Noura Erakat

thumb|Should I speak to you as an attorney? And tell you that when Israel withdrew its settlers and military infrastructure in 2005, that it maintained its effective control over the population registry, the skies, the underground water sources, the electromagnetic spheres, all points of ingress and outgress and thus remains an Occupying Power with the duty to protect its civilians? Noura Saleh Erakat (نورة صالح عريقات; born January 16, 1980) is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, legal scholar, and human rights attorney. Quotes "In This Moment" (November 1, 2023) In From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine (2024) Israel imposed a land siege and a naval blockade hermetically sealing this coastal enclave, placing it on a subsistence diet just above starvation—relegating its conditions to “bare life”—and then systematically pummeling it with advanced weapons technologies in a bid to take the land without the people. Should I speak to you as an attorney? And tell you that when Israel withdrew its settlers and military infrastructure in 2005, that it maintained its effective control over the population registry, the skies, the underground water sources, the electromagnetic spheres, all points of ingress and outgress and thus remains an Occupying Power with the duty to protect its civilians? Israel has no right to self-defense against a territory that it occupies, no more than Portugal had it to maintain its hold on Mozambique and Angola. External links Category:Lawyers from the United States Category:Human rights activists Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Women in law Category:Women activists from the United States Category:People from California Category:1980 births Category:Women born in the 1980s Category:Living people