Deeply distressing yet not surprising that a champion of genocide is now calling for the State to engage in homicidal crimes www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Just out! A paper that Orna Ben Naftali, Anna Christina Schmidl and I co-authored in which we search for specks of light in the current darkness. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Witches don’t exist. What do exist, unfortunately, are contemptable men who mount witch hunts to serve their own repulsive political and puny psychological needs.

A talk I gave in Berlin on Saturday called "Not a time to stand idly by" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUPJ...

Shield or Sword? IHL's protective function under pressure. #Geneva colleagues, join us on 23 October for a panel discussion co-organized by the IHL Centre and @gpplatform.ch, with @annyssabellal.bsky.social, Prof. Marco Sassòli, @eitandi.bsky.social, Swiss MFA, @icrc.org mailchi.mp/ihlcentre.or...

What future is this boy walking towards? A statement that the IHL Centre issued today – exactly two years since the onset of the darkest chapter in a long history of violence – addresses the unbearable cost of the hostilities for a generation of children. www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/sta...

IPC Famine Review Committe findings www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

In a note just published by @ejiltalk.bsky.social, I examine and critique Israel’s paridoxical appeal to humanitarian reasoning and language to obscure, justify, and facilitate harmful conduct www.ejiltalk.org/humanitarian...

Ezra Klein interviews Philippe Sands about genocide. Well worth listening to. open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBm...

Increased construction (of Israeli settlements) alongside mass destruction (of Palestinian homes and infrastructure) – complementary aspects of the same unlawful, criminal, displacement and dispossession of one people by another www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The most basic provisions of IHL and dictates of human decency prohibit attacks on rescue workers. But in a war where every tabu has already been breached, neither law nor humanity have any sway. www.972mag.com/double-tap-i...

In @opiniojuris.bsky.social, my colleague Anna-Christina Schmidl and I explain Israel’s systematic disregard of protections set in #IHL, contributing to conditions of life that seem calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza. opiniojuris.org/2025/07/11/t...

From the people who called killing fields “humanitarian aid” (www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...) now comes “humanitarian city” for concentration camp (www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...), and “humanitarian transit areas” for routes to ethnic cleansing (www.reuters.com/world/middle...).

Wise words - in German - from my @ihlcentre.bsky.social colleagues Anna-Christina Schmidl and Elvina Pothelet blog.venro.org/die-bedingun...

Some answers from @ihlcentre.bsky.social to questions about legal issues surrounding aid delivery to Gaza www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/qa-...

While attention is shifting to another front, the people of Gaza continue to endure conditions threatening their survival. A new publication by @ihlcentre.bsky.social shows that controls Israel has imposed on aid delivery worsen the situation in breach of int'l law. www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/a-l...

new piece by @janethanderson.bsky.social on @justiceinfo.bsky.social net asks some probing questions about crimes and perpetrators that the ICC has not (yet?) addressed in the Palestine case. Some answers from me inside www.justiceinfo.net/en/146344-ic...

Looking forward to presenting about @ihlcentre.bsky.social 's work in Israel-Palestine at Uni of Copenhagen – please come to say hi if you’re around! jura.ku.dk/icourts/cale...

Still a while till 'Humanitarian displacement? The (mis)appropriation of humanitarian principles to justify mass displacement' comes out in YIHL v 27, but a recorded presentation of it is available here podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humanitarian... and the preprint is here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A statement from @ihlcentre.bsky.social on a Nakba day at a time of newly unfolding catastrophe www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/sta...

A story from Swiss broadcaster SRF titled “Israel wants to criminalize criticism of its actions” (google’s translation from the original Schweizerdeutsch) includes an interview with me. www.srf.ch/news/interna...

German news program Monitor investigates the killing of photographer Fatma Hassona against the backdrop of mass displacement and starvation in Gaza. Interviewees include Theodor Meron, Avner Bartov and me www.youtube.com/watch?v=caAu...

Serious journalism, a stark contrast to the Israeli military's coverup www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

"Professional failures" can now be added to the Israeli military's creative lexicon of euphemisms. Should read: "war crimes". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

It's difficult to maintain a pretence of democracy while committing atrocities on an industrial scale: Haaretz in Hebrew reports that the Israel Police conditioned approval of an anti-war protest on the demonstrators not displaying "images of children from Gaza" or signs bearing the word “genocide”

A powerful intervention by Eyal Weizman of @forensicarchi.bsky.social about the architecture of genocide at play as Israel deliberately inflicts conditions of life in Gaza calculated to bring about the physical destruction of its people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GTh...

Just out from @ihlcentre.bsky.socias a legal analysis on the destruction of healthcare in North Gaza www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/des...

For more on the themes addressed in my Just Security contribution below see here www.diakonia.se/ihl/jerusale... and here www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/shr...

Israel’s revised registration process for international NGOs aiding Palestinians creates a chilling effect against criticism and accountability, writes @eitandi.bsky.social He has experienced the effect firsthand: www.justsecurity.org/109772/israe...

There goes the "rules-based international order" www.algemeiner.com/2025/04/04/b...

Staatsräson vs. Rechtsstaat

At a time of most dire need – for which it is responsible – Israel has shrunk humanitarian space in the oPt to the point of disappearance. See @ihlcentre.bsky.social's legal analysis. www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/shr...

This is excellent and very disturbing. Our reality is surreal. open.spotify.com/episode/0W0s...

The latest legal update from @ihlcentre.bsky.social examines the legality of Israel’s conduct follwing its renewed airstrikes in Gaza and cutting off the enclave's supply of humanitarian aid and indispensable resources www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/ren...

At a time when respect for IHL is especially crucial, in places where so many lives and so much human suffering is at stake, powerful actors are exhibiting indifference, and even disdain towards this body of law and towards the law based international order and international norms more broadly.

The next in-person and online editions of @ihlcentre.bsky.social's IHL training for diplomatic and foreign service personnel working in/on the Israel Palestinian context is open for registration. Details here www.diakonia.se/ihl/news/ihl...

A warm thank you to everyone who joined our discussion group today, and to Dr @eitandi.bsky.social and Dr Ellen Nohle for their presentation. This is part of the International Law Association British Branch seminar series, supported by OUP Law.

Join us this Thursday (in person or online) for a discussion with Dr @eitandi.bsky.social and Dr Ellen Nohle on ‘Humanitarian displacement? The (mis)appropriation of humanitarian principles to justify mass displacement’. Register here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

With strong backwinds from the US and little counterpressure from others, Israel has put mass-displacement into its standard operating procedure. In the process, it is producing immense human suffering while subverting & jeopardizing international justice. apnews.com/article/isra...

The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has voted in favor of two legislative proposals that threaten to crush civil society efforts to address international crimes or to otherwise promote respect for international law.

Looking forward to this! www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Superbowl LIX

"Esprit de Corpse: Genocide in the Shadowland of Gaza?" is no longer freely accessible on the Journal of Genocide Research website, but the authors' original manuscript can be viewed here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Reckless pipe dream...and war crime

In a new post on @opiniojuris.bsky.social Anna-Christina Schmidl, Ellen Nohle and I critically appraise the legal framework applicable to Israel's current military operations in the West Bank opiniojuris.org/2025/01/30/t...

"We just clean out that whole thing" (the shamelessly unscrupulous narcissist-in-chief offhandedly calling for ethnic cleansing) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...