The courageous Tommy Olsen of @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social has been arrested in Norway and is facing extradition to Greece. Please sign a statement in solidarity with this human rights defender: forms.gle/xKLBkN2hQpZH... Signatories: tinyurl.com/mpkhpwaf And please help circulating widely.
The courageous Tommy Olsen of @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social has been arrested in Norway and is facing extradition to Greece. Please sign a statement in solidarity with this human rights defender: forms.gle/xKLBkN2hQpZH... Signatories: tinyurl.com/mpkhpwaf And please help circulating widely.
“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.
My dad and his friend in a drawing I made back in 2021. They are both alive and well.
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.
Permanent members are no longer just blocking the UN. They are dismantling its core restraints on the use of force. ITAMAR MANN argues that when the Charter cannot discipline its guarantors, remaking the UN becomes unavoidable and institutional imagination urgent. verfassungsblog.de/remaking-the...
This quote by Ha'aretz journalist Nir Hasson is my opinion one of the most profound things written about the way many Israelis experienced Gaza since October 2023
That climate change would unravel the world order has long been expected by scientists, novelists. But who imagined that it would take the specific form of potential US aggression against Denmark 🇩🇰 Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...
Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World
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Great post here (as always) from Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social on reform of the UN Security Council @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/remaking-the...
Remaking the United Nations
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May the Iranian regime fall in the hands of the peoples. Tonight I’m thinking of Mr. Boochani.
Several aspects of the Minneapolis shooting uncannily resemble events in Israel. Only one of them is that persons involved seem to be proudly posting self-incriminating information.
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
The crypto story around Gaza may serve the basis for a brilliant and politically urgent dissertation in transnational law & society.
Looks like the US has decided to do to Venezuela more or less what Iraq did to Kuwait back in 1990
Many of us thought the terms of the October ceasefire agreement removed the transfer of Palestinians from the Israeli agenda, at least temporarily. Wrong. www.ynetnews.com/article/izai...
Somalia president: Somaliland agreed to settle Palestinians and build Israeli base
ynetnews.com
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.
I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class
"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...
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.
That we as Jews are being treated as a carpet to walk on towards Christian supremacy in the US now seems unassailable
Itamar Mann and Lihi Yona: The new definition of antisemitism is transforming America – and serving a Christian nationalist plan (23 March) www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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.
#Postdoc Researcher on #Externalization and #Rightlessness Join our team in #Vienna to research externalization arrangements worldwide, the foundations of international refugee law, and theoretical perspectives inspired by Arendt's work. shorturl.at/W0swQ @rli-sas.bsky.social @lbg.ac.at
We are hiring: POSTDOC/SENIOR RESEARCHER (m/f/d) – LBI für Grund- und Menschenrechte
Das Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Grund- und Menschenrechte (LBI-GMR) ist das führende Menschenrechtsinstitut in Österreich.
gmr.lbg.ac.at
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.
lto.de
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.
lto.de
To be clear: this bill.goes well beyond the legislation currently in force in France.
Bill 94 has passed in Quebec. Students and staff will have to attend school with their faces uncovered. Menus adapted to religious restrictions will be prohibited. Absences or leave granted to staff for religious celebrations also gone. montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/30/q...
This is murder. I recommend this excellent discussion with @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @becingber.bsky.social @bcfinucane.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/122950/podca...
The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part III
Tess Bridgeman is joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to assess how the campaign has evolved and what to expect moving forward.
justsecurity.org
Chat, is it too woke to know when people are food insecure? 🤔
Gee, I can’t imagine why…
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!
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...