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Legal Front at the UN – July 2026
We’ll keep you informed about developments coming up in the month ahead at the UN and international courts, providing you with insights into anti-Israel lawfare and equipping you with knowledge...
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Newsletter June 2026
In the past month the war in Iran has come to a (temporary?) halt. The USA and Iran have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and late last week representatives...
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The Myanmar and Israel ICJ genocide cases are being weaponized to push ideological agenda
By Prof. Gregory Rose (Senior Fellow, thinc.) In the coming months, the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) will deliver its judgement in the case The Gambia v. Myanmarconcerning the 1948...
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The Islamic Revolutionary Regime: Ideology, Structures, Strategies and Tactics
By Prof. Uri Rosenthal In recent months, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has become the decisive centre of power in the Islamic Republic, eclipsing the distinction between military institution,...
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Islamism: A Clear and Present Danger
By Dr. Tommaso Virgili Islamism, or political Islam, is a form of totalitarianism. It is a political ideology that seeks to organize all public authority and social life in accordance...
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The Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement: Positive but Fragile Development that Shows Why the Regime in Iran must Fall if There is to be Peace in the Region
By Andrew Tucker, Director General thinc. On June 26, 2026, representatives of Israel and Lebanon signed a landmark “Trilateral Framework Agreement” in Washington. This is the most significant accord between...
Briefing reports
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Symposium Report | The Islamic Revolutionary Regime: Challenges to International Law in the Grey Zone
The Symposium on The Islamic Revolutionary regime and Challenges to International Law in the Grey Zone was convened by The Hague Initiative for International Cooperation (thinc.) at The Hague...
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Briefing | Legal and Institutional Principles for a Democratic Transition in Iran
Legal and Institutional Principles for a Democratic Transition in Iran Iran stands at a crossroads. Military escalation, the tightening grip of IRGC hardliners, and widening fractures among opposition groups have...
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BRIEFING PAPER – The Future of the “Occupied Palestinian Territory”:
February 25, 2025. Will Common Sense Return to the United Nations? A Legal and Policy Analysis of UNGA Resolutions 10/24 and A/79 L/23 ABSTRACT BackgroundThe recent UNGA Resolutions ES-10/24 and...
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thinc. briefing concerning the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice
On 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) fulfilled the request of the UN General Assembly (Res. 77/247) to render an Advisory Opinion about “Israeli practices affecting the...
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Press release July 17th: The UNGA Request for ICJ Advisory Opinion on the “prolonged Israeli occupation” of “Palestinian territory”
On Friday 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will publish an Advisory Opinion on the consequences of Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem....
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The Status of Jerusalem under international law
Newsletters
- Bulletins
Legal Front at the UN – July 2026
We’ll keep you informed about developments coming up in the month ahead at the UN and international courts, providing you with insights into anti-Israel lawfare and equipping you with knowledge...
- Bulletins
Newsletter June 2026
In the past month the war in Iran has come to a (temporary?) halt. The USA and Iran have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and late last week representatives...
- Bulletins
Legal Front at the UN – June 2026
We’ll keep you informed about developments coming up in the month ahead at the UN and international courts, providing you with insights into anti-Israel lawfare and equipping you with knowledge...
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Newsletter May 2026
This month we bring you highlights of the ongoing use and misuse of international law. The clashing rhetoric of law reflects a deeper ideological conflict. Different views about the existence...
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Legal Front at the UN – May 2026
We’ll keep you informed about developments coming up in the month ahead at the UN and international courts, providing you with insights into anti-Israel lawfare and equipping you with knowledge...
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Legal Front at the UN – March 2026
We’ll keep you informed about developments coming up in the month ahead at the UN and international courts, providing you with insights into anti-Israel lawfare and equipping you with knowledge...
Webinars and Videos
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IRAN, THE IRGC, HAMAS , HEZBOLLAH, THE PALESTINIANS AND GLOBAL TERRORISM
Understanding the intricate web of Iranian-sponsored terror and its threat to Israel Special guests: Dr. Ely Karmon – Senior Research Scholar at The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at The...
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Webinar recording on the ICJ and the Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Territories
The UN General Assembly’s Request for Advisory Opinion. Tune in to listen to this critical conversation between thinc.’s Andrew Tucker and its distinguished guests Prof. Gregory Rose and Jonathan Turner...
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Watch the thinc. Webinar: “Israel on trial” at the International court of Justice: The genocide and Advisory Opinion cases
Israel and the International Court of Justice Israel is the subject of unparalleled level of attention, specifically within the UN system. The recent war in Gaza has ushered in the...
- Recommended (most read), Webinars
thinc. Webinar series: Webinar on Hamas, Gaza, and The Future of the Two State Solution
Held on December 12 at 12 PM Amsterdam time. Prof Kobi Michael (senior researcher at INSS) and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bock (Senior Fellow thinc.) interviewed by Andrew Tucker (Director thinc.)...
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Webinar on the UN, International law and the Hamas-Israel conflict.
Held on November 7PM CET. Dr. Einat Wilf and Dr. Matthijs de Blois interviewed by Andrew Tucker UN blind to reality Following the 7th October attack, from day one, the...
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Webinar on Proportionality and Targeting in the Israel Hamas War – 14th November 2023
This webinar deals with the question of proportionality and the definition of use of excessive force by the IDF in its war against Hamas in Gaza. Prof Geoffrey Corn from...
External recommended reading
- External recommended
The curious case of Francesca Albanese
Blog by Catherine Perez-Shakdam – Executive Director We Believe In Israel Published January 4th. “The Times of Israel” The UN Special Rapporteur’s call for a medical boycott against Israel is...
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It’s Death by a Thousand Cuts as Australia Abandons Persecuted Israel
By Dr Anthony Bergin, Senior Fellow @ Strategic Analysis Australia, Expert Associate @ National Security College and Prof Gregory Rose, Senior Fellow @ thinc., Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources...
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When military targeting of Hamas combatants was misrepresented as genocide
An open-source data analysis with a focus on Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza urban warfare 2023-24’, By Lewi Stone and Prof. Gregory Rose, Senior Fellow thinc. Toe read the full...
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A shocking new UN report gaslights for Hamas
The report urges Palestinians to investigate themselves for killing Jews, when their stated goal is killing Jews. by Anne Bayefsky, International Human rights lawyer. Published on October 11th 2024 in...
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Beware False Moral Equivalence Between Israel and Hamas Militants
Published in Newsweek – Wednesday, September 4, 2024 by LTC Geoffrey S. Corn, USA (ret.) and LtGen George Smith, USMC (ret.) Hamas’ murder of six Israeli hostages, including a U.S....
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A Judge From Uganda Sides With Israel
Judges Julia Sebutinde and Nawaf Salam of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, May 16.PHOTO: YVES HERMAN/REUTERS. By Robert Nicholson, an adviser to The Hague Initiative for International...
Publications
The Hague Statement of Jurists on the Israel-Palestine conflict was released on October 31, 2017. It summarizes the conclusions of a two-day conference held at the Peace Palace in The Hague, where 24 international lawyers and experts discussed the legal implications of UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and the 2004 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict. The statement includes three guiding principles, and nine legal propositions aimed at encouraging discussion about the interpretation and application of international law in this context.
Israel on Trial: How International Law is Being Misused to Delegitimize the State of Israel. This book reviews international law regarding self-determination, statehood, territorial sovereignty, human rights and the right to self-defense. It argues that the two-state solution as defined by the UN is not required by international law.
The authors examine how international law has been used and misused over the last century with regard to the Arab/Israeli conflict. They argue that the historical context of the creation of the State of Israel, especially the Mandate for Palestine, is too often ignored.
By Andrew Tucker & Matthijs de Blois.
Two States for two Peoples? The EU two-state policy concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is failing, despite a half-century of strenuous EU efforts expending tens of billions of euros to implement it. The reality of policy failure is discomforting but must be acknowledged.
By Prof. Wolfgang Bock, Prof. Gregory Rose and Andrew Tucker.
