Yael Berda
Yael Berda is an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Hebrew University and a nonresident fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the author of three books, including “Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank” (2017) and “Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire” (2022). She was a practicing human rights lawyer, representing Israelis, internationals and Palestinian detainees in military and district courts as well as the Supreme Court in Israel.
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Israel’s State Authority Is Breaking Down
For years, Israel’s liberal elite looked away as the army systematically violated Palestinian human rights in the occupied territories. Now the far right is weaponizing those tactics against the liberal opposition in Israel proper and the state’s authority is not strong enough to resist.