No immediate hard legal implications, other than Israel needing to report to the ICJ, which will prob amount to something like stricter Israeli military/political discipline.
BUT other implications, which looked like wishful thinking before, start looking much more serious.🧵
BUT other implications, which looked like wishful thinking before, start looking much more serious.🧵
https://twitter.com/ncpratt/status/1750865219130191988
1. companies delivering arms will have to show as part of due diligence that they are not contravening international law, but prob more importantly national laws that prohibit complicity in genocide
2. states that have contracts with arms companies delivering to Israel could potentially be viewed as complicit in genocide: (threat of) more ICJ cases?
3. states with universal jurisdiction legislation for genocide (e.g. Switzerland) could see (further) arrest warrants against Israeli officials and their allies issued
4. Investors will start to get jittery about potential risks associated with Israel’s economy/regional escalation (demand higher risk premiums)
5. Calls for sanctions will get louder
6. Unis that have research partnerships with Israeli unis that develop weapons/systems to oppress Palestinians could see pressure from their students (student fees for assisting genocide is a bad look for reputation sensitive unis)
7. Legitimacy of the (huge) numbers of Palestinians killed, and injuries reported. Israel claimed that these were Hamas figures and therefore not reliable.
8. In short: an arguably legally sanctioned growing isolation of Israel and its allies in terms of foreign policy/economy. Not enough, but not nothing...
What have I missed?
What have I missed?
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
