This is only marginally more insane than the Bush admins invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. That invasion was also unlawful under intl law but the good ol Congress decided to make it legal under US law by passing the 2002 AUMF. Here there isn’t even that www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

“My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded and legs shackled. Then they released the dogs on us, each weighing around 80 or 90 kilos. You fall on your head while blindfolded, and your body starts spinning. One or two of the soldiers come and start kicking you with their...

The NY Times is taking its renowned skills at writing obfuscating headlines & applying c it to the Trump admin’s illegal assassination campaign against civilians in boats. You’d think from these headlines the boats had no ppl on them when they were “destroyed” but, actually, 14 ppl were killed.

France urges Israel to comply with international law in line with UN court’s advisory opinion

Looks like Julia Sebutinde continues to believe God has chosen her to save Israel by just making shit up about intl law bsky.app/profile/drme...

The cases relating to Palestine at the ICJ are going to build on 1 another. It was already likely ICJ was going to conclude Israel was committing genocide in Gaza in the South Africa case. Seems like this adv op has made that as close to 💯 certain as it could bsky.app/profile/drme...

The ICJ has now said what so many have been saying for months - that Israel has NOT proven that UNRWA’s employees are “Hamas” and that the org - which continues to be blocked from entering Gaza by Israel - is vital to providing aid to the Strip. bsky.app/profile/drme...

The ICJ is issuing its UNRWA advisory op today. Follow Melanie for a play by play of the decision which is being read now. bsky.app/profile/drme...

Looks like the court is making some very helpful statements about the immunities of UN subsidiaries like UNRWA, as well as UN officials and experts. This is important given efforts by private parties & US govt to strip UNRWA, Francesca Albanese, and others of this immunity bsky.app/profile/drme...

Looks like the ICJ rightly slammed the Gaza Humanitarian Fund as being a ruse that did nothing to alleviate Israel’s legal duties to provide aid to Gaza and instead hurt the people of Gaza bsky.app/profile/drme...

ICJ torches Israel's notion of 'voluntary' transfer: It observes that individual or mass population transfer are prohibited and that transfer may be "forceable" not only due to use of physical force, but also when population has no choice but to leave due to resulting conditions.

'The court finds that the local population has been inadequately supplied and that Israel has obligation to provide humanitarian provisions. The court notes that there is no evidence that UNRWA has breached the principle of impartiality'

The ICJ finds that Israel as an occupying power and based on 4th Geneva Convention and customary convention has obligation to protect the civilian population, even under conditions of active fighting.

This is insane, the US-Israel are effectively trying to create an alternative to the UN. They're calling it the "civilian-military coordination center." It's been established in Israel & is basically overseeing all things related to Gaza, bringing in other countries etc. apnews.com/article/mide....

Well the Trump admin has apparently charged so-called members of “Antifa” - which isnt even a group - w/material support for terrorism, which doesn’t exist as a federal charge for domestic groups, let alone non-existent ones. The imperial boomerang is coming hard and fast apple.news/AKjoMnscgSVW...

Horrifying and unsurprising at the same time.

Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social fled the country with his family after receiving death threats amid a right-wing campaign targeting him for his scholarship on antifa.

This is an important piece even if there is little hope that many law scholars in the US will heed its call - especially if they haven’t already. The navel gazing is painfully real & enduring even in this moment hrhttps://bsky.app/profile/evanbernick.bsky.social/post/3m3adm2yoq22a

Pretty sure no one who works on Palestine - we are amongst the most vulnerable and threatened - is getting any of these fellowships from the state that has taken some of the most repressive actions against anyone advocating for the rights & freedom of the Palestinian ppl bsky.app/profile/brad...

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot. The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

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IDF is still shooting people in Gaza

Also the illegal and criminal and immoral strikes against Venezuelan civilians in boats. The “shock doctrine” of committing these criminal strike, of kidnapping and terrorizing immigrants (and frankly anyone who is black or brown) quickly, at scale is normalizing all this bsky.app/profile/unra...

No, seriously, he said this. had to watch the clip to be sure and then watch it again

U can know the work is just beginning but also be awestruck that this diabolical phase of genocide is actually maybe over. I can’t believe it’s finally happened. I can’t cry anymore after 2 yrs of this horror, but the lump in my throat is catching my breath for the first time in a long time.

Trump made comments on Air Force One about the “long-term” solution in Palestine as “some people like the one state solution, some people like the two state solution” and said he hadn’t taken a public position on the issue. Lol what?!! 🤣🤯

This is such a moment of mixed joy and anxiety for the people of Palestine, but, one clear piece of good news: the genocidal, death-trap, known as the Gaza "Humanitarian" Foundation, is being dismantled and removed from the Gaza Strip, according to @aljazeera.com. Alhamdulliah

With a few quotes from me www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

We live in a world in which major world leaders have come to the conclusion that Trump can be manipulated like a 3-year-old with offers of a candy bar... and they're right, too. bsky.app/profile/odra...

Displaced Palestinians return to their hometown of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, following the gradual withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces to agreed-upon lines in the Gaza Strip.

Apropos of nothing Bluesky sucks

Can someone PLEASE explain to me Trump’s deluded obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Please. This is NOT NORMAL. Is it competition with Obama, the drone-president-in-chief? What’s the angle?

If UNRWA isnt allowed in, there’s no helping Gaza at scale, at the speed & efficiency needed. Only UNRWA can deliver. It’s unclear UNRWA will be allowed in, given Israel’s war on the org & the US’s willingness to go along with that campaign. Support UNRWA. Don’t let the bullies win. www.unrwausa.org

This isnt an end to genocide. This isnt “peace.” This is the most hegemonic, coercive project stripping Palestinians of their most basic rts, inc their right to self-determination. Still, Palestinians need a reprieve. This must & should end. Still, this ending is coerced and unlawful under intl law

Watching countries - & outlets like Al Jazeera English - fawn over Trump's "peace deal," which is little more than genocidal coercion, stripping Palestinians of their rt to self-determination is utterly disgusting. Palestinians had no choice. "Death or _" is not a defensible negotiating tactic.

The work is just beginning.

This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world. Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:

Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif announcing the last ceasefire in January 2025. He was an icon and a hero. Israel assassinated him in August - one of over 300 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in the last 2 years. May god bless his soul. May he be announcing this ceasefire in heaven.

If this ceasefire proceeds according to the 20-pt Trump/Netanyahu plan, it will be a new British Mandate - with war criminal Tony Blair at the helm - with intl actors, esp Israel, controlling everything that happens in Gaza. This is not a peace deal. It is subjugation coerced through genocide.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

The emperor is stark raving naked

Is there a text of this “ceasefire” deal anyone has seen??

Hard to believe the genocide is over - there have been ceasefires before all of which Israel has broken - and it will certainly continue thru the starvation and disease Israel has unleashed. But looks like there’s a ceasefire now

2 years of genocide

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately. The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities. She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

Is the irony of the president’s friend buying something called “the free press” and immediately installing a government truth compliance officer lost on everybody?

The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."

Am reading Judge Young's decision in AAUP v. Rubio - a case about the government's ideological deportation policy against pro-Palestine non-citizens. There are just so many drop dead important lines. Here r a few: "ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence." /n