4. Academic Librarianship and Coercion: A Case Study in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaïs Salamon
Keyword(s):  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Academic Librarianship

Case Study From Palestine

2020 ◽  
pp. 188-194
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Political Landscape

Conflict and trauma are constant features of the socio-political landscape in the Palestinian Territories. From a very young age, people across society witness and experience various levels of violence and insecurity on a daily basis. Simple acts, such as going to school or work, can result in movement restrictions, arrest, or detention. While each person internalizes these painful experiences in individual ways, Palestinians also suffer from a communal trauma....

When Does a Court Systematically Deviate from its Own Principles? The Adjudication by the Israel Supreme Court of House Demolitions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
GUY HARPAZ
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
International Law ◽  
Loss Aversion ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Omission Bias

AbstractThe judiciary’s counter-majoritarian role in the realm of national security is of paramount importance. By and large the Israel Supreme Court has taken cognizance of this truism and has imposed significant procedural and substantive restrictions on the Israeli military authorities, relying more and more on public international law. Yet when faced with house demolition measures, it has adopted a different stance, preferring to conduct a judicial review which is devoid of any meaningful scrutiny of the measures according to international law. The article attempts to ascertain the reasons for the Court's different judicial position, by advancing, inter alia, legal, historical, socio-political, and personal reasons, reasons relating to the nature of the petitioners, as well as those pertaining to the intertwined concepts of status quo bias, omission bias, and loss aversion. The findings of the case study may be relevant to other courts, in other countries. When faced with deterrent measures that are employed at times of severe security threats and that are strongly supported by the political establishment and by the public, courts may find it difficult to perform a counter-majoritarian role and to abide by their own judicial doctrines and principles.

A Cruel Innovation: Israeli Experiments on Gaza’s Great March of Return

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-198
Author(s):  
Tariq Dana
Keyword(s):  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Tech ◽  
War Economy ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
The Us ◽  
Military Security ◽  
The Relationship

This article sheds light on the relationship between Israeli high-tech innovation and military/security production in the framework of settler-colonialism and the prolonged occupation of the Palestinian territories. It analyzes the global rise of Israel in military and security innovation as a result of decades-long colonial ventures and regional wars, which have been a key variable for dynamic and extensive innovation and productivity. Moreover, the article argues that Israeli military and security would not have been attainable without the extraordinary official assistance and private investment from the United States, especially since the aftermath of the 1967 war. Besides the structural dependency on the US, this article highlights other characteristics that define Israel’s military and security production, such as the vicious nature of these innovations, complicity in global atrocities, and profitability of innovation to Israel’s war economy. Finally, the article presents Gaza’s Great March of Return (gmr) as a case study to present evidence on the ways in which Israeli military forces and security companies are jointly involved in experimentation, using new weapons and unmanned devices on the Palestinian civilians.

In Photos: Palestinian ‘Outposts’ Expose Israel’s Land Grab Tactic

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-372
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Land Grab ◽  
Photo Essay

This short photo-essay examines the Palestinian protest practice of “Outposts.” With photos taken by the Activestills Photography Collective between 2005–14, it explores in particular the Bab Al-Shams (Gateway to the Sun) protest tent camp, as a case study that can be used to understand the mechanism of the land grab practiced by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

scholarly journals Five-Month Print and Electronic Patron-Driven Acquisitions Trial at a Large University Shows Circulation Advantages

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Laura Costello
Keyword(s):  
Subject Area ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Business Politics ◽  
Psychology History ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Design Case Study

A Review of: Tynan, M. & McCarney, E. (2014). “Click here to order this book”: A case study of print and electronic patron-driven acquisition in University College Dublin. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 20(2), 233-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2014.906352 Abstract Objective – To evaluate the effectiveness of the first patron-driven acquisitions program in the Republic of Ireland and determine the effects of this acquisitions strategy on circulation, budget, and collection development. Design – Case study. Setting – A large university on two campuses in the Republic of Ireland with a total of over 25,000 students. Subjects – Patron-driven acquisitions including 1,128 electronic monographs and 1,044 print monographs. Methods – The authors evaluated titles purchased during a five-month patron-driven acquisitions trial conducted in 2013. Patron-selected titles were compared to traditionally acquired (faculty and librarian-selected) titles acquired during the same time period based on subject area and circulation data. Results from the trial were also compared to a literature review of patron-driven acquisitions trials conducted at other institutions. Information on selectors was examined for patron-driven print acquisitions. Main Results – The most frequently acquired subject areas included business, politics, English, drama and film, medicine, psychology, history, and law. These frequently acquired subject areas were consistent across print and electronic patron-driven acquisitions, traditionally acquired titles at the institution, and data from the patron-driven acquisitions trials of other institutions. Patron-selected titles in art history and architecture subjects showed a significant print preference over electronic. Patron-selected electronic titles were used 8.45 times compared to 3.27 uses for traditionally selected electronic titles. Patron-selected print titles circulated 1.32 times compared to 1.04 circulations for faculty-selected titles and 0.63 circulations for librarian-selected titles. For patron-driven print acquisitions, 63% of selectors were students and 37% were faculty and staff. Conclusion – The trial was considered successful in circulation and subject area diversity. Subject breakdown for patron-selected titles was consistent with expectations and mirrored traditional acquisitions strategies and expected demand. Patron-selected titles showed a circulation advantage over traditionally selected titles, though this advantage was more significant for electronic titles. The library intends to continue with patron-driven acquisitions. Considerations for future trials, including higher quality and more selective discovery records for print titles, more informative marketing, and better timing, could improve results.

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