Andrew Kent was quoted in a Today article about a Palestinian plan to sue Great Britain over a 1917 declaration backing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Asked to rate the chance of any legal success through the courts, the four experts’ opinions ranged from small to “negligible.”
But Professor Andrew Kent, law professor at Fordham University in New York, pointed out that the Palestinians may see victory more in political than legal terms.
“Could they get a statement from the UN General Assembly? Sure,” he said.
“Could they get a political statement from the (UN) Human Rights Committee? Sure. But those would not be lawsuits and would not be binding.”