The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

As debate boils over allegations of genocide in Gaza, there’s another place where all sides in the United States seem to agree a genocide is underway — yet largely ignore it. That’s Sudan My column: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

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If you're looking for a novel to read, I recommend The Uproar not only because a friend wrote it, but more importantly because it's a terrific, timely, and captivating book.

Here is the chart showing the growth of reported protest over time, 2025 vs. 2017, referenced in the piece below.

It's not just that Israel is imposing a policy of starvation on Gazans; it's also that the U.S. is underwriting this horror and is utterly complicit in it, in both the Biden and Trump administrations. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/o...

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

Billions of animals are tortured for meat each year. Millions of slaughterhouse workers suffer too -- physically and mentally: www.vox.com/future-perfe... This quote really stands out: “Public demand for meat creates ongoing, present, and future exposure to trauma and continual retraumatization.”

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Today, everyone knows what’s happening in #Gaza. Israel has been committing atrocities - war crimes, crimes against humanity, acts of genocide… The new plan makes Israel's intentions even more obvious. Other countries have obligations that are just as obvious… www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

Always read @stevelevitsky.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social & @lucanway.bsky.social: "No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines." Gift link here:

We're welcoming @geoffdancy.bsky.social and Timo Thoms to Leiden University on 27 May at 16:00: "Prosecution of Heads of State: What Happens After?" Register here www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... @polscileiden.bsky.social @lucir.bsky.social @fggaleiden.bsky.social @buitelaartom.bsky.social

Join us for what promises to be an inspiring exchange with two leading voices on human rights in our dark times. All welcome, but prior registration is required. @amnesty.org @franceskalbs.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

Article here: www.nature.com/articles/d4... Full preprint here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

Job Alert: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

A critical and welcome development that the #ICC is bringing international law to bear on the unimaginable crimes perpetrated against #Afghan Women, girls and others. No time to waste! www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme...

Seminar alert! Jaime L Kucinskas on the ethical pressures faced by US federal civil servants during Trump's first term. Date: January 22, 2025, 14:00-16:00 CET (hybrid format). Attendance is open. For more details about the talk and to register, please go to the following link: shorturl.at/nYfjq

The data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

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