Agnès Callamard nails the appalling truth. 👏 UN member states have done fuck all to stop genocide, and so easily could!

In a broadcast from Oct 2019, Free Speech Absolutism discussed by @onthemedia.bsky.social @brookegladstone.bsky.social with Andrew Marantz on JohnStuart Mill, Richard Rorty and guests @profjohnapowell, P.E. Moskowitz, @susanbenesch.bsky.social www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm... Highly recommended.

In this piece Omer Bartov not only points out that what Israel is doing in Gaza is clearly genocide - he comments on the deafening silence of historians and other scholars. We must speak out and denounce it. I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

“Caught in the middle” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...

Israel has been besieging Gaza - again - for two months. No food, water, or medicine allowed in. Children and babies, not to mention their exhausted and terrified parents, are starving. I share responsibility for this obvious act of genocide, and am desperate to do something to stop it. What?

The US government just declared that IDEAS can be illegal.

“It’s ridiculous that they’re claiming to do this in the name of protecting American Jews. How are you helping Jews by taking away educational opportunities at institutions with thousands of Jewish students? …That will obviously fuel antisemitism.” My Jews! Do not let them use and endanger you.

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"[T]he First Amendment prohibits public officials from excluding citizens from public forums" so you can't go hide from the people by moving public meetings online, Mike. Thank you @jameeljaffer.bsky.social @alexabdo.bsky.social and other authors of that great letter.

Yes you are. The United States has done it before and neither side of the American political class finds it too controversial that Israel has been leveling entire buildings for nearly 18 months, massacring and maiming tens of thousands of civilians, to get to a few fighters.

so maybe there is a god, with a sense of humor

Honestly, it was so thoughtful for all the Trump folks to make stupid denials on camera yesterday — some under oath! — so this revelation would land so much harder.

@georgetownlaw.bsky.social Bill Treanor shows us all how to do it in a letter glowing with principles, truth, snark, dignity, the Constitution and cojones, which US academia's other leaders are mostly not exhibiting.

Yes, hardball. And for Gaza ofc. Even though Biden has just opened the floodgates for more weapons though Israel did not meet his own conditions, he can still relieve some of the hideous suffering there. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...