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. …
People with Advocate profession (First 49 people) - Page 6
Richard Berkowitz
American author
Riti Pathak
Member of the Lok Sabha
Anshul Verma
Former Member of the Lok Sabha
Janardan Mishra
Member of the Lok Sabha
Sarmite Bulte
Canadian lawyer
Teresita Ssen Marquez
Filipino actress
Hüsnü Güreli
Advocate
Angelo Farrugia
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Malta
Koto Hoxhi
Albanian teacher
Claudette Tardif
Former Senator of Canada
Stig Synnergren
Military personnel
Megan Leslie
Canadian Politician
Thomas Helwys
Advocate
Sheree Fitch
Canadian writer
Joyce Murray
Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
Marco Beasley
Italian tenor
Nicole Marie Lenz
American model
Steve DeAngelo
Activist
Juan Manuel Barrientos Valencia
Colombian chef
Rosemary Odinga
Entrepreneur ‧ Raila Odinga's daughter
Jonathan Foyle
Architectural historian
Anton Lubowski
Claire Bertschinger
Nurse
Rama Jois
Justice
Wilfred Talbot Smith
English advocate
Jessica Platt
Ice hockey player
Abdulmalik Dehamshe
Israeli Politician
Dov Yosef
Statesman
Adagur H. Vishwanath
Member of the Karnataka Legislative Council
Anna Arnold Hedgeman
American Politician
Antonio Lara Zárate
Former Minister of Justice of Spain
Balint Karosi
Hungarian organist
Christophe de Thou
French advocate
Dentaa
Ghanaian entrepreneur
Donnie Andrews
American advocate
Dunia Elvir
Television journalist
Eemil Luukka
Finnish Politician
Ellen Brown
American author
Emma Hardinge Britten
English advocate
Haim Yosef Zadok
Israeli jurist
Hinca Panjaitan
Member of the People's Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia
Javier de Belaunde López de Romaña
Monce Joseph
Member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly
Alejandra Campoverdi
Advocate
Andru Volinsky
Former Member of the New Hampshire Executive Council
Chintaman Vanaga
Former Member of the Lok Sabha
Haim Cohen
Chef
