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21 Aug

...vision of “a region where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders”. The most recent is resolution 2334 (2016), which was adopted during the presidency of Barack Obama, in which the council reaffirmed that “the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace”....
21.08.20 | |

09 Aug

[Sanjana Ragu is an Bachelor of Laws graduate from Strathmore University and currrenly works as a trainee lawyer at Anjarwalla & Khanna] Be it Palestine in the East, or Sudan in the South, in the chessboard of global politics and economy, the suffering of the Global South is often a pawn, sacrificed for strategic advantage. This wretched reality becomes apparent once the profiteers of any conflict are exposed. Accepting the premise that wars and conflict emanate from a confluence of events, this essay looks at the political economy dimension of...
09.08.24 | |

07 May

A forthcoming symposium coordinated by Mohsen al Attar and Nciko wa Nciko African peoples and states have long stood in solidarity with the liberation struggle of Palestinians. Following each proclamation of independence across the continent, African leaders demanded the same for Palestine, a place that encapsulated anti-colonial resistance to Western (racial) imperialism. As Nelson Mandela powerfully declared: ‘our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.’ Likewise, Sankara was unforgiving:  “Lastly, I speak out in indignation as I think of the Palestinians, whom this most inhuman humanity has replaced...
07.05.24 | |

09 Oct

is. While it is true that the State of Palestine is recognized by over 100, it is misleading to make numerical comparisons between the State of Palestine and Kosovo when it comes to the recognition of their statehood. As you know very well the 50 states that recognized Kosovo make up 70.24% of the global GDP. Moreover, besides being recognized by 22 out of 26 and 27 member states of NATO and EU, respectively, Kosovo is recognized by 7 out of 8 member states of G8. In a nutshell, Kosovo...
09.10.08 | |

22 Feb

22 October 2019, ICC-02/17-95. The AC should have sanctioned the ECLJ for submitting a backdated document — I assume in the hope that no one would notice. Instead, the AC granted the ECLJ’s request to appear in the Afghanistan situation. So, to recap: in the Afghanistan situation, the AC does not apply Reg. 33(2) when it is ignored by a state and is knowingly violated by an ultra-right pro-Israel organization. In the Palestine situation, the PTC applies Reg. 33(2) inconsistently and in a manner that excludes — and only excludes...
22.02.20 | |

30 Jan

...like Hamas and Fatah, do not belong to the State of Palestine in the sense that they are fighting for the State and the State has accepted that the group is fighting on its behalf (2020 Commentary to GC III, para. 1,005). These groups are also not under the overall control of Palestine or another State in the sense that they have “a role in organising, coordinating or planning the military actions of the military group, in addition to financing, training and equipping or providing operational support” (Prosecutor v. Tadić,...
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06 Jul

...the 1903 Royal Commission on Alien Immigration and the Alien’s Act 1905. The book contains the most detailed legal analysis of the 1915-6 Hussein-McMahon correspondence, as well as the Balfour Declaration, and takes a closer look at the travaux préparatoires that formed the British Mandate of Palestine. It places the violent reaction of the Palestine Arabs to mass Jewish immigration in the context of Zionism, highlighting the findings of several British commissions of inquiry which recommended that Britain abandon its policy. The book also revisits the controversies over the question...
06.07.11 | |

17 May

...have been deliberately constructed in a manner that has resulted in apartheid, see Saree Makdisi’s Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2008), and Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi, eds., The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Territories (2009). In the latter volume, Hilla Dayan notes that ’it is important to clarify that apartheid in South Africa is neither a precursor to nor repeated in Israel/Palestine, nor is apartheid a conceptual basis for comparing the two countries. The tendency in most comparisons of the...
17.05.10 | |

13 Aug

...of the International Criminal Court (ICC) establishes that intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population, as well as intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to education, are war crimes. However, the ICC can only prosecute crimes if the alleged perpetrator is a national of one of its State Parties, if the crime was committed on the territory of a State Party, or if the matter is referred by the UN Security Council. While Israel has signed the ICC Statute, it has never ratified it, and Palestine’s declaration accepting the ICC...
13.08.14 | |

19 May

...so Apple comes up with a ridiculous pretext for rejecting it and hopes nobody notices. I know what you’re thinking: doesn’t Apple has the right to avoid “political” games? Isn’t it smart business to stay out of the Israel/Palestine conflict? Fair question. And in response I give you this: Meet Israeli Heroes, an Angry Birds rip-off in which — according to Boing Boing — “you hurl cartoon missiles at vaguely Arabic-looking adversaries.” Currently available for free on iTunes. So much for Apple’s political neutrality. Liyla and the Shadow of War...
19.05.16 | |

04 Oct

state" like the Vatican. It's interesting to note, that when the Vatican's bid for full membership in the UN failed in 2004, it asked for its own privileges to be upgraded to those already enjoyed by Palestine. Compare the rules annexed to A/RES/52/250 (1998) with those annexed to A/RES/58/314 (2004) See also: "The Holy See backs off from its claim for full membership of the UN, settling for the rights already held by Palestine." So the debate is really only about the use of the word "state" instead of "entity"....
04.10.12 | |

17 Sep

...and Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), as well as numerous academic articles. This act of denial of entry and deportation by the Israeli state and its agencies is part of a systematic policy of denial of entry to international academics, professionals and activists intending to visit Palestine. This policy represents an attack on Palestinian academic freedom, and is routinely practiced at the two entry points, the airport in Tel Aviv and the Jordan valley crossing from Jordan. Israel is truly the Donald Trump of...
17.09.16 | |