(1) Can Torture Ever Be the Lesser Evil? (2) Zionism as a Dirty-Hands Response to a Monumental Injustice.
Steven Lukes, “Liberal Democratic Torture,” British Journal of Political Science 36 (2006): 1-16
Chaim Gans, A Just Zionism (Oxford UP, 2008): 9-16, 34-84
More on Justifications and Objections to Torture
(WARNING! THE MOVIE CLIP ENDS WITH SOME DISTURBING SCENES OF TORTURE.)
Clip from The Battle of Algiers, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo (1966). Depicts the French military's justification of the use of torture against the Algerian nationalist guerrillas in the 1950s. Then depicts its use of torture.
Gary Gutting and Jeff McMahan, "Can Torture Ever Be Moral?" New York Times (January 26, 2015)
More on Zionism and Its Background
"The Longest Hatred: A Revealing History of Anti-Semitism--1: From the Cross to the Swastika," dir. by Rex Bloomstein (1991)