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21 Dec The Forcible Transfer of Civilians in Gaza: Conditions, Necessity and Legality
...Although the fulfilment of this obligation comes as a second step after ensuring the safe passage and safety of the evacuees, this obligation does not appear to have been met either. Third, the evacuation of the civilian population must be carried out within the occupied territory. Israel is internationally recognized as the occupying power in Palestine – the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip (See UNGA, A/ES-10/L.25, para. 5, ICRC). The UNGA has rejected any Israeli attempts to forcibly transfer the Palestinian civilian population as Israel has...11 Feb Ahmadinejad on the Cartoon Controversy
For Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad it’s all about Israel. The cartoons were not an act of freedom, they were a desperate act of hostages. This week Ahmadinejad used the cartoon controversy to blame the United States and Europe for “being hostages of the Zionists.” He then criticized the double-standard of the freedom to insult the prophet while imposing criminal sanctions on those who deny the Holocaust. “I ask everybody in the world not to let a group of Zionists who failed in Palestine … to insult the prophet. Now in...
17 Jun The Domestic Definitions of the Crime of Genocide: A Dizzying Diversity
...literature only focused on a select number of jurisdictions and generally held that even though there are a few notable examples of changes in domestic criminal legislation, these can be seen as aberrations and the overwhelming majority of states implemented the international definition. However, after conducting a comprehensive review of the domestic criminal laws of 196 countries (all 193 UN Member States and the Holy See, Kosovo, and Palestine) and the Special Administrative Region of Macao, I have found that the differences are actually much more significant than hitherto assumed....10 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, April 10, 2013
...three days of meetings in the Middle East promising aid to Palestine and hoping for a restart to the peace process. France has begun withdrawing troops from Mali in an effort to transition the operations to a UN-mandated force. Jurist has more on Uhuru Kenyatta’s swearing-in as Kenya’s newest president. Al-Qaeda’s Iraq branch has reportedly merged with a Syrian armed opposition group, a move likely to cause concern with the opposition’s international supporters. US president Barack Obama has pledged military assistance to Somalia in a move to “strengthen the security...03 Jul For Unrecognized Entities and Would-Be States, the World Cup is Already Over
...having their football associations become part of a confederation, let alone FIFA. The New York Times further describes some of the results of FIFA’s membership process: For many teams, membership confers legitimacy and a shot at reaching the World Cup finals, a huge stage from which to wave their nation’s flag. Palestine — recognized as a “nonmember observer state” by the United Nations and a member of FIFA since 1998 — now has a national stadium near Ramallah and has attempted to qualify for four World Cup finals. Other teams,...
20 Oct Ending Book Famine and Vaccine Inequality: What a South African Court’s Decision on Copyright Law has to do with COVID-19 Vaccine Access
...distribute and acquire vaccines on their own, freed from the effective control of big IP rights holding pharmaceutical companies. This is important, because as the research by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Southern Africa, Nepal, Palestine/Israel, Thailand and Colombia has shown, COVID-19 vaccine access remains highly unequal. Much of the world remains unvaccinated while a small number of countries are now in a position to give “booster shots” despite the WHO’s condemnation. Important as universal vaccine access is it is crucial to understand the broader impacts of a...
12 Mar AWS in the Cross-Hairs: Data Centres as Targets
...network mesh cloud-based computing system that can connect soldiers on the ground with commanders and assets, like missile frigates and reconnaissance drones, alongside AI-DSS programmes to identify targets. In November 2025 NATO signed a multimillion dollar deal with Google Cloud to provide a similar secure cloud service. In 2021 Google and Amazon signed a lucrative $3.3 billion deal with Israel providing cloud computing servers to the military and the financial sector as part of Project Nimbus/Selenite, by building server farms in Israel. Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, argues...05 Feb The Italian-Dutch-Anglo-American Tradition
...at the leading liberal powers of the modern world. Which is not to deny that even paranoids have enemies; Arabs displaced from their homes in Palestine by British-sponsored Jewish colonists, like native Americans, Mexicans and Cajuns displaced by Anglo-Americans in the U.S. and Canada, surely have reasons to object to British and U.S. foreign policy quite apart from illiberalism, Anglophobia, anti-Americanism or anti-semitism. Mead is right, too, to root the liberal Anglo-American tradition in the early modern Netherlands. Here, however, I would suggest an emendation to his account. As Luciano...
27 Oct Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: ‘War Never Changes’ – Fallout, Restraint and the Enduring Nature of Warfare
...Taiwan. There is increasing pushback against the hype of AI, where the explosion of the value of AI and military tech companies is fuelling a business model that will need a ‘major war’ to make a profit. Investment signs point to the AI hype bubble soon bursting that will perhaps deflate continued efforts to seek a return from military investment in AI. Leaving aside companies selling us the end of the world, tech companies are intimately involved in armed conflict. Whether from using Palestine as a ‘laboratory’ for Israel to...20 Sep Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, September 20, 2012
...fiscal crisis if foreign aid is not restored and if Israel does not ease its restrictions in the occupied West Bank. In other Palestine-related news, William Schabas points to the letter by several prominent international (criminal) law scholars addressed to the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) of the International Criminal Court urging the ASP to consider the Palestinian statehood question at its upcoming meeting in November. The African Union-led force has assumed command over troops hunting Joseph Kony and other rebel leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, but...