Against the Tide by Steven Friedman

For the past year, the West has cheered or remained silent as the Israeli state has destroyed international law. Western countries have also rolled back their citizens' freedom to protect it. The awful human cost is obvious and the world economy may now also pay a price. But the damage this has done to law between states and to the West itself will play out over the coming years.

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Steven Friedman is a public commentator and an academic, currently employed as a Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg. He has been writing on South African politics for the entire democratic period both as a scholar and public commentator. He has published books on South Africa’s transition to democracy, the role of the trade union movement, and current South African politics. He has also written columns and articles for several South African newspapers. His writing seeks to use academic research to shed light on current politics but to ensure that this is conveyed in a way easily understood by people who have no academic training.