On 12 May, the United States blocked the release of what otherwise would have been a unanimous statement of the UN Security Council criticizing the latest round of violence in Israel and occupied Palestine. This was followed by US rejection on Thursday of a request to urgently hold an open meeti..
Ardi Imseis and Mandy Turner
Ardi Imseis is assistant professor of law at Queen’s University, Canada. He is author of The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Between 2002 and 2014, he served in senior legal and policy positions with UNRWA in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Mandy Turner is professor of conflict, peace and humanitarian affairs at the University of Manchester, UK, and the editor of From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of ‘Peace’ (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). From 2012 to 2020 she was the director of the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem.