This panel discussion will explore the impact of the war in Gaza on international law, Australian politics, and geopolitics in the Middle East.

Event details

Date: Monday, 10 November 2025
Time: 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Ingkarni Wardli 715 Conference Room
Further inquiries: A/Professor Priya Chacko: priya.chacko@adelaide.edu.au

With respect to international law, Dr Josh Curtis (Adelaide Law School), will examine the 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion and the challenge to Vice-President Sebutinde’s dissent, the ICC’s arrest warrant for Netanyahu over war crimes, and the UN’s limited role due to the US veto in the Security Council. These events suggest Israeli policies on Gaza and the West Bank are increasingly unsustainable, but the future of the peace process remains unclear.

Regarding Australian politics, Professor Kanishka Jayasuriya (School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Murdoch University), will focus on how the Gaza war has deepened divisions within the Labor Party, civic institutions (such as arts organisations), and universities. These developments reflect a crisis in the liberal international order, the increasingly authoritarian policing of internal dissent and the hollowing out of accountability mechanisms within these institutions.

Dr Minerva Nasser-Eddine (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Adelaide) will discuss the Israeli and regional responses that followed the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. These responses have brought about significant and evolving global and regional realignments. Israeli, Palestinian, and broader regional perspectives will be examined in this highly dynamic period of shifting alliances, competing geo-political interests, and the erosion of the so-called rules-based order.