Professor Bennoune, other U.N. experts urge renewed vigilance against antisemitism

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Professor Karima Bennoune joined other U.N. Special Rapporteurs in urging a renewed commitment to combat antisemitism, including Holocaust distortion and denial. Read the statement.

Karima Bennoune, Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, is an author, lecturer, teacher and international law scholar as well as the first Arab American to be honored with the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools. In 2014, she was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism (W.W. Norton & Company). In October 2015, she was appointed U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.  She received the 2016 Rights and Leadership Award from  IANGEL, the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law.