This post by @profmarkovic.bsky.social on @ejiltalk.bsky.social provides an excellent analysis of the legal standards applicable to the crime of genocide, and an important perspective on when it does and doesn’t apply - all media should read it!

Ireland commits to co-operate with new Troubles legacy body to deal with the past in Northern Ireland, but without consultation with victims can it succeed? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI could never replace my authors. But, without regulation, it will ruin publishing as we know it | Jonny Geller

Long-established laws of war are being ‘blatantly disregarded’, top UN official says

🤬 The FPV drone barely manages to hit the Russian Molniya drone, but in the end it captures a war crime by Putin's soldiers, a strike on a civilian vehicle and the deliberate killing of civilians in the Kramatorsk area of ​​the Donetsk region.

Ros Atkins on... Israel's war in #Gaza and proportionality www.bbc.com/news/article...

In case they visit the US, 18 U.S. Code § 2441. Not now, but in the future DOJ HRSP may have the appetite.

Last week I told @npr.org that there’s a word for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict: murder. None of the Trump administration’s weak justifications for the lethal strike in the Caribbean have dissuaded me from applying that label here. www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n...

Mark Nevitt, former naval line officer and JAG writes: "Applying a new label to an old problem does not transform the problem itself – nor does it grant the U.S. president or the U.S. military expanded legal authority to kill civilians." www.justsecurity.org/119985/label...

Northern Ireland’s courts may deliver long-awaited answers — and perhaps accountability — for survivors and bereaved families of the conflict from 1969 to 1998, write @dooleydooley.bsky.social and @suchitauppal.bsky.social: www.justsecurity.org/120044/septe...

“Gaza’s famine is man-made. And those who are making it happen are doing their best to conceal their crime. The Israeli government is reading from the same playbook as many architects of calamity from the past 100 years.” - must read, by Alex de Waal 👇 observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

"Only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence" "Those jailed for long periods without charge or trial include medical workers, teachers, civil servants, media workers, writers, sick and disabled people and children."

See the event page here: www.reparationsresearch.eu/lectures/see...

Experts tell BBC Verify US ‘drug boat’ strike may have broken international law www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Seeking Reparations in an Age of Impunity - Register to attend our next hybrid lecture by Prof. @lukemoffett.bsky.social about #reparations in an age where progress on redressing the past is witnessing a rollback. 📅 16 September, 1pm CET 📍 UvA Anthropology C5.00 & online ➡️ More info & registration:

The deadly toll on journalists in the #Gaza war with at least 189 journalists killed www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Millions in EU funds have gone to Israeli defence industry, investigation finds

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

The double tap strike on Gaza hospital that killed multiple journalists was targeting… a Hamas camera, says the IDF. Not a terrorist. Not a fighter. A fucking camera. The world has lost its way if those responsible aren’t punished for this absurd atrocity. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Opnion: Why are there so many butterflies this season? The reason may be darker than you think

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in #Gaza war - closer to the genocide in Srebrenica of 92% than the war in Ukraine (10%) www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

At least 18 killed and dozens injured in separate Colombia attacks, including a drone attack against a police helicopter that killed 12 people outside Medellin www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The slaughter of villagers goes on in eastern Congo, despite the peace process. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

❗️⚠️ Unexploded cluster munitions from Russian missiles are scattered all over Kremenchuk.

Senior RSF commander killed by Sudanese military drone strike A senior commander of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has been killed in a military drone strike, according to Middle East Monitor via RT on August 14th. According to a military source, the strike targeted a convoy…

Following a joint investigation between +972 Magazine, @mekomit, and The Guardian, Microsoft launches inquiry, says use of its cloud technology to store millions of intercepted calls would breach terms of service. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Important investigative report - applications for apartheid arrest warrants for Ben Gvir & Smotrich were ready for submission when Karim Khan stepped aside - months later, ICC sources say his deputies have not filed the applications due to threat of US sanctions www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-arr...

The Incredible Disappearing Human Rights Reports The State Department’s new reports whitewash the records of some of the world’s most notorious nations and targets Trump’s enemies. theintercept.com/2025/08/14/s...

Israeli airstrikes on Tehran killed inmates in ‘apparent war crime’ – HRW report, there were no military objectives at the prison with the attack killing 80 civilians. Iranian authorities then abused the survivors www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

'A betrayal of Peruvian victims' #Peru president issues amnesty for hundreds accused of atrocities, which could halt or overturn more than 600 pending trials and 156 convictions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The IDF bombed a tent full of journalists in the courtyard of a hospital, killing seven people. Seven fewer witnesses to the slaughter to come.

"The Times of Israel has learned that the Justice Ministry is refraining from putting such positions in writing, and that harsh legal opinions ... have been shelved and not passed upward. Instead, a permissive, willfully blind approach is being adopted."

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al Jazeera reporting that four of its staff have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a tent in Gaza city. The already appalling death toll of journalists in Gaza grows higher. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

A must read - ‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam as UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The obliteration of Gaza. Photo by @alessiomamo.bsky.social

Report on sexual violence in #Tigray #Ethiopia in 2020-22 conflict finds rape, forced pregnancies, intention to prevent births, by Eritrean miltiary. Lack of accountability for these crimes only led to more atrocity crimes committed. #SGBV continues today. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/07...

Hiroshima anniversary: mayor says Ukraine and Middle East crises show world ignoring nuclear ‘tragedies’ - On 80th anniversary of atomic bombing, Kazumi Matsui urges younger people to recognise ‘inhumane’ consequences of nuclear weapons as a deterrent www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

In this post on @opiniojuris.bsky.social, I walk through the components of the legal definition of #genocide and apply the actions on the ground in #Gaza to these components, to answer the question 'Is genocide happening in Gaza?'. opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/i...

The latest Transitional Justice Institute seminar: “An Omni-crisis in International Law: Iran, Israel, and Gaza.” Insightful discussion—highly recommended for anyone interested in current events! youtu.be/xwYc7c6P89Y?...

There needs to be a ceasefire *and* a Palestinian state. Recognising Palestine isn’t a punishment for Israel. It’s about the Palestinian right to self-determination. Starmer’s approach suggests Palestinians can either have a ceasefire or a state—and that it is Israel that will make the decision.

At home, in school and in hospital: how hundreds of Ukrainian children are dying in Russian attacks

We have proposed to partially suspend Israel's participation to Horizon Europe, specifically concerning the participation of entities established in Israel in activities funded under the Accelerator of the European Innovation Council (EIC). Read more: europa.eu/!tpyHr6

Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel accuse Israel of genocide in #Gaza, not simply incidental harm caused by war, but an intentional policy to wipe out in whole or in part Palestinians www.bbc.com/news/article...

⚡️ 23 killed, 54 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day. Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 37 Shahed-type attack drones and decoy drones and fired two Iskander-M ballistic missiles overnight.

2/ The Presidents' letter: "According to the considered judgments of prominent legal experts within Israel ... these proposals would constitute serious violations of international law, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity." Here's the apparent referent (Israeli scholars' letter)

"In my entire career, I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population... Without question I witnessed war crimes by the IDF." - former worker at GHF aid site: www.bbc.com/news/videos/...