Advocate: Discussion Guide

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Film Summary

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Letter From The Filmmakers

The Film: Participants and Key Issues

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A political firebrand in her home country, Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel is known by her opponents as "the devil's advocate," for her decades-long defense of Palestinians who have been accused of resisting the occupation, both violently and non-violently. Tsemel, who pushes the praxis of a human rights defender to its limits, takes on two contentious court cases in her tireless quest for justice.

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Rachel Brown

Rachel Brown is an Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work and teaching address feminist and queer theory, migration, transnational feminist solidarity, and settler colonialism. Brown's writing has appeared in Feminist Theory, Political Theory, International Feminist Journal of Politics, and Global Networks. She is working on a book manuscript about migrant care and domestic workers in Palestine/Israel. She is a co-host of the Always Already Podcast, a critical theory podcast with a transnational listenership across the humanities and social sciences.

Siddhant Issar

Siddhant Issar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Contemporary Political Theory, The Black Scholar, Public Seminar, and an edited volume on Rosa Luxemburg. He is also a co-host of the Always Already Podcast. Issar is currently working on his dissertation, which thinks with the Movement for Black Lives to develop a critical theory of racial capitalism.