Biography
Justus Weiner is a UC Berkeley law school graduate, a Boston native, and a member of the Israel and New York Bar Associations. In the United States, he practiced law as an associate in the litigation department of the international law firm White & Case, before moving to Israel in 1981. Weiner further told Salon.com that after moving to Israel, he "worked for the Israeli Ministry of Justice...investigating claims by human rights groups and media organizations about Israeli conduct toward Palestinians" until 1993.
A scholar at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Weiner has written about legal and religious issues and human rights, particularly in Palestinian society. Weiner was also was the principal author of the monograph Referral to Iranian President Ahmadinejad on the Charge of Incitement to Commit Genocide, with Elie Wiesel, Dore Gold and others.
In 1999, Weiner published an article in Commentary in which he accused the Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said of dishonesty about his origins.
Following a 1997 meeting with a Christian pastor who alleged human rights abuses directed at Muslims who converted to Christianity, Weiner became interested in the topic, and subsequently conducted research and published in this area.
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