“The problem has always been that Israel is above the law" w/ Nimer Sultany
Episode description
The brothers welcome Nimer Sultany, a Reader in Public Law at SOAS University of London. They discuss the difference between the hypocrisy of the Western liberal legal order versus the Western liberal abandonment of its own international order to protect Israel, the imperatives of justice in Syria at a time of injustice in Palestine, the ICC and ICJ cases, the fact that South Africa stopped appealing to the ICJ earlier this year, the idea of law as a site of struggle, the need to prevent instead of simply documenting genocide after the fact, and Western and liberal genocide denial.
Check out his recent article "A Threshold Crossed: On Genocidal Intent and the Duty to Prevent Genocide in Palestine"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2351261
ICJ Case against Israeli apartheid
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186
ICC Palestine
https://www.icc-cpi.int/palestine
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Date of recording: December 10, 2024.
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