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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
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May 21 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Those who are surprised by Yair Golan's comments ("killing babies as a hobby"), or are inclined to dismiss Feiglin as a marginal figure, have not been being attention. Search the word "children" in South Africa's submission to UNSC in Feb 2025: 🧵/1 2. Recall that Netanyahu, Gallant framed it from the start as a war against the "children of darkness" and that endless statements by politicians, soldiers, journalists, public figures repeatedly proclaimed: there are no innocents in Gaza, where the majority is children.
May 11 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The Guardian, 18 months late: "What is this, if not genocidal?"
theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "International law moves slowly, and signatories to the convention, including the US and UK, are required not only to punish but to prevent genocide. The court of public opinion is reaching its own conclusion."

So why did you wait till now?
May 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Israel said it will "burn", "erase", "flatten" Gaza since October 2023, but western media and western officials downplayed and ignored genocidal intent. They pretended it is a "war". Here is a NYT article on 15 November 2023. Image And here is @ChrisMcGreal on 16 October 2023 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
May 5 • 30 tweets • 11 min read
South Africa's submission to UNSC in Feb. 2025 did not receive the attention it deserves. This is one of the most publicly-available comprehensive documentation of Israel's intent to commit to genocide as evidenced by its pattern of conduct and statements. 🧵 1/ Image 2) South Africa highlights 10 patterns of conduct that are prevalent from the publicly available evidence and that indicate the existence of a genocidal intent: Image
Mar 13 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
UN Commission: “There is no escape from the conclusion that Israel has employed sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians to terrorise them and perpetuate a system of oppression that undermines their right to self-determination.” ohchr.org/en/press-relea… "Specific forms of sexual and gender-based violence – such as forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault – comprise part of the Israeli Security Forces’ standard operating procedures toward Palestinians."
Jan 3 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A list of 8 important reports by the leading Palestinian human rights organisations since October 2024: @pchrgaza @alhaq_org @Addameer @AlMezanCenter 1. @Addameer, January 2024, on increasing brutality in arrest tactics since October 2023 addameer.org/media/5262
Jan 2 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
A thread on the statement on Israel's genocide in Gaza by @genocide_watch and the ideological limits imposed by a Zionist worldview: 1/14 It is welcome that @genocide_watch joins the increasing consensus that recognises that Israel is committing genocide. For an organisation committed to "prevention" the statement comes a year late. 2/ Image
Jan 1 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Genocidal commander: 1/ Image The goal is to displace 250,000 Palestinians from anorth Gaza 2/ Image
Dec 27, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
As Israel continues its genocidal attack on North Gaza and burns Kamal Adwan hospital. Here is a reminder of the AP report in Nov on Israel's attacks on hospitals and the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry in Oct. re systematic attack on health care: 1/5 "The AP spent months gathering accounts of the raids on al-Awda, Indonesian and Kamal Adwan Hospitals... It found that Israel has presented little or even no evidence of a significant Hamas presence..." 2
Dec 19, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
To recap: we have now at least 3 reports based on Israeli soldiers' testimonies that say that Israel's numbers about "combatants" killed are fabricated: 1/4 1. Haaretz report in March Image
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Dec 18, 2024 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
"Even if they were just a child"

The horrors of genocide in Gaza Image More confessions: haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Dec 14, 2024 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Another important thread by @Alonso_GD. Indeed, 6 states (incl. Germany, France, UK, Canada) submitted in the Myanmar case that there is a need for a "balanced" and "holistic" approach that does not set the bar "unduly high" and thus make the Genocide Convention useless. Image Because the ICJ's standard of proof in the Croatia case is "unduly high" and in order to "read [it] properly", the 6 western states emphasise "reasonableness" when inferring intent from state conduct Image
Dec 12, 2024 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Genocide: "By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented." "the manner in which Israel has conducted the war in Gaza may signal the development of a concerning new norm: a way of conducting air campaigns with a greater frequency of strikes, a greater intensity of damage, and a higher threshold of acceptance for civilian harm than seen before."
Dec 7, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
From South African apartheid to Israel and Zionism:

Article in the Christian Science Monitor (1988):

1. we are not racists, the country was empty and barren, we did not drive the backs out Image 2. Blacks under South African apartheid "have the highest living standards" Image
Dec 1, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Important interview in a leading German newspaper (!) with Prof William Schabas: "In the case of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, there were a huge number of damaged homes, but relatively few deaths by comparison with what we have seen in Gaza. Many people were able to flee; they weren’t prevented from escaping across the border into Bangladesh. These were clearly war crimes and crimes against humanity, but according to a strict interpretation of the Convention, I don’t think it was genocide. In Gaza, by contrast, the infrastructure has been massively destroyed, people have been unable to escape – and then there were the awful statements made by Yoav Gallant.."
Nov 30, 2024 • 40 tweets • 19 min read
A genocide within a genocide: 2 months of the intensification of the genocide in North Gaza:

A compendium of useful links on North Gaza and Generals' Plan since early October 2024: 17 September: A plan to liquidate northern Gaza is gaining steam
972mag.com/northern-gaza-…
Nov 15, 2024 • 7 tweets • 14 min read
There is an increasing consensus that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza because the evidence is overwhelming. Here is a reminder of some of the available and useful resources: An initial syllabus:

13 October 2023, Raz Segal, jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-cas…

15 October 2023: Public Statement: Over 800 Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza
twailr.com/public-stateme…

2 November: UN experts call to prevent genocide: un.org/unispal/docume…

16 November: UN experts call to prevent genocide: ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

16 November, William Schabas: ccrjustice.org/sites/default/…

16 November: Holocaust and genocide scholars John Cox, Victoria Sanford, and Barry Trachtenberg declaration, ccrjustice.org/sites/default/…

29 December, South Africa submission to ICJ: icj-cij.org/sites/default/…

29 May, South Africa's dossier of evidence of Israel's genocidal intent, the UN Security Council: tinyurl.com/nb6ua4a5

Martin Shaw, x.com/martinshawx/st…

UN Expert Francesca Albanese, first report on the Genocide (March 2024): ohchr.org/sites/default/…

UN Expert Francesca Albanese, second report on the Genocide (October 2024): documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/……

John Quigley, “Legal Standard for Genocide Intent: An Uphill Climb for Israel in Gaza Suit”, 14 March, EJIL: ejiltalk.org/legal-standard…

UK Judges’ and Lawyers’ Open Letter Concerning Gaza, 3 April 2024: lawyersletter.uk

Jinan Bastaki, Gaza, Forced Displacement, and Genocide”, EJIL, April 2024, ejiltalk.org/gaza-forced-di…

Nimer Sultany, “A Threshold Crossed: On Genocidal Intent and the Duty to Prevent Genocide in Palestine”, May 2024: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

University Network for Human Rights report, May 2024: humanrightsnetwork.org/publications/g…

Aryeh Neier, NYRB, 6 June 2024: nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

UN Commission of Inquiry, 10 June: Detailed findings on the military operations and attacks carried out in the Occupied Palestinian Territory from 7 October to 31 December 2023: ohchr.org/sites/default/…

Oxfam, Water War Crimes report, July 2024: oxfam.org/en/press-relea…

Omer Bartov, 13 August: theguardian.com/world/article/…

Haaretz, “The Numbers Show: Gaza War Is One of the Bloodiest in the 21st Century”, 14 August: haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

Maryam Jamshidi, On Genocidal Intent, August: opiniojuris.org/2024/08/02/ref…

Forensic Architecture: cartographic analysis of the genocide in support of South Africa’s case in the ICJ: forensic-architecture.org/investigation/……

AOAV analysis that shows that vast majority of killed in Gaza are civilians: aoav.org.uk/2024/casualtie…

10 October 2024: UN Commission of Inquiry: Israel’s destruction of the health system in Gaza ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

8 November 2024: UN Commission of Inquiry: 70 percent of verified victims (October - 30 April) were children and women: ohchr.org/en/documents/r…

12 November 2024: 8 aid organisations of the systematic violation ICJ orders on humanitarian assistance, thereby establishing genocidal intent: oxfam.org/en/press-relea…

14 November 2024: UN Special Committee Report ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

North Gaza:

9 October 2024: 18 Aid organisations warn of dramatic escalation of humanitarian catastrophe in northern Gaza: oxfam.org.uk/media/press-re…

15 October: 38 organisations: “Northern Gaza is being wiped off the map”: oxfam.org/en/press-relea…

1 November: statement by 15 UN and humanitarian organisations: bit.ly/40pLGqx Supplement to the syllabus on Israeli genocide in Gaza:

"Statement of Scholars in Holocaust and Genocide Studies on Mass Violence in Israel and Palestine since 7 October", 9 December 2023, contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-current……

Forensic Architecture, 7 March 2024, "Humanitarian Violence: Israel’s Abuse of Preventative Measures in its 2023-2024 Genocidal Military Campaign in the Occupied Gaza Strip", content.forensic-architecture.org/wp-content/upl……

Amos Goldberg, 18 April 2024, "Yes, it is genocide", thepalestineproject.medium.com/yes-it-is-geno……

"Amount of Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza surpasses that of World War II", 4 June 2024, aa.com.tr/en/middle-east……

UN Expert Michael Fakhri, 17 July 2024: starvation, genocide, colonialism: ohchr.org/en/documents/t……

Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, 17 July 2024: "A Legal Justification for Genocide" jewishcurrents.org/human-shields-……

B'Tselem, August 2024, "Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps" btselem.org/sites/default/……

Meron Rappoport, 17 September 2024, "A plan to liquidate northern Gaza is gaining steam" 972mag.com/northern-gaza-……

Al-Haq, PCHR, Al-Mezan, "As Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Passes the One-Year Mark, International Inaction Fuels Renewed Wave of Genocidal Violence against Palestinians", alhaq.org/advocacy/24756……

VOX, 25 October 24, "Is Israel committing genocide? Reexamining the question, a year later": vox.com/politics/37891……

Amos Goldberg, 29 October 24, "What is happening in Gaza is a genocide because Gaza does not exist anymore", Le Monde, lemonde.fr/en/opinion/art……

Haaretz, 6 November 2024, North Gaza: "'A Siege Within a Siege': How Israel's Army Blocks Aid to Tens of Thousands of Gazans", archive.ph/a3Arn

HRW, 14 November, "“Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged”: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza" hrw.org/report/2024/11……

William Schabas, "Top genocide scholar calls Starmer and Lammy ‘hypocrites’ over Gaza stance," 18 November, middleeasteye.net/news/top-genoc……

UN Special Committee warns General Assembly, 19 November, "A genocide is unfolding before our eyes: History will not forgive our inaction", ohchr.org/en/statements-……

ICC, 21 November, "Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant" icc-cpi.int/news/situation……

-- Crucial legal background for period before the genocide:

ICJ, "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem", 19 July 2024, icj-cij.org/case/186/advis…
Nov 12, 2024 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
The 3 orders by the @CIJ_ICJ on genocide and its advisory opinion in July are hugely important, and they will be for decades to come, even if "there is no justice under US empire". A thread on law during genocide: 1. Let us first be clear on basic concepts. I heard repeatedly the phrase "juridification of resistance" in reference to ICJ cases, in recent months. What is "resistance" and how was it "juridified"? and what is the empirical evidence supporting this assertion?
Oct 26, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Do yourself a favour and download @ForensicArchi 827 pages of evidence and analysis of Israel's genocide in Gaza. Amazing work.

A Cartography of Genocide
forensic-architecture.org/investigation/… "Our findings indicate that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza is organised, systematic, and intended to destroy conditions of life and life-sustaining infrastructure."
Oct 16, 2024 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
How Israel's targeting of Palestinian children proves that it is committing genocide:

The powerful @nytimes article by @FerozeSidhwa and his colleagues adds to the mounting evidence that makes it irrefutable that Israel is committing genocide in Palestine, here is why: Recall that the Genocide Convention enumerates these genocidal acts: Image
Oct 1, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The history of the decades-long Israeli policy of deliberately targeting Arab and Palestinian civilians, massacring them and displacing them, is too long to tell, and preceded the Dahiya Doctrine (2006), but here are some episodes of admission:

1. Dayan and Sharon 1950s Image 2. Rabin 1966: "the problem was the civilians..." Image