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Stefan Talmon

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Stefan Talmon

@StefanTalmon

Professor of International Law @UniBonn; Supernumerary Fellow @StAnnesCollege Oxford, Barrister @TwentyEssex London. All views personal

Bonn, Germany

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Joined October 2017

Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Oct 14, 2024
Germany reportedly asked Israel to sign a 'genocide clause' On 13 October 2024, German newspaper BILD reported in an exclusive (behind a paywall) that Germany asked the Israeli government to sign a so-called ‘genocide clause’ as a precondition for further arms deliveries. This
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Feb 19, 2024
Expressive maps displayed today in the public hearings before the @CIJ_ICJ in the advisory proceedings on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Mar 13, 2024
Evacuation of Palestinian Children from Gaza – Is Germany facilitating a war crime? On 11 March 2024, Germany facilitated the evacuation of 68 Palestinian children from an orphanage in the Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank. What looks like a humanitarian operation may in fact
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Jan 16, 2024
Germany's rushed announcement to intervene in the genocide case brought by #SouthAfrica against #Israel at the @CIJ_ICJ was politically ill-advised, disrespectful to the Court, and - in light of Germany's intervention in The Gambia v. Myanmar - is legally problematic and smacks
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Mar 1, 2024
‼️‼️BREAKING: New Genocide Case against Germany #Nicaragua today filed an application at the @CIJ_ICJ against #Germany concerning violations of the Genocide Convention, the Geneva Conventions and its Additional Protocols, intransgressible principles of international
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Jul 17, 2024
BEAKING: Netanyahu/Gallant Arrest Warrants Germany submits amicus curiae observations to ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I with regard to the Prosecutor's application for arrest warrants for Israeli officials After the United Kingdom Germany is the second country trying to get Israel's
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Aug 28, 2024
No port access for German-owned vessel carring military equipment to Israel Namibia denied German-owned cargo vessel MV Kathrin (sailing under the flag of Portugal) access to its port of Walvis Bay on the ground that the vessel carried “explosive material destined for Israel."
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Jan 24, 2024
The US and UK strikes against #Houthi positions across #Yemen are not covered by the right to self-defence and constitute a violation of international law. There is no right to use force to protect “the free flow of commerce” or the "freedom of navigation". Germany’s support
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Mar 1, 2024
Gaza: International Law Question of the Day #1 After the human tragedy in northern Gaza yesterday, where more than 100 people died, trying to get food from an aid convoy, I was asked in a media background briefing the following question: Can it be that a State - has absolute
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
May 24, 2024
South Africa v. Israel and why lawyering is about words and wording Two short comments on what is said on social media on today's ICJ Provisional Measures Order: 1. The Court did NOT say that Israel must immediately halt its military operation in Rafah What the Court said is
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Mar 20, 2024
Germany seriously losing perspective on international law At yesterday’s meeting of the Human Rights Council, Germany stated: “There is alarming evidence of some of the most serious crimes under international law. All perpetrators must and will be held to account. Impunity must
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Oct 13, 2024
Germany a notable absentee After Israel declared the UN Secretary-General persona non grata and banned him from entering the country, 104 UN Member States and the African Union signed a letter in support of the Secretary-General - but not Germany, which in its campaign booklet
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
May 12, 2024
Another German Court allows use of the slogan "From the river to the sea - Palestine will be free" The Administrative Court of Bremen found in interim relief proceedings that the prohibition of the slogan by the authorities was most likely unlawful and the slogan covered by the
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The cited verdict was overruled the next day by the Higher Administrative Court in Bremen. oberverwaltungsgericht.bremen.de/sixcms/media.p… The slogan „From the River to the Sea“ is proscribed in Germany as an attributed slogan of the proscribed terrorist organization HAMAS. bundesanzeiger.de/pub/publicatio…
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Stefan Talmon
@StefanTalmon
Mar 27, 2024
Germany to send delegation to Israel to discuss international humanitarian law (IHL) with Israeli government Nicaragua‘s case against Germany before the @CIJ_ICJ seems to be having some effect on Germany’s public position that it is “convinced that Israel is abiding by
Richard Walker
@rbsw
Mar 26, 2024
JUST NOW in Tel Aviv Germany will send a delegation to Israel to discuss questions of international humanitarian law with the Israeli govt “As a signatory of the Geneva Convention, Ger is obliged to remind all parties of their duty to abide by IHL” - FM Annalena Baerbock
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