“Mr. Zelensky told reporters on Saturday that Jerusalem could be a site for peace talks between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia.”
Half of Jerusalem is occupied and unilaterally annexed.
Itamar Mann
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- 1 deeply impressed by these students who performed the Passover Seder in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Their protest is important on so many levels and one can only hope they succeed in transforming US foreign policy. And yet, their image also demonstrates how far
- I don't think I will ever be able to teach IHL again.
- 1/ Alarming: @UofT apparently rescinded @ValentinaAzarov’s job offer as director of the human rights program due to pressure by a sitting judge who didn’t like her work with Palestinians and on Palestinian rights.
- There will be talk about ambiguities of language, but I think it's safe to say that, starting from today, the mainstream position under Public International Law will be that Israel established an apartheid regime in Palestinian territories.
- To fulfill para 79 of the provisional measures decision, Yoav Gallant, Isaac Herzog, and Israel Katz, at a minimum, must resign immediately and / or face disciplinary measures and / or indictment. Mark my word, this minimum will not be met.
- Happy and pround to share that I have been promoted to professor of law @HaifaFacultyLaw. Mentors and friends out there, my deepest thanks go to you. This job is nothing if not a local and transnational work of community-making.
- Replying to @itamannThis would obviously be an unfortunate choice if part of what Zelensky would be after is stressing the illegality of the acquisition of territory by force. Just like most embassies, it would be wiser to stay away from Jerusalem ->
- "We are not committing genocide but war crimes and / crimes against humanity": Israel's best defense today before the ICJ is also it worse one.
- After hearing SA's argument today i predict that the ICJ will craft a ceasefire order of some kind. My own legal opinion is that such an order will be justified.
- "accusing the Jewish state of genocide is crossing a moral threshold!" This position seems to me very dangerous and invites continued spiralling of antisemitic conspiracy & backlash. It scares me as a JewUnbelievable. Stéphane Séjourné, France's new minister of foreign affairs, essentially said that France wouldn't support the ICJ's decision if it rule against Israel because accusing them of genocide is "crossing a moral threshold" and is "exploiting the notion of genocide for
- Striking how much an ICJ hearing looks like a Jessup moot court exercise
- Learning German just got wildIsraels General Halevi, ein Held der Gegenwart, charismatisch, klug, mitreissend, auch physiognomisch interessant.
- Demanding #CeasefireNOW is sometimes understood as an anti-Israeli slogan. But there are hefty Isaeli national security interests to stop this war. Below are *only* those concerns (though there are others):
