With horrific overnight airstrikes killing mostly Palestinian women & children trapped in a displacement camp in #Rafah ,the State of Israel continues to violate international law with impunity and in contempt of an ICJ ruling two days ago ordering an end to its military action in

Eventually everyone will say they were against the #Gaza Genocide. Even the enablers, the justifiers, the fence-sitters, and the perpetrators themselves.

'What have we not proclaimed loud and clear! What have we not done in the opposite direction?' Excellent speech by Moussa Faki Mahamat on #AfricanUnion suspensions, subsidiarity, and PSC reforms. au.int/en/speeches/re…

Rare these days: Praise from the Global South for European foreign policy decisions. Djibouti congratulates Spain, Norway and Ireland for their recognitions as 'an important step on the path to the two-state solution'.

Job alert! For our ENSURED project on global governance transformation, I am hiring a PostDoc/Research Fellow at the EUI The Robert Schuman Centre Political and Social Sciences at EUI. Please spread the word.

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African Union Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat welcomes the Int'l Criminal Court prosecutor's recent decision to seek arrest warrants against #Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו and Defence Minister יואב גלנט - Yoav Gallant over the war on #Gaza , describing the move as 'logical' and 'overdue'.

Global Security Forum

UvA Faculty Reject Police Violence Against Our Students! 🇵🇸🍉❤️✊🏼

On May 13 at 11am staff from UvA, VU & AUC will walk out in Amsterdam, and in other NL unis nation-wide. We are appalled at police violence unleashed at students protesting genocide. And at the 'neutral' stance our unis invoke while collaborating with complicit ISR institutions.

EU split:

14 Yes: BE, CY*, DK, EE, FR, GR, IE, LU, MT*, PL*, PT, SK*, SI, ES

11 Abstained: AT, BG*, HR, FI, DE, IT, LV, LT, NL, RO*, SE*

2 No: CZ*, HU*

*Countries that already recognise Palestine as a state

How did the #AfricanGroup vote on #Palestine enhanced rights/privileges today? Not a single 'No' vote, and overall more pro-Palestine than on the ceasefire resolution in December (A/ES-10/L.27).

Gilad Erdan's on-stage shredding of the UN Charter today is illustrative, but in different ways than he hopes. To make matters worse, so very reminiscent of Qadhafi 2009's ripping up and throwing around of the Charter.

Israeli PR in GA is attempting to present Palestine resolution as a violation of Art. 4 of the UN Charter.
This is the reality ⬇️

1/ Call for Papers!
African leaders align with Palestine. This solidarity is rooted in shared experiences of colonial oppression and the pursuit of dignity and self-determination. opiniojuris.org/2024/05/07/unb…

Wonderful turnout by staff and students standing up for an UvA Amsterdam campus allowing the exercise of fundamental rights, and against violent police presence.

'The protest creates an unsafe situation', says Amsterdam police, while they did not help to protect the students from violent counter protestors. Pushing a barricade with an excavator toward the students, though, is obviously creating safety for them.

Whether in eastern DRC, Rafah, Sudan, or anywhere else: protect refugees! Timely AU statement on the neglected plight of internally displaced persons.

The idea that you become a terrorist by reading Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press: 2018) is one of the funniest and dumbest things I’ve ever come across

'The [UK government] booklet, a copy of which has been obtained by The Times, bears the title: “I’m being relocated to Rwanda. What does this mean for me?” The next page pinpoints Rwanda on a map of Africa' thetimes.co.uk/article/asylum…