Podcast: Jeremy Rabkin on Why the “Lawfare” Threat to Israel Still Pales Next to Conventional Dangers

This Week’s Guest: Jeremy Rabkin

Those who care about the success and security of Israel are sensitive to the many military threats it faces from—among others—Iran, or Syria, or Gaza. In recent years, those military threats have been joined by the more diffuse but still dangerous threat of what is often called “lawfare”: the use of the system of international law in order to damage and delegitimize Israel.

How does lawfare work? Is the threat to Israel as serious as some claim? And what does the use of lawfare for these nefarious purposes teach us about the very idea of international law?