Sault Star column: Time is ripe to 'decolonize our language'
There is ‘Important terminology’ with which to be familiar.
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There is ‘Important terminology’ with which to be familiar.
Shuhada Street in Hebron/al-Khalil (Photo: gettingoffthearmchair.wordpress.com) At the end of 2008, Israel went to war on the Gaza Strip on a scale not seen in Palestine for decades. The Israeli military’s International Law Department had spent months prior crafting ‘legal advice that allowed for large numbers of civilian casualties’. This heralded the starting point of formal Palestinian interaction with the International Criminal Court, with an initial failed attempt by the Palestinian authorities to trigger ICC jurisdiction over crimes committed in occupied Palestine. It wou...