Jonathan Marks reviews The Trials of Rasmea Odeh in the April issue of Commentary (paywalled with free registration). Here is the gist:
It may seem strange that [Jewish Voice for Peace], which claims to stand for nonviolence and presumably had many non-murderers to choose from, selected Odeh as a keynoter. But JVP, the Women’s March, and other activist groups that embraced Odeh had a ready answer: Odeh got a bum rap. She was framed by the Israelis, who tortured a false confession out of her, and then was mistreated by the racist, Zionist American justice system. An onlooker, dependent on mainstream he-said-she-said coverage, might be forgiven for not knowing what to think. Steven Lubet, in The Trials of Rasmea Odeh, puts matters beyond a reasonable doubt.
Lubet offers a dispassionate assessment of the evidence, wherever it points, and an engaging blow-by-blow of the legal action that resulted in Odeh’s pleading guilty and eventually being deported.
Rasmea Odeh was guilty of the crimes she lied about, including her participation in the operation that killed Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner.
You can read the full review here.
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