📣 Documenting & Challenging EU Border Violence
Thurs 9 Oct 2025, 1pm
MUSSI Seminar Room (+ online)
@mu-ssi.bsky.social
with
Charles Heller @borderforensics.bsky.social
Niamh Keady-Tabbal @maynoothlaw.bsky.social
Hanaa Hakiki @ecchr.bsky.social
Register: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Thurs 9 Oct 2025, 1pm
MUSSI Seminar Room (+ online)
@mu-ssi.bsky.social
with
Charles Heller @borderforensics.bsky.social
Niamh Keady-Tabbal @maynoothlaw.bsky.social
Hanaa Hakiki @ecchr.bsky.social
Register: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
self-proclaimed “fully paid-up member of the neoimperialist gang” Niall Ferguson
+
wanted war criminal Yoav Gallant
performing a Bush/Blair tribute act and beating more war drums
+
wanted war criminal Yoav Gallant
performing a Bush/Blair tribute act and beating more war drums
by John Reynolds — Reposted by: Cathryn Costello
600 days into genocide why tf was Britain in talks with Israel for a trade deal in the first place?
on 'Law, Social Transformation and the Third World' with @vijayprashad.bsky.social @tricontinental.bsky.social
this coming Wednesday, link to register here: twailr.com/law-social-t...
this coming Wednesday, link to register here: twailr.com/law-social-t...
Important interventions from Francesca Albanese in Maynooth last night on the nature of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Ireland's role and response, the responsibilities of our universities & much more.
+ her interview on RTÉ radio this morning: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
+ her interview on RTÉ radio this morning: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Join us in Maynooth on Wed 19th March with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese @afp-ire.bsky.social @trocaire.bsky.social
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
new TWAIL Review dialogue piece — a roundtable reflection on a reading group on Palestine / a tribute to Palestinian scholars who have enriched our understanding of international law's impacts and failures in response to the Palestinian struggle twailr.com/reading-pale...
Reading Palestine: A Roundtable Dialogue
A roundtable discussion involving Sumedha Choudhury, Julia Dehm, André Dao, Haris Jamil, Richard Joyce, Adil Hasan Khan, Tanvee Nandan, Dianne Otto and Saika Sabir, expressing their indebtedness to…
twailr.com
Keir Starmer pledges to close legal 'loophole' which allowed Palestinians to be counted as human www.bbc.com/news/article...
Keir Starmer pledges to close loophole that let Gazan family settle in UK
The family won an appeal to come to the UK, after originally applying through a scheme for Ukrainians.
www.bbc.com
"if you’re shocked by Trump’s comments about Gaza then you simply haven’t been paying attention. There are hundreds of documented statements from high-profile Israeli figures calling for the complete destruction of Gaza"
The Guardian
@theguardian.com
· Feb 6
Trump’s Gaza remarks are no surprise: ethnically cleansing was always the plan | Arwa Mahdawi
If Trump executes his plans, it’s because the media helped pave the way. It’s beyond time for more of my colleagues to speak up
“They make a desert and call it peace,” said Tacitus, paraphrasing Calgacus.
Israel, meanwhile, has made a graveyard of Gaza,…
www.theguardian.com
Reposted by: John Reynolds
Trump’s Gaza remarks are no surprise: ethnically cleansing was always the plan | Arwa Mahdawi
Trump’s Gaza remarks are no surprise: ethnically cleansing was always the plan | Arwa Mahdawi
If Trump executes his plans, it’s because the media helped pave the way. It’s beyond time for more of my colleagues to speak up
“They make a desert and call it peace,” said Tacitus, paraphrasing Calgacus.
Israel, meanwhile, has made a graveyard of Gaza,…
www.theguardian.com
"we could end up in a similar [absurd] situation as in Germany where criticism of Israeli government policy towards Palestinians, from public representatives or figures, researchers, schoolteachers, academics or campaigners, could be viewed as anti-Semitic" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians
Prominent Irish politicians - including President Michael D Higgins and Simon Harris - have been accused of anti-Semitism drawing on the logic of the IHRA definition
www.irishtimes.com
Scholasticide in Gaza
Dr Wesam Amer (Gaza University & Cambridge University)
Thurs 6 February 2025
Dublin City University / Glasnevin C104
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/01/21/s...
Dr Wesam Amer (Gaza University & Cambridge University)
Thurs 6 February 2025
Dublin City University / Glasnevin C104
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/01/21/s...
Scholasticide talk
Dr Wesam Amer will deliver a talk on scholasticide on Thursday 06 February at 7pm in C104 (first floor Henry Grattan building), Dublin City University Glasnevin Campus. Dr Wesam Amer is a vsiting r…
academicsforpalestine.org
"it could be jordan, it could be egypt, it could be other countries, it could be five or six areas ... beautiful areas with the sunlight coming in.. "
he almost got there ... it could (should) be al-majdal asqalan, beersheba, jaffa, lydda, ramleh, haifa, akka..
he almost got there ... it could (should) be al-majdal asqalan, beersheba, jaffa, lydda, ramleh, haifa, akka..
algorithmic genocide & big tech complicity:
"Soldiers described accessing classified info on Amazon servers for lethal bombing as ‘making an order from Amazon’"
"Microsoft Azure staff were called ‘people already working with the unit’ as if they were active soldiers"
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
"Soldiers described accessing classified info on Amazon servers for lethal bombing as ‘making an order from Amazon’"
"Microsoft Azure staff were called ‘people already working with the unit’ as if they were active soldiers"
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Sophia Goodfriend | Militarised AI
Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played in...
www.lrb.co.uk
the plagiurist?
(and of course it's a Bush admin war official, who was under investigation in Spain for crimes of torture in guantánamo, that she seems to have plagiarised..)
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18835...
(and of course it's a Bush admin war official, who was under investigation in Spain for crimes of torture in guantánamo, that she seems to have plagiarised..)
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18835...
Thread by @_ZachFoster on Thread Reader App
@_ZachFoster: Breaking: the President of the International Court of Justice (@CIJ_ICJ), Julia Sebutinde, plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion (icj-cij.org/node/204162) in which she voted aga...
threadreaderapp.com
i would definitely download it from libgen and plan to read it someday
the political economy of states of emergency:
"Instead of addressing the real emergency of the climate crisis, like the ongoing fires in California, Trump's plan to declare an energy emergency is another attempt to boost the profits of his fossil fuel donors"
oilchange.org/news/oil-cha...
"Instead of addressing the real emergency of the climate crisis, like the ongoing fires in California, Trump's plan to declare an energy emergency is another attempt to boost the profits of his fossil fuel donors"
oilchange.org/news/oil-cha...
Oil Change International Statement on Trump’s Day One Assault on Climate Action
As Donald Trump prepares to take office as the 47th president, fossil fuel executives are expecting a return on the $75 million they spent to elect him. Trump’s Day One executive orders represent a…
oilchange.org
'These attacks against Dr. Abu Safiya and Kamal Adwan Hospital are part of Israel’s well-established practice of destroying Gaza’s health care system and otherwise creating conditions of life calculated to destroy the Palestinian population in whole or in part = genocide' twailr.com/petition-for...
Petition for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
Petition calling on the international community, particularly the United States, to use its influence and authority to force Israel to immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and other medical pe…
twailr.com
'The American professionals say they cannot fathom why the US govt continues to arm a country deliberately killing children.The limits of listening to the body, as medics are trained to do, is that the body can’t tell you that genocide suits American foreign interests' thebaffler.com/salvos/docto...
Doctors Without Politics | Mary Turfah
Doctors Without Borders was designed to counter the assumption that neutrality requires silence. But the organization lacks a political vision.
thebaffler.com
British international lawyer friends of the land-colonising, genocide-supporting Hebrew University
in which the British govt statement on the ICC warrants says very little about the ICC and lots about Israel's right to defend itself, Israel as democracy, Keir Starmer's support for Israel, Starmer's plans to engage with Netanyahu in support of Israel's right to defend itself: