Where r the champions of the #ICC to counter US misinformation?

✅ the ICC has jurisdiction over #Israel 's acts in #Gaza
✅ the ICC's doesn't limit self-defence or sovereignty
✅ avoided arrest warrants not with pol pressure but with not committing crimes

🇩🇪🇳🇱🇪🇺🇫🇷 Anybody?

It's an interesting time to be in Berlin. I look forward to engaging with the excellent KFG "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" team & fellows. I'll be working on papers on the role of law in nuclear deterrence & mil. intervention decision-making, as well as projects on Ukraine and Gaza.

Since the Nicaragua v. Germany order drops tomorrow, I'll just note that both parties took for granted that 'plausibility of rights' includes plausibility of alleged violations.

'Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court have interviewed staff from Gaza's two biggest hospitals, two sources told Reuters, the first confirmation that ICC investigators were speaking to medics about possible crimes in the Gaza Strip.'

Three main possibilities, I think:

1. Broad order. Something like:

Germany shall take all measures within its power

(i) to ensure that Israel respects international humanitarian law and

(ii) to prevent Israel from committing acts prohibited by the Genocide Convention.

Today at the Vienna Conference on Autonomous Weapons we call for new, legally binding international rules, to prohibit those autonomous weapon systems that pose the gravest risk for IHL compliance and our values, and to place strict constraints on all others 👇🏽

When the horror starts for all of us, regular immigrants, second generation citizens, people with strange-sounding names, communities that celebrate different holidays, we will ask ourselves at what point it could have still been stopped. At THIS point.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

More than 36K killed since October, mostly women and children. By Israeli authorities: Unlawful killing of civilians; Starvation as weapon of war. By Palestinian armed groups: Unlawful killing of civilians; Hostage taking. We need ICC arrest warrants now. newarab.com/news/israel-wo…

Seeing commentary that ICC arrest warrants against Israeli officials would create a dangerous precedent because Israel isn’t a party to the Rome Statute.

Guess who else isn’t a party to the Rome Statute?

Russia.

ICC already crossed that bridge with warrant for Putin.

The court found it needed to issue interim orders because there is a risk of genocide: the Palestinians' rights (not to be subjected to 'genocide', or 'conspiracy to commit genocide', or 'incitement to genocide', or an 'attempt to commit genocide', etc.) is at risk.

Janina Dill Mark Kersten ASIL Eliav Lieblich Ardi Imseis Vivian Salama Video too icymi:
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Former ICJ President Donoghue engages in the ethical error of obtuseness (thx Emily Kidd White) when she attempts hairsplitting between plausible 'rights' and 'claims.'

TL;DR the Court decided there was, at minimum, a serious risk of genocide or related acts in Gaza. 🧵

There is a real question of why the focus should be on the plausibility of the right here, check out M Becker's tweets and writings on this.

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For the plausibility-curious: whether the right is plausible is a totally different question from whether the claim is plausible. BUT the only logical reason for why there is a risk to the plausible right is in this case that the claim is not implausible.

I strongly disagree with the vilification and lionisation of lawyers participating in prominent ICJ cases, like this one. Still, this interview was a bad idea: muddying the public understanding of this case for the gain of clarifying a legal technicality.

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.

I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.

This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. Atlanta News First