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 7
Heinz Ellenberg
German biologist
Jill Tietjen
American electrical engineer
Jim Mayer
American guitarist
John Guise
Former Governor-General of Papua New Guinea
John Hill Burton
Advocate
Joice George
Former member of parliament
José Primo de Rivera
Biographer
Juan Mari Brás
Advocate
K. R. P. Prabakaran
Former Member of the Lok Sabha
Kapil Muni Karwariya
Indian Politician
Lois Reckitt
Maine State Representative
M. K. Eelaventhan
Former Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Margaret Sinclair
Nun
María Belón
Spanish physician
Markéta Haindlová
Czech lawyer
Martín Belaúnde Moreyra
Advocate
Michael Ben-Yair
Former Attorney General of Israel
Patrick Kennedy
Actor
Annabel Davis-Goff
Irish novelist
Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin
Israeli lawyer
Cindy Pawlcyn
American chef
Diane Levin
American author
Helen Dortch Longstreet
American advocate
Michel Venne
Canadian journalist
Muhammad Salih Al-Munajjid
Syrian Islamic scholar
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
American advocate
Pradipta Kumar Naik
Indian Politician
René Dahinden
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of . . .
Roderick Campbell
Politician
Roswell F. Cottrell
Author
Gerri Lawlor
American actress
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Former Member of the German Bundestag
Juan Antonio Ortega y Díaz-Ambrona
Former Minister of Education of Spain
Samson Itodo
Entrepreneur
Pansy Tlakula
Advocate
Vladimir Dvorniković
Philosopher
Girdhari Lal Dogra
Former Member of the Lok Sabha
Suzi Barbosa
Politician
Thelma Stovall
American Politician
Armand-Gaston Camus
Advocate
Wajih uz Zaman Khan
Pakistani Politician
Monica Murnan
Politician
Johann Schroth
Austrian advocate
Kimmane Rathnakar
Advocate
P. Sathidevi
Former Member of the Lok Sabha
Stephen Douglass
American actor
