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‘What use is this court if it can’t stop the war?’ Gazans react to ICJ ruling
Many Palestinians in Gaza feel dismayed by the ICJ’s failure to demand a ceasefire, fearing its provisional measures will do little to halt the bloodshed.
By
Mahmoud Mushtaha
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Ruwaida Kamal Amer
February 9, 2024
ICJ case ‘opens new era between the Global North and South,’ says UN expert
Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese discusses South Africa’s charge of genocide in Gaza and the power struggle playing out in the legal arena.
By
Alba Nabulsi
January 23, 2024
Israel’s right to tyranny
In justifying the violent unraveling of Gaza as ‘self-defense,’ Western capitals have once again signed off on Israelis’ license to act like despots.
By
Amjad Iraqi
January 17, 2024
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Annexation is not just about stealing land — it’s about expelling Palestinians
What the international community views as an illegal move under occupation is in fact another stage in Israel's century-long settler colonial project.
By
Ahmad Al-Bazz
May 19, 2020
With international law under siege, can the ICC bring justice to Palestinians?
As the ICC prosecutor's investigation awaits a green light, Palestinian experts reflect on what the legal battle portends for their struggle.
By
Amjad Iraqi
January 13, 2020
PODCAST: Has international law failed Palestinians?
Palestinian legal scholar Noura Erakat proposes a different, inclusive vision that guarantees justice and dignity for all oppressed groups in Israel and Palestine. Listen here: iTunes/Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify Israel has been able to leverage international law to its advantage much better than the Palestinians, says Noura Erakat, Palestinian legal scholar, human rights activist and author of Justice…
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+972 Magazine
August 30, 2019
Annexation is more than just a declaration
By drawing a line at formal annexation, the international community is hobbling its ability to respond to Israeli changes on the ground. Benjamin Netanyahu declared on the eve of Israel’s April 9 elections that if reelected he would begin annexing the West Bank. Only, if we’re being precise, he didn’t. Israeli leaders have almost never…
By
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
April 15, 2019
The Israeli army is putting humanitarian workers at risk in Gaza
According to the Israeli media, the soldiers who took part in a botched intelligence operation in Khan Younis earlier this month were dressed up as humanitarian workers. If the details are true, it could put countless people in danger. Israeli troops impersonated humanitarian workers in order to carry out an intelligence operation deep inside the…
By
Yali (Yael) Marom
November 26, 2018
The myth of the Gaza ‘border’
The Green Line disguises the fact that Palestinians in Gaza are no longer being oppressed outside the Israeli state, but are being caged and brutalized inside it. Palestinian activists have long criticized the use of the word “border” to describe the 1949 armistice line that divides Gaza and Israel, and which protestors in the Great…
By
Amjad Iraqi
May 17, 2018
Demolishing Palestinian schools ‘a quiet population transfer’
By destroying schools in Palestinian villages in Area C and elsewhere, Israel is forcing Palestinians to make a cruel choice — between their land and their children’s futures. When the children of Beit Ta’mar, a village south-east of Bethlehem, left their improvised schoolhouse for winter vacation about two weeks ago, they did not know if the…
By
Orly Noy
January 24, 2018
The new ‘choice’ for asylum seekers: Deportation or prison
Israel finally plans to close its desert detention facility for African asylum seekers. Refugee advocates worry it could be the start of something even worse. During a midnight vote on Monday, the Knesset passed a bill that will enable the government to detain asylum seekers indefinitely or deport them to an unspecified country in Africa.…
By
Joshua Leifer
December 13, 2017
‘How Israel turned the West Bank into its garbage dump’
A new report from B’Tselem details how Israel has exploited the legal regime in the West Bank, trucking in hazardous waste to be processed in the occupied territory. Israel is taking advantage of less stringent environmental regulations in the West Bank in order to conduct much of its waste treatment in the occupied territory, according…
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Joshua Leifer
December 5, 2017
Congress won’t allow Palestinians their day in court
The PLO faces punishment—the closure of its diplomatic office in the U.S.—for seeking justice in the International Criminal Court. By James J. Zogby Imagine that you are a victim of a violent crime or theft but are forbidden from reporting it because Congress has passed a law that not only prohibits you from reporting the…
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November 27, 2017
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