We are living in an upside-down world. Here is an example. When the U.N. Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s so-called peace plan for the Gaza Strip, including what looks like indefinite U.S.-backed Israeli control in the territory, it contradicted decades of the U.N.’s own resolutions and the rulings of the International Court of Justice. Palestinian human rights activist Shawan Jabarin wrote to the body, pleading for it to respect international law.

“To seek, as a matter of supposed political compromise, to sideline international law would be to render the U.N. complicit in Israel’s violations, to fundamentally break the promise of the U.N. Charter and to fuel only ever intensifying human carnage,” he wrote.

Jabarin got his start in activism 44 years ago as a member of a

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