"The UN, Amnesty International – THEY ARE ALL WRONG" - Natasha Hausdorff

Natasha Hausdorff, welcome to my podcast. Thank you so much. It's my pleasure to be here. Thank you. You're uh to introduce you to my audience listening and watching now. You're a barristister. You're an expert on international law, including the law of armed conflict, foreign affairs, and national security policy. You hold law degrees from Oxford and Tel Aviv universities, and you've

been a fellow in the national security law program at Colombia Law School in New York. Right. so far. And you're also the legal director of UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust. That's spot on. Yeah, that's a proper curriculum. Good. Well, um well, thank you. I think uh there's been there's been a lot of learning along the way for sure. Yeah. And you're on some kind of uh like a tour here

in Scandinavia now. You were in Copenhagen like 2 days ago and you were in Bergen here in Norway yesterday and now you're in Oslo. How has the experience been before we're we're going to dive into the deep stuff afterwards, but uh it's interesting to hear how your experience has been here in um in Scandinavia so far. Sure. Well, it's not my first time in this part of the world. Uh

and I'm always struck by the important differences cultural um and you know the differences between the peoples uh in each of these places and and in fact how they interact and how they discuss controversial issues. Um, so I I appreciate the approach uh in Denmark might be a little more reserved. Uh, but uh we were expecting a debate uh this evening in Oslo which will perhaps be

a little more lively than Copenhagen, but it's been great. It's extremely warm and people have been especially welcoming to me. That's great to hear. I saw your debate actually with um uh in Copenhagen which was uh led by Martin Krosnik the editor of weekend of the weekend newspaper and uh two ladies from um one was from Amnesty International and the other was from