international law; human rights law; colonialism; self-determination; refugees; IHL; occupation; use of force; international orgs; UN law
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Dec 6, 2023 • 45 tweets • 6 min read
Open statement by university law teachers on academic freedom, Palestine, Harvard Law Review @HarvLRev and Rabea Eghbariah @RabeaEghbariah:
Thread:docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…1/ "We, university law teachers from around the world, are alarmed at the decision by the Harvard Law Review (HLR) to nix the publication of a commissioned short HLR Online essay by Rabea Eghbariah, a Palestinian human rights lawyer and doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School...
Sep 29, 2023 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
1/ How Britain Broke International Law to Stop Palestinian Independence 100 Years Ago
2/ In his speech before the UN General Assembly last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for “reparations…in accordance with international law” against the UK for the “fateful Balfour declaration”.
Dec 30, 2022 • 47 tweets • 8 min read
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Legal Opinion—The illegality of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza: What the International Court of Justice will have to determine in its Advisory Opinion for the United Nations General Assembly 2/
Today the UN General Assembly voted to request that the ICJ
“render an advisory opinion on the following questions, considering the rules and principles of international law, including the Charter of the United Nations, international humanitarian law...
1/ New Policy Brief: bit.ly/ralph-wilde-pa…. This explains the relevance of international law to the question of whether and when the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza should end. Summary follows. 2/ The Palestinian people have the right of external self-determination in international law, a right which forms part of international human rights law. According to this right, the occupation should end.