Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man

ED & Fdr Global Echo Litigation Ctr. Human rights lawyer, Pal/Is, IHL&BHR: Fmr: Michael Sfard Law Office@sfardm, Legal Advisor to @YeshDin. RT≠endorse She/Her

[Yesh Din ييش دين יש דין @Yesh_Din]

We don’t yet know who will form Israel’s next government. But we do know what the outgoing government has done to advance annexation.

We are launching a new website documenting and analyzing 100 different annexation measures, and counting.
From settler violence and land takeover to legislative initiatives and changes in governance, these annexation measures entrench Israeli control over the Occupied Territory, dispossess Palestinians of their land, and systematically violate their rights.

Annexation is a crime. Knowledge is power.
Explore the database now >>

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

Global Echo investigation reveals over 60% of Australian agricultural imports from Israel were sourced from West Bank settlements. From 2025 to present, the figure rose to 83%.
https://t.co/PiYVZGAgnS

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

Global Echo's Importing Occupation investigation now extended to Australia: reveals over 60% of Australian agricultural imports from Israel were sourced from West Bank settlements.
https://t.co/PR7pvuaw7T
https://t.co/PiYVZGAOdq

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

In response to widespread sales of Israeli settlement properties across Canada, the US, UK, and more—often cloaked under the banner of "dream homes in Israel," Global Echo and @CLAIHR filed this complaint on behalf of 6 concerned Canadian consumers.
https://t.co/Y1rWRaQekX

[CLAIHR (@CLAIHR.bsky.social) @CLAIHR]

We are taking action to stop the sale of Israeli settlement properties in Canada. You can learn more and get updates on this case as it progresses at: https://t.co/gUxzm4arIg (1/8)

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

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[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

It has long been clear that Israeli occupation and apartheid will not be ended by the Israeli leadership -- no matter what happens in the upcoming elections. But with the sea change in Europe over trade with illegal settlements, the Israeli private sector has a decision to make.

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

With UK, FR, Canada & 9 others joining the wave of nations cutting trade with settlements, there's no putting this genie back in the bottle. It's time for the Israeli private sector to call for separation of the Israeli economy from settlements. My op-ed:
https://t.co/MnI2Rh0Ooy

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

The ICJ's 2024 Advisory Opinion was unequivocal on the obligations of all countries to cut off support to Israel's occupation, including trade and investment. Banning trade with settlements is a matter of rule of law, no more and no less.
https://t.co/8W9VcKoE2n

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

My hot take on the UK’s announcement last week to ban trade with settlements, joined by Canada and France.

[Jamal Dajani جمال @JamalDajani]

The West Bank, Settlement Trade and International Law. @emilyatlaw explains

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Canada and France are expected to announce Tuesday a ban on importing products from Israeli West Bank settlements alongside Britain.

France decided to join the expected British statement after a joint Franco-Swedish effort to sanction settlement products in the European Union stalled.

The decision is also tied to the publication of a tender for the construction of 1,200 housing units in the E1 area, an area of the West Bank where Israeli plans could divide Palestinian territory.

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is expected to announce in the House of Commons a ban on trade with the settlements, according to sources familiar with the details who spoke with Haaretz | @lizarozovsky
🔗https://t.co/4aRWLRTSCC

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

Is this Gaza’s ‘bomb the tracks’ moment?

With Gaza’s annihilation in plain sight, the question is what can compel global intervention to end Israel's genocide — and what form it will take.

By @MikeOmerMan:
https://t.co/7N9VGYeXKz

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

Hearing @mikiebarb saying "hmph" to famous works of art is still my favorite way to soothe election day anxiety.
https://t.co/j3nrvfKvrE
@BarbaroMMMs

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

Yes, Macklemore!

[Macklemore @macklemore]

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

[Mike S. Omer-Man @MikeOmerMan]

I just donated to @UNRWA to #offset4gaza. See how many of your tax dollars are going to the IDF and make a donation to offset it.

https://t.co/oPiHPpj5B1

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

The sick feeling I have had in my stomach for the past 5 months at both of my governments’ responsibility for unspeakable numbers of deaths and unfathomable levels of starvation—international crimes with no moral justification—is summed up here as sharply and precisely as always.

[Mike S. Omer-Man @MikeOmerMan]

There was a line in a Hebrew news article yesterday that I can't stop thinking about. US officials told @barakravid that in every conversation in recent weeks they've been warning Israel that it is responsible for the humanitarian disaster taking place in Gaza.

"The senior US official said he was dumbfounded by the response he got from the Israelis: 'They asked me, why is that our problem?' he said. 'I told them they don't understand the situation they're in."

The thing is, Israel has always challenged the US and the world to put their money where their mouth is, and Israel has almost always won that game of chicken.

The stakes are different now but my sense is that most Israelis don't get that either. At this point nothing but cutting off the cash and bombs and UN vetoes could even begin to impart upon them the levels of shock and disbelief and horror with which the world has been watching for months. Shock and disbelief and horror not only at what Israel is doing but at their own governments for allowing it to happen. For not stopping it.

The thing is, nothing will happen and no consequences will be wrought until one man, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., decides that enough is enough. That moment should have come months ago but its unacceptable tardiness only makes it more urgent that it happen today.

Let's be clear, we're long past the point of a ceasefire being enough. There needs to be an international protection force in Gaza — to protect Palestinians from Israel, to ensure they don't die of starvation, to allow the world to deliver critical aid, to make sure that Palestinians who have fled can return to their homes, and to make sure the Israeli army doesn't stay in Gaza, or ever come back.

That should be the new starting point for discussions of "the day after." And the day after must be tomorrow.

[Karim A. A. Khan KC @KarimKhanQC]

I am deeply concerned by the reported bombardment and potential ground incursion by Israeli forces in Rafah.  

My Office has an ongoing and active investigation into the situation in the State of Palestine. This is being taken forward as a matter of the utmost urgency, with a view to bringing to justice those responsible for Rome Statute crimes.

All wars have rules and the laws applicable to armed conflict cannot be interpreted so as to render them hollow or devoid of meaning.  This has been my consistent message, including from Ramallah last year.  Since that time, I have not seen any discernible change in conduct by Israel.  As I have repeatedly emphasised, those who do not comply with the law should not complain later when my Office takes action pursuant to its mandate.

To all those involved: my Office is actively investigating any crimes allegedly committed.  Those who are in breach of the law will be held accountable.

I also continue to call for the immediate release of all hostages.  This also represents an important focus of our investigations.

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

Honored to stand with thousands of fellow Jews and Israelis outside the Capitol yesterday to protest the continued commission of atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza, in our name and with our tax dollars. https://t.co/e52b8WtHhU

[Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man @emilyatlaw]

"I don't believe that just because we condemn Hamas's acts there is any justification for committing additional crimes against humanity against Palestinian people." https://t.co/e52b8WtHhU

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

My statement on the continuing violence in Israel and Gaza.