Yes, I think this is right, too.

Thanks to @mesa1966.bsky.social Committee on Academic Freedom for this letter, detailing how the Israeli military "destroyed the university’s main gates and raided the campus during formal hours of instruction while more than 8,000 students were present..." and then "opened fire indiscriminately."

I was in Doha on Jan 6, eating lunch with a group of researchers from across the region. My attention was on news coming out of Yemen, not on Birzeit. But one of my colleagues was from Birzeit, and he must have wondered why we weren't talking about his campus. Or maybe he didn't wonder. 2/n

This year has made clear, however, that TPS is a crude instrument - it provides blanket relief in times of crisis, but also produces blanket vulnerability when categorically withdrawn. Individuals are owed individual consideration of their circumstances, as a central feature of due process.

And then I was reading today's new collection from @pomeps.bsky.social marking one year since the fall of Assad in Syria and saw @hyyppati.bsky.social's essay on decentralization, and how exciting to see the connection to Thaler's work there, too!

The main case studies are from Nicaragua, Liberia, and Uganda, and my seminar has been discussing whether the argument could (or should) extend to cases like Houthi-held areas of Yemen or Somaliland. Rich fuel for discussion.

I'm totally kidding. It's because I read too quickly and there was a definite article in the original text that I missed. It said "run by *the* US-designated terrorist group" but I have been reading all day and I read too fast. Language. It means stuff.

Maybe it's because the WSJ's Africa editor and MENA editor didn't check with each other? 4/

Maybe the difference is because there's an internationally-recognized GoY that has been displaced but still has access to means of self-representation and can challenge the Houthis' ability to self-present as being in control of "Yemen" as a whole. 3/

Is it because the Houthis only control part of the country? (When AQAP had de facto territorial control in Hadramawt for a year in 2015-2016 it attracted less attention, I think, than either of these cases, but I could be wrong.) 2/