Close out the week out right with these hit blog posts: @beaubaumann.bsky.social on the lost art of constitutional politics, @halsinger.bsky.social on the market definition trap, and @bwgerstein.bsky.social on the political economy of settler retrenchment. Plus, some LPE 💎s from around the web!🧵

I'm excited to share this piece in @lpeblog.bsky.social, which builds on arguments I make in a forthcoming law review article on settler retrenchment. Here, I explain how manufactured economic uncertainty is a tool settler governments use to turn publics against the interests of Indigenous peoples.

Very excited to share that my latest article, the Srebrenica Paradoxes: Definitional Indeterminacy and Denialism, is now out in the Int'l Criminal Law Review. It discusses how the Srebrenica genocide judgments at the ICTY and ICJ simultaneously expanded and limited genocide's legal content. 1/2

I'm very excited to share that my first law review article, Settler Retrenchment, is forthcoming in the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review! Thanks to many friends, mentors, and colleagues for thoughtful feedback and comments. Here's the abstract. Draft coming soon to SSRN.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

Seeing Charley Crockett in the discourse on here. Do yourself a favor and watch his concert at the Ryman today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7V....

The Ethnic Cleansing-Genocide Nexus opiniojuris.org/2026/02/05/t...

Emboldened by his DC visit (via lobbyists Blagojevich, Flynn) Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik says his party is pulling out state institutions, wants to abolish state courts, recreate VRS, the military force which perpetrated the Srebrenica Genocide. www.vijesti.ba/clanak/74085...

My latest in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on the conceptual and doctrinal overlap between genocide and ethnic cleansing, and how the eliminatory violence in Palestine and Myanmar illustrates their nexus.

Peaceful winter day in Srebrenica, BiH

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

This is an excellent, thoughtful piece and supremely helpful to those (like me) who are just entering the space of drafting, and hopefully publishing, legal scholarship.

The political and institutional grounds for this have been built over decades. They must be completely uprooted.

The #ICJ will hear the case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya from January 12-29, the first time the ICJ considers a genocide in a decade & one that will set precedents for South Africa’s case against Israel over the war in Gaza: www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise. /fin

Please join Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and many others in signing this call for an academic and cultural boycott of the UAE, in relation to its complicity in genocide in Sudan. spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

The winning argument for Dem leaders could be "they want to fear monger about trans people and trans healthcare because they don't want to talk about why your life isn't as good as it could be and have no plan to make it better" — except that most Dem politicians also have no plan to make it better.

Today, @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir argue that recent criticism of the Trump administration's bombings in the Caribbean risks repeating a familiar mistake: debating how the United States wages war while leaving unquestioned why it wages it at all.

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

Excuse me but what in the world is this? These are outrageous accusations reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

This week, I'll be presenting "The Srebrenica Paradox" at the @genocidescholars.bsky.social conference. I've posted a draft of the paper to SSRN. The piece discusses how the Srebrenica cases at once narrowed and expanded genocide's legal definition. Check it out! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Fall in Sarajevo

Don't make us tap the sign:

Per the Trump playbook, Jews who do not adhere to fascist tendencies are categorized as "bad Jews" alongside the enemy "other." Investigating these Jewish orgs. also tracks the targeting of JVP featured prominently in the Heritage Foundation's Project Esther: lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...

Excellent from Darryl Li:

There’s no reason to do this except racism: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

"Wars do not target bodies alone—they also seek to assassinate memory." www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

In agreeing to this, Brown embraces the project of defining the Jewish community by adherence to Zionism. And even more nefariously, the institution disavows DEI while providing special measures for the ideological subset of the Jewish community the Trump administration deems valid.

This is how the Jewish right manages to convince themselves that they are actually a majority in the US - by defining most of us out of Jewishness. They would rather rule over a tiny community than have to actually work to convince people in a larger one.

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

Inseparable from the discussion of the weaponization of Jewishness is Israel’s brutal starvation of Gaza, which continues unabated and worsens by the hour. If you are able, please consider supporting the Sameer Project: chuffed.org/project/1132....

Relatedly, this interesting post just landed in my inbox from the LPE blog lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...

Paging Larry Summers.

Excited to share my piece in @lpeblog.bsky.social, which discusses the Trump administration's construction of Jewishness and weaponization of antisemitism. Trump has always claimed the power to define "good" and "bad" Jews, but lately, institutions are being pressured to adhere to this framework.

“We rarely leave the house anymore, afraid our legs might give out. While searching on the streets for something, anything, to feed her children, my sister suddenly collapsed to the ground. Her body didn’t even have the strength to stay upright.” www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...

Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’

Jews are merely a convenient tool to Trump and the Christian right--at once useful pretext and a blameworthy and nefarious other. It is endemically frustrating that major institutions in our community continue to shirk acting on this threat, and calling it out directly, in service of Zionism.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

“Hunger makes a norm of abnormality and the sacrilege becomes a tolerable and admissible act. Since this ‘sacrilege’ would prevent satisfaction of hunger, starvation mercilessly rips off the ‘social’ garments from man and shows him as a naked animal, on the naked earth.”

Brilliant from Marianne Hirsch: www.publicbooks.org/rethinking-h...

So important that this column from @peterbeinart.bsky.social appeared in the NYT. The column describes the reality on my campus. Many progressive Jewish students have faced harassment, physical beatings, and arrest for peaceful, often religious protests that have been slandered as antisemitic.