The Palestinian refugee protection framework adopted after WWII faces a crisis of unprecedented proportions. While it remains unclear whether this framework will survive, Israel’s recent attack on it sheds new light on asylum's oldest conundrum: the inherent tension between individual rights protection and state sovereignty.

On 12 June the European Court of Human Rights issued its judgment in S.S. and Others v. Italy (App. No. 21660/18). The Court declared inadmissible the claims of seventeen applicants intercepted at sea and subjected to grave harm through a Libyan-led operation underwritten by the Italian state. At the heart of the judgement is the finding that…

Late in March, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, declared that it identified “hundreds” of migrant pushbacks from Greece. These have allegedly occurred in the Aegean and in the Evros region – the Northern land border between Greece and Turkey. While Greece continues to deny these allegations, it has now become abundantly clear that this is mere gaslighting.