Trump threat to Iran cultural sites is 'something terrorists do,' Professor Bennoune tells ABC10

“Threatening to attack cultural sites is something that terrorists do,” Professor Karima Bennoune told Sacramento’s ABC10. “It is not something that leading democracies ever do, or advocate.”

Bennoune, the U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights, had been asked about President Trump’s Jan. 4 tweet threatening to target historical sites in Iran. Watch the interview

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.