Palestine

Introduction: Confronting the “Double Erasure”  As the dust of explosions settles over the Gaza Strip, a profound realization dawns upon the survivors: the destruction is not merely physical. It is a systematic attempt to tear the memory of the place, uproot victims from their human context, and dissolve them into silent, anonymous statistics. This “double erasure”—of…

1. Introduction: background of the seizure of UNRWA facilities in East-Jerusalem On 8 December 2025, Israeli police, accompanied by municipal Israeli officials, forcibly entered the facility of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), located in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, replaced the flag of the…

Is Britain legally accountable for holding Palestine between the world wars? Does its implementation there of the Balfour Declaration open it, presently, to claim for reparation, under the law of state responsibility? Three distinct positions are seen. For scholars like James Crawford and Malcolm Shaw, the issue of reparation does not arise, for they consider that what…

Palestine and the Palestinians are often the subjects of conversations in the news, on blogs and in judicial opinions, but not present in conversations themselves. The issues are treated episodically in connection with dramatic events or judicial processes or UN resolutions, and these can entrench an atomization of attention into the atrocities committed in the Israeli-occupied territories of…