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Noura Erakat

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Noura Erakat
Erakat in 2014
Erakat in 2014
BornNoura Saleh Erakat
(1980-01-16) January 16, 1980 (age 44)
Alameda County, California, U.S.
OccupationActivist, attorney
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA, JD)
Georgetown University (LLM)
RelativesYousef Erakat (brother)
Saeb Erakat (uncle)
Ahmad Erekat (cousin)
Website
www.nouraerakat.com

Noura Saleh Erakat (/ˈnʊərə ˈɛrəkæt/, NOOR-ə ERR-ə-kat; Arabic: نورة صالح عريقات; born (1980-01-16)January 16, 1980)[1] is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, legal scholar, and human rights attorney.[2][3] She is currently an associate professor at Rutgers University, specializing in international studies.[4] Her primary focus is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and she is a vocal critic of Israel.[5][6][7][8]

Education and career

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Noura Saleh Erakat was born on January 16, 1980, in Alameda County, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2002, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was named a UC-Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow in 2003.[9] In 2005, she received her Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law and was awarded the Francine Diaz Memorial Scholarship Award.[10] She completed her L.L.M at Georgetown University Law Center in 2012.[11]

In 2010, she was a co-founder of Jadaliyya, an online magazine published in English, Arabic, and French, and which is affiliated with the non-profit Arab Studies Institute, operating in Washington, D.C. and Beirut.

Erakat has served as "legal counsel to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee"[3] and has previously taught at Georgetown University.[3][11] From 2012–2014, she was a Freedman Fellow with Temple University Beasley School of Law.[12] Erakat also has taught international studies at George Mason University at Fairfax, Virginia.

She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies and serves as an associate professor at Rutgers University,[13][14] is a member of the Board of Directors for the Trans-Arab Research Institute,[15] and is a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.[16]

Erakat is author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.[17]

In May 2023, a Canadian MPP, Sarah Jama, came under criticism for retweeting a tweet that Noura Erakat made. The tweet, which B’nai Brith described as “unacceptable,” praised Khader Adnan, a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a designated terrorist organization, as a ”martyr.”[18]

In August 2024, she was said to be among three potential Palestinian American running mates for Dr Jill Stein.[19]

Personal life

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She is the sister of Yousef Erakat, better known by his YouTube moniker, FouseyTube.[20][21]

In June 2020, Erakat's cousin Ahmed's car rammed a military checkpoint in the Israeli-occupied West Bank near Abu Dis, following which he was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.[22] The officers justified their actions as self-defense, saying that Ahmed rammed his car into them. Video footage shows Ahmed turning his vehicle and ramming into the checkpoint, injuring one Border Police officer.[23] Noura has disputed the intentionality of this act.[24] Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq launched an investigation into the killing of Ahmed using 3D modeling, fieldwork, geolocation, synchronization, OSINT, and shadow analysis, and concluded that the car's collision with the checkpoint was an accident, that the Israeli shooting constituted an extrajudicial killing and excessive use of lethal force, and that the Israeli military had denied Ahmed urgent medical care.[25]

Selected works

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Academic books

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Academic papers

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Interviews

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Radio

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Video

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Notes

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  1. ^ @4noura (January 16, 2019). "For past 3 years my one bday wish was to complete the book project while not cutting corners and still remaining hu…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "George Mason University, New Century College Faculty: Noura Erakat". George Mason University. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Faculty Highlight: Noura Erakat". George Mason University. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014.
  4. ^ "Erakat, Noura". crimjust.rutgers.edu. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  5. ^ Welsh, Theresa (September 5, 2014). "West Bank Settlements Overshadow New Arab Housing in Jerusalem". U.S. News & World Report.
  6. ^ Rudoren, Jodi (August 26, 2014). "Cease-Fire Extended, but Not on Hamas's Terms". New York Times.
  7. ^ "Israel Must Stop Its Campaign of Terror". The Nation. July 30, 2014.
  8. ^ "Large group of U.S. scholars endorse academic boycott of Israel". CBS News/Associated Press. December 17, 2013.
  9. ^ "UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow". UC Berkeley. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014.
  10. ^ "Berkeley Law School". Berkeley Law School. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014.
  11. ^ a b "Georgetown Bio". Georgetown University.
  12. ^ "Current Freedman Fellows". Temple University. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
  13. ^ "Board Members". Institute for Policy Studies.
  14. ^ "Noura Erakat". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  15. ^ "Board of Directors: TARI". TARI.
  16. ^ "Policy Advisor: Al Shabaka". alshabaka.
  17. ^ Erakat, Noura (2019). Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9825-9.
  18. ^ "Ontario political party under fire for retweet calling Islamic Jihad terrorist 'martyr'". www.israelnationalnews.com. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
  19. ^ "Jill Stein recruiting Palestinian Americans for her running mate position". NBC News. August 9, 2024. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
  20. ^ Muller, Nat. "Reviews and Critique: Jadaliyya". Portal 9. Archived from the original on December 16, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  21. ^ "Jadaliyya: Noura Erakat". Jadaliyya.
  22. ^ "Palestinian Driver Shot Dead After Car-Ramming on Israeli Police". US News. Reuters. June 23, 2020.
  23. ^ Kimon, Elisha Ben; Levy, Elior (June 24, 2020). "Footage shows Palestinian attacker ramming car into Border Police checkpoint". Ynetnews.com.
  24. ^ "Palestinian Scholar Noura Erakat: Israeli Forces Killed My Cousin on His Sister's Wedding Day". Democracy Now!.
  25. ^ "The Extrajudicial Execution of Ahmed Erakat".

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