Hey #Edmonton! The 2025 CBC Massey Lectures are on the road. We were a full house in Toronto last week. We are a full house in Vancouver this week. How about a full house in Edmonton next week? In tough times for human rights, coming together matters! Tickets: horowitzevents.ca/en/attending...

I am overflowing with gratitude and fortified by solidarity. Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World, the 2025 CBC Massey Lectures are on the road! Thank you Toronto! See you next in Vancouver, September 25.

“Change, even enormous change, is possible. That is – universally – up to us.” My op-ed in the @theglobeandmail.com as we launch the cross-Canada 2025 CBC Massey Lectures tour. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Imagine, If You Will: At UNGA 80, Canada Re-Commits to Universal Human Rights Building on the theme I explore in this year's Massey Lectures, writing in @policymag.bsky.social, my offering to PM @mark-carney.bsky.social of his speech for the UN General Assembly.

UN: World Leaders Should Commit to Human Rights, International Justice

Two years too long. Two years of watching genocide unfold in Gaza. We band together in unison: We DO NOT support Canada in its complicity in Israel’s genocide. Sign the @oxfamcanada.bsky.social petition. Stop arming Israel: notinmyname.oxfam.ca #NotInMyName #FreePalestine #CeaseFireNOW

Just wrapped up cross-Canada CBC radio interviews on the UN Commission of Inquiry report documenting Israel's genocide in Gaza. This time, Canada must take the report seriously and act on the recommendations. No more empty laments & regrets @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social.

Iran: Impunity Reigns 3 Years After Crackdown on Protests www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

How many commissions, committees, experts, academics & human rights groups? How many voices from the ground in Gaza? How many - all naming, decrying & condemning genocide - will it take?

The 2025 CBC Massey Lectures kick off this Friday in Toronto! 📖 UNIVERSAL, by Alex Neve (@alexneve.bsky.social) is out now. Tickets to attend the CBC Massey Lectures are available to purchase here: www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

"Perhaps the most important root cause of the mass and illegal migration today is the abuse of refugee and asylum systems." -- Andrew Veprek, Trump's nominee to head State Department's Refugee Division Or maybe try: atrocities, war, repression, poverty & the climate crisis?

Enjoyed sitting down with Jessie-Lee Wallace for this piece in our wonderful neighbourhood paper, the Glebe Report, about the upcoming Massey Lectures. glebereport.ca/articles/ale...

Hey Toronto! I'm coming to town for Massey Lecture #1 on Friday, September 19th at 7 pm at Koerner Hall. Looking like it will be a very full house, but there are still some tickets available. Hope you can join us, and please spread the word to others. 1/2

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping. 1/3

How very much I enjoyed this rich exchange with Nahlah Ayed, exploring the themes of the Massey Lecture tour I’m about to embark upon. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Gaza. 23 months of genocide. More than one child killed every hour. Sit with that, hear that clock of death relentlessly ticking away the hours. 20,000 children, killed in 23 months. Ask yourself. Why have we not yet stopped this?

Humbled by generous review of my Massey Lectures book, Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World, in @quillandquire.bsky.social. Couldn't agree more that upholding human rights is a "responsibility incumbent on all people."

Blatantly illegal and an utter betrayal of good faith engagement in ceasefire talks. A government set on war & genocide, with no interest in peace & security. Once again I ask @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social: will there be consequences?

This is despicable, racist, cruel and an utter betrayal of any "claim" that DT seeks an end to genocide in Gaza, release of hostages and a peaceful resolution to the Israel/Palestine conflict. These sanctions must be repealed.

Everything that DT does should outrage, incense & terrify us. This truly should. His penchant for using the military for law enforcement is ramping up, now using lethal force for what are essentially summary executions. Where does it stop? Does it stop?

It is utter lunacy & beyond unconscionable that we continue to pretend all is fine for refugees in the US. Scrap the #STCA Lena Diab, Gary Anandasangaree, @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social, @mark-carney.bsky.social.

Of course he will.

Sending gratitude & solidarity to all taking part in the #SumudFlotilla.

DT’s flailing, chaotic, contemptuous & demeaning approach to international relations seems to be very effective at creating a chummy fraternity of human rights despots.

This is chilling & sinister. There is no place for antisemitic hate & violence anywhere. No one should ever feel fearful of going to the grocery store. Now more than ever we must all hold the universality of human rights tight.

Aside from the lunacy, cruelty & illegality of this, sit with the fact that there are people, somewhere, thinking these thoughts, making these plans & drawing these pictures. People putting a happy, prosperous face on genocide.

"The RSF is creating a literal kill box around El Fasher." Siege grows deadlier as Sudanese city faces expanding assault and looming starvation. Where is the outrage? Where is the Security Council? Where is global action?

Casts doubt on Russia's desire for peace? That would be the very definition of understatement.

While home for a summer break in St Andrews, sat down with CHCO's @vickihogarth.bsky.social to talk about the human rights concerns and solutions I explore in this year's Massey Lectures. Spoiler alert, the way forward is up to us and lies in solidarity, empowerment and refusing to be silent.

Despite Canada's empty words of lament & unconvincing condemnation, Israeli conduct only worsens (now no humanitarian pauses in Gaza City). When will there be tough, uncompromising action & consequences @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social?

There have been several moments along the Massey Lectures journey where it has all become very real and I have pinched myself. Having an advance copy of the book in my hands is likely the top of that list. 🧵⬇️ 1/5

We didn’t join other states expressing support for vital work of the ICC & now we are silent as Trump sanctions a Canadian judge on the court. @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social is this piteous DT appeasement or has Canada given up on international justice when we need it most?

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.” - 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

"US: Rights Report Mixes Facts, Deception, Political Spin" One more reason (not that we need more) to give absolutely no credence to anything that Team Trump says about the state of our world.

“Israel in talks with South Sudan about relocating Palestinians from Gaza”” I’d say unbelievable; but there is no longer anything beyond belief when it comes to Palestinian suffering & Israeli illegality in Gaza.

"All crossings & routes must be used to allow a flood of aid into Gaza." But the question remains, what ACTION will Canada take to make sure that "flood" happens in the face of starvation and genocide? Where are the consequences for Israel's contempt of int'l law @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social?

Gratitude to UR Pride & intervenors who put strong, clear rights arguments in front of Sask CA. The notwithstanding clause is odious, but courts must still speak out & make it clear when rights have been violated.

“Every day, children die; every day, this happens. What is our fault? Where should we go? Every day they tell us, ‘evacuate, evacuate, evacuate’. Do they want to expel us? I’m one of the people; where should I go with my wife & children?”

“Saudi authorities have weaponized the country’s justice system to carry out a terrifying number of executions in 2025. The surge in executions is just the latest evidence of the brutally autocratic rule of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.”

"As we have seen around the world, military takeover of local law enforcement is a harbinger of authoritarianism."

Thailand: Aid Cuts Put Myanmar Refugees at Grave Risk

“Just as we thought we had already seen the cruelest, most painful chapters of this #genocide unfold... plans to escalate the military operations in #GazaCity indicate that indeed the worst is yet to come." -- @agnescallamard.bsky.social @amnesty.org

When his thugs rampaged through the Capitol, assaulting guards, terrorizing members of Congress & trying to shut down peaceful transition of presidential power, National Guard did not cross his mind. 1/2

This targeted killing of #anasalsharif & four colleagues is outrageous, cruel & illegal. The predictable Israeli response: we killed him because he was Hamas. With absolutely no evidence, of course. > 200 journalists killed in #Gaza since Oct 7th.

No matter how much death or expanded military operations, Canada's line on #Gaza is the same: we condemn, but we impose precisely nothing. When will our words be met with action @mark-carney.bsky.social, @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social? When will we show we truly do abhor genocide?