@victorkattan.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Public International Law @UoN | formerly @NUS | member @TGC | editorial board @AsianJIL | International Law, International Criminal Law, Law of Armed Conflict, History of International Law ORCID: 0000-0001-5109-5933
This talk this Thursday might interest friends in London : www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
24.11.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking for a weekend podcast?
Check out the latest #EISAVoices hosted by @pollypw.bsky.social, featuring disintguished guests @victorkattan.bsky.social and @ebadarin.com
Discussing why is ... the recognition of Palestinian statehood causing debate? 🇵🇸
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This month we’re joined by @ebadarin.com and @victorkattan.bsky.social to discuss why the recognition of Palestinian statehood has caused such intense debate.
voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/37-new-episode
#Palestine36 is performing well at the box office (for a small independent film). Thanks to all of you who have already seen it. Given the interest in the film it is showing at even more cinemas across the U.K. and Ireland next week. Please see the listings here:
05.11.2025 09:26 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2This was a good watch, with @victorkattan.bsky.social and @profmabon.bsky.social not being shy about blasting the stupid idea of having Blair run Gaza. Who ever thought of that one should read some history books. It's hardly a secret why that's a terrible idea. www.aljazeera.com/video/inside...
17.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I was interviewed for this podcast with Andrew West on
@abcnewsbot.bsky.social about developments in Gaza and the "Britain Owes Palestine campaign" that seeks an apology from Britain for war crimes in Palestine in the 1930s. You can listen to it here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
“It’s important to Palestinians that this history is understood and acknowledged – it’s key to understanding the conflict, and, if you want to resolve it, you need to understand it.”
14.10.2025 11:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Half the [Palestinian] population that was expelled in 1948 were expelled when Britain was still responsible for law and order in the territory [and] a lot of the tactics that the Israeli army has been using over the decades were learned from the British.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"... a new film by Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, Palestine 1936, which premieres in the UK this month. The film stars Jeremy Irons as the notorious British High Commissioner in Palestine, Arthur Wauchope (1874–1947)"
10.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Your long weekend read by yours truly :-) There is something new here for everyone. The hidden history of British war crimes in Palestine — and the campaign for an apology - ABC Religion & Ethics www.abc.net.au/religion/hid...
10.10.2025 07:15 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2The great students of Nottingham have invited me to speak about the origins of the conflict in Gaza and Britain’s role in that history alongside Professor Andreas Bieler who will be speaking about contemporary issues and what we can do about them. This is happening on Tuesday in Coates Auditorium.
09.10.2025 06:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0「パレスチナ巡る外交政策に謝罪を」 英政府に請願書を提出 訴訟も検討(2025年10月2日) youtu.be/m4iaawpdhqg?... via @YouTube coverage of the britainowespalestine campaign in Japan!
07.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I appeared on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story yesterday where I joined former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights @ajgilmour.bsky.social and professor Simon Mabon to discuss the #Trump 20-point plan for #Gaza. You can watch it here: youtu.be/rSjnmYaQilw?...
06.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is a message for my Mandarin-speaking friends! Does the first sentence in Article II of the Apartheid Convention -- copied below -- use the word 'racial groups' or 'ethnic groups' when translated into English? Is there any difference in Mandarin between race and ethnicity? Thanks in advance!!
03.10.2025 08:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My interview with To Vima - this time in English, for those, like me, who can’t read Greek :-) UK Recognition of Palestine: A Double-edged Sword also features quotes from Ilan Pappe and @yairwallach.bsky.social www.tovima.com/world/uk-rec...
01.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The Greek newspaper TO VIMA just published an interview with me about the UK's decision to recognise Palestine. If you can read Greek, you can read it here: www.tovima.gr/2025/09/27/w...
#Palestine #recognition #Greece
If you’re in Liverpool today come and say hello!
28.09.2025 11:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0⚖️ Today, an investigative judge in Damascus issued an arrest warrant in absentia for former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on charges of premeditated murder, torture leading to death, and deprivation of liberty related to the 2011 Daraa incidents sana.sy/en/local/226...
27.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 28 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0#Palestine #warcrimes #britain #colonialism #reparations #gaza #recognition
27.09.2025 16:18 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0UK urged to act on colonial-era war crimes case after recognising Palestinian state - @BBCWorld www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
27.09.2025 09:35 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
27.09.2025 09:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A report from the opening was published in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
22.09.2025 19:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some photos from the opening of the Palestinian embassy in London earlier today.
22.09.2025 19:04 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I was interviewed on Al Jazeera from New York last week. It just aired. You can watch it here. Palestinians welcome state recognition as first step to ending Israeli o... youtu.be/Mrtr26okn4Y?... via @YouTube
22.09.2025 17:34 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0This is big coming from Singapore with its close historical and military ties to Israel. The Lion City may even recognise Palestine (if, Netanyahu presses ahead with annexation). The UAE has also hinted likewise … so long the “Abraham Accords”? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
22.09.2025 07:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Portugal recognises Palestine — it’s coming thick and fast! www.trtworld.com/article/180b...
21.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"”While a welcome step, Britain owes Palestine far more than recognition," said Victor Kattan, public international law professor and adviser to the "Britain Owes Palestine" campaign, arguing for an apology and reparations for engineering violent divisions.” www.channelnewsasia.com/world/britai...
21.09.2025 19:31 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0