Advocate
Since the early 1970s, Jewish-Israeli attorney Lea Tsemel has made a career out of defending Palestinians in Israeli courts: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants, including suicide bombers. In ADVOCATE, filmmakers Philippe Bellaiche and Rachel Leah Jones deconstruct this controversial figure who will defend anyone who opposes what she describes as an illegal occupation of Palestine. Tsemel is by her own words "non-discriminating" about who she represents: her goal is fair representation within a court system that she believes is rigged against Palestinian prisoners, and she reserves judgment even of those guilty of terrible crimes. But her perspective goes beyond criminal justice as the film outlines, Tsemel has been committed to left-wing advocacy all her life. Tsemel insists that Israeli law is fundamentally flawed when it comes to Palestinian criminals, on the basis that an occupier has no right to tell the occupied how they should resist. ADVOCATE follows Tsemel as she takes on two new cases, and illustrates her decades-long clash with the Israeli establishment. …
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Judge
MV Bill
Brazilian singer
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Former Prime Minister of Japan
John Langeloth Loeb Jr.
Former United States Ambassador to Denmark
Harlan Cleveland
Former United States Permanent Representative to NATO
Ashok Desai
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Götz Werner
German businessman
Robin Cavendish
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Frank Schaefer
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Elizabeth Smith Miller
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Ivan Coyote
Canadian performer
Nina Revoyr
American novelist
Carolyn Forché
American poet
Jonathan Harden
Actor
Kaci Battaglia
Songwriter
Jane Rumball
Canadian advocate
Patrice Newell
Australian model
Édouard Bonnefous
Former Minister Delegate for Transport of France
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Luis Carlos Montalvan
American author
Gunhild Stordalen
Norwegian physician
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
German architect
Henry H. Goddard
American psychologist
K. Subrahmanyam
Analyst
Lilla Cabot Perry
American artist
John Dunmore Lang
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James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern
Lord Clerk Register of Scotland
Dick Pound
Canadian lawyer
Tzipi Hotovely
Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom
Salim Joubran
Former judge
Yoram Danziger
Justice
Chaim Herzog
Former President of Israel
Yariv Levin
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Dan Meridor
Former Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy of Israel
Dana Weiss
Israeli journalist
David Bitan
Israeli lawyer
Pierre Varignon
French mathematician
Leo Apostel
Belgian philosopher
Rik Pinxten
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Pare Lorentz
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Milena Miconi
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Khaliya Aga Khan
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Peter Munya
Politician
Susan Estrich
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Alice Elliott
Director
Caspar Bowden
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