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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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Aug 15 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
1. The most annoying thing about the Ezra Klein interview with Philippe Sands is his use of Lemkin to maintain that 7 October was a genocide. It is had to reconcile this with Lemkin's actual book. A brief 🧵 Image 2. The glaring omission from this statement by Sands are the words "occupation" and "coordinated plan"; and thus the recognition of the gross power asymmetry between Israelis and Palestinians. To begin with, here is Lemkin's definition: Image
Aug 14 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
1. When journalists say 'Israel says' they are not actually quoting what Israeli leaders say repeatedly, rather they are simply repeating talking points that conceal what Israel actually says and does. Examples since March 2025🧵 2. Talking point: "This will all end if Hamas releases the hostages."

Netanyahu, March 2025: "voluntary migration. This is the plan. We are not hiding it." gov.il/en/pages/pm-ne…Image
Aug 7 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1. “Children shot in the chest while reaching for food. People crushed or suffocated in stampedes. Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points. In @MSF nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.” Image 2. A new report by @MSF "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing" msf.org.uk/article/msf-ga…
Aug 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. Sophistry alert: More than 20 paragraphs in this article by Guglielmo Verdirame in @ejiltalk and yet there is not even a beginning of an argument why it would be "unlawful" for the UK government to recognise Palestine! ejiltalk.org/the-british-st… 2. This sophistry is effectively an opposition to Palestinian self-determination. While Verdirame et al reject any recognition of Palestine, citing the "facts", they fully know it's Israel that is creating these facts: annexation and denial of self-determination.
Aug 6 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Is that the new cowardly mantra now in British media? "We will suspend moral or political judgment, despite scholarly consensus and overwhelming evidence, unless and until a court rules on it"? 2. Of course the msm media is not only hiding behind the "court has not ruled yet" to avoid the question of genocide, they are also avoiding judgment on war crimes and crimes against humanity like apartheid.
Aug 2 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1. The defects of Liberal Zionism are evident in this interview with David Grossman, one of the first liberal zionists to acknowledge that Israel is committing genocide: 🧵 Image 2. Denial and delaying criticism: "I have done everything I could to avoid having to call Israel a genocidal state" (echoes Omer Bartov in NYT article).

So you have been part of the problem when others were screaming into the void. Image
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Aug 2 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Israel's genocidal intent is evidenced by the existence of a genocidal consensus since October 2023. This consensus is clear in the ongoing public production of incitement to genocide, for 660+ days, coupled with the failure of the state to prevent or punish this incitement. 🧵 Another recent example by a rabbi
Jul 27 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1. Now that even @nytimes cannot hide the effect of Israel-made starvation, it is important to remind all those who are "appalled" now, that they should have been appalled earlier. Here is what the ICC said in the arrest warrants of Nov 2024 re Israel's conduct till 20 May 2024: 2. "that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity, from at least 8 October 2023 to 20 May 2024" Image
Jul 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Do not forget the ideological mindset, including his government's guiding principles in Dec 2022. Bibi is not merely an opportunist, but also a racist and an extremist. Image
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Image 2. How Netanyahu's Father Adopted the View of Arabs as Savages haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jul 26 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
A reminder of a few other famous Israeli fabrications:

1. Nov. 2023: Rantisi hospital calendar hoax Image 2. Lies to attack Nasser hospital (non-existent hostages), March 2024: Image
Jul 24 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
The ICJ is failing Palestine like it failed Bosnia.

1. What is the point of the @CIJ_ICJ? Despite the urgency, they are yet to issue their opinion on Israel's obligations towards the UN, including its humanitarian organisations, in Palestine. 2. The timid states did not want to do anything concrete to pressure Israel so they went to the UNGA to refer Israel to the @CIJ_ICJ and then their lawyers made forceful speeches. They passed the ball to the court and the court is dragging its feet.
Jul 23 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1. Notice how genocide-deniers/ Zionist propagandists are simply rehashing same claims we've heard since Jan. 2024, as if nothing has happened since then? Image 2. See, e.g., how Stephens dismisses genocidal statements as simply "furious comments in the wake of Oct. 7 atrocities" when we have over 650 days of statements of intent. See South Africa, 227 p. dossier,
Jul 22 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
It was clear from the start and all the way: a reminder of some Israel statements of intent 🧵

1. "Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything." Yoav Gallant, 10 October 2023. Image 2. "we will not allow humanitarian assistance in the form of food and medicines from our territory to the Gaza Strip." PM Netanyahu, 18 October 2023 gov.il/en/pages/pm-ne…Image
Jul 21 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
14 examples of Israeli genocidal barbarities in Gaza. No one can say they did not know. 🧵

1. Shooting holders of white flags, aid seekers Image 2. Starving infants Image
Jul 16 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Here are a few reading recommendations from Palestinian authors and organisations: 🧵 1. Shawan Jabarin and Ahmed Aboufoul, "We are Witnessing a Genocide Unfolding in Gaza" (Nov 2023) opiniojuris.org/2023/11/24/we-…
Jul 12 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
One way to support @FranceskAlbs is to read, circulate, cite, quote, and teach the rigorous reports she has written on self-determination, carceral system, child rights, genocide, and corporate complicity. Here is a list: 1) Sep. 2022: "The violations described in this report expose the nature of Israeli occupation: an intentionally acquisitive, segregationist & repressive regime designed to prevent the realization of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination"
ohchr.org/en/documents/c…
May 31 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
"Testimonies collected over the past year from released detainees and those still in custody paint a broader and horrifying picture of systematic abuse and torture against detainees from Gaza." @pchrgaza /1 Torture /2 Image
May 24 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
In Haaretz Hebrew, 22 May, former Israeli PM Olmert says he used to think that the mass killing of civilians in Gaza was a result of a "tragic war" & he denied the charges of genocide & war crimes, but now he thinks: it is an intentional annihilation. archive.ph/3vvOiImage Olmert: "What is happening in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks has nothing to do with a legitimate war goal. Our fighters are being sent by the state leadership — and the army leadership that obeys it... in an illegitimate military campaign." Image
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 16 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
A reading list of 14 important reports by the leading Palestinian human rights organisations, published between October 2023 - May 2025:
@pchrgaza @alhaq_org @Addameer @AlMezanCenter @DCIPalestine: 🧵 1. @Addameer, January 2024, on increasing brutality in arrest tactics since October 2023 addameer.org/media/5262
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?