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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Jul 29

Israel will not agree to a two-state solution so the UK may as well recognize Palestine now.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 29

Keir Starmer says UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution – UK politics live

Starmer says UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution – UK politics live

Downing Street has issues its readout of today’s cabinet meeting on Gaza.

www.theguardian.com

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Jul 28

B'Tselem: Our Genocide

youtube.com/watch?v=OngV...

OUR GENOCIDE

YouTube video by btselem

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to [email protected] by 7 July.

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · Jun 8

please please please no one write or publish a blog post on whether (and under which circumstances) Israel has the right to attack this vessel

Freedom Flotilla’s Madleen reaches Egypt, organisers say

Israeli media says activists face detention if they fail to comply with Israeli army orders.

www.aljazeera.com

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başak 🌺 @bashakito.bsky.social · Jun 4

I fucked around (sent abstracts) and found out (that I now have to write things)

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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · May 25

Whoever did that, knows academia far too well.

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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · May 23

We wrote a thing about academic silencing of Palestine within the (feminist/queer) refugee law community. Hope you enjoy the read 🍉

feministiqa.net/en/you-canno...

You cannot pinkwash genocide: Why the (queer) refugee law studies community should be talking about Palestine – and why it is not - Feministiqa

You cannot pinkwash genocide: Why the (queer) refugee law studies community should be talking about...

feministiqa.net

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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Apr 29

Also, well done #UniMiB for inviting them, but the constant misgendering was painful.

Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Apr 29

"... This is going on in the digital sphere - the right-wing imaginary is organized by its ability to achieve digital consensus. We have to build digitally conditioned imaginaries of resistance. [2/2]"

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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Apr 29

And suddenly being in academia kinda makes sense again.

#judithbutler

"There is no aspect of queer liberation that cannot be coopted and turned against us. We have to be ready for reappropriation... [1/2]"

Judith Butler holding a speech in a University hall.

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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Apr 7

Francesca Albanese's mandate as "UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967" has been renewed 💥

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Ana Luísa 🍉 @analuisab.bsky.social · Mar 31

If you share our concerns about travelling to the LSA in the current climate, please considering signing and sharing this open letter to the LSA Executive Committee.

docs.google.com/forms/d/1O2F...

docs.google.com

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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Mar 31

Biggest thing I will not miss about the global realignment away from the US: the whims of floating voters in swing states deciding the lives and deaths of villagers in South Sudan.

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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · Mar 28

In response to Poland's disproportionate, unnecessary & unlawful decision to temporarily suspend asylum,
@ec.europa.eu's silence speaks volumes.
@adrianatidona.bsky.social tells @euobserver.com the law does nothing to address border security, only penalizing refugees & migrants.

EU cites security in semi-endorsement of new Polish anti-asylum law

The European Commission appears to be endorsing a new Polish law that strips away the right to asylum for most people entering in from Belarus.

euobserver.com

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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · Mar 28

In the past months, I have been thinking a lot about the systematic suppression of freedom of expression worldwide.

Thanks to the NQHR for the opportunity to further elaborate some thoughts originally shared in a post published by the Geneva Graduate Institute

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Mar 20

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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Mar 10

I had not posted a quote by Francesca Albanese in a while, so here it is, this time for the bureaucrats.

Primo Levi, incidentally, was a Holocaust survivor who committed suicide because of survivor's guilt and because of what he saw as indifference to the horrors his people had gone through.

Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Mar 10

Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · Mar 9

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Mar 4

To you💓

Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Mar 3

Absolutely brilliant piece by @marinavelickovic.bsky.social on the current crisis in the discipline of international law (and many other things). I liked it so much that I even left what was surely the first and hopefully the last public comment in a blog.

Also, free Palestine.

This could have been a Tweet, or: On the politics of signing things

In the wake of the Iraq war, a group of international lawyers published an open letter in the Guardian, framing their opposition to the invasion in

criticallegalthinking.com

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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Feb 25

Absolutely can't get over the fact that Alice Wiedel is married to a Sri Lankan woman, has two kids and lives outside of Germany.

Oh yes, but no to migration, to non-traditional families, yes to nationalism.

Contradictions and hypocrises do no longer matter if you are a white fascist populist.

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Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Feb 25

This (and all the rest of the thread).

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Feb 23

I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.

Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Feb 24

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ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · Feb 24

❗Update: The Polish Parliament approved the law allowing the temporary suspension of the right to asylum under the current government's "new migration strategy".

Irene Manganini @irenemanganini.bsky.social · Feb 21

I pointed out that evoking the world’s most notorious criminal organization in the context of Israel might spark yet another diplomatic uproar. “Oh, yeah,” she replied. “Let me stir controversy. It’s good. People pay attention.”

Ancora una volta, signore e signori e signor3, Francesca Albanese🔥

In other words, Go to your room, Donald.

newrepublic.com

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