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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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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 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
Sep 26, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
If you want to know why Palestine is the litmus test for the whole post WWII international human rights system, you should, and I cannot recommend this enough, read @dirkmoses magnum opus "The Problems of Genocide", especially pages 348-363: here are some highlights: Many of the architects of the "human rights revolution" had zionist sympathies and the in the name of human rights they justified colonialism and expulsion of the natives, the Palestinians. Image
Sep 26, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The actual experts on genocide, who taught us analytical clarity, have spoken up for months against the genocide (@martinshawx, Raz Segal, William Schabas, John Quigley, and recently Omer Bartov). But the @NewLeftReview are unable to educate themselves and take a stand. Countries that experienced genocide say this is a genocide, but the @NewLeftReview are unable to educate themselves and take a stand, they are waiting for "analytical clarity" to descend upon them:
Sep 9, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
For those who are still thinking about "complementarity" in the ICC and whether the Israeli investigative and legal system is robust to hold perpetrators of crimes against Palestinians to account, I have a list of reading suggestions for you: 1. Here is the state of the Israeli police: haaretz.com/opinion/editor…
Sep 1, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
It has been clear from the beginning of this genocide that there is no genuine "military goal" of returning the hostages. It merely conceals genocidal intent. Here are some resources, in case you missed it: 🧵1/8

#Genocide_in_Gaza Day 331 22 Nov 2023: Israeli spokesman: war will continue even if hostages released.

23 December: Minister Dichter: "even if hostages return tomorrow, war will not end" 2/8
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Aug 21, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Once again Zionists seek to deny that Zionism is a settler colonial movement, but early Zionists and British commissions of inquiry were clear about the colonial nature of Zionism: 🧵 Zionist leaders like Ben-Gurion and Weizmann were clear about the colonial nature of their project and the historical examples that resembled their colonising activity, see:
Aug 5, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
118 pages report by B'Tselem on Israel's network of torture camps btselem.org/sites/default/…

Image "Various testimonies revealed repeated use of sexual violence, in varying degrees of severity, by soldiers or prison guards against Palestinian detainees as an additional punitive measure... The testimonies also reveal cases of gang sexual violence and assault" Image