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The ICC Prosecutor’s applications for arrest warrants regarding the Situation in Palestine represent a milestone. But they are of little credit to Prosecutor Karim Khan. It is abundantly clear that Khan has been sitting on this file for years, hoping it would simply disappear. Two matters forced..

The Israeli army’s methods show an utter disregard for the value of Palestinian lives. Israel has barraged Gazans with 29,000 air-to-ground munitions since October, nearly half of which 

Karim Khan’s unprecedented politicization of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since assuming the role of Prosecutor in June 2021, has significantly eroded the credibility of the Court just as he should be taking serious steps to address its declining legitimacy.

Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat speaks with Democracy Now! about a new effort to hold Israel accountable at the International Criminal Court over the war in Gaza, where Israel's monthlong air and ground assault has killed more than 10,000 Palestinians. On Wednesday, three Palestinian r..

On 6 November 2019, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Pierre Krähenbühl, unexpectedly resigned his position within hours of being placed on administrative leave by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Guterres had..

On 5 February 2021, the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands, ruled that “the Court's territorial jurisdiction in the Situation in Palestine, a State party to the ICC Rome Statute, extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely Gaz..

North Africa is slowly moving away from Europe and the US after decades of tight political, economic, and security interdependence. The US’ selective disengagement from the Middle East and North Africa and Europe’s inward focus on migration have opened op..

The wave of social unrest that shook Morocco between 2016 and 2018 marked a major turning point in the country’s political and economic landscape. Spontaneous protest movements (soon termed Hirak, in Arabic) located in the semi-peripheral towns of Al Hoceima and Jerada highlighted deteriorating ..

On 10 September 2018 US National Security Advisor John Bolton gave an address at the conservative Federalist Society in Washington, DC, in which he denounced the International Criminal Court as “illegitimate” and announced measures the Trump administration will pursue to ensure it is unable to o..

The protests that occurred across the country in January have highlighted once more the frustration of the population and the authorities’ failure to convince Tunisians that today’s sacrifices could feed tomorrow’s development. The authorities might have found a temporary solution by increasing ..

“Genocide” evokes crematoria, mountains of skulls, and mass graves. It is what the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe, what the Khmer Rouge did to fellow Cambodians, what Hutu nationalists did to Tutsis in Rwanda. The term, like the practices of death and social destruction to which it refers..

[The below piece was written before the current wave of protests in Kasserine in the marginalized southern region of Tunisia. The protests, which soon expanded to the whole country, started after a young unemployed man climbed an electric power tower and was electrocuted. He was protesting in..

Since 2011 Algeria has recorded a series of important political changes, despite its reputation as one of the most immobile countries in a region marked by instability and turmoil. This evolution in the nature of Algeria`s regime has gone largely unnoticed on the international media, while domes..

Wolfgang Kaleck, Double Standards: International Criminal Law and the West. Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2015.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Wolfgang Kaleck (WK)..

Today, Palestine will formally become a member of the International Criminal Court. This will give it the authority to refer a situation in its territory for investigation as well as give the Office of the Prosecutor the authority to initiate an investigation based on her discretion (propio m..

Can the International Criminal Court (ICC) deliver the justice Palestinians have struggled to realize for well over a century? The pursuit of accountability at the ICC is one venue of this struggle. But any sustainable vis..

George Mason University’s Middle East Studies Program, Global Programs, New Century College (NCC) and the Trans-Arab Research Institute welcomed four international law experts to discuss the political and legal implications of an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation of recent conflic..

Operation Protective Edge: Legal and Political Implications of ICC Prosecution (George Mason University, 20 October 2014)

Co-sponsored by Middle East Studies Program, the Trans-Arab Research Institute, Arab Studies Institute, New Century College, and Global Programs

Operation Protective Edge: 
Legal and Political Implications 
of ICC Prosecution

October 20, 2014 4:00..

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Q: On Saturday, under intense international pressure to negotiate a ceasefire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference to say that the Israeli military would "regroup," while continuing its operations in Gaza. Following the announcement, Is..

[The following briefing was published by the Alkarama Foundation on 29 April 2014]

Within a month, the Al Minya Criminal Court handed down in two separate verdicts 1212 death sentences ..

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I..

The International Criminal Court’s acquittal of Congolese militia leader Mathieu Ngudjolo on 18 December did not exactly make headlines in Palestine. Ngudjolo was accused of commanding fighters who raped and hacked to death approximately two hundred people, including children, in a single day in..