Biography:
Smadar Ben-Natan is a human rights expert specializing in the legal, historical, and political aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian-Arab Conflict, Israeli-Palestinian society and the Middle East. As a professor of global studies, She specialize in human rights, international law, armed conflict, criminal justice, social movements, and gender studies. Ben-Natan studies law, politics, and inequality on the local and global levels, focusing on military courts, incarceration and detention regimes. Before transitioning to academia, she practiced as an Israeli and international human rights and criminal defense lawyer and is still active in civil society and human rights organizations in Israel/Palestine and internationally.
Recent Media:
- How Israel's military investigates itself in cases of possible wrongdoing (NPR, May 15, 2024)
- Understanding the Hamas-Israel war through history and human rights (KUOW, Oct. 17, 2023)
- Israel’s other justice system has rules of its own (Haaretz, April 25, 2022)