Ok so my event on rethinking international law next Thursday should be fun …

As the New Year rings in, Palestine Action prison hunger striker Heba Muraisi will cross over into her 60th day without food. This is often the threshold where sudden death becomes imminent. Her government knows and is wilfully proceeding, just as it has with the genocide in Gaza

Typo: ‘treaties’ as ‘treats’ and like…my subconscious has a point?! More treats, less treaties

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Dreaming of a 2026 that has less genocide, less abuse, more books, more fun and light and more love

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Algeria’s new law declares French colonial rule a crime, seeking accountability and reparations for the colonial past.

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

Greta Thunberg has just been arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign expressing support for Palestine Action prisoners. The arrest took place at the Prisoners for Palestine lock-on protest outside the offices of Aspen Insurance in central London. Aspen provides services to Elbit Systems

So excited about this, not least because comrades @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social and @marinavelickovic.bsky.social and @jasminekgani.bsky.social will be speaking! www.hbku.edu.qa/en/academic-...

I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.

If anyone wants to give me a gift (I don’t know why but just in case) please get me Antarctica and Foster by Claire Keegan- also I don’t mind reading ‘Jane Austen the Radical’ 🥰🙏😍🫠

An amazing piece!

Bestie @suzanarahde.bsky.social and i wrote a thing about Taylor Swift and feminism as consumerism for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social and you should all go and read it and then also share it (& tell us how great it is tbh because it really is) tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/is-t...

I'm deeply concerned about the wellbeing of prisoners who were involved in Palestine Action protests, and are currently on hunger strike. Some have not eaten for six weeks. A number have been hospitalised. They are all being held on remand - without trial or conviction.

Yet another day when this essay is so important. Conor Gearty on the threat to the Human Rights Act.

I hate that I’m becoming an intellectual cop, having to check that each citation my students are using is in fact real or not. It corrodes something in you, that kind of academic police work

Northern Ireland continues show off just how broken UK counter-terrorism law has become...

Mahmood: one of the names of prophet Mohamed PBUH - sought asylum in Medina- a refugee.

When it comes to labour, I always wonder if the believe this abhorrent stuff they say, or they don’t believe anything at all and spout out what they think sells?

I think I just coined a phrase: epistemic audacity

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

Happy for nyc 🥹

It was great hosting Professor Ali Ahmida here in Doha. The insights he gave about the notion of ‘hidden genocide’ through Sociolegal explorations of concentration camps in Libya during Italian colonisation were revealing, shocking and informative. Do read his books if you can.

SOAS University becomes the first British University to Issue a Statement on Scholasticide in Gaza www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...

On my way home from an exceptional children’s rights lecture and panel hosted by @doughtystreet.bsky.social Brilliant chairing by @aoifenolan.bsky.social and a sobering lecture from Prof Ben Saul - ‘Every war is a war against children: Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and the Fragility of Child Rights’

It was great hosting Professor Ali Ahmida here in Doha. The insights he gave about the notion of ‘hidden genocide’ through Sociolegal explorations of concentration camps in Libya during Italian colonisation were revealing, shocking and informative. Do read his books if you can.

I realised I don’t really know how to do secular grief

If you are in Doha, please so attend: www.hbku.edu.qa/en/academic-...

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

‘Conor would have had so much to say about this’ is something I keep finding myself thinking and saying

Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act. “The​ current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Working, especially teaching, when you’re grieving is unbearably difficult. Couldn’t have understood it until this week: how hard it is to battle and suppress a sob whilst teaching adverse possession

One of my favourite photos of Conor during his visit to Doha earlier this year . He was always able to be so informative whilst making everyone laugh. I’m going to miss you so much, mentor and friend. May you rest blessed and in peace.

We will miss you greatly, our brilliant, charismatic friend. www.linkedin.com/posts/virgin...

I don’t have any words. I’m just devastated

Had a great time talking to Linda Mulchay of Oxford Centre for Sociolegal Studies about Law, Arab Drama and Translation frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/looking-at-l...

Had a great time talking to Linda Mulchay of Oxford Centre for Sociolegal Studies about Law, Arab Drama and Translation frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/looking-at-l...

Scary day in Doha 🫠

The Metropolitan Police have released updated figures for yesterday's protest by people holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" 857 people were arrested "for showing support for Palestine Action" and 33 for other offences, including 17 for assaults on police officers

Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action

In this piece entitled “The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector,” Fatima Ahdash reflects on the orientalism and racism underpinning Western human rights organisations, arguing that a complete overhaul of the sector is urgently necessary. Read (for free) here:

A short reflection on my decade of working in the human rights sector and the daily anti-Arab racisms i had to navigate, kindly published by Feminist Legal Studies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

More solidarity from Irish artists. Incredible people

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.

Imagine if international criminal law was taken seriously by domestic legal systems? Imagine if there was a separate crime: supporting a genocide? Or supporting a war crime?

This government is so disgusting

A few of us have been working to set up a research network of legal scholars innovating in the teaching of race, colonialism & empire. We have received provisional approval as a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN) of the Law and Society Association (LSA)! www.lawandsociety.org/crn-58critic...