The Jacobin Interview

The disintegration of the law

I HAD THE PLEASURE of being interviewed by the good comrades at Jacobin about Blowing Up Everything is Beautiful: Israel’s Extermination of Gaza. In the interview, we talk about the dire situation in Gaza now, and the complete collapse of the public legitimacy of the institutions of international law:

In Blowing Up Everything Is Beautiful: Israel’s Extermination of Gaza, released in April by Skyhorse Publishing, award-winning journalist James Robins puts forward a meticulous, damning account of Israeli actions in Gaza from October 2023 to January 2025. By matching military decisions and tactics to public statements made by Israeli leaders, Robins seeks to establish the genocidal intent required for conviction by the International Criminal Court. At the same time, Robins shows how widespread apathy in the face of these violations has revealed a profound disintegration of international law.

Read the full interview: How International Law Disintegrated in Gaza