Short Writings


2025

Cheering for the Illegal, Hailing Coercion: Commentary on the Trump Gaza Plan – Opinio Juris

ما هو المقترح الكولومبي للجمعية العامة؟ وهل ستدعمه دولة فلسطين؟ ألترا فلسطين

The Statehood Trap – Jaddalyia (co-authored with Noura Erakat)

“The profit of which we do not speak”: Reflections on UN Rapporteur’s report on the Israeli war economy – Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (co-authored with Wesam Ahmad)

A protective force must be deployed to occupied Palestine – Al Jazeera

It is time to move the UN and international law out of the West – Al Jazeera

Reading Palestine: A Roundtable Dialogue – TWAILR Reflections

ICJ Gaza delay lays bare the moral collapse of international law – Middle East Eye

Human Rights Watch on feeding Gaza — and the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ – EU Observer (co-authored with Omar Shakir)

2024

Shipments of Death – Law and the Political Economy Blog

The inconvenient truth about business, conflict, and international crimes in Gaza (with Mark Taylor) – The Institute for Human Rights and Business

Seven Perspectives on International Law and Palestinian Liberation – Law and the Political Economy Blog (co-authored with Erakat et al.)

NATO obligations cannot override international law – Al Jazeera

The legal case for imposing embargoes on Israel – Al Jazeera

A Forgotten Detail: The Right of Return was a Condition of the Establishment of the State of Israel – Opinio Juris

‘How many martyrs left until liberation?’ Mass atrocity as international law’s price for emancipation  – TWAILR Reflections

Atrocity amnesia undercuts UN commission report – Electronic Intifada

The UK and Its Illusive Arms Embargo – Al Shabaka

2023


Reflections on the Binding Treaty process: War economies & voices from the Global South – Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (co-authroed with Wesam Ahmad)

How international law is used to cover up Israeli settler-colonialism – Al Jazeera

If you are not a wolf, you will be eaten by wolves  – TWAILR Reflections

2022

The Sea is in front of You, and the Enemy is behind You: The Paradoxical Borders of the Right to Freedom of Speech – TWAILR Reflections

2021


Defense or Domination: The Categories of Israel’s Occupation – Critical Legal Thinking

2020


Roland Barthes: Myth – Critical Legal Thinking

System Crash and the Subaltern Subject – a Musical Narrative from the Levant- TWAILR Mixtape

Revisiting Allende’s 1972 Speech at the United Nations General Assembly: Histories Repeated with a Twist – TWAILR Reflections

Claiming ‘Private’ to Evade Democracy? The Leviathan Gas Deal and the Jordanian Constitutional Court – EJIL Talk!