the british didn’t understand what brexit meant for their economy. but they wanted it, they voted for it, and they’ve gotten it. now it’s the americans’ turn.

In what world is this kind of barbarity ignored by officials and much of the international media? The Israelis commit a massacre of civil defense workers in Gaza, then try to cover the crime up with bulldozers. The slaughter continues, amid global silence: theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

"If your principles apply only to your opponents, then they are not humanitarian principles". This is a very simple message; everyone understands it. It is also why Europe is loosing its normative position in the world, and why int'l rule of law looks increasingly hollow to many

New joint research project by DK law departments: Sustainability * law (public, private). Equipping lawyers to partake in the green transition! At RUC Lukas Bogner and I will analyse the politics of sustainability law at WTO. linkedin.com/posts/linegiss…

Israel must immediately resume the flow of aid into Gaza, and all nations worldwide must pressure Israel in every way possible to compel it to do so | Haaretz Editorial haaretz.com/opinion/editor…

“Today people are not surviving in Gaza,” says OCHA OPT (Palestine) office head Jonathan Whittall . “Those that aren’t being killed with bombs and bullets are slowly dying.” UN humanitarians call for immediate lifting of blockade to save lives ⬇️⬇️⬇️. #Gaza #UN news.un.org/en/story/2025/…

If only the world would normalize justice, the way it has violence. Stunning silence in response to Israel's explicit announcement to complete its genocidal plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its people and occupy (even more) Palestinian land permanently. #Gaza #Nakba

FT: US and European ctrs "should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity". This is what protesters and intellectuals have long argued. Regeringen

Even The Economist, which spent the first year of the assault on Gaza cheering the Israelis on, now admits the likely casualties are much higher than the estimates archive.ph/2025.05.09-005…

Namibia honoured the victims of mass killings during German colonial rule with an inaugural memorial day on Wednesday, as politicians and affected communities voiced fresh calls for reparations from Berlin. reuters.com/world/africa/n…

"similar to how Netanyahu propped up Hamas as a counterweight to the PA, he is now helping establish a new [jihadist] armed force as a counterweight to Hamas."

William Dalrymple The bit that makes my head spin is that, even if the evidence was not obvious, the ICJ demanded specifically that monitoring bodies and mandated institutions be allowed access to Gaza to observe compliance. Israel has completely ignored this, of course. And it's never mentioned.

Our panel at #ECAS Prague: Using disaster management and 'everyday humanitarianism' as a lens to understand Tanzanian state-society relations. Disaster may illuminate relations and structures which are ordinarily hidden. Commodifying Compassion

"We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range," said one soldier. "But there's no danger to the forces" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

A ceasefire deal – which we urgently need – is just the beginning. It must be the start of a new path that ends the occupation and bloodshed on this land. Listen to Sondos Saleh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Standing Together leader, at an anti-war protest on Saturday.

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.GLAN | Global Legal Action Network joined 110 other orgs to alert the world that Gaza stands at a horrific precipice - a prison camp surrounded on all sides by aid - experiencing mass death through intentional starvation by Israel. Our colleagues & those we serve are wasting away theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

FT: ft.com/content/acb611…

"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

As transitional justice is a global standard f addressing past & ongoing harms, it matters what gets included as an appropriate & relevant object of redress. New article: "Calling for Inclusion": Negotiating Boundaries in the Transitional Justice Script. muse.jhu.edu/article/965926