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Nimer Sultany

@nimersultany.bsky.social
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Professor of Law, SOAS; Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Yearbook of International Law; author, Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring (OUP 2017).

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
For the past two and a half years, the UK government has armed a genocide as it was livestreamed around the world. Now, some politicians are pretending they have always been against the crimes they enabled. Too little, too late. Your complicity will never, ever be forgotten.
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In Gaza, all men of military age were deemed legitimate targets. “And military age is really open to interpretation,” said Jonathan. “It could be from 16 to 60 or even younger...Most of the people that my unit killed were not armed.”
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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EU sanctions on Israeli settlers a 'WHITEWASH'
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Death To Arabs" Has Just Become Law The second episode of Fronts and Fault Lines, a new podcast on Palestine Deep Dive developed by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) youtu.be/e_nTakZ7bTo?...
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OUTRAGE: Israel’s Execution Bill For Palestinian Prisoners Passes
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Are EU sanctions on Israeli settlers just symbolic? youtu.be/LLo-eES6Rz0?...
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Are EU sanctions on Israeli settlers just symbolic?
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The Wrongs of Zionism, in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law is now open access (written before the genocide in Gaza) brill.com/view/journal...
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In case you missed it: Torture and Genocide: A Webinar with the UNSR Francesca Albanese youtube.com/watch?v=MV3u... @soasuni.bsky.social
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Torture and Genocide: A Webinar with the UNSR Francesca Albanese
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Criminal complaint filed against Norwegian politicians over complicity in Gaza genocide - www.middleeasteye.net/news/criminal…
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Criminal complaint filed against Norwegian politicians over complicity in Gaza genocide
Exclusive: Prosecutors recommend police investigation into Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and cabinet members
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In case you missed it: Torture and Genocide: A Webinar with the UNSR Francesca Albanese youtube.com/watch?v=MV3u... @soasuni.bsky.social
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Torture and Genocide: A Webinar with the UNSR Francesca Albanese
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today 👇
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Tomorrow: I look forward to the discussion of UNSR Francesca Albanese important report on Torture and Genocide with Prof. Lutz Oette and Dr. Pau Perez-Sales @soasuni.bsky.social Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"There will be no live student speakers at CUNY School of Law or at NYU's school-specific ceremonies after former students gave speeches that were fiercely critical of Israel" "Columbia officials said there will not be a student speaker at the university’s main commencement" Disgraceful. Pathetic.
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Join us on 28 April, 6pm GMT, for a critical webinar on Torture & Genocide with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Professor Lutz Oette and Dr. Pau-Perez Sales. Online event. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @soasuni.bsky.social
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Join us on 28 April, 6pm GMT, for a critical webinar on Torture & Genocide with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, Professor Lutz Oette and Dr. Pau-Perez Sales. Online event. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @soasuni.bsky.social
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Hello friends, I wrote for Nation Magazine about how Iran has a reasonable legal basis for regulating the Strait of Hormuz and those that argue otherwise are reinforcing double-standards and imperial international law-making www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Only One Side Has Clearly Broken the Law In the Strait of Hormuz
And it isn’t Iran.
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This is a colonial war on Iranian modernity, a continuation of a decades-long economic war that seeks to erase the knowledge, the expertise, and the institutional memory that enables Iranian technological development, argues Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi. Must read. jacobin.com/2026/04/isre...
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Israel and the US Have Been Waging War on Iran’s Development
From universities to medical research centers, Israel and the US have been systematically attacking Iran’s technical infrastructure. While claiming their only issue is with Iran’s rulers, they have ta...
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PAS Program @palstudiesucb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
April 10 Webinar | "Israel's Death Penalty Law and the Struggle of Palestinian Political Prisoners" ft. @nimersultany.bsky.social & #SameraEsmeir moderated by @makdisi.bsky.social 🗓️: Friday, April 10, 2026 ⏰: 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern / 6PM GMT / 8PM Jerusalem 🔗: bit.ly/PASWEBINAR
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"This report merely scratches the surface." New important report on Torture and Genocide from Francesca Albanese: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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When speaking out against conflict-related sexual violence is a matter of survivalRead the story
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/03/2026
Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies
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Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies
Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon For Batoul Hamdan and her two children, seven-month-old Fatima and Jihad, three, Monday’s iftar, the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan, was special. For a week, they had eaten to the sounds of bombs in their home in Arab Salim. Hamdan eventually decided to leave for Al-Nimiriya, the sleepy town where she had grown up. Surrounded by her parents and siblings in the family home, she hoped they could finally enjoy the festive mood of Ramadan. Continue reading...
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Hello friends, I did a podcast interview on Iran, intl law, and being Iranian American in this moment. You can listen here: youtu.be/RhSg9-FUUMk?...
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Law and Politics of Israel and the United States’ Attacks on Iran with Maryam Jamshidi (Episode 54)
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS Annual Lecture 2026, by Professor Ussama Makdisi, UC Berkeley, is now available: "History, Gaza, and the Question of Genocide" youtu.be/CtLHjdpDpbs?...
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Centre for Palestine Studies Annual Lecture 2026: History, Gaza, and the Question of Genocide
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Paraguay's intervention in the Gaza genocide case offers a preview of Israel's legal arguments: - Attacks on military targets that also kill civilians cannot constitute genocide - Genocidal intent cannot coexist with other motives - UN and NGO reports cannot prove genocide 1/🧵
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We are solidly back to the days of "WE are the civilized, makers and beneficiaries of the rules, and THEY are the uncivilized, entitled to no protections" That mindset never really went away, some of just pretended it did. No denying it anymore
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Iran human rights group HRANA: "The total number of reported civilian deaths stands at 742, including 176 children under 18, with 624 reported deaths currently . under review" "Reported civilian injuries since 28 February 2026 stand at 971, including 115 children" www.en-hrana.org/the-third-da...
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
So much for Carney’s ‘rupture’. The 51st state already, even if not in name.
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade"
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution, the four people said." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran
President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Iran is reporting that over 200 people have been killed and over 700 people have been injured - and this is only the first day…..
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Friendly Rel Declaration - which was passed by the UN Gen Assembly in 1970 - is an imp doc that underscores many of the ways in which the US/Israel decision to launch aggressive war against Iran violates intl law. Here's how the US/Israel has violated it digitallibrary.un.org/record/20217...
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Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Over 80 little girls were killed by the US/Israel in just one strike on a school in the south of Iran near the Persian Gulf... x.com/ntabrizy/sta...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/02/2026
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The British statement on the aggressive US/Israel war on Iran says nearly nothing about those strikes & instead condemns Iran’s response. The West is signing its own death warrant w/stmts like this. The erosion of norms of state sovereignty and warfare cannot be cabined www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Back after 3 hours of sleep. They are reigning hell on my people
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Aggressive war entails legally unjustified killing, maiming, and destruction. It is an atrocity crime. As the Human Rights Committee has emphasized, the killing inflicted in such a campaign violates the right to life.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Video of the carnage from the strike on the all-girls school in south Iran. At least 85 people were murdered x.com/AryJeay/stat...
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Iran's Article 51 letter to the Security Council: "the air strikes carried out by the United States and the Israeli regime constitute a clear violation of Art 2(4) of the Charter of the UN and amount to an open armed aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran"
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The mass civilian casualties in Iran continue. Al Jazeera reporting that at least 15 people were killed at the sports complex in southern Iran.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Video footage of massive damage in Tehran. The city is very densely populated. No idea what was targeted here, but hard to imagine there were no civilian impacts x.com/leventkemaI/...
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler... That isn't preventive war; that is war. I don't believe there is such a thing.. I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that.. talked about such a thing." President Eisenhower, 11 Aug 1954
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Centre for Palestine Studies Annual Lecture: "History, Gaza, and the question of Genocide" Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley 2 March 2026, @soasuni.bsky.social Register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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CPS Annual Lecture: history, Gaza, and the question of genocide
Ussama Makdisi asks why, across so many parts of the liberal West that so solemnly proclaims the universality of law and human rights, is Palestinian life consistently devalued?
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025: Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of ‘intentionally targeted’ journalist killings www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ
Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of ‘intentionally targeted’ journalist killings
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Iran's letter to the UN Security Council and Secretary-General:
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Iran has submitted an Article 51 letter to the Security Council, invoking its inherent right of self-defense. These words in particular should be read and remembered. The total and complete evisceration of the prohibition against aggression affects all of us. No one will be safe. No one can escape
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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies event, "Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza", with me and Peter Oborne, is now available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ab... @nimersultany.bsky.social
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Nimer Sultany (@nimersultany.bsky.social)
Reader in Law, SOAS; Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Yearbook of International Law; author, Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring (OUP 2017).
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"What’s Left of International Law after UNSC Resolution 2803 on Gaza?" Here is the recording of the insightful discussion with Craig Mokhiber, Jonathan Whittall and prof Lynn Welchman @soasuni.bsky.social youtu.be/BChlvYOQyF0?...
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What’s Left of International Law after UNSC Resolution 2803 on Gaza?
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Position Paper: Palestinian Civil Society Condemns UNSC Resolution 2803 Establishing Joint US-Israel Illegal Occupation of Gaza www.alhaq.org/advocacy/268...
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Position Paper: Palestinian Civil Society Condemns UNSC Resolution 2803 Establishing Joint US-Israel Illegal Occupation of Gaza
Photo: Yousef Zaanoun On Monday, 17 November 2025, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) voted in favour of Resolution 2803, normalising the colonial occupation of Palestinian territory. This re...
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
80 leading legal scholars, solicitors, and barristers have signed this letter to the Home Secretary & Attorney General criticising the proposed changes to protest law. If you are a legal scholar or practitioner based in Britain, please consider adding your name
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
UN Security Council resolution a violation of Palestinian right of self-determination and UN Charter, UN expert warns www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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UN Security Council resolution a violation of Palestinian right of self-determination and UN Charter, UN expert warns
GENEVA – A UN expert today expressed serious concern with the Security Council’s adoption of Resolution 2803, warning that it runs counter to the Palestinian right to self-determination, consolidates ...
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza Must read by Craig Mokhaiber mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-...
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The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza
The Security Council’s backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide.
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"These accounts reveal an organized and systematic practice of sexual torture, including rape, forced stripping, forced filming, sexual assault using objects and dogs, in addition to deliberate psychological humiliation aimed at crushing human dignity" pchrgaza.org/pchr-documen...
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PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention against Released Palestinian Detainees
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documents one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed against human beings and their dignity in the modern era. In recent weeks, PCHR staff coll...
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