Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar
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Professor of sociology at UCSB. Law and conflict, torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Universal jurisdiction is my favorite jurisdiction.
Joined August 2010
The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture is now available in paperback. This fight isn't over, Guantánamo isn't closed, no accountability. My book explains this dark and present chapter of US history.
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RT @carolrosenberg: Can't visualize it? Check out these amazing illustrations my colleagues at the Times put together.
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RT @SecurityContext: 💥Welcome to the debut edition of the Security in Context Monthly Roundup! ➡️ Dive into the January 2025 edition to ex…
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"They thought doomsday had arrived. Gates to the city were flung open, troops invaded the souks. Grief pervaded every corner, death spread like air. Dozens died without a clue of what was going on around them. Streets were piled with corpses, wounded, rubble of crumbling houses."
For the latest MER issue, I wrote about reading Sadallah Wannous in the Exeter encampment and how the playwright’s works and thought speak to this moment. His work is available in English in the brilliant anthology ‘Sentence to Hope.’ @yalepress
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RT @carolrosenberg: Great questions from Peter O’Dowd on @NPR yesterday as we discuss President Trump’s executive order to activate a migra…
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RT @steve_vladeck: Today’s bonus “One First” takes a careful look at President Trump’s vow to use #GTMO to detain non-citizens facing remov…
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RT @carolrosenberg: Breaking News: A Pentagon appeals panel has upheld a Guantanamo judge’s decision in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case to for…
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RT @carolrosenberg: With Guantanamo back in the news following President Trump's executive order, readers have asked me to reprise a few ar…
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RT @meriponline: Dispatch from South Lebanon -- Life as Resistance at the End of the World by Munira Khayyat (@mu_kha2). New in MER 313: R…
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Hot off the press, the new issue of Middle East Report. Everything is open access.
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"Among those supporting Trump’s threat to invade Panama is John Yoo, notorious for the War on Terror torture memos and an obstreperous defender of executive privilege." Yoo and Delahunty wrote a piece for AEI calling for invocation of Monroe Doctrine to keep out the Chinese.
I wrote a blogpost for the @LRB on why Trump’s imperialist fantasies about the Panama Canal and Greenland is not just about building Trump hotels.
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RT @lawdragon_news: After five years, the suppression hearing in the 9/11 case on Guantanamo Bay is set to conclude, with the military judg…
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RT @glynco: Trump inherits the #Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’ by @lisahajjar ➡️#forever prisoners include Abu Zu…
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Lolz
Breaking my tweeting moratorium on here just to remind the Gitmo prosecutors to follow me on Bluesky if they want more posts about my views on torture to file as evidence in lieu of…evidence.
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#Guantanamo Today begins closing arguments in years-long litigation to suppress statements that 9/11 defendant Ammar al-Baluchi made to FBI "clean teams" in Jan 2007, a few months after he was transferred from CIA black site.
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RT @carolrosenberg: Lawyers for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed have said for years that a key confession was tainted by torture. Now, a court filin…
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RT @MaryaHannun: 'Gaza Is a Crime Scene.' @lisahajjar's piece for @meriponline was published exactly one year ago, to the day. It is a remi…
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RT @carolrosenberg: This happened on the weekend... At a time when the Biden administration has reduced the detainee population by half at…
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RT @carolrosenberg: NEWS: An appeals panel has reached down here into Guantanamo Bay and stopped tomorrow's plea hearing in the long-runnin…
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RT @carolrosenberg: Guantánamo Bay Explained: The Costs, the Captives and Why It’s Still Open --The Pentagon's post 9/11 prison has been m…
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