace, Prof. Mamdouh Abu Al-Husna. May justice eventually be served.
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