Graduation Year
2016
Date of Submission
4-2016
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Reader 1
Paul Hurley
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© 2016 Zain Abdulla El-Jazara
Abstract
A disturbing average of 600 Palestinian children are prosecuted by Israeli military courts every year. Three fourths of the children experience some form of physical violence during their arrest, interrogation, and/or detention. On the contrary, Jewish Israeli children never face the brutality of a military court system with a 99.74% conviction rate of Palestinian minors. The aim of this thesis is to examine the “legal” systems responsible for discriminatorily incarcerating an average of 200 children in military jails on a monthly basis. Central questions to my thesis ask: is this behavior legal and legitimate by Israeli legal standards? Can the same be said about the standards set by international law? What defines and distinguishes a legal system? Finally, how should we punish children, if at all? This thesis argues there is a severe lack of legality and legitimacy behind Israel’s rampant and unrestricted incarceration of Palestinian minors, be it by Israeli or international measures.
Recommended Citation
El-Jazara, Zain Abdulla, "Institutionalized Since Adolescence: Deconstructing the Legality and Legitimacy of Israel’s Incarceration of Palestinian Children" (2016). CMC Senior Theses. 1395.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1395
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
