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.

On this day, Sept 30 2000, Muhammad al-Durra was killed on camera. I was 9 years old. On this day I understood the lives of Palestinian children were considered cheap by many. If only we knew that we would go on to watch thousands of children die on our screens.

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

Recommended reading for anyone thinking about international law. Tooze describes the market as a kind of expected enforcer of global governance. But if the latter has no rules, enforcement too is out of the question. Interesting absence of climate, an alternative candidate for world punisher.

My government is now sanctioning three leading Palestinian human rights groups: (1) Al Haq Law in the Service of Mankind; (2) Al Mezan Center for Human Rights; (3) Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Utterly disgraceful.

As a boy, I was told the world would be better when I grew up. Raising kids, I shield them from how much worse it will be when they do.

The next head or “Ra‘is“ (رئيس) to be exact, a term most associated in this context with Arafat after Oslo.

New investigation by @borderforensics.bsky.social out, especially relevant against the backdrop of racist violence in Lausanne. www.borderforensics.org/investigatio...

Carl Schmitt's theory of war is really funny because it amounts to "liberalism leads to moralism which leads to total war in an attempt to outlaw war - unlike my theory of 'invading other countries just because you want to' which has definitely never led to total war or atrocities"

German arms exports to Israel have been the subject of debate for some time. But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany? ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel. verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...

Merz recognised the need to limit arms exports to Israel. Less attention is given to arms imports—just as important in policy & legal terms. 🇩🇪 should review and cease illegal arms purchases from a government engaging in genocide. New w/ @alonsahar.bsky.social verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...

Warm congratulations to Dr. Teresa Quadt, whose work at the intersections of international criminal law and migrant rights is profound and important.

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.

"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

“So the bad news is that China pushes back on human rights and the good news is that it is interested in a rules-based international order? Heike Krieger: Exactly” Read worthy interview with @heikekrieger.bsky.social @szde.bsky.social, I agree with everything she said

The language of this @asilorg.bsky.social email, describing Singapore, looks like it has been taken directly from a Quinn Slobodian book

Extremely grateful to all the participants in this collection, some of whom I seem to have not managed to convince. Lots to work with in the near future.

Special issue of Public Reason which it is shamelessly immodest of me to post: publicreason.ro/cuprins/29

🧵 The new edition of *Staatsräson Monitor* is now live on substack. Highlishts include: - A special cooperation on German arms imports from Israel with legal expert @itamann.bsky.social staatsraesonmonitor.substack.com/p/staatsraso...

Legal Tribune Online (‪@lto-de.bsky.social‬) hat 11 Völkerrechtsexperten gefragt, ob Israel in #Gaza einen Völkermord begeht. Eindeutig bzgl 🇩🇪's Präventionspflicht. Mit Analysen u.a. von @adhaque.bsky.social, @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social, @mikebecker.bsky.social and @itamann.bsky.social

Legal Tribune Online (@lto-de.bsky.social) asked eleven scholars whether Israel's actions in #Gaza now meet the legal definition of genocide. I am quoted alongside @adhaque.bsky.social, @janinadill.bsky.social, @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social, @itamann.bsky.social and others. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...

Until recently, the term "occupation" in Israel was used to underscore its negative connotations. This is changing. ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social‬) on the shifting meaning of the word – and why it now obscures something worse: expulsion and destruction. verfassungsblog.de/occupation-a...

Thank you Prof @itamann.bsky.social for what I never thought we needed as an urgent clarification: “Occupation” as Euphemism, @verfassungsblog.de 2025/8/13, verfassungsblog.de/occupation-a....