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35 B.U. Int'l L.J. 115 (2017)
Extrajudicial Killing with Near Impunity: Excessive Force by Israeli Law Enforcement against Palestinians

handle is hein.journals/builj35 and id is 121 raw text is: EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING WITH NEAR IMPUNITY: EXCESSIVE FORCE BY ISRAELI LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PALESTINIANS Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man* 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................ 116 II. RECENT ALLEGED EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS IN ISRAEL- PALESTINE ................................................ 119 III. A PATTERN OF EXCESSIVE FORCE AGAINST PALESTINIANS ............................................. 135 A. Arenas of Excessive Violence against Palestinians ...... 136 B. The Disparity in Law Enforcement Responses to Palestinians versus Jews ......................... 140 * The author holds a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt), and is an American-Israeli human rights attorney at the Michael Sfard Law Office in Tel Aviv, where she currently serves as senior counsel and acting director. She has been a member of the legal team of Israeli human rights NGO, Yesh Din, for over a decade, and for the last eight years has served as Legal Director of the organization's Accountability of Security Personnel project. In that capacity, she has represented over 500 Palestinian victims of alleged crimes committed against them or their property by Israeli police, soldiers, and other security personnel. The author is also a legal advisor to Israeli NGOs Breaking the Silence and Peace Now, among others, and represents individuals and communities in bringing human rights claims before the Israeli courts, specializing in International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law and their application to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967. The author wishes to express her gratitude to Shelley Cavalieri, Miri Sharon and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man for their excellent comments and feedback on previous drafts of this Article, as well as to the remarkable editors of the Boston University International Law Journal for their collaboration on this project and their dedication to bringing this important issue to light. This Article is based on the author's presentation as part of a panel on March 24, 2016, Police Violence against Ethnic/Racial Minorities, co-sponsored by Harvard's Black Law Students Association and organized by Roi Bachmutsky, to whom she owes a personal debt of thanks. The Symposium was co-sponsored by the Boston University International Law Journal, along with the Dean of Students Grant Fund, the HLS International Human Rights Clinic, the Harvard Women's Law Association, and the Harvard Black Law Students Association. The analysis and opinions expressed in this Article do not represent those of any organization or institution but rather reflect those of the author alone. 115

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