In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said posited that the remedy to a culture that preserves and advances imperialism is through the contrapuntal contributions of the “imperialized” — post-colonial or still-colonized people — who “bear their past within them—as scars of humiliating wounds, as instigation for different practices, as potentially revised visions of the past tending toward a new future, as urgently reinterpretable and redeployable experiences…[speaking and acting] on territory taken back from the empire.” Just so with international law, riddled with double-standards favoring the powerful, whose Western liberal roots accommodate ongoing colonialism and its legacies: as the international legal order crumbles under the weight of its inability to respond to brutal genocide and war, we must look to the ideas, narratives, and visions of those most crushed by its contradictions to chart a different path forward.- To help us in this endeavor, we asked eight international legal scholars, human rights attorneys, and experts on Palestine to share their reflections on the role of international law in the struggle for Palestinian liberation. How does international law currently hinder this cause? And how might it be used — or how must it transform — to contribute to it?
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