The courageous Tommy Olsen of @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social has been arrested in Norway and is facing extradition to Greece. Please sign a statement in solidarity with this human rights defender: forms.gle/xKLBkN2hQpZH... Signatories: tinyurl.com/mpkhpwaf And please help circulating widely.

“If I’m speaking e.g. of eating, then I’ll mention in a note that the Romans, Greeks and Hebrews also used to eat.” Advice on preparing your paper for peer review by Heinrich Heine.

My dad and his friend in a drawing I made back in 2021. They are both alive and well.

Team Trump has concluded that it is hopeless to compete with the Chinese on greentech — the race is already lost. Therefore they are doubling down on fossil fuel based tech at home, while geopolitically bullying other countries to stay on fossil fuels rather than switch to Chinese EVs/renewables.

Many friends asking what it is like in Minnesota right now. This video-clip tells. Masked men w/ guns in ordinary places (gas stations, grocery stores, cruising streets) intimidating ordinary people & instilling fear. As a terrorism expert, I think about the logic of government instilling fear.

Permanent members are no longer just blocking the UN. They are dismantling its core restraints on the use of force. ITAMAR MANN argues that when the Charter cannot discipline its guarantors, remaking the UN becomes unavoidable and institutional imagination urgent. verfassungsblog.de/remaking-the...

This quote by Ha'aretz journalist Nir Hasson is my opinion one of the most profound things written about the way many Israelis experienced Gaza since October 2023

That climate change would unravel the world order has long been expected by scientists, novelists. But who imagined that it would take the specific form of potential US aggression against Denmark 🇩🇰 Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

normal mural at German university

Great post here (as always) from Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social on reform of the UN Security Council @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/remaking-the...

May the Iranian regime fall in the hands of the peoples. Tonight I’m thinking of Mr. Boochani.

Several aspects of the Minneapolis shooting uncannily resemble events in Israel. Only one of them is that persons involved seem to be proudly posting self-incriminating information.

The crypto story around Gaza may serve the basis for a brilliant and politically urgent dissertation in transnational law & society.

Looks like the US has decided to do to Venezuela more or less what Iraq did to Kuwait back in 1990

Many of us thought the terms of the October ceasefire agreement removed the transfer of Palestinians from the Israeli agenda, at least temporarily. Wrong. www.ynetnews.com/article/izai...

My hot take for 2025 is that it is the year that the knowledge produced by economists has managed to fail harder than that generated by us international law scholars.

I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class

Homecoming Marine is a personal favorite of mine, particularly with how relatively small and young he made the kid, how closed his body language. How the news story about him on the wall calls him a hero, but the faces of everyone there tells how rough the story he's telling is.

Speaking with the pro-government Channel 14, Lt.-Col. Amit Yagur explains that Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is part of Washington’s Project Sunrise to transfer Gazans. Yagur is retired, has no official capacity, but had served as the deputy head of the Palestinian arena in the Israeli Army.

That we as Jews are being treated as a carpet to walk on towards Christian supremacy in the US now seems unassailable

The Economist makes it look too much like the refusal to withdraw from Syria is in the name of all Jews. It's time for media to understand that there is no such thing as "the Jewish state". Israel is a state that defines itself as much, but that is not more and not less than its self-definition.

#Postdoc Researcher on #Externalization and #Rightlessness Join our team in #Vienna to research externalization arrangements worldwide, the foundations of international refugee law, and theoretical perspectives inspired by Arendt's work. shorturl.at/W0swQ @rli-sas.bsky.social @lbg.ac.at

A new bill in #Israel seeks to introduce a mandatory death penalty for killings with the intent to "harm the State of Israel and the revival of the Jewish people in its land." It's a troubling departure from established penal principles, @itamann.bsky.social argues.

Ein neues Gesetz will "Terror gegen Israel" mit der Todesstrafe belegen, um die "Wiederbelebung des jüdischen Volkes in seinem Land" zu schützen. @itamann.bsky.social warnt vor den Folgen – für Palästinenser wie für die israelische Gesellschaft.

To be clear: this bill.goes well beyond the legislation currently in force in France.

This is murder. I recommend this excellent discussion with @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @becingber.bsky.social @bcfinucane.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/122950/podca...

Can the em dash be rescued?

Chat, is it too woke to know when people are food insecure? 🤔

In the runup to #ESIL25, Johanne Breum Jacobsen and William Sass interviewed me for Information about an earlier @verfassungsblog.de editorial. The piece just came out, and it is great to see such deep engagement in Danish public debate (the English autotranslation works beautifully). Series ahead!

call for special issues @migrationjrnl.bsky.social academic.oup.com/migration/pa...

NYTs bothsidesism on acts of murder is truly impressive

Human rights victory! Or maybe just more evidence that courts will pursue accountability only when the underlying political issue is literally dead

SRM #5 is live! 🧵Here are some of the major stories, many of them exclusives:

A crucial, timely report on the weaponization of antisemitism. @itamann.bsky.social and I contributed an essay exploring its legal dimensions, reflecting on Jewish plurality and the knotty relationship between Jewish and Israeli identities. Grateful for @emilyctamkin.bsky.social brilliant guidance.

The Home Secretary is now planning to find a way to criminalise the "cumulative effect" of protest.

Terrifying: U.S. Deports Planeload of Iranians After Deal With Tehran, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/w...

They heard me

Itamar Mann, Professor at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law: “The only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide.“ LTO asked eleven international experts, if Israel is commiting Genocide. Outcome: 9x yes, 2x not sure (2025/08/15)

Trump speech reminded me of Ronald Dworkin's old quip that drawing lots may be better than voting for the selection of public officials.

Recognition of Palestine is welcome, but the time has come for more direct measures. States should consider e.g. naval escorts for the Sumud flotilla. Israel has no legal right to block humanitarian aid while committing genocide.

Hiroshima paradigm (popular myth): the greater the violence a government uses, the quicker it is able to end hostilities. Gaza paradigm (hypothesis): the greater the violence a government uses, the longer the hostilities will end up lasting.

Suicidal Cultural Genocide in “Super Sparta”: substack.com/@itamarmann/...

Watch this interview with Dr. Mohammed Saqr. As Israeli tanks push tonight into Gaza City, the South Part of the Strip, where he is located, is projected to become even more crowded with displaced people who have lost everything. www.democracynow.org/2025/9/15/mo...

“The decision to blow up the boat and kill everyone onboard when interdiction and detention was a clearly available option is manifestly illegal and immoral" -- sad have to make such an obvious point, but here we are. Read the whole piece: www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/p...

Reflecting on what it means to research & teach international law in an Israeli university today, while spending time away from my home institution & academic community. Grateful to Völkerrechtsblog for inviting me to share these early thoughts. voelkerrechtsblog.org/who-gets-to-...

"The banality of evil in the Gaza war is not embodied in malicious individuals but in the routine work of jurists who authorized orders for air strikes that have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians while relying on International Humanitarian Law." www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...

Market likes hubris

For a long term we have been observing how the sovereignty of weak states in the global south has been instrumentalized for population management. But this