Deniz Baran

May this set a precedent for other states whose citizens are under a grave risk and who are in fact under the duty of protecting them…

Thus, Spain has become the first state to respond to the calls for protecting this civilian humanitarian initiative, which is taking on a burden that states themselves have not assumed. And at a moment when the risk of volunteers facing Israel’s naked force has significantly risen.

After attacks on the Global Sumud Flotilla last night,the Government of Spain announced that it will send a military ship to escort the Flotilla.

Well done to all those who have tirelessly campaigned for the recognition of Palestine — an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.

Next, the UK should recognise the genocide in Gaza, end its complicity in crimes against humanity, and stop arming Israel.

The most interesting one was the case filed by Mali against Algeria with no jurisdictional basis. It simply said “let’s see if the other side consents.”

So, we could just witness a rare instance of “forum prorogatum” attempt, something always tought in lectures but seldom seen in practice.

Yesterday was a highly busy day at the International Court of Justice: 2 new cases were filed, and Brazil applied to intervene in the South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.

Global Sumud Flotilla: When states fail, humanity sets sail The flotilla sails as a lawful act of civil society, seeking to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza and deliver essential humanitarian aid to a starving population

“When states fail, humanity sets sail”

Just as Israel’s naval blockade is a violation of international law, the Global Sumud Flotilla is a civilian initiative fully consistent with it. I wrote for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social :

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/glob...

Carrying out this strike on the same day that it probably orchestrated a drone attack against a foreign vessel docked in another state’s territorial waters…

all demonstrate that Israel, under its current government, has become a state capable of assaulting the sovereignty of any state anytime.

Unlike Syria or Lebanon, whose sovereignty it had previously violated, this time targeting a country under the security protection of its own greatest ally, the United States…

Doing so on the territory of a state that has been mediating the negotiations for months…

Striking the very delegation with whom it is conducting ceasefire talks…

Israel’s attack in Qatar represents the crossing of yet another serious threshold, one that cannot be dismissed as a mere violation of international law.

It also provides the clearest proof of the dire conditions that the Palestinian prisoners are subjected to.

It sets an important precedent: The most basic needs of prisoners cannot be denied under the guise that they are “terrorists”, affirming the invalidity of some extremist ministers’ calls for a separate inhumane legal regime.

UN Rapporteur on the OPT, Francesca Albanese joined us as the keynote speaker.

Great thanks to WOLAS, Tunis Bar Association and the Gaza Tribunal for this meaningful and timely event, and giving me the honour of moderating one of the sessions!

On September 3, we have successfully concluded the symposium “The Gaza Blockade and Global Sumud Flotilla: Legal Implications” with two sessions comprised of nine scholars from different countries, and one special session for the Global Sumud Flotilla Steering Committee members.

Uluslararası Adalet Divanı, iklim değişikliği konusunda tarihi bir karar mı verdi?   - Serbestiyet Uluslararası Adalet Divanı iklim krizi konusunda kapsamlı bir danışma görüşü yayımladı. Yalnızca en dikkat çekici kazanımları listelemek istediğimizde bile ortaya uzun bir liste çıkıyor. Söz konusu da...

My elaborated take on the latest ICJ advisory opinion of the ICJ regarding the climate change and GHG emission related obligations of states:

serbestiyet.com/featured/ulu...

We’ll be in Tunis, whereby Global Sumud Flotilla will depart to Gaza, in order to discuss the legal implications of the intensified Gaza Blockade and efforts to break it:

Collective self-heart defense

We’ll be discussing with Prof. Quigley:

• The place of the two-state solution in international law
• The historical rights of Palestinians
• Its feasibility in today’s geopolitical context
• Alternatives for sustainable peace

For registration: fonzip.com/afrikavakfi/...

Such a statement by an ICJ judge is a pure scandal, perhaps delivering one of the greatest blows to the credibility of the so-called World Court (ICJ).

It is a reckless confession of abandoning any shred of impartiality.

www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/...

I discussed for CNN Turk what it means from international law perspective that states like the United Kingdom and France are successively recognizing Palestine as a state:

youtu.be/1RjdXmmbQQs

Between Principle and Power

Qetevan Qistauri explains how Gaza and Iran expose deep cracks in the international legal order where legal norms are invoked but rarely enforced and power trumps principle – when law becomes selective, justice becomes symbolic. 
#Iran, #IusAdBellum, #Palestine
voelkerrechtsblog.org/between-prin...

تركيا تطلق مسارًا جديدًا لتقنين وضعية العمالة المنزلية الأجنبية لم تعد الحكومة تكتفي بمكافحة الدخول والإقامة غير القانونيين، بل تسعى أيضًا إلى دفع الأجانب نحو استخراج تصاريح عمل رسمية، والحد من منح الإقامات قصيرة الأجل لغير المبرّرين بإقامة مستمرة واضحة في البلاد.

My latest for @aljazeera.net.web.brid.gy:

aja.ws/42a8i8

I discussed on CNN Türk’s “5N1K”whether the attacks by Israel and the U.S. on Iran could be deemed lawful under international law as acts of “preemptive self-defense”.

youtu.be/K0fGHkGlDgo?...

The EU leaders and foreign policy chiefs could manage making a greater and greater mockery out of themselves with their reactions after each attack.

The modern international law order is -no doubt- mostly Eurocentric, but it seems that it will be torn apart in a Eurocentric way too.

A million people marched against the illegal war in Iraq and they were right.

Now the same script is playing out again. Same lies, same institutions, same push for war.

We can’t let history repeat itself.

Israel has taken the already shaky preemptive self-defense doctrine to such an extreme that the whole idea has lost its meaning.

Not "preemptive."

Illegal.

There is no evidence of an actual or imminent armed attack by Iran.

This is a blatant violation of the UN Charter.

It has no legal basis in the right of self-defense.

Now we wait to see how many civilians will die because of this insanity.