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10 Jul A New Kind of Israel Boycott: Sue Corporations Doing Business in Israel
...by the phrase 'Israel's alleged human rights violations in Palestine' and the use of scare quotes in reference to Israel's crimes. The following should help by way of providing ample evidence that there's substance to the charges (I'm not used to Blue Book format, so pardon the cite style): Bowen, Stephen, ed., Human Rights, Self-Determination, and Political Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997). Boyle, Francis A. Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2003. Falk, Richard. 'International Law and Palestinian Resistance,' in...
17 Mar Legally Defining Ecocide: Implications for Addressing Environmental Racism and Prioritizing Human Health in International Law
...and Environmental Injustice Three situations at various stages at the ICC—Sudan, Afghanistan, and Palestine—offer further insight into what the implications of environmental harms have been so far in international law, and how formalization of ecocide could change the treatment of environmental injustice. Omar Al Bashir, former president of Sudan, was charged by the ICC Prosecutor with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide beginning in 2009, notably including leading a government that contaminated “the wells and water pumps of the towns and villages primarily inhabited” by targeted groups (as noted...03 Dec Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 3, 2012
Syrian forces have pounded rebel-held areas of Damascus, trying to keep them away from the airport so flights can resume. After last Thursday’s decision from the ICTY Appeals Chamber, acquitting former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and two others, Kosovo’s government has demanded an investigation into the actions of the lead prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, accusing her of abuse of power and filing unfounded charges. As we reported last week, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution giving Palestine an upgraded non-member observer state status. At EJIL: Talk!, Dapo Akande asks...
23 Dec The Illegality of the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza: What the International Court of Justice Will Have to Determine in its Advisory Opinion for the United Nations General Assembly
...Opinion can be found here. A summary follows below. The Opinion is partly based on my academic publications on the subject, which themselves draw on and cite the relevant primary and secondary sources: ‘ Tears of the Olive Trees: Mandatory Palestine, the UK, and accountability for colonialism in international law’ in the Journal of the History of International Law (2022); ‘Using the Master’s Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House: International Law and Palestinian Liberation’in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law (2021); ‘Compliance with human rights norms extraterritorially: ‘human rights imperialism’?’,...
02 Aug Reflecting on Genocidal Intent in the ICJ Case
...It wasn't Palestine who killed +1500 civilians in 2014, 539 of them chidlren, with total impunity. It wasn't Palestine who blackmailed the former ICC prosecutor to prevent the investigation of those crimes. It wasn't Palestine who threatened Khan, who prevents the entering of journalist in Gaza, who is starving, maiming and injuring two million people, half of them children, and killing 40,000, who is on trial at the ICJ accused of a plausible genocide. Hamas must be held accountable at an international court regarding its crimes on October 7th. Israel...22 Jan The Message of Jihad on Trial at Old Bailey
...[sic] Hitler for them. Jews they have nowhere to go, they are going to be buried in Palestine all of them.” (Link). 2. Jews are Blackmailing the West. “Now all these dogs of the West they have to go now, none of them have condemned what Israel has done to the Muslims and the Palestinians…. Why they act like sugar daddy for Israel? Because they love the Israelis? No way! Because they hate them very much, but the Israelis know how to deal with them. They got a file for...
22 Oct Israel’s Ecological Apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
[ Ahmed Abofoul is an Independent Legal Researcher at Al-Haq ’s Legal Research and Advocacy Department.] Introduction Whether in the Americas, Africa, Australia or elsewhere, colonialism and its practices of domination, conquest, settlement, and exploitation of land and natural resources of the indigenous people has ruptured many ecosystems around the world. Some have accurately argued that colonists owe their success, in part, to such practices. In this regard, the situation in Palestine is not an exception. Israel’s colonial practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), especially its illegal settlement enterprise,...11 Jan Events and Announcements: January 11, 2015
...be found here, and the conference, here. The Palestine Yearbook of International Law is now inviting submissions of scholarly articles for publication for its next volume, XVIII (2015). Unlike recent years, this upcoming volume will not be based on a specific theme. Therefore, the editors encourage the submission of scholarly pieces of relevance to public international law and Palestine. The Yearbook is edited at Birzeit University’s Institute of Law (Birzeit, Palestine), and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, The Netherlands). The Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook is Mr. Ardi Imseis....