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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 | |

25 Feb

...obligations towards the Palestinian Territory must be assessed going forward. Israeli Belligerent Occupation of the Palestinian Territories 1967-1994 Israel first established effective control over the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem—then widely referred to as the “Palestinian territories”—during the 1967 “Six Day War,” an IAC between Israel and several Arab States, including Egypt and Jordan. Much as today, the international legal status of those territories was ambiguous in 1967. The Palestinian territories constituted those parts of the former Mandate of Palestine that lay outside the 1949 armistice lines...
25.02.25 | |

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 | |

23 Jun

...the Centre for Evidence & Criminal Justice Studies in Northumbria University will jointly host a symposium on ‘The Situation in Palestine- Emerging Domestic and International Jurisprudence’. This event reflects on international and domestic developments to defend Palestinian rights. This symposium brings together leading practitioners and scholars of international law who have been at the forefront of pursuing and analysing this emerging jurisprudence. We will reflect critically on the situation in Palestine today and the possibilities and limits of these various legal initiatives in different judicial arenas. The event’s keynote speakers will be...
23.06.24 | |

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 | |

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 | |

11 Jul

...accurately labeled. Crawford’s report can be downloaded here. I was particularly struck by its final paragraph, in which Crawford says the following: Unfortunately, the present reality of the political situation in Palestine is such that it is unlikely that any adverse legal ramifications will result from States or private entities continuing to engage with the unlawful settlements. As noted by the [ICJ] in its Namibia judgment: “the qualification of a situation as illegal does not by itself put an end to it. It can only be the first, necessary step...
11.07.12 | |

16 Apr

The San Francisco Chronicle has the story: The conference, titled “Litigating Palestine,” took place at the San Francisco campus March 25 and 26. The 13 speakers – four of them Jewish, according to a school official – discussed legal issues and court cases involving Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, protests, consumer boycotts and related topics. The event, approved by Hastings’ faculty, had listed the school’s foundation as a co-sponsor along with the Trans-Arab Research Institute. But on the evening of March 24, Hastings’ Board of Directors held...
16.04.11 | |

29 Aug

really ? How can Kosovo and especially Palestine compare to some small village with the population of 598 in the middle of Rome? That's not even funny. Brian Finucane Julian, The bar for statehood has been low for some time. Most of the newly independent countries of Africa were immediately recognized as states and admitted to the UN during decolonization irrespective of whether they possessed governments capable of controlling their territories. Are Kosovo and Palestine less like states today than the DRC was in 1960? M. Gross There's a number...
29.08.11 | |