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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 3d

The Home Secretary is now planning to find a way to criminalise the "cumulative effect" of protest.

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 8d

On this day, Sept 30 2000, Muhammad al-Durra was killed on camera.

I was 9 years old. On this day I understood the lives of Palestinian children were considered cheap by many.

If only we knew that we would go on to watch thousands of children die on our screens.

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Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 8d

Terrifying: U.S. Deports Planeload of Iranians After Deal With Tehran, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/w...

U.S. Deports Planeload of Iranians After Deal With Tehran, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 13d

They heard me

Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 16d

Recognition of Palestine is welcome, but the time has come for more direct measures. States should consider e.g. naval escorts for the Sumud flotilla. Israel has no legal right to block humanitarian aid while committing genocide.

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René Rusch @renerusch.bsky.social · 18d

Itamar Mann, Professor at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law:

“The only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide.“

LTO asked eleven international experts, if Israel is commiting Genocide. Outcome: 9x yes, 2x not sure (2025/08/15)

International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?

Does Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.

www.lto.de

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 15d

Trump speech reminded me of Ronald Dworkin's old quip that drawing lots may be better than voting for the selection of public officials.

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 16d

Recognition of Palestine is welcome, but the time has come for more direct measures. States should consider e.g. naval escorts for the Sumud flotilla. Israel has no legal right to block humanitarian aid while committing genocide.

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 18d

Hiroshima paradigm (popular myth): the greater the violence a government uses, the quicker it is able to end hostilities.

Gaza paradigm (hypothesis): the greater the violence a government uses, the longer the hostilities will end up lasting.

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 22d

Hannah Arendt predicted the Sparta direction I think as early as 1944. Netanyahu agrees with both of you.

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 22d

Suicidal Cultural Genocide in “Super Sparta”: substack.com/@itamarmann/...

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 23d

Watch this interview with Dr. Mohammed Saqr. As Israeli tanks push tonight into Gaza City, the South Part of the Strip, where he is located, is projected to become even more crowded with displaced people who have lost everything.

www.democracynow.org/2025/9/15/mo...

“Shame on Humanity”: Gaza Doctor Pleads with World to Stop Israel’s Genocide

As Israel continues its campaign to erase Gaza City by systematically bombing residential buildings, schools, homes and tent encampments, we speak with Dr. Mohammed Saqr, the director of nursing at Na...

www.democracynow.org

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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 24d

“The decision to blow up the boat and kill everyone onboard when interdiction and detention was a clearly available option is manifestly illegal and immoral" -- sad have to make such an obvious point, but here we are.

Read the whole piece: www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/p...

Analysis: Trump claims he can do anything he wants with the military. Here’s what the law says | CNN Politics

Having rebranded the Department of Defense as the Department of War, the president is going on offense with the US military.

www.cnn.com

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 24d

I think that’s an old assumption going back eg to Hobbes, and (not necessarily relatedly) also quite central to Nazi political theory. Trying to push against it. I understand that you are not convinced.

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 25d

Reflecting on what it means to research & teach international law in an Israeli university today, while spending time away from my home institution & academic community. Grateful to Völkerrechtsblog for inviting me to share these early thoughts. voelkerrechtsblog.org/who-gets-to-...

Who Gets to Speak in the Israeli University?

voelkerrechtsblog.org

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Martin Glasenapp @martinglasenapp.bsky.social · 26d

"The banality of evil in the Gaza war is not embodied in malicious individuals but in the routine work of jurists who authorized orders for air strikes that have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians while relying on International Humanitarian Law."
www.haaretz.com/magazine/202...

They studied law, opposed Netanyahu – and now approve Israeli army's mass killings in Gaza

For Years, the Israeli Army's Military Advocate General's Corps Sought to Assure the World, and Itself, That Its Legal Oversight Prevented Worse Outcomes in Wartime. Today, That Claim Rings Hollow

www.haaretz.com

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 29d

Market likes hubris

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · Sep 8

For a long term we have been observing how the sovereignty of weak states in the global south has been instrumentalized for population management. But this

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · Sep 6

Recommended reading for anyone thinking about international law.

Tooze describes the market as a kind of expected enforcer of global governance. But if the latter has no rules, enforcement too is out of the question.

Interesting absence of climate, an alternative candidate for world punisher.

Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Sep 6

if there’s a polycrisis but markets don’t care, does it make a difference?

archive.ph/2025.09.06-0...

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Sep 4

My government is now sanctioning three leading Palestinian human rights groups:

(1) Al Haq Law in the Service of Mankind;

(2) Al Mezan Center for Human Rights;

(3) Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Utterly disgraceful.

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · Aug 29

As a boy, I was told the world would be better when I grew up. Raising kids, I shield them from how much worse it will be when they do.

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · Aug 29

The next head or “Ra‘is“ (رئيس) to be exact, a term most associated in this context with Arafat after Oslo.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Aug 29

!! According to Haaretz (Amos Harel), Ron Dermer (Netanyahu's confidant and chief negotiator on Gaza) refers to Blair as the next governor of Gaza.

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Aug 28

The future of Gaza should be decided by the population of Gaza.
Anything else is colonialism
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · Aug 27

New investigation by @borderforensics.bsky.social out, especially relevant against the backdrop of racist violence in Lausanne.

www.borderforensics.org/investigatio...

www.borderforensics.org

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Joris van de Riet @jorisvanderiet.bsky.social · Aug 27

Carl Schmitt's theory of war is really funny because it amounts to "liberalism leads to moralism which leads to total war in an attempt to outlaw war - unlike my theory of 'invading other countries just because you want to' which has definitely never led to total war or atrocities"

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Aug 26

German arms exports to Israel have been the subject of debate for some time.

But what about Israeli arms exports to Germany?

ALON SAHAR (@alonsahar.bsky.social) and ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) on the political and legal risks of arms imports from Israel.

verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · Aug 27

Merz recognised the need to limit arms exports to Israel. Less attention is given to arms imports—just as important in policy & legal terms. 🇩🇪 should review and cease illegal arms purchases from a government engaging in genocide.

New w/ @alonsahar.bsky.social

verfassungsblog.de/the-other-si...

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