Itamar Mann

@itamann.bsky.social

Academic and lawyer ⏳

“If I’m speaking e.g. of eating, then I’ll mention in a note that the Romans, Greeks and Hebrews also used to eat.” Advice on preparing your paper for peer review by Heinrich Heine.

Team Trump has concluded that it is hopeless to compete with the Chinese on greentech — the race is already lost. Therefore they are doubling down on fossil fuel based tech at home, while geopolitically bullying other countries to stay on fossil fuels rather than switch to Chinese EVs/renewables.

Many friends asking what it is like in Minnesota right now. This video-clip tells. Masked men w/ guns in ordinary places (gas stations, grocery stores, cruising streets) intimidating ordinary people & instilling fear. As a terrorism expert, I think about the logic of government instilling fear.

My hot take for 2025 is that it is the year that the knowledge produced by economists has managed to fail harder than that generated by us international law scholars.

Homecoming Marine is a personal favorite of mine, particularly with how relatively small and young he made the kid, how closed his body language. How the news story about him on the wall calls him a hero, but the faces of everyone there tells how rough the story he's telling is.

Homecoming Marine, 1945 by Norman Rockwell - Paper Print - Norman Rockwell Museum Custom Prints - Custom Prints and Framing From the Norman Rockwell Museum

Homecoming Marine, 1945 by Norman Rockwell - Buy Homecoming Marine, 1945 Paper Art Print - Norman Rockwell Museum - Custom Prints and Framing

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Speaking with the pro-government Channel 14, Lt.-Col. Amit Yagur explains that Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is part of Washington’s Project Sunrise to transfer Gazans. Yagur is retired, has no official capacity, but had served as the deputy head of the Palestinian arena in the Israeli Army.

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The Economist makes it look too much like the refusal to withdraw from Syria is in the name of all Jews. It's time for media to understand that there is no such thing as "the Jewish state". Israel is a state that defines itself as much, but that is not more and not less than its self-definition.

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A new bill in #Israel seeks to introduce a mandatory death penalty for killings with the intent to "harm the State of Israel and the revival of the Jewish people in its land." It's a troubling departure from established penal principles, @itamann.bsky.social argues.

Israel's New Death Penalty Bill: It's about Revenge

A new bill aims to introduce a mandatory death penalty for acts of terrorism against Israel. It would mark a troubling departure from established penal principles.

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Ein neues Gesetz will "Terror gegen Israel" mit der Todesstrafe belegen, um die "Wiederbelebung des jüdischen Volkes in seinem Land" zu schützen. @itamann.bsky.social warnt vor den Folgen – für Palästinenser wie für die israelische Gesellschaft.

Gesetzentwurf zu Todesstrafe: Gefährliche Wende in Israel

Ein neues Gesetz will 'Terror gegen Israel' mit der Todesstrafe belegen, um die 'Wiederbelebung des jüdischen Volkes' zu schützen. Eine Warnung vor den Folgen.

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In the runup to #ESIL25, Johanne Breum Jacobsen and William Sass interviewed me for Information about an earlier @verfassungsblog.de editorial. The piece just came out, and it is great to see such deep engagement in Danish public debate (the English autotranslation works beautifully). Series ahead!

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen@tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This year’s @esil-sedi.bsky.social conference sets the stage and features MOBILE’s own @itamann.bsky.social. The article in Danish is linked below but for a longer exposé of Itamar’s point in English see his post on Verfassungsblog: verfassungsblog.de/in-the-grave...