Search: Symposium on the Functional Approach to the Law of Occupation
22 Aug BDS Means Showing Disdain for Israeli Athletes?
are by and large permanent, as 99% of historical precedents show. And settlers dont move to settlements out of the blue, they do so pushed by a huge amount of subsidies and support provided by the State. GC 49 prohibits individual or mass forcible transfers or deportations from OT declares that the OP “shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” GC Article 147 makes “unlawful deportation or transfer” a “grave” breach of Geneva law — which seems relevant to per se...
04 Jun UN Gaza Commission Will Collect Evidence of Crimes
[John Quigley is Professor Emeritus at the Moritz College of Law of The Ohio State University.] Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons The adoption by the United Nations Human Rights Council on 27 May 2021 of Resolution S-30/1 titled Ensuring respect for international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel opens an important avenue for seeking implementation of the rule of law in the Palestine/Israel situation. The resolution was adopted in the wake of the recent Gaza-Israel armed hostilities, to...
08 Aug Symposium on Unbroken Bond: Tracing the Ties Between African and Palestinian Anti-Colonial Struggles – Peoples’ Rights Without Borders? The Significance of the African Charter’s Liberation Ethos to the Palestinian Struggles
Israel’s capital. The AUC Chairperson notes such a move may decrease tension in the region and foster a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sadly, however, some African countries promised to move their embassies in Israel to Jerusalem. Conclusion At this stage, my conclusion should be clear: the African Union and its Member States must be more demanding towards Israel than they have been thus far. As the ICJ ruled, Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is unlawful under international law and so are its human rights-unfriendly policies in occupied territories....05 May Jus Post Bellum Symposium: A Normative Critique of Jus Post Bellum in International Law
actors involved in post-conflict reconstruction to interpret their mandate, either under the laws of occupation or under Security Council resolutions, and the general obligations they have under, for example, human rights law, the laws of armed conflict and refugee law. The main problem here again is that the identified principles (proportionality; trusteeship, and accountability) in fact are already very much present in general international law. This is without doubt the case for proportionality –a general principle of international law-, but also for the trusteeship principle -that post-conflict reconstruction efforts should...06 May Michael Kearney on the Palestinian Declaration
Statute despite half its sovereign territory (the TRNC) being under full (effective) control of a foreign occupation. In conclusion, while Davenport cites the necessity of the ICC having to balance between values of sovereignty and internationalism, his arguments suggests no attempt at considering the facts of the matter at hand. The OTP and the Court must balance between such values it is true, but to do so they must root their approach in international law, and not simply exclude Palestinians from the rule of law on a political basis, nor...10 May U.S. Law Professor “Demands” to Represent Iran in Case Against israel
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14 Mar Acts of Aggression During an Ongoing Armed Conflict: How Can We View the Events of February 24?
October 6, 1973, the hostilities between Israel and Syria (and Egypt) were renewed on a full scale, both States accused the other of committing aggression and declared that they would exercise the right to self-defense (S/11009, S/11011, S/PV.1744). Thus, they referred to the jus ad bellum framework and did not claim that the hostilities were merely part of the ongoing armed conflict. Referring that example to the case under review, Russia started its occupation of Crimea on February 27, 2014. The mere fact that an occupation lasts ‘does not eclipse...05 Jun Please, Can We Stop the Stupid Gaza Piracy Charge?
Union of Postal Workers (!?!?) I could go on, but I won’t. Aside from demonstrating the limits of this blog’s readership the flagrant stupidity of this “piracy” meme reflects a remarkable lack of seriousness among (some of) Israel’s critics about the legality of the raid and the blockade. So next time you hear the Foreign Minister of Turkey decrying Israel’s violations of international law, for instance, you can feel confident he actually cares nothing at all about international law, and is just looking for a convenient slogan to slam Israel....
04 Apr COVID-19 Symposium: Israel and its International Law COVID-19 Obligations Towards Gaza
[Solon Solomon is a Lecturer in the Division of Public and International Law at Brunel University London School of Law.] There is no question that Israel has an obligation to alleviate the health crisis that COVID-19 may trigger in the Gaza Strip. After all, according to the jurisprudential line taken by the Israeli Supreme Court, the State cannot allow the emergence of a humanitarian crisis in post-disengagement Gaza. The current post would like to examine how these international law obligations are translated when it comes to the need to avert...
02 Sep Back to the Drawing Board of the Partition Plan: Vice-President Sebutinde’s Erroneous Account of Palestinian and Israeli Claims of Title to the Territory of Mandatory Palestine (Part One)
[André de Hoogh is Associate Professor in International Law, University of Groningen; his research covers a wide range of topics in public international law. He is a member of the Advisory Committee on Public International Law , a statutory body which provides advice to the Dutch government and parliament; this contribution has been written in his personal capacity, and does not reflect in any way the views of the Advisory Committee.] In its advisory opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the International Court of Justice (the Court) held that...