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20 Apr Redefining apartheid in the Crimes against Humanity Treaty: Towards inclusive pathways forward
...organisations, this marked the fifth convening dedicated to examining the treaty’s apartheid provision. It brought together activists, practitioners, and scholars from South Africa, Namibia, Palestine, Afghanistan, and beyond, creating a space for dialogue among communities with lived experience of systemic domination. The timing of the convening was particularly significant, as its discussions and outcomes were intended to inform state submissions on the draft treaty text to the UN Secretary-General ahead of the 30 April deadline. Those submissions will feed into the consolidated negotiating text to be considered at the Preparatory...
05 Sep Iran’s Threat of Retaliation
...international law Palestine has the right to resist militarily based on its right to self-determination—both in its quest for statehood and in opposing Israeli military occupation, as recently confirmed by the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Policies and Practices of Israel in the OPT – then Hamas leaders might be considered to enjoy elevated rights under international law, possibly even an informal right to immunity. Although the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is internationally recognized as the representative of the Palestinian people, it is Hamas that actually conducts trials ‘on the...
11 Oct Rethinking International Law After Gaza Symposium: Trade, Resistance and International Law – Responding to Atrocities
...institutions. Suspension of arms trade is either not considered, or considered too late and at an insufficient scale. The larger question of international trade remains off-topic. Deploying a contrario reasoning, resistance movements regard trade as a potential intervention against states constantly exerting violent control and routinely killing people. Israeli violence in Palestine has also provoked the pursuit of trade as a resistance strategy in the form of a boycott (which has been running at different levels and degrees). For instance, many people avoid using products and companies supportive of the...
09 Jul Gaza, the ICJ, and Expertise in International Law: Who Can ‘Speak the Law’?
...communal public screenings, and heated debates on social media have elevated the vaunted halls of international justice into popular consciousness. In a recent piece for Opinion Juris, I argued that we have reached a new stage in international legal debates where vernacular accounts of international law fiercely challenge theoretical orthodoxy. And indeed, powerful vernacular conceptions of international law were and are on full display in the context of South Africa’s case, helping redefine expertise and legal knowledge. Supporters of Palestine watching a live screening of the genocide case with the...
27 May Affective Justice Symposium: Affected Justice–Using Criminal Justice as a Political Tool
...pursue justice at all costs for the victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – to be fair, there have been sporadic calls for movement, but these have been few and far between and not nearly as vociferous as the calls for justice for the victims where the not so powerful are implicated. In respect of the situation in Palestine, legal technical arguments about doubts concerning the statehood of Palestine are able to considerably slow down movement. In that conflict, as is the case in other situations that may implicate the powerful...
22 Jun Symposium on the Global Sumud Flotilla: A Sea of Struggle – Reimagining Legal Resistance in a Violent Order
...translation is difficult, we might describe sumud as steadfastness or endurance in the face of dispossession. Sumud is the active, deliberate, and communal refusal to accept the erasure of Palestine and Palestinians. It is a posture against domination that sits between accommodation and rebellion. Drawing on the Black political philosopher Vincent Lloyd, sumud is the act of living in a world that has marked you for death: to cultivate, to read, to parent, to mourn, to build, and to imagine in conditions designed to make all of these banal acts...16 Feb Another Dangerous Lawsuit — This One Involving a Former U.S. President
According to the Jerusalem Post, five purchasers of Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid have filed a $5 million lawsuit in federal court in New York against Carter and Simon & Schuster, the book’s publisher. The lawsuit alleges that the book violates New York consumer-protection laws by claiming to be a work of non-fiction (my emphasis): The five plaintiffs in the suit, readers of the book, want their lawsuit, which seeks compensatory and punitive damages, to be deemed a class action, meaning that the plaintiffs would be seen...