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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 | |

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 | |

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 | |

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 | |

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 | |

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 | |

19 Jul

...behavior: • Bröning, Michael. The Politics of Change in Palestine: State-Building and Nonviolent Resistance. London: Pluto Press, 2011. (contains an excellent chapter on Hamas) • Caridi, Paola. Hamas: From Resistance to Government. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2012. • Gunning, Jeroen. Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. • Mishal, Shaul and Avraham Sela. The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence, and Coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. • Roy, Sara. Hamas and Civil Society: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011....
19.07.14 | |

22 Aug

...promotes disruptive elements in society, not Amb Baker's creed. The only fortunate part is that Jews like you are not in a majority. The "tens of thousands of supporters" are the anti-Semitic lot who provide the oxygen for radical Islamists the world over. Mark Response...C'mon Kevin. Don't be coy and don't play us for fools. If Israel unilaterally withdrew from the West Bank tomorrow, you and the rest of BDS would still claim it was occupied. Kumar @MArk... Know something Mark, Israel's existence will be questioned even assuming the Palestine...
22.08.16 | |