Israeli scholar of the Holocaust Omer Bartov عومر بَرتوف עמר ברטוב argues that accusations of antisemitism levied at campus protests against Israel's occupation of Palestine are disingenuous.

“There’s nothing threatening about opposing occupation or oppression.'

One area of contention for this week's #PandemicAgreement negotiations is the phrase 'Mutually Agreed Terms' (MAT). This phrase is common in international biodiversity law.

🧵Here's a short thread on why MAT may be suitable for biodiversity but not for intellectual property.

Deliberately sensationalist and inaccurate article from the Telegraph pandering to uninformed populace on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing. British companies gain profit not just from selling to British govt but to foreign buyers - 20% of the production line of vaccines

Great to be in Geneva at the final negotiation round of the pandemic treaty #INB9 as part of the Africa CDC delegation. Difficult week ahead on key areas.

Liberal Zionists like Bernie Sanders are scrambling to scapegoat Netanyahu for the genocide in Gaza.

In doing so, they can obscure from the reality- that it is a massive, globally complicit apparatus that has enabled the Israeli regime to continue so violently & unabated in

There also seems to be a misunderstanding as to the effects of “on mutually agreed terms” vis-a-vis intellectual property and technology transfer in Art. 11(2). This terminology means that capacity building for technology transfer would have to be negotiated with global north

The Pandemic Fund’s governance is insufficiently inclusive to represent African interests. It has Rwanda, Senegal, and Egypt on its board out of 54 African countries. The Pandemic Fund cannot in its current format constitute the fund for the Pandemic Accord. There are other

How is it possible for this direct call to genocide by Israel’s Finance Minister to still be up on this platform and for his account not to have been banned?

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she is cleaning her house

Hero!

The fact that the U.S. government has sent expired Skittles to Gaza sounds very much like a certain Global North government who sent close-to-expiry vaccines to Africa and proclaimed “why should they care? Africans live in huts.” Very illustrative of the mindset, and a very

The Global South now repays more in debt than it gets in grants & loans. This is beyond all reason.
devex.com/news/global-so…

Dr Fifa A Rahman We asked similar questions in this piece for PLOS Global Public Health journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

Yes Ncuti!! Not just in entertainment, but in global health. Grinds my gears at how absolutely excellent Black women are passed over for jobs in favourite of mediocre white men.

Dr Fifa A Rahman what existing protections would be obscured, neutered or lost entirely, if they acceded to such an unbalanced agreement?