Nathan Derejko

Mauro Chair in Human Rights & Social Justice & Assistant Professor of Law @UManitobaMHR @robsonhall @UManitoba - Activist, Academic, Ageing Punk, Tired Parent.

[Nathan Derejko @NathanDerejko]

It exists! My book on Non‑International Armed Conflict  just landed with @CambridgeUP. An online symposium with an all-star cast of NIAC scholars/practitioners is in the works. More details soon. In the meantime 20% off with code DEREJKO26. #IHL #NIAC https://t.co/jIWWgsPrEf

[Nathan Derejko @NathanDerejko]

I will be discussing my new book and the concepts, consequences, and controversies of identifying #NIAC with an incredible panel of #IHL experts at the Geneva Academy on Tuesday 19 May at 6:30pm. https://t.co/dad5MCoc6c

[Defense for Children @DCIPalestine]

Onward.

[Janina Dill @JaninaDill]

The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.

https://t.co/q3OeNcFB0j.

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

UN General Assembly President urges the US to pay UN dues “in full”, after US transferred only $160 million of the $4 billion owed. “UN regulations are crystal clear. Every member state has to pay its contribution in full and on time, and $160 million are obviously not in full”

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

I condemn new Israeli measures to enable the illegal taking of Palestinian land, in violation of international law

[BADIL @BADIL_Center]

From the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Silwan to Sheikh Jarrah, the Israeli regime is engineering Palestinian existence into tightly controlled micro-enclaves—severing urban, social, and geographic continuity through demolitions, apartheid planning laws, and Israeli-only corridors.
Read BADIL’s analysis here:https://t.co/UMtdLyvaTR

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

US military ammunition flooding Mexico and arming cartels https://t.co/MCmfQgsRaS via @NYTimes

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Death penalty bill mandates execution for Palestinians and imprisonment for Israelis for identical offenses | @NoaShpigel
https://t.co/MjaoaOcrit

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

Australia now has some of the democratic world's most draconian anti-protest laws. Today a man was arrested as an "agitator" simply for peacefully yelling "shame" in the direction of the visiting Israeli President, on the basis it may have "incited fear" https://t.co/jZJ59cRU02

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Netanyahu released a detailed 55-page document on Thursday, containing his version of the failures that led to October 7.

A Haaretz fact-check reveals his lies and deceptions 🔽🔽🔽
https://t.co/ggoTNmsFKw

[Omar Waraich @OmarWaraich]

It’s not a novel legal theory. HRW has used it itself: “The forced displacement of the entire Chagossian people by the United Kingdom and United States governments and the UK’s racial persecution, and continued blocking of their return home, are crimes against humanity.” https://t.co/OAb3Rp1UTo

[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR @pchrgaza]

♦️ French Court issues Summons for Complicity in Genocide against Director of ‘Israel Is Forever’ – a Landmark Development in the Fight Against Impunity

A crucial legal milestone has just been reached. In August 2025, the Crimes Against Humanity Division of the Paris Judicial Court issued a summons against French-Israeli dual national Nili Kupfer-Naouri, president of the Zionist settler organisation Israel Is Forever, for complicity in genocide.

This followed a complaint filed in November 2024 by the French Jewish Union for Peace, together with a Franco-Palestinian complainant who is a member of Urgence Palestine and supported by the NIDAL association. The complaint was later joined by the FIDH, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

On 19 January 2026, Kupfer-Naouri responded publicly:

“I will never be able to set foot in France again because I have no intention of going to a French prison, or being held in police custody, or anything else.”

In November 2023, Kupfer-Naouri publicly incited that there were “no innocent civilians in Gaza” on a French news channel, and orchestrated actions to block the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza during the Israeli induced genocidal famine in 2024– in a pattern of genocidal acts by Israel, which are still ongoing. More recently, Kupfer-Naouri, declared from Hebron in 2025, that the West Bank should be completely colonised and belong to the State of Israel, as the “historic birthplace of the Jewish people”.

The complaint targets all acts of ‘Israel is Forever’ in contributing to the crime of genocide, whether in the form of material actions, active support or advocacy that contributes to the incitement or facilitation of the crime. Under international criminal law, complicity can result from any assistance or encouragement provided with knowledge of the criminal context.

The issuance of a summons constitutes a major landmark, as the investigating judge considers that there is serious or consistent evidence that Ms Kupfer-Naouri participated in acts that may constitute international crimes. Such measures, which are rare in the Crimes Against Humanity Division’s cases, meet a decisive threshold in the criminal investigation.

The issuing of the summons highlights that law enforcement can be mobilised in France, police custody procedures can be implemented, and criminal soldiers and civilians complicit in crimes against the Palestinian people will be investigated and prosecuted. These are important steps towards ending blanket Israeli impunity for international crimes of dual nationals.

The summons confirms the application by the French judicial system of the principle of extraterritorial jurisdiction on the basis of the French nationality of the alleged perpetrators, regardless of where the acts were committed. Thus, French nationals cannot escape criminal responsibility when they contribute to or are accomplices, from or outside the national territory, in war crimes, crimes against humanity, incitement to genocide, and genocide.

Our organisations will continue to relentlessly pursue legal action against anyone who has participated, either directly or indirectly, in any international crimes committed against the Palestinian people.

https://t.co/yaIX64R60y

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry estimate of over 70,000 killed in war https://t.co/47F5Bv5TAR

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Months of relentless violence by Israeli state-backed settler militias, soldiers and police forces have achieved their goal: the last remaining families in the Palestinian community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja left this week.

The largest shepherding community in the southern Jordan Valley, and the last to survive, was home to about 800 people, roughly half of them children. The area has now been completely emptied of Palestinians.

Since October 2023, Israel has forcibly displaced 45 Palestinian communities in the West Bank, comprising at least 3,501 people. Another 12 communities were partially displaced, with at least 455 peopledriven from their homes.

Expelling communities and taking over tens of thousands of hectares are part of a policy of ethnic cleansing that Israel is implementing in the West Bank.

[Amnesty MENA @AmnestyMENA]

Following the unprecedented mass killings to crush protests, Iranian authorities have imposed a militarized clampdown carrying out sweeping arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, bans on gatherings & intimidating victims' families in a bid to hide their crimes https://t.co/1jFOSwuJY6

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Through the ongoing internet shutdown, the authorities are deliberately isolating over 90 million people from the rest of the world to conceal their crimes and evade accountability.

Read more: https://t.co/gekOZS64so

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

While people in Iran are still reeling from the grief and shock of the unprecedented massacres during protest dispersals, the Iranian authorities are waging a coordinated attack on the rights of people in Iran to life, dignity and fundamental freedoms in a criminal bid to terrorize the population into silence.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel has turned its prisons into a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care and abuse in everyfacility they are held in. Some have also been severely sexually assaulted. Since October 2023, at least 84 Palestinians have died in these torture camps.

The policymakers, and primarily Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, brag in TV puff pieces and on social media about what is happening in these torture camps.

Today, we published “Living Hell”, a report on the situation of Palestinians in Israeli custody. It is based on the testimonies of Palestinians released in recent months, along with research, reports, news updates and Israel Prison Service figures, and continues our previous report on the issue, “Welcome to Hell”, from August 2024.

Systematic, deliberate abuse continues to define Israel’s policy toward Palestinian prisoners in its custody, and is another feature of the Israeli regime’s coordinated onslaught on the Palestinian people.

Link to the full report > https://t.co/vHSdH4GFsG

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I strongly condemn the Israeli authorities’ actions to demolish the @UNRWA Sheikh Jarrah compound, which remains @UN premises.

The continued escalatory actions against UNRWA are unacceptable & inconsistent with Israel’s clear obligations under international law.

I urge the Government of Israel to immediately cease the demolition & to return the compound & other UNRWA premises to the UN.

https://t.co/tSnDdlw9C0