Smadar Ben-Natan

About/Bio

Smadar Ben-Natan is an assistant professor of human rights at the Schnitzer School of Global Studies, University of Oregon, specializing in military courts, torture, and incarceration of Palestinians by Israel. She was the lead researcher in Amnesty International’s 2025 Report on the October 7 attack.

Recently Published

Israel’s Military Ad-hoc Court for October 7: Abdicating Truth and Justice

For decades, Israel prided itself on an ostensibly independent and professional civilian legal system, but when it came to prosecuting the accused of the October 7 attack, it chose to establish an ad-hoc military court. The Law for the Prosecution of October 7 Massacre was recently passed by an exceptional majority of the Israeli Knesset, establishing…

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