Israeli Settlements in Occupied Territories: Assessing ‘Continuing Crimes’ Against the Principle of Legality Before the ICC
Image description: Protesters march beneath a banner saying "Freedom for Palestine"
On 8 July 2021, a report of ...
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A Year of Gaza’s Marches of Return: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity Targeting Protected Groups
The independent international commission of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ...
Confronting Racism, Discrimination, and Segregation against Palestinians: the CERD’s First Inter-State Complaint
In April 2018, the State of Palestine filed an interstate complaint against Israel with the Committee on the ...
Why There is No Right of Return
Previously, on this blog, Ms. Loureen Sayej wrote an interesting article entitled Palestinian Refugees and the ...
International Law Violations Underpin Tragedy in Gaza
The death of 60 Palestinians under Israeli fire at the Israel-Gaza border fence on May 14 has sent palpable ...
Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return in International Law
On this 70th commemoration of the Nakba (catastrophe), Palestinian refugees and their descendants still constitute ...
The future of law clinics: Part 1 – Social Justice, Human Rights and Law Clinics
It was clear from an excellent workshop in Tel Aviv University last month that an impressive number and variety of ...
Retroactively Legalizing Illegal Settlements: What’s the ‘Greater Jerusalem’ Bill?
With Israeli settlement expansion continuing unabated in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Israeli Knesset’s ...
President Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem: A Legal Analysis
In a proclamation signed on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump unilaterally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s ...
A Supreme Court at the Centre of a Deeply Divided Society
From January 01 to April 01 2015 I worked as a Foreign Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Israel. This internship ...
Detention of African Asylum Seekers in Israel: Welcome to Round Three
In a previous post, I analysed the Israeli High Court of Justice's (HCJ) judgment in Gebrselassie v. Knesset et al ...
Second Strike and You are (Finally) Out? The Israeli Supreme Court quashes (again) the Prevention of Infiltration Law
On 22 September 2014, the Israeli Supreme Court sitting as a High Court of Justice quashed in a 217-page judgment ...
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