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07 Mar The (il)Legality of Israel’s Prolonged Occupation of the Palestinian Territory: Perspectives From the UN Special Rapporteur and Commission of Inquiry’s September 2022 Reports
[ Vito Todeschini is a legal expert focusing on human rights and accountability in the context of Palestine/Israel and the wider MENA region.] Introduction In September 2022, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (COI), and the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (SR), Francesca Albanese, published their reports (here and here) ahead of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, where they were later presented. Both reports focused...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....22 Mar Inaugurating ASIL IDEAS
...am Roosevelt Speakers: Zahi Khouri, ICC Palestine & Oren Shachor, ICC Israel Topic: The Jerusalem Arbitration Center: Focus on Neutrality & Efficiency Business leaders in Palestine and Israel have realized the need to find a mechanism for resolving commercial disputes between the two countries. In 2010, this initiative came to fruition with the agreement to establish the Jerusalem Arbitration Center (JAC) as an equal and just, apolitical and professional bilateral alternative dispute resolution forum. Zahi Khouri, Founding and Board Member of ICC Palestine and Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,...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...
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...
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’?’,...
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...
12 Dec Symposium on Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law: Piecing Together the Accountability Puzzle: Using Open Source Information to Fight Detention-related Impunity in the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza
...Holocaust, those in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, at present in Palestine, and allegedly in Myanmar and Xinjiang China, has been the use of internment camps and other detention facilities to separate out and abuse or kill members of a particular group. Given the closed nature of detention centres, in earlier instances of genocide, law enforcement, legal actors, civil society, and journalists often needed to wait until individuals had escaped or been released to obtain their testimony, or until the conflict was over to be able to physically visit sites...19 May Events and Announcements: May 19, 2019
...is a general call for papers. As such, the editors encourage the submission of scholarly pieces of relevance to public international law, including but not necessarily in relation to Palestine and the Palestinian people. The Yearbook is published in the English language, 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. The Yearbook is now accepting abstracts for review. Abstracts should include a working title, with a preliminary outline of the author’s research...
24 Sep Symposium on Protest and Legal Mobilization: Undermining the Right to Protest by Weaponizing Antisemitism
...the most peaceful protests, particularly in public spaces such as train stations. Militarised police responses have been triggered by the use of specific language, such as the slogan: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’. Moreover, talks by noted experts, such as Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta and UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese have been cancelled. In both the United States and Germany, coordinators and taskforces on antisemitism have been established. In line with prevailing trends, these government units have primarily targeted students and faculty critical...