The Houthi militia from Yemen has continued its attacks on Saudi airports, killing at least one person and injuring several others, while Saudi Arabia and its allies condemn the attacks as a serious violation of international law. #Huthis #SaudiArabien #Jemen (translated)
"Killing as a war crime or as a crime against humanity is no less serious than genocide." Germany, according to Sands' internally coherent demand, must decide whether it understands its state raison d'état in a particular way, as unconditional loyalty to Israeli policy, or as a "genuine, non-racialized raison d'état" that breaks the silence wherever international crimes occur "and by whomever they are committed." #Völkerrecht #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands (translated)
Philippe Sands criticizes the German government's silence on Israeli war crimes in his acceptance speech for the German Book Trade Peace Prize and calls for an honest engagement with international law and state reason. #Völkerrecht #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands (translated)
Germany is well-versed in ethnic cleansing. So why the silence? In his acceptance speech, award winner Sands accused the German government on Sunday in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt of indecent silence regarding Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip and against Palestinians. #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands #Völkerrecht (translated)
Philippe Sands, the Peace Prize winner of the German Book Trade, criticized in his acceptance speech the loud silence of Germany regarding the Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip and called for an open debate about possible violations of international law, emphasizing that criticism is also necessary among friends. #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands #Völkerrecht (translated)
It is not antisemitic. It is not anti-Israel. It is the truth. Peace Prize winner Philippe Sands accused Germany of "indecent silence" in its dealings with Israel. #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands #Völkerrecht (translated)
Peace Prize winner Philippe Sands criticized Germany for its indecent silence on Israel in his acceptance speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair and emphasized that violations of international law must be clearly named. #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands #Völkerrecht (translated)
No axis of good or evil divides the world of jurist and author Philippe Sands in two. Previously, the Austrian historian Mirjam Zadoff, director of the NS Documentation Center in Munich, praised the clear stance of the award winner in her speech: "No axis of good or evil divides the world of jurist and author Philippe Sands in two." #PhilippeSands #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht (translated)
Peace needs justice. Justice needs rules. Rules need law. His own work as a human rights lawyer at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and as a writer is directed against silence, Sands stated. #PhilippeSands #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht (translated)
Philippe Sands, the Peace Prize winner of the German Book Trade, criticized in his acceptance speech the German silence regarding Israel's actions in Gaza and demanded that war crimes be named regardless of their perpetrators in order to uphold law and justice. #PhilippeSands #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht (translated)
In his speech at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, Philippe Sands expressed criticism of the war in Israel and Gaza on Sunday. #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht #Menschenrechte (translated)
The international lawyer Philippe Sands was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in Frankfurt and used his speech to express critical remarks on the conflict in Israel and Gaza. #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht #Menschenrechte (translated)
"It is not antisemitic. It is not anti-Israel. It is the truth." In his acceptance speech, Sands accused Germany of "indecent silence" in its dealings with Israel. #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht #PhilippeSands (translated)
Philippe Sands, a French-British jurist and professor, was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade at the conclusion of the Frankfurt Book Fair and criticized in his acceptance speech Germany's indecent silence regarding violations of international law in the context of Israel. #Friedenspreis #Völkerrecht #PhilippeSands (translated)
The author wrote that Ukraine needs a new president. He accused Volodymyr Zelensky of having knowingly provoked Russia's unlawful war by inviting NATO to advance to the Russian border. According to him, great powers never accept such things. He also hinted at a need for a change in the USA, but did not elaborate on the thought. #Ukraine #Politik #Selenskyj #UA #RU #US (translated)
Philippe Sands talks about Niklas Frank and the significance of his story for today's Germany in the context of his award of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. #Völkerrecht #Friedenspreis #PhilippeSands (translated)
The Nuremberg Trials have inspired me. The prize is a "great, beautiful surprise," says the newly crowned Nobel Peace Prize winner Pillay in the evening news. #Pillay #Friedensnobelpreis #Völkerrecht (translated)
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navanethem Pillay stated in the daily topics that the Nuremberg Trials strongly inspired her and that the award brought the significance of international criminal justice to her attention. #Pillay #Friedensnobelpreis #Völkerrecht (translated)
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to the human rights advocate Navi Pillay, who stands for multilateral order and international law, thus making a strong statement against the law of the stronger. #Friedensnobelpreis #Völkerrecht #Multilateralismus (translated)
The escalation reaches another level. Foreign Minister Meinl-Reisinger assessed the US sanctions as an attack on Austria's sovereignty. With them, "the escalation reaches another level," she criticized. #USASanktionen #InternationalerStrafgerichtshof #Völkerrecht (translated)
