Born and raised in Israel, Neve Gordon taught at Ben-Gurion University for seventeen years before moving to the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London. His first book, Israel’s Occupation (2008), provides a structural history of Israel’s mechanisms of control in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and still serves as a reference book for anyone interested in Israel’s military occupation. His second book, The Human Right to Dominate (2015 with Nicola Perugini) examines how human rights, which are generally conceived as tools for advancing emancipation, can also be used to enhance subjugation and dispossession. His most recent book Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (2020 also with Perugini) traces the marginal and controversial figure of the human shield over a period of 150 years in order to interrogate the laws of war and how the ethics of humane violence are produced. Gordon was also the first director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel during the first Palestinian Intifada, a founding member and activist of Ta’ayush-Jerusalem during the second Intifada, and, following the birth of his two children, he helped found (and served for ten years as a board member) of the bi-lingual Jewish-Palestinian school Hagar. He is currently the Vice President of the British Society for Middle East Studies and a board member of the International State Crime Initiative. Follow him on Twitter @nevegordon or on FB.