Another European fig-leaf: this time, France's recognition of Palestine as a state. About time, but we're beyond the point where this makes any difference unless Western & Arab states *act* in compliance w/ their obligations under int'l law. Anything less leaves them accomplices.

Von Der Leyen & Kallas perform outrage at the killing of civilians at food distribution points. Not at the human-made starvation of Gaza, nor at the mass slaughter on daily display for nearly two years. The 'outrage' expressed by EU leaders is distasteful & disrespectful to Palestinians' suffering.

Ten children a day losing a limb in Gaza, warns UN-backed body - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ten-children-day-losing-limb-gaza-warns-un

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NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

system designed to impose maximum violence on trans women and girls works as intended

Today yet again dozens of starving Gazans were being slaughtered and Israel bombed Syria & Lebanon. EU Foreign Ministers' response was to wave the crowd on: "Nothing to see here." Utterly grotesque.

The #EU today has chosen to ignore international law, its own rules, basic morality & overwhelming evidence. Today's Foreign Affairs Council decision to do nothing about its Association Agreement with Israel seals both the EU's end as a "normative actor" and its complicity in genocide. #Gaza

As the EU Foreign Affairs Council discussions of Gaza & the EU-Israel Association Agreement begin it's worth keeping a few things in mind – I've collected my recent media articles and interviews on the issue. Mediapart www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte... AlJazeera www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Mardi 15 juillet, un sommet des Vingt-Sept doit déterminer la réponse aux violations par Israël de son accord d’association avec l’Union européenne. Le chercheur Andrea Teti analyse les ressorts de l’inaction dommageable des responsables européens. Par @fabienescalona.bsky.social

Israel destroyed Gaza’s printing presses, publishing houses, and bookstores. These were homes to memory, knowledge, and cultural continuity. Ink and manuscripts turned to ash. Presses were silenced mid-sentence. Report by Fatma Al Zahraa Sehwail: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

La manchette de @mediapart.fr, à la veille d’un sommet européen attendu sur le réexamen de l’accord d’association UE-Israël.

Le chercheur @andrea-teti.bsky.social analyse les ressorts de l’inaction dommageable des responsables européens. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

#AJOPINION: "Inaction on #Gaza reveals the limits of Europe’s commitment to its self-proclaimed values: by sacrificing #Palestine, #Europe betrays itself." #EU #Israel #genocide #warcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity #ruleoflaw #humanrights www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

#AJOPINION: "No amount of “interpreting” law or hiding behind procedure can mask the fact that the #EU is in flagrant violation of its legal obligations and the spirit of its own rules" #Palestine #Gaza #Israel www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I'm very happy that @jacobinlat.bsky.social translated my @jacobinmag.bsky.social article into Spanish. Just before the Foreign Affairs Council on Tuesday, it's good to recall the #EU role in enabling the crimes committed against ordinary Palestinians. jacobinlat.com/2025/06/euro...

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Over the coming week we'll hear a fair bit about the EU and its Association Agreement with Israel, what is or isn't 'legally' possible within the AA, procedures, Articles and voting majorities. This is a distraction. To see why, everyone please frame this comment by Acsecnarf Albanese:

Today EU Council President Antonio Costa said "the rules-based order needs ... Credible defenders, that uphold it consistently, without double standards" & "Europe has shown it can act." So the EU *could* act on Palestine – it just doesn't want to? www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

@MiddleEastEye: “Rome has betrayed the Rome Statute, again - and with that the victims of horrendous abuses in Libya, Palestine and elsewhere” - Claudio Francavilla, Human Rights Watch

Speakers: • MEP Chloé Ridel (S&D) • MEP Jan Oetjen (Renew Europe) • Samar Elhussieny – (EHRF) • Amna Guellali – (CIHRS) • Abdulrahman Ayyash – (MEDC) • Zakaria Hannache – Algerian human rights defender • Claudio Francavilla – (HRW)

My Palestine: An Impossible Exile

Before anything else politicians, media & 'experts' must clearly state if they believe in the universality of #HumanRights & rule of law. ALL human rights –life, protest, resistance– are FOR all. They cannot be recognized for some but not others. This, at best, is hypocrisy. And stinks of racism.

Syrians celebrating in Latakia were filmed riding around on a toppled statue of former president Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, as it was dragged through the streets.

Thinking of our friend Anthony Shadid who died on a dirt road in Syria while covering the war for the NYT & the story he’d be writing today www.jadaliyya.com/Details/25285

May this dawn be as auspicious as it is beautiful. #Syria #dawnphotography

It's never too soon to Orientalise, is it?

let this sink in...the richest 80 million (ie the infamous top 1%) emit more than the poorest 5 BILLION! stop excessive consumption now!

The Cttee on Academic Freedom of the Italian Society for Middle East Studies joins Laila Soueif’s hunger strike calling for freedom for her son #HumanRights activist #AlaaAbdElFattah from unjust detention in #Egypt. @freedomforalaa.bsky.social @monasosh.bsky.social #FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll

The Cttee on Academic Freedom of the Italian Society for Middle East Studies joins Laila Soueif’s hunger strike calling for freedom for her son #HumanRights activist #AlaaAbdElFattah from unjust detention in #Egypt. @freedomforalaa.bsky.social @monasosh.bsky.social #FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

Clashes erupted between members of opposition and the army at the gates of the South Korean parliament. #southkorea

#SouthKorea: president declares martial law out of the blue, promptly voted down by parliament. Journalists, YouTubers & people blocked military from entering parliament, but police block lawmakers entering. Army withdrawing, but #Police & #Defence Ministry have much to answer for.

Oxford Union declares Israel an 'apartheid state responsible for genocide' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/oxford-union-votes-israel-apartheid-state-committing-genocide

Getting all nuanced over here… 😂 This is a starter pack for us folk who are involved in Youth Justice - a separate one to the children’s rights and childhood studies starter pack … Give me a shout if you’d like me to add you to this 💪🏼 ☮️ ⚖️

“The precedent set in #Gaza ...signals the demise of the rule of law” Tanya Haj Hassan (volunteer doctor) x.com/QudsNen/stat... Not just the #RuleOfLaw but the 'modern state' itself: equality before the law at both international AND domestic levels + equal #HumanRights untoldmag.org/the-price-of...

Giving BRISMES' Annual Lecture yesterday, Ghassan Abu Sitta pointed out that the devastation of #Gaza has reached such a point that the primary function/effect of bombing is indirect, i.e. to maintain the ripples of deathly consequences of destroying infrastructure sustaining #life.

Ghassan Abu Sitta at Brismes annual lecture: Study shows chances of being killed in Gaza as a health professional are THREE TIMES HIGHER than as a regular civilian.

A short history of the ancient Lebanese villages destroyed by Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/short-history-ancient-lebanese-villages-destroyed-israel

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This is a must read by Amy Fallas "Hermanos fi al-Muqawama": In the heat of parallel struggles against imperial oppression, one of the most prominent historical ideologues of el Salvador’s revolutionary movement played a key role in forging solidarity with the Middle East.

A list on #EpistemicInjustice has just been started: it's quite focused on philosophy & psy-disciplines but political theorists, post/de-colonial scholars & scholars of non-western standpoints in politics, history, pedagogy etc. could be interested. And dare I say scholars of/working with #Foucault.

I'm not going to subject myself to harassment and refuse to accept it's just a cost of being visible. Men online need to learn to tolerate difference, and that theyre not entitled to harass anyone, especially someone from within their supposed community that they've made a career speaking for.

Dear #philsky I think we need a starter pack for people who work on epistemic injustice. Can be philosophers, psychologists, lived experience researchers, the sky is the limit! Suggest yourselves or others for inclusion in the replies. Thanks 🤩 go.bsky.app/RMAoxiW

Why do some epistemic frameworks of scholarly 'orthodoxy' produce '#failure' in their scholarly & political Others? How is that failure elided so that it doesn't challenge orthodoxy but reproduces it, legitimizing the #epistemicide of alternatives?