The ongoing post-conflict reconstruction process in Libya is reigniting a crucial debate among transitional justice advocates about the role that the International Criminal Court (ICC) can play in delivering justice and redress to victims of grave crimes. In the midst of the February 2011 revolution, the ICC opened an investigation into crimes alleged to have been committed in Libya, based on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1970. The Court has to-date issued three arrest warrants for Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, Abdullah Al-Senussi and Muammar Gaddafi. The warrant against Muammar Gaddafi was withdrawn following his death; Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi is currently detained in Libya and Al-Senussi is being held in Mauritania.

In America, the Jewish community's Anti-Defamation League (ADL) promotes racial integration, equality and multiculturalism within American society. The ADL and other Jewish organisations work closely at local levels with school administrators across the US to educate young children about the virtues of tolerance and multiculturalism. As a promoter of racial equality, the ADL wouldn't shy away from denouncing as racist anyone, including political leaders and presidential candidates, if they were perceived to be insensitive to the concerns of the Jewish community or other minorities in the US and Europe.

Administrative detention provides a vehicle for the arrest of Palestinians where there is no genuine reason for them to be taken into custody, even under Israel's draconian military occupation. Nobody sees the "evidence" provided by intelligence officers apart from the Israeli judge. The lawyers acting for the detainee can't see what the evidence against their client is; in any case, it is probably fabricated by a spy. The intelligence service is not bothered by this as long as it has something to put before a judge and claim that the detainee "threatens the security of Israel".

The judge does not ask the intelligence officer where he got his information, how he obtained it or how credible it is. Nor does he require the spy to appear in front of him for questioning. The contents of the secret file are trusted to be truthful and form the sole basis for a ruling which sees the detainee held for six months. The detention order can be renewed any number of times.

It is interesting to note that a recent robust defence of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's planned "Museum of Tolerance" in Jerusalem uses an attack on the credibility of Sheikh Raed Salah as part of the argument. Sheikh Raed Salah, wrote the Centre's Director of Public Relations in a letter to the Daily Beast, is "a declared Muslim extremist, head of the Northern Faction of the Islamic movement and leader of the illegal Al Aksa Association, a body involved in channelling funds into Hamas terror organisations, financing terror in violation of Israeli law and international decisions and norms". That's quite a charge list which, if it was at all true, would mean that Sheikh Salah would be in prison in Israel where he lives and is a citizen. The fact that he isn't behind bars, and has recently won a well-publicised legal challenge to the British government's attempts to deport him - during which similar libellous accusations were thrown at him and rejected by the British court - suggests that Avra Shapiro is relying on scurrilousness rather than facts to boost the SWC's case. This has to call into question the other "facts" presented.

Sheikh Raed Salah's legal victory against the British government's decision to deport him from the UK represents one more example of the battles he has been fighting for years against the Israelis and their supporters inside and outside historic Palestine.

The Upper Immigration Tribunal's decision emphasises the independence of the British judicial system and justifies the Sheikh's decision to stay in Britain to fight to clear his name. He was under very strict bail conditions for 10 months but he did not give up or back down. He told me and other visitors that he was confident about winning his case even when many, including myself, had our doubts.

Yossi Beilin is a smart man - he told us so himself - and because of that, he is quite certain that the Netanyahu government will not accept the four Palestinian demands of (1) the cessation of settlement activity; (2) adopting the 4th June 1967 border as a reference; (3) the release of detainees and prisoners; and (4) going directly to the two-state solution, according to a timetable that goes beyond "the gradual approach". Beilin uses this certainty to propose that President Mahmoud Abbas hand over the Palestinian Authority to the Israeli Government, and not merely dissolve it; that Israel has to take over the burden of managing four million Palestinians outside the Green Line, and providing various health, education and other services; that it should be spending money on its occupation of Palestinian land.

Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century, Islam has been largely absent from political activity in the Muslim world. The decline of the Ottomans coincided with the fragmentation of the region by the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and this continued until very recently, with religion being eroded from day-to-day affairs, especially politics.

As secularism grew, Islam receded into the background, prompting the emergence of numerous Islamic reform movements. An Islamic awakening occurred in the late 1970s which today occupies a key role in cultural life.