Tamer Morris
@tamermorris.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in International law at the University of Sydney … and all things Kdrama and Kpop.
I am pleased to share my current publication on Information Warfare and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Information Warfare and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict - Netherlands International Law Review
Disinformation attacks have become a common tool within military strategy. Information warfare is not considered to fall within the scope of IHL. In analysing IHL, the principle of the protection of c...
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Mohammed al-Wahidi understood that dignity is just as important as survival. Organising World Cup screenings may seem insignificant, but it gave the people of Gaza a moment of joy, a sense of normality, and a brief escape from the suffering surrounding them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Palestinians mourn Gaza World Cup screenings organiser killed in Israeli strike
Aid worker Mohammed al-Wahidi had become a prominent humanitarian figure during the Israel-Hamas war.
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The ABC published an extended version of my post on the Conversation, if anyone is interested www.abc.net.au/religion/goo...
‘We’re the good guys’: Moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal - ABC Religion & Ethics
The war on Iran reveals a growing preference for moral storytelling over legal reasoning. Once the narrative of “just cause” replaces the rule of law, once legitimacy replaces legality, there is littl...
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I wrote a short reflection on moral storytelling to justify an illegal war. Moral storytelling assumes one moral framework is inherently superior to all others, allowing any side to claim the same justification. theconversation.com/were-the-goo...
‘We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal
Once the narrative of a “just war” replaces the rule of law, there is little left to restrain powerful states from dominating weaker ones.
theconversation.com
This short piece from @tamermorris.bsky.social is excellent and worth your time to read it: theconversation.com/were-the-goo...
‘We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal
Once the narrative of a “just war” replaces the rule of law, there is little left to restrain powerful states from dominating weaker ones.
theconversation.com
I feel uneasy when morality is used to justify regime change, because it echoes the same reasoning once used to “civilize” the world. Claims “we’re doing this for your own good” resembles the same patterns of racism and imperialism that were used in the past to dominate others.
Repeat of the Venezuela-intervention? Remove the leader while allowing the regime to survive with concessions to the benefit of U.S. business interests.
Reuters@reuters.com · 7mo agoBREAKING: President Trump has told The Atlantic that the new Iranian leaders want to talk, and he has agreed to talk reut.rs/4cSIObM
Seriously?! We’re not even trying to hide the double standards anymore. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese says Australia supports US action against Iran and stands with the Iranian people’s ‘struggle against oppression’
Department of foreign affairs warns travellers of risk of reprisal attacks, further escalation and flight cancellations in Middle East
theguardian.com
Trump says US has begun ‘major combat operations’ in Iran after Israel launches strikes - live
Why is it always those who set the house on fire are the first to ask why everyone is screaming? Politicians can’t inflame tensions in Australia by inviting President Herzog and then feign ignorance and shock at the public reaction.
According to Trump "Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place". Let’s like the Avengers if the Avengers were modern day colonizers. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Blair and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace'
The former UK prime minister and US secretary of state will sit on the "founding executive board", the White House says.
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Absolutely worth the read
Wolfram Lacher@wlacher.bsky.social · 9mo agoIn the new @dissentmag.bsky.social issue, out today, @yguichaoua.bsky.social and I diagnose the crisis of conflict studies in a piece that is part intellectual history, part personal experience. What was conflict studies for? And what can its travails tell us about how wars have changed?
Trump posted that Rubio should be president of Cuba. The next episode of ‘what did he do now?!’ www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump tells Cuba to 'make a deal, before it is too late'
Trump has been turning his attention to Cuba since US forces seized Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
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Donald Trump has said that he does not “need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality” - unfortunately you don’t have a good track record for ‘morality’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority
theguardian.com
We are walking down a road with the erosion of any legal order, we are currently in the place where we can attack anywhere and for any reason www.bbc.com/news/article...
US launches 'powerful strikes' against Islamic State in Nigeria, says Trump
The US president says IS targets were attacked in north-western Nigeria, accusing the group of killing Christians.
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Another Peace Plan that echoes imperalistic and colonial pasts - with ‘smaller’ States forced to concede to ‘greater’ powers www.bbc.com/news/article...
Zelensky warns Ukraine risks losing US support over White House peace plan
Vladimir Putin says the plan could be the "basis" for peace but warns Russia is prepared to fight on.
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It’s interesting how the Security Council endorsed a peace plan, granting its governing body and an intervening force, legal authority - without knowing any of the details or parameters of the plan. And at the same time denying the Palestinian People involvement in their self determination.
This is the largest military presence by the US in Caribbean since the 1980s www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pentagon’s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela rise
USS Gerald R Ford’s arrival marks the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989
theguardian.com
The RSF are hunting down activists, journalists. They are searching phones for any sign of communication with the media or human rights groups - to detain or execute them. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’
For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are ...
theguardian.com
For the last 18 months, El Fasher has become the “epicentre of suffering”, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped. Now there are reports of widespread ethnically and politically motivated killings news.un.org/en/story/202...
‘Horrific’ violence as thousands flee Sudan's El Fasher
After 500 days of siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have reportedly taken control of the key Sudanese city of El-Fasher in Darfur, triggering widespread fear among families, and forcing th...
news.un.org
For the last 18 months, El Fasher has become the “epicentre of suffering”, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped. Now there are reports of widespread ethnically and politically motivated killings news.un.org/en/story/202...
‘Horrific’ violence as thousands flee Sudan's El Fasher
After 500 days of siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have reportedly taken control of the key Sudanese city of El-Fasher in Darfur, triggering widespread fear among families, and forcing th...
news.un.org
It’s worrying that Judge Sebutinde uses misinformation to try to warn about disinformation, including her footnote regarding senior UN officials - not technically correct.
Cris van Eijk@crisveijk.bsky.social · 12mo agoJudge Sebutinde cites The Free Press article - 'revealing' that starving children often have other health issues, and recently panned by John Oliver... in a section about "the challenges in verifying the accuracy and authenticity of information". This is absolutely *mortifying*.
How Not to Trade with Occupying Powers: Western Sahara and the Amendment to the EU-Moroccan Association Agreements | by Andrea Maria Pelliconi and Sebastian von Massow
How Not to Trade with Occupying Powers: Western Sahara and the Amendment to the EU-Moroccan Association Agreements
On October 3 2025, the EU and Morocco concluded an amendment (‘the amendment’) to the EU-Mediterranean Agreement (‘the association agreement’). With the approval of the Council it is already being app...
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