Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Nimer Sultany Profile picture
Nimer Sultany
@NimerSultany
Reader in Law @soasLAW author of Law & Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring. Editor-in-Chief, The Palestine Yearbook of Int'l Law
@maraf@ Profile picture Palestine Community Profile picture Jean-Marc /Othman Profile picture 4 subscribed
May 16 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
A summary of the South African presentation before the ICJ today, in its request for additional provisional measures against Israel: a compelling presentation modifying the requested order by seeking a cessation of Israeli military activity and withdrawal from all of Gaza: S.A. is compelled to return to the Court considering the continuing annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza. Institutionalised impunity emboldened Israel to commit the genocide, which shocked of the conscience of the international community.
May 10 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
CNN finally sheds light on Israel's shocking and barbaric torture chambers: thousands of people, detained for months:

Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/mid… "a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics... ; .. where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot."
May 9 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
In this new article for the @JournalGenocide I argue that Israel's onslaught on Gaza has crossed the threshold of the military logic of defeating the enemy to the genocidal logic of elimination: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Continued contestation notwithstanding, a consensus is emerging because the evidence is overwhelming. It's manifested in a convergence of the interpretations of Israel’s intent and pattern of conduct in Gaza as genocide. This consensus strengthens the legal case against Israel. Image
May 1 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
This a good example of the bias of some "human rights experts": 1. This is the UN expert on torture. Dr Alice commented on the terror attack in Moscow, sent a letter to the Chinese government regarding the trial of one individual, writes on refugees.

But 7 months later is yet to issue a detailed statement on Israel's detention practices.
Apr 26 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Much ado about nothing? A thread on the ICJ president comments:

The amount of sophistry in defending Israel's crimes is just astounding.

But it's also a lesson in how the technical can obscure rather illuminate reality: let us start with the basics: it is called the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide."

The word prevention here is key.

What needs to be prevented? Here is art. III Image
Apr 21 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Details of Israeli police treatment of Professor Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, according to her lawyers:

1. Police officers strip searched her in a humiliating way.

2. Officers refused to provide drinking water when she asked.

3. Officers hand- & leg-cuffed her for a long time. 4. The cuffs were very tight, preventing blood circulation and leaving marks on her body.

5. Police officers refused to allow her to take hypertension medication even though it was in her bag. This led to an increase in her blood pressure,
Apr 20 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Is it true that, as Gantz asserts, Israel has an independent judicial system that can "evaluate" any misconduct?

Here is what a recent UN Commission Inquiry concluded in 2019 regarding the killing of protesters, including children, medics, and journalists in Gaza 2018: 1/6 The Commission showed that Israeli army soldiers killed and maimed thousands of protesters who did not pose any serious threat to the soldiers. 2/6
Image
Image
Apr 19 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
A thread about the arrest of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: Ben-Gavir's police force is trying to intimidate, humiliate, and silence a leading Palestinian intellectual.

What will his thugs question Nadera about (what do you mean by "necropolitical capitalism"? "abolitionism and settler colonialism"? "unchilding"? "security theology"?)
Apr 5 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Important development in the case of South Africa v. Israel:

Colombia intervenes in support of South Africa's case, claiming that the case against Israel's violation of the Genocide Convention is compelling.

Here are some highlights from the submission: Unlike Nicaragua, which intervened under Art 62 ICJ Statute (which requires the intervening state to show 'legal interest' in the case), Colombia is intervening under Art 63 as a party to the convention, declaring its views regarding the interpretation of the convention.
Image
Image
Mar 31 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Israel created 'kill zones' in Gaza. Anyone who crosses into them is shot haaretz.com/israel-news/20… "army commanders.. cast doubt on the claim that all of these were terrorists... the definition of terrorist is open to a wide range of interpretation... Palestinians who never held a gun in their lives were elevated to the rank of "terrorist" posthumously, at least by the IDF."
Mar 28 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
4 important headlines from this ICJ order:

1. the ICJ considers Israel to be in violation of its earlier order on 26 January thus requiring a modification of the January orders given the worsening of the situation; 2. ICJ majority issues an implicit order to halt military operations, referring to the UNSC cease resolution and making clear that only a suspension of military operations will enable compliance with ICJ orders;
Mar 28 • 27 tweets • 10 min read
Breaking: the @CIJ_ICJ reaffirms its previous provisional measures against Israel and orders new provisional measures icj-cij.org/sites/default/…

Image
Image This new order is in response to South Africa's request earlier in the month:
Mar 25 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
A very important and detailed report on Israel's commitment of genocide in Gaza by @FranceskAlbs the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Here are the highlights of the report: ohchr.org/sites/default/…
Image Context: Israeli genocide should be contextualised in a historical process of settler colonisation in which Zionism and Israel have repeatedly sought to displace, and displaced, the Palestinians, "signalling a tragedy foretold."
Image
Image
Mar 20 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
It is baffling how this kind of index and many academics have regarded Israel, a Jewish supremacy, as a "liberal democracy". When was Israel exactly a "liberal democracy"? 🧵1/12 This V-Dem index claims that is no longer a liberal democracy. But why not go back to 1990s bill of rights? A state that have repeatedly failed to legislate in the constitutional bill of rights the basic principle of *formal equality* can't be credibly called liberal. 2/12
Feb 26 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
As the ICJ proceedings on the legality of Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestine draws to a close today, what we have learned: 1/14 First, is how isolated Israel is, legally and politically. Dozens of states made comprehensive arguments regarding the illegality of Israel's occupation and the violation of prohibition on apartheid and racial discrimination. They called for an immediate end of the occupation. 2
Feb 19 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Few comments and summary on the "State of Palestine" presentation today before the ICJ in the Advisory Opinion case regarding the legality of Israeli occupation: One of the highlights of the Israeli genocide in Gaza is to highlight the irrelevance of the Palestinian Authority which has acted as a subcontractor for the occupation and was reduced to a spectator, as the most momentous event in Palestinian history has unfolded in Gaza.
Feb 4 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
Ahead of the ICJ discussion on 19 February, a few notes on the legal discourse on the Question of Palestine and the effect of ICJ ruling on provisional measures: /1

A 🧵 For decades the legal discourse was dominated by the legal prism of international humanitarian law: laws of armed conflict and occupation. /2
Jan 26 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
A momentus decision by the ICJ that is likely to start the political dynamics to end Israel's genocidal war on Gaza: there should not be an Israeli exception to the prevention of genocide.

Some initial thoughts: ICJ dismissed Israel's arguments re jurisdiction, it ignored Israel's attempts to obfuscate genocidal statements, it made no mention of Israel's argument re self-defence because it is irrelevant. Thus, it mocks the western mantra of "Israel has a right to defend itself".
Jan 26 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Any outcome today other than issuing provisional measures against the Israeli genocide will be the death knell for international law and international institutions. For 112 days we have seen Western hypocrisy and selectivity justifying mass slaughter of a trapped population 1/9 We have seen deep western racism and chilling disregard toward non-European civilian lives. A ruling ordering provisional measures may still be disregarded by Israel and its partners in genocide, especially the US. This will show again the limits of international law. 2/9
Jan 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Are we supposed to ignore 6 books (2 volumes) of Herzl diaries, his pamphlet (1896), his novel (1902), that display colonial & orientalist worldview, and believe that in the last 2 years of his life he became egalitarian? 1/6 The Jewish State (1896): “We should there [Palestine] form a portion of a rampart Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism”. 2/6
Jan 20 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Is Zionism colonial or anti-colonial?

This propagandist ignores what Zionist leaders declared repeatedly throughout the history of Zionism.

Here are some examples of statements foregrounding the colonial nature of Zionism: 1/10 Herzl in 1895: “We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country.” 2/10