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08 Sep

[Dr Mais Qandeel is an Associate Professor of International Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway, Ireland, and Örebro University, Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. in international humanitarian law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.] Introduction  In addition to the genocide in Gaza perpetrated by Israel since October 2023, Israeli settlers and military have been escalating their deadly...

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08 Sep

[Lara Torbay is a PhD candidate at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.] Recent developments in Gaza reveal the ways in which development cooperation – a putative expression of solidarity – can function as a neocolonial tool. Of course, the weaponization of development cooperation is not new: post-development scholars have highlighted and criticized it arguing that, against colonized peoples, development cooperation cannot...

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07 Sep

[Mehmet Sercan Ercan is an independent researcher with a PhD in Public Law, working in the fields of general public law and constitutional law.] International legal norms already exist. What is missing is the institutional capacity to enforce them in situations of mass atrocity. The post-Cold War era nurtured the ambition to transform humanitarian intervention into a universal standard, later conceptualized...

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05 Aug

[Emanuele Cimiotta is a Full Professor of International Law at the University of Perugia] Establishing a state’s genocidal intent is a hard task. Yet intent constitutes one of the building blocks of genocide: the so-called dolus specialis, whose presence is essential for a state to be held responsible. To this end, the violence that Israel has been perpetrating against Palestinian children...

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27 Jul

[John B. Quigley is Professor Emeritus at the Moritz College of Law of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio USA] On October 3, 1923, a telegram marked “urgent” was sent to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, Eric Drummond, in Geneva. It read: “may h[is] m[ajesty’s] g[overnment] assume officially that mandate for Palestine entered into force as from September...

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14 Jul

[Yussef Al Tamimi is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Central European University in Vienna. Yussef was involved in drafting the complaint to the European Investment Bank] On 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice held that, by virtue of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force, all States are under an obligation: “to take steps to...

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23 Jun

[Mehmet Emin Büyük is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law in the School of Law at Ibn Haldun University. His research lies primarily in the field of general international law, with a particular emphasis on the doctrine of sources, international legal theory and history, and the judicial methodology of the International Court of Justice] Introduction Combined, the ongoing devastation in Gaza and the...

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23 Jun

[Ayşe Didem Sezgin is an assistant professor of international law at Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Law, Istanbul] Should an olive tree rooted in occupied Palestine, surviving in the shrinking open-air prison ruled under the Israeli apartheid regime be held differently than any other olive tree rooted anywhere else in the world? Could the uprooting of this olive tree be a testimony...

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23 Jun

[Dr Mustafa Emre Gokmenoglu is a lecturer in public international law at Hacettepe University School of Law] Israel raided and detained the Global Sumud flotilla activists primarily in two waves: firstly, on 30 April and secondly, on 18 May. The first wave of the raid took place near Crete, 965 km away from Gaza, where Israel maintains a naval blockade under...

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22 Jun

[Ali Osman Karaoglu holds a Ph.D. in Public Law at Istanbul Şehir University. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of International Law at Yalova University Faculty of Law, Türkiye] International law constitutes one avenue of the Palestinian struggle. It is not, however, the only one. Nevertheless, even when other forms of resistance are employed, international law invariably remains...

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18 May

[Gerhard Kemp is professor of criminal law at UWE Bristol and serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town] The recently adopted “Death Penalty for Terrorists Law” (unofficial translation, here) was met with widespread condemnation by governments (e.g., here, here), civil society and human rights groups (e.g., here), the UN High...

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28 Apr

[Jinan Bastaki is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at New York University, Abu Dhabi] During the UN General Assembly high-level week (September 2025), the US Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, delivered a presentation entitled “The Global Refugee and Asylum System: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It.” He made five points: a) every nation has the right to...

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