This reaction is entirely justified. But/and: why do EU/European governments not also „strongly condemn” Trump’s sanctions on ICC prosecutor & judges, whose only crime is to take rule of law seriously?

Norway “regrets”; Netherlands “disapproves”. Are we finally getting first squeaks of pushback against Trump lunacies? (Macron, Merz, Tusk, Starmer, others: what exactly is so scary about defending the court that YOUR countries created?)

Dutch foreign minister “disapproves” of Trump’s latest sanctions against ICC judges for crime of doing their jobs. Is this — at last — cautious beginning of pushback against Trump’s determination to destroy ICC and rule of law?

This is a weirdly sad story — not quite up there with Trump’s derogatory plaques about his predecessors, but almost. — Round-table talks led directly to end of Communism in Poland and elsewhere: Berlin Wall fell five months AFTER Polish elections which had already crumbled Communist power

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

@zeteo.com Compare and contrast Donald Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder with Biden and Harris's responses to Charlie Kirk's murder. There is no 'both sides'. Just one side - Trump - that is cruel, sociopathic, unhinged.

This is even worse than I expected, and I was expecting the worst.

“The fight for these children, for their safe return, for the punishment of their abusers, is something bigger than me…and the only weapon I have is international law.” A Ukrainian lawyer’s campaign to rescue the children stolen by Russia: www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #Ukraine

Compare the statement about the antisemitic terror attack in Australia by the Israeli Prime Minister with the one by Zohran Mamdani, and ask yourself who more truly cares about condemning antisemitism, as opposed to using it to promote unrelated politics.

The report into Karim Khan, the ICC chief prosecutor currently on leave for alleged sexual misconduct, is finished. Now it goes to a panel of judges. In true ICC form, dropped on a Friday at 1800.

This is shocking. Melanie Goldberg has been dismissed from Holocaust Memorial Day Trust because of her association with @standing-together.bsky.social which describes Israel's crimes in Gaza as genocide. Never again means never again for anyone! www.jewishnews.co.uk/hmdt-organis...

This is a remarkable story (congrats) which has so far failed to get the attention it clearly deserves. Baffling that U.S. (and other) papers don’t see it as important if a president wants to twist an international court into knots to prevent it from doing its job. All this, in plain sight

“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror.'"

"There is a growing realisation that any amendment to the Rome Statute intended to appease those calling for sanctions would do more to destroy the court than the sanctions themselves." middleeasteye.net/news/icc-sta... #ICC #ASP24

I thought it must be fake news, seemed too unthinkable. But… all true, darkly surreal. As the book said: “It Can’t Happen Here”. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

Love the confident denials that anything might be amiss. “The Defense Secretary NEVER said 2+2=4, he has ALWAYS been and remains clear that the answer is 5.”

“We don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement.” Well that always ends well doesn’t it. The loathing for rule of law & international rules — just like his President

yes, powerful & important: “are we meant to pretend atrocities never happened? To betray memory of victims whose families can’t find closure without justice?” — Trump’s proposals (cooked up with Putin) are betrayal of Ukraine’s future in so many ways

“In the Faustian battle between hope & despair, Crawshaw leaves us with hope. His is a timely message at a moment when international justice movements are facing an existential threat to their very existence” #2025MoorePrize Jury commented. #HumanRights shortlist

Thank you! — yes difficult & sometimes dangerous, and above all with extraordinary determination to find accountability for worst crimes

This is a great honour — some truly extraordinary fellow-shortlistees. Thank you — for praise for #ProsecutingthePowerful and for emphasising importance of #justice themes for today’s world

This exchange is so brilliant, mesmerisingly so. Keir Starmer (and so many others, in & out of politics) should watch and learn about belief, brevity & hope — and impact. A mix of things he prepped for and things he could never have prepped for, both superb. (cc @thehopeguy.bsky.social )

When we launched this campaign, we said we wanted to knock on one million doors across the five boroughs by the June primary. Some people laughed. You got to work. We hit 1.6 million. In the general, we said let's do it again. Another million. We just passed three.

Incredible courage in the face of indescribable suffering. A women's film festival held in the rubble of Gaza. By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...

www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

Duterte was certain he would never be arrested, just as Milošević and others before him were also sure. Trump’s ‘They’re going to be, like, dead, OK?’ is reminiscent of Duterte’s boast that ‘the fish will grow fat’ in Manila Bay. First rule of justice: never say never.

A surveillance camera captured the moment a Russian strike hit a Kyiv resident’s apartment on Oct. 22. The strike killed two and injured 29 in the city, and several fires broke out. Video: Tetyana Kotelenets

Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

Beyond chilling & far too relevant. Required departure “before 3rd February, 1940”. wow

This is indeed brilliant — a series of superb haikus, each revealing in its own way

My latest report from eastern #Ukraine with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social. In August Russia seized a chain of villages near Dobropillia. Since then Ukraine has taken much of this salient back. It's a modest success - proof, Kyiv claims, that it isn't losing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Fab image, Rostock 2007!, on a creative-protest book cover of mine in… 2016, by Fabien Bimmer @apnews.com

This is not a story of two sides finally finding peace. It is a story of two peoples who will wake up tomorrow under two very different skies: one free to heal, the other trapped in the ruins Nagham Zbeedat www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims” The list of 18,457 children killed in Gaza: a poignant, humanizing, & heart-breaking investigation👇 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The NY Times interviewed 700 people from Gaza over the last two years. Its journalists tried to find what happened to them. Impressive. Humanist journalism at its best www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bravo.

Can always rely on @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social to say what needs saying and say it well on occasions such as these www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Did you know that for the past 25 years, there's a law that's been quietly defending your rights every day? That's the Human Rights Act at work Happy Birthday to the HRA 🎉

Looking forward to Henley Literary Festival on Monday — a chance to discuss justice at a crucial time

Nadine is correct and this Palestinian wants nothing, whatsoever, to do with you or your performative bs “solidarity”. You’re a repugnant rotter and a stain on our just cause. Our suffering is not your springboard to dismiss, excuse and “what-about” the legitimate pain, suffering and fears of Jews

Are you in Marlborough or area? Come join us for discussions on justice and what can/must be achieved — key moment for this (and lots of other great stuff) at @marlboroughlitfest.bsky.social

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Three things that must change w Canada's recognition of Palestine, which is also true for the 🇬🇧, 🇫🇷 & 🇦🇺: 1️⃣ No more opposition to the #ICC investigation or warrants in relation to Gaza; their legal opposition was based on their view that Palestine wasn't a state. That must now be over.

How truly amazing. Helping a respected charity for free is now seen as a CRITICISM?! Beyond extraordinary.

UN Gaza #genocide report makes clear: it is extraordinary that governments which created #ICC to punish worst crimes now fail to stand up for that same court. Dangerous and wrong — me in Guardian

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Thank you! @anneapplebaum.bsky.social for sharing and for earlier kind words. Out this week in the U.S., available (hopefully) in all good bookshops. Polish, German and Arabic editions all on the way — but/and a book about battles for justice will hopefully feel relevant for American readers, too

Book now to see @valentinelow.bsky.social 'The Power & the Palace' @headlinebooks.bsky.social event sponsor #AdamMatthewGroup and #AndewZiminski 'Church Going' @profilebooks.bsky.social and @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social 'Prosecuting the Powerful' @hachetteuk.bsky.social Tickets: bit.ly/3V3goBC