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Rob Howse
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Rob Howse
@howserob
Teaches at NYU Law School.Tweets in personal capacity. None of views expressed here constitute legal advice from an attorney.
New York City
Joined March 2013
- The State Department in utter denial. This will go down as one of the most disgusting moments in U.S. foreign policy.State on International Court of Justice hearings on Israel/Gaza
- While as a scholar of international law I have to conclude on the available evidence that Israel’s conduct in Gaza is, as a legal matter, genocide, as a matter of morality, the perverted gratuitous murder & destruction by the IDF, killing for the hell of it, slaughtering children
- What Israel has done in Gaza in the last 100+ days has turned the Palestinian cause into "the" cause of our times. It is dividing the world on values, law, humanity. And it's really about a lot more than whether the people of Gaza is to be saved or laid completely to waste. 1/2
- Statement from Ireland’s 🇮🇪 government. • UNRWA gives life saving help to 2.3m 🇵🇸 Palestinians - with over 152 🇺🇳 UN staff killed since Oct. • Ireland 🇮🇪 funded UNRWA €18,000,000 in 2023 & will fund it more in 2024.
- A petition to the ICJ can work wonders, it seems.Joy erupts among those in a displacement camp in Gaza who managed to get some electricity for the first time in 86 days.
00:00 - Replying to @AvivaKlompas and @AOCOf course, this is false choice, do you either support Israel or support Hamas? The question itself buys into Israeli propaganda lies that those who are against the genocide now being committed in Gaza must be Hamas supporters.
- Based on the reported information, It is clear that Dean Chemerinsky & Prof Fisk mishandled the situation. The Dean was holding an official law school event in his home; it wasn't a purely private affair. He had apparently been warned of the possibility of protests in advance.University of California, Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky defended actions he and his wife, Berkeley law professor Catherine Fisk, took to try to stop a Muslim law student's protest at their home after a video of the incident went viral. law360.com/articles/18241…
- The outcome of this #ICJ case will determine whether law is really a “White man’s world” meaning that the rest of humanity must rely basically on resistance, struggle & disruption as paths toward justice.Intelligent piece by @howserob on the ICJ case. The genocide convention is concerned ‘above all with prevention’. latimes.com/opinion/story/…
- In their declaration of intervention in Gambia v. Myanmar, Canada, France, Denmark, NL & UK have made important statements about the meaning of "genocide" under the Genocide Convention, some v relevant to S. Africa's case v Israel. This 🧵quotes some of them 1/n @ClaysonMonyela
- Replying to @howserob2/2 As I've tweeted before it provoked for me an existential professional crisis as an intl legal scholar. I want to write about all this but somehow feel it is too soon to grasp all the implications, especially those beneath the surface of this great division.
- Until further notice I am boycotting events @Columbia. You should too. @ColumbiaLaw @ColumbiaSIPA @SlaughterAM @adam_tooze @londonvinjamuriAs my employer - @Columbia University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:
- UN says Israel denied access for nearly 70% of aid shipments to north Gaza aje.io/acrfdj via @AJEnglish
