In a two-part post on Opinio Juris, MEI Senior Research Fellow Victor Kattan argued how an earlier post by Steven Kay QC and Joshua Kern of 9 Bedford Row was an attempt to muddy the waters concerning Palestine’s referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC). He argued that the UN has the obligation to eradicate colonialism and that a large majority of states have recognised a Palestinian state in the territories occupied by Israel. Read his article here.

Image Caption: Part of the Israeli West Bank barrier, which separates Israel from the West Bank. Photo: Justin McIntosh, shared on Wikimedia Commons.