Public note to myself: citing her own case law (or separate opinion for what is worth) to a sitting ICJ judge to make your point, when it is not a Jessup round, is inappropriate and/or creepy. Now, I go back at replaying every sentence I said in the past hour.

The suspension of family reunion has a disproportionate impact on women, children, and those with disabilities. As Blessing shared, "The delays crushed me. You can’t move on, you can’t integrate, you can’t do anything. I fell into depression… I am still on medication now.” 2/3

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

"It was said long ago that not everyone who keeps on repeating ‘Lord, O Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven. It now has to be said that not everyone who keeps on reiterating ‘Criticism, criticism!’ is capable of rising above dogmatism." - Georgi Plekhanov, 1898

🚨🚨Given current situation and with the sharply deteriorating situation in #trumpland, I think it is unwise, imprudent and just a very bad idea for the EU to go ahead with plans to grant #US border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...

#ECJ annuls the @Europarl_EN ‘s decisions to lift the immunity of Carles Puigdemont, Antoni Comín and Clara Ponsatí 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

My hottest take re this is that decades of pro-Israel discourse primed both political classes and parts of the public for this nonsense. oh no we are a tiny nuclear power backed by the largest imperial state and we are so afraid of kids with rocks.

'The only good kind of immigrant is the money kind'

Hearing in this fast tracked case on whether Belgium is legally obliged to ensure evacuation of refugee family members from Gaza set for February 11th

Actually existing democratic socialism

Make it viral.

Frankly evil people

In the last election in New York, [Michael] Walzer voted for Zohran Mamdani. "He is a good social democrat – and an anti-Zionist that people like me will have to argue with," he says. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

history repeats itself first as tragedy, second as ‘what if we can use international law as a tool’

They can now apply a Rwanda policy to nearly all asylum-seekers, what the fuck else do they want?

So glad to finally have collaborated with bestie @marinavelickovic.bsky.social on this one. Can't wait for you to read it! Please share this widely :D

CJEU, asylum law Advocate-General's opinion on the threshold to determine a 'well-founded fear of persecution' in refugee claims - in case involving young Kurdish women fearing persecution on grounds of gender - curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

In light of UNSC Res 2803 just reminding everyone of the existence of this classic article by Dapo Akande, suggesting the possibility of judicial review of ultra vires UNSC acts www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/7...

Looks brilliant!

Gaza and Academia: repression, IHRA definition of antisemitism, educide - Seminar online now (3/11, 10:00 CET) tinyurl.com/RUPTwitch With: Aya Ashour; Collettivo Academics for Justice; Donatella Della Porta; Nicola Perugini; Federica Stagni

thinking about this & about the fact that he was killed almost two years ago in a precision strike and that his eldest daughter was then killed five months later with her husband and newborn

[for all the int'l migration nerds:] fireworks!

'What does it mean to live in a society where you know your neighbours would do the same to you?' rss.com/podcasts/2-p...

Fantastic interview with @michaelfakhri.bsky.social on Gaza, starvation and, more broadly, the crisis and re-appropriation of international law: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024" Chris Sidoti spells it out

Israel killed 5 children in Gaza today who were just trying to get water as Israel starves them. When this article was published, this morning at 11:30 am ET, nearly 80 Palestinians had been executed by Israel. By the end of the day Israel had killed 20 more. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I fleshed out a few of my thoughts about the comms from the ICJ to remove Judge Sebutinde and @verfassungsblog.de were kind enough to publish them: verfassungsblog.de/from-one-icj...

Importantly, the IAGS Gaza Resolution recognizes that Israel has already destroyed a substantial part of the Palestinian group by killing and maiming (I would add starving and stunting) tens of thousands of children.

"It is a famine we could have prevented.. food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food.. a preventable famine sustained by complicity" Tom Fletcher from the UN on famine being declared in Gaza City

I used to go at enormous lengths debating my fellow Ukrainians (especially pro-Israel ones) telling them that if we lose the war, our situation will be very much like that of Palestine. People laughed at me.

Ezra Klein's interview with Philippe Sands is very good overall. But I want to reiterate that the ICJ has never said that the definition of genocide requires a "single intent." Nor does the ICJ's standard of proof preclude a finding of genocide in cases of plural intent. 1/🧵

‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’

#Israele bombarda la Sacra Famiglia di #Gaza, la parrocchia alla quale Francesco telefonava ogni giorno. Tre morti. Non è un "attacco militare" sferrato da forze oscure. È un crimine contro l' umanità. L' ennesimo perpetrato da Israele che Leone XIV nemmeno cita. Ci sono Papi e Papi.

Germany has arrested Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri and will surrender him to the ICC. "El Hishri is alleged to have been one of the most senior Mitiga Prison officials ... suspected of having committed directly himself, ordered or overseen crimes against humanity and war crimes" t.co/D5YYLPiFWh

Airbnb is advertising rentals inside Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank to my email now… www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Yesterday, Chat and I read Francesca Albanese’s latest Report on Israel's Economy of Genocide together. If you haven’t had time to read it and you want to listen to the “audiobook + commentary” version while you do the dishes, this video is for you youtu.be/mv-qwXvaavw

"Frontex collected personal data for years through covert interrogations of migrants after their arrival in Europe that lacked basic legal guarantees" Apostolis Fotiadis, @stavinoha.bsky.social + Lola Hierro expose another scandal involving Frontex and migrants' rights elpais.com/internaciona...

Scandalous. Contained in the 1,000-plus pages of the [Trump budget bill] going through Congress is a mean-spirited measure to tax money sent abroad by non-US citizens, including visa holders and permanent residents. on.ft.com/3FHDyK6

Not "preemptive." Illegal. There is no evidence of an actual or imminent armed attack by Iran. This is a blatant violation of the UN Charter. It has no legal basis in the right of self-defense. Now we wait to see how many civilians will die because of this insanity.

Absolutely horrifying. Note that at the end of the piece we learn that the UN staff member was reportedly beaten to death, not shot from a distance.

The prosecutorial approach of criminalising parents fleeing from horrors with their children -- to keep them safe -- on the ground that they are people smugglers is just pure cruelty.

"The Jerusalem municipality advertises the event, known as the flag march, as a 'festive procession'"

It wasn't his speech. It was the applause from his peers. You don't need this level of repression for one student's personal views. You need this level of repression to crush a generation.

While @ec.europa.eu defends declaring Tunisia a safe country to return Tunisians to, @amnesty.org’s @oliviasundberg.bsky.social warns that the assessment “absolutely downplays the human rights backsliding that we've seen in the last few years”. Via @euobserver.com 👇

"Most common of all, when famine threatens, people move. In the ‘Famine Codes’ of the British Raj in India, colonial officers noted the ‘aimless wandering of the destitute’ as a sign of impending famine. Gaza is starvation under siege."

This is what everyday bordering looks like. And yes, it's racialised. It's also replicated in and supported by the media. Eg in popular TV shows like Border Security. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

'The global tumult triggered by Trump has already distracted attention from the catastrophe in Gaza. Yet the longer it goes on, the more those who remain silent or cowed from speaking out will be complicit.' on.ft.com/3Z0TJs3

And another critique of the CJEU's investor citizenship judgment, from @guilleiniguez.bsky.social - eulawlive.com/op-ed-on-gen...

📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...