Yet Again: The U.K. Government Mischaracterizes Its Obligation to Prevent Genocide in Gaza By Professors @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social and @janinadill.bsky.social #UnitedKingdom #Gaza #Diplomacy

Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls daily in Gaza & the West Bank, saying Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, violated the company’s terms of service

Has Starmer had any ideas that haven’t come from the Tony Blair playbook? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

This.

Five hours apart

A brilliant piece in the FT about the human and institutional cost of overreliance on international student fees. Managers are making our most vulnerable students pay the price of a failing funding model and are skewing the purposes of university in their pursuit of fees. www.ft.com/content/3f49...

Truly facile, awful analysis by Nick Robinson normalising hate speech by 'ordinary people' and equating it with free speech. The boiling point is too many of Britain's commentators unthinkingly wading in the toxic swamp of X and believing it is what passes as normal.

Imagine claiming with a straight face that someone being shot by their employer is not forced labour

UK should be recognising Palestine based on the inherent rights and dignity of the Palestinian people. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

One of the worst catastrophes in the world. “At least 260,000 civilians trapped in El Fasher face a dire choice: risk being starved or bombed if they stay…, or killed if they flee…Rape is commonplace. The [last standing, bombed-over-30x] hospital treats about 40 sexual assault victims every week.”

Incredible work here, from the Onion. theonion.com/netanyahu-th...

Is this suggesting that (the mysterious) Lecturer A not read the paper? If it’s not, I don’t really see how this saves time - and if it is 😬😬😬

A question is what is the intelligence basis for watchlists of 16,000 people at other LFR deployments? Is there a reason to believe they will all be present?

Please share this UN infograohic summarising the UNCOI report on the ongoing genocide by Israel www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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.

The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry concludes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The most significant finding of a UN body to date on genocide against the Palestinians. Full text of the report is here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

The Representative Office of Ireland in Palestine now accepting applications for the Ireland-Palestine Scholarship Programme for the academic year 2026-2027 30 full scholarships for one-year Master’s-level programmes in Ireland. Deadline is 5 October 2025. See: www.ireland.ie/en/ramallah/...

On the incredibly sad news of Conor Gearty's passing: dflw.ie/on-the-passi...

Groundbreaking innovative research is always mainstream. Right? Right? Nothing good has ever come from people ploughing away to discover something new that other people haven’t seen yet. Right?

"Hobbyist" is a truly breathtaking choice of phrase. It encapsulates a profound sense of contempt for the labour of academics in the UK, who already have to navigate an underfunded system dominated by precarity and overwork. "Knows the price of everything but the value of nothing" springs to mind

A family from Gaza "torn apart in a few hours by men who grew up in Naperville, Illinois and Munich, Germany." The United States and Germany can and have prosecuted crimes committed in conflicts overseas (Syria, Iraq, Liberia etc.). Gaza should be next. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“The European Union can do far more than any other grouping by suspending the pillar of preferential trade for Israel under the EU-Israel Association Agreement". Mary Robinson, former Irish president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

President Michael D. Higgins @president.ie meeting with the Director of Al-Haq Shawan Jabarin last year. The US administration has just issued sanctions that will severely hamper this organisation's critical human rights work. Because of their pursuit of justice and accountability.

Introducing digital ID won't "stop the boats" It would instead raise a whole range of human rights concerns - from mass surveillance to accessibility www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Remember that what they are actually saying is that people should be removed to face torture and persecution

‘Better’ not massively reassuring

I'd love to know how Ireland plan to take on New Zealand at the weekend given that they are attempting to score tries at different ends of the pitch?

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The main issue facing any UK government isn't actually the number of people seeking asylum, in the grand scheme, proportionally, we aren't talking about huge figures, especially when compared per capita to countries such as France, but the constant images we see in the media. 1/

I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Hard to get into the heads of the sadists at the Home Office who sat round drawing up a list of "luxuries". Just one more method of humiliating some of the most vulnerable people. No doubt the unemployed will be next.

Looking forward to welcoming Kelly E Happe to East London on 10 September when we will be discussing their forthcoming The Body Plastic: Abstraction, Difference and Speculation in Late Capitalism with a great group of readers docs.google.com/document/d/e...

This is an unbelievable and unbelievably sad story. ChatGPT discouraged someone from making a cry for help. The logs are so much more than I expected

For a short summary of chilling effects, see section 2 here academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

This is a very disappointing piece. It effectively negates debates about the dramatic extension of anti-terrorism designation, what acts constitute ‘terrorism’, and as others have noted, ignores the chilling effects that such designation may exert. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

This is a very poor piece from the independent reviewer. He's making it seem like the application of the UK's terrorism laws is automatic when we know for a fact that the breadth of the UK's definition of terrorism requires discretion to prevent perverse application. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

This is a very disappointing piece. It effectively negates debates about the dramatic extension of anti-terrorism designation, what acts constitute ‘terrorism’, and as others have noted, ignores the chilling effects that such designation may exert. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

That is mad! You can't say that now, that is too far? Or is it that they can't trust the Irish to not stop themselves from being truthful about the world.

This is just nonsense from a man who has repeatedly shown he doesn't know the first thing about his brief and doesn't care to learn Me verifying my age does not stop any child accessing any content. Me using a VPN does not allow any child to access content. There is no causal relationship here

refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.

but “financially better off” and “doing a job you love” aren’t synonyms. arts careers are underpaid (and that isn’t universities’ fault) but that clearly doesn’t stop people from wanting to be artists.

Plans for police to disclose the ethnicity and immigration status of criminal suspects in the UK have been condemned by race campaigners for setting a dangerous precedent for “dog-whistle politics”, which will make Black and brown communities more vulnerable www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Judge Sebutinde will be on the ICJ until 2029.

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...

This is actually diabolical. Plus wouldn't it be amazing if third sector charities, who work with real people every day, front line services, were given the opportunity to learn from inside govt. and civil servants were sent on secondment to us. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...