Neve Gordon
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Human rights, international law, Israel/Palestine. Retweets and likes not an endorsement. Migrating to @gordonneve.bsky.social
Joined May 2014
Among those accused of beating the Palestinian is Dr Michael Wolfowicz from Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's department at Hebrew University.
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Naveh Dromi, a former student of mine, and currently an Israeli influencer celebrating Israel's burning of Palestinian children in Rafah.
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This is the prayer I will be saying during tonight's Passover Seder: .From the River to the Sea its time for everyone to be free.
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Twisted irony. Germany now sees itself as the arbitrator of antisemitism. The proposed legislation allows them to decide that Jewish artists and academics are antisemites because they are critical of ๐ฎ๐ฑ, while those Jews supporting Netanyahu and his genocidal violence are not.
#AcademicFreedom | We have written to representatives of four parliamentary groups to express profound concern over a draft joint parliamentary resolution that claims to aim to protect, preserve and strengthen Jewish life in #Germany. Read our letter: 1/4
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Tel-Aviv University creates a โwar roomโ and mobilizes its knowledge to support and advance genocide.
Tel Aviv University is running an โengineering war roomโ developing technology for the Israeli army. In a video posted by the university, a graduate describes how they "take care of fighters"
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The silencing continues. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian arrested and being investigated for incitement to violence and terrorism.
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Universities punish students who pay for essay mills, but seem to have no qualms about paying for marking mills.
BREAKING: We have learned that @QMUL management is considering using external staff from Curio, an Australian Higher Education consultancy @curio_group, to try to break our marking boycott and grade student essays. A ๐งต on #TheCuriosCase: 1/13.
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Meanwhile I am wondering what the @nytimes would have discovered had it subjected the claims of IDF spokespeople to the same fact checking methods.
A statement from the editor of New York Times Opinion in response to criticism of a recent guest essay.
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Israel student union has launched a campaign against academic staff who express sympathy with Palestinians. In this case against Dr Anat Matar from TAU who mourned her friend Walid Daqqa.
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BRISMES campaigns has sent letter to all VCs in UK asking them, inter alia, to "Review all partnerships. with Israeli educational institutions, and end any relation that might be connected to โplausibly genocidal actsโ within the terms of the ICJ ruling.๐
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While the famine in Gaza is unfolding, it is important to remember that Israel's use of food as a weapon has a history. Check out Muna Haddad my piece @nybooks ๐ .
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Great thread briefly tracing the history of Israelโs investigations after it killed civilians and aid workers.
Israel is investigating its killing of 7 aid workers in #Gaza (who were from the UK, Australia, Poland, and Palestine, and included a U.S.-Canadian citizen). But what do Israel's past investigations of similar killings tell us?. 1/11. #Palestine
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We define โmedicideโ as the destruction of a healthcare system in whole or in part with the aim of obliterating or damaging the conditions needed for saving and sustaining the lives of the sick and the wounded.
Policy paper with @nevegordon for @PalStudies on "medicide" and Israel's destruction of Gaza's healthcare with the aim of obliterating or damaging the conditions needed for saving and sustaining the lives of the sick and the wounded.
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Meanwhile as the genocide continues Israeli news program with a panel of commentators debating whether rape of Palestinian prisoners is good or bad.
ืชืื ืืช ืืืืงืจ ืฉื ืงืฉืช ืืฉืคื ืืืฉ: ืืืื ืฉื ืืงืืช ืืจืืืืช ืืฉืืื: ืืื ืก ืืกืืจืื ืืขื ืื ืื. ืืืงืื
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1/3 .In a letter responding to a High Court Petition, Ben Gvir responds:.I would like to update that although there is no starvation and all the claims raised in the petition are false, at the same time, indeed, my policy is to reduce the conditions of the security prisoners
Israel is weaponizing food not only against Palestinians in Gaza, but also against political prisoners. Ha'aretz reports that since Oct 7, the Israeli Prison Authorities have put Palestinian prisoners on a diet, with many losing scores of kilos. Ben Gvir: it is deterrence.
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The affective bond between indiv Jews, the โcollective Jewโ and Israel is produced to incite Jewish students to experience the utterance โIsrael is an apartheid regimeโ as if it were directed against them and they are victims of antisemitic hate speech. ๐.
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New Decision! The AAUP maintains that academic boycotts are not in themselves violations of academic freedom and can instead be legitimate tactical responses to conditions that are fundamentally incompatible with the mission of higher education. 1/3
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Meanwhile, in the West Bank, settlers have built 40 new outposts on Palestinian land in 2023-24. Another indication of ethnic cleansing in Gaza's shadow. @peacenowisrael
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Multinational force need to protect Palestinian communities in West Bank.
BREAKING: As we speak, the community of Khirbet Zanuta (South Hebron Hills) is packing up their village and leaving their lands as a result of settler terrorism. Forcible transfer is taking place in front of our eyes and yet we remain silent. THREAD.1/7
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Smotrich: "It is possible to create a situation where in two years Gaza will have less than half the current population"
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We were out there calling for an end to the horrific violence and slaughter.
At least 300,000 people marching for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide ๐ต๐ธ
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Thread: Muna Haddad and I trace in this long piece how Israel has used food to control the Palestinians in Gaza from 1967 until today. Below is a thread of just one paragraph so as to provide a sense of the kind of machinations that were put to work.
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A doctor in a facility for Gazan detainees describes the deviations from the law that regulates its operation. "Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated as a result of shackle injuries - and this is a routine incident," he wrote.
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Yinon Magal, one of Israel's major influencers, says on Channel 14 that when Israel assassinated a Hamas operative in Gaza yesterday, 42 civilians were killed, and in response the audience starts clapping.
ืื ืื ืืจืื ืืงืื: ื ืืจืื 42 ืืืจืืื ืืืืกืื ืืืืืงืฉ ืืืืืก. ืืืงืื ืืจืืข.
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Thrilled to be hosting Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Stephen Sheehi, Joy James, and Abeer Otman for a conversation on Abolition, Settler Colonialism and State Crime. The event is this Thursday at 18:00 @QMSchoolofLaw and we would be delighted if you joined.
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@eventbrite has just de-platformed an event organized by @QMSchoolofLaw about academic freedom during the #GazaWar
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A genocide is taking place an hour's drive away and this is how my old employer brands itself.
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A translation of Professor Yuri Pines's letter to the leaders of Hebrew U following their decision to suspend Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. "You have really disgraced the institution. I have never felt so betrayed and humiliated."
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I got an email last night from a friend in the Palestinian village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills. The settlers, he writes, โhave issued a menacing ultimatum: if the villagers do not vacate within 24 hours, they vow to return and perpetrate murder.โ.
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In Gaza Israel is seeking to rewrite the laws of war. The al-Mawasi camp massacre is just one the experiments. ๐. via @AJEnglish.
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After 30000 tons of bombs, 6000 dead children, 200 schools and 40 medical facilities damaged or destroyed, Israel blames Palestinians for the destruction because they use human shields. This political sophistry is forgetful of Israelโs own history.๐.
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Event without the plethora of utterances by officials and officers, the widescale destruction of the education system in Gaza is in itself testimony to genocidal intent. via @timeshighered.
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We, colleagues, students, and activists who have stood alongside @AnatMatar in struggles for justice and equality, stand with her now against a well-orchestrated attack led by right-wing organizations who demand that she be fired because she is mourning the death of #WalidDaqqa.
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X Users: I am collecting evidence of the use of risk (as in safe and health risk, etc.) to silence pro-Palestinian voices and clampdown on Pro-Palestine activism such as encampments, events, teaching, etc. Please email or DM if you have evidence to share.
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Israel is weaponizing food not only against Palestinians in Gaza, but also against political prisoners. Ha'aretz reports that since Oct 7, the Israeli Prison Authorities have put Palestinian prisoners on a diet, with many losing scores of kilos. Ben Gvir: it is deterrence.
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Antony Blinken: "Weaponizing food, using it as a tool, as a weapon in its war against Ukraine is unconscionable. should not happen."
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Discussing the unfolding famine in Gaza with Amy and Nermeen @democracynow. For years, Israel allowed only the "humanitarian minimum" to enter Gaza, counting the population's calory intake. After Oct 7, it destroyed food production and restricted aid, manufacturing the famine.
Amid a looming famine in the Gaza Strip, human rights expert @nevegordon says Israel's use of hunger against Palestinians is nothing new. โIsrael has been controlling the food basket and using it as a weapon since the beginning of the occupation until today."
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The (il)legality of Colin Baileyโs 100% punitive deductions for ASOS discussed at Garden Court Chambers teach out. LLM students outraged by the threat while precedent suggests Baileyโs policy cannot survive legal injunction. @qm_ucu
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Nadera Hearing: The judge to police: I can understand that you wanted the arrest to conduct searches, but so far you have not found anything that justifies the arrest and I have not received any other explanation. The pages you found are an expression of opinion.
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Due to high demand of people wanting to hear @FranceskAlbs we managed to get a larger room and now have a few more tickets. If you want to join the conversation please sign up.
Please join us for a conversation with UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs on the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the role of international law. Location @QMUL Mile End Campus, November 12, from 14-16. Registration โก๏ธ
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Please join us for a conversation with UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs on the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the role of international law. Location @QMUL Mile End Campus, November 12, from 14-16. Registration โก๏ธ
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2/3 my policy is to reduce the conditions of the security prisoners - to the minimum required by law, including food and calories. There is nothing wrong with that - on the contrary, the security prisoners receive and should receive less than the criminal prisoners. .
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the current menu includes about 200 calories above the caloric average required by some of the male population, and accordingly I instructed the Prison Authority to present to me within 15 days an updated menu with the exact amount of calories without any caloric addition.
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In an Ha'aretz oped, Benny Morris calls on Israel to nuke Iran:."If Israel does not have the capability to eradicate the Iranian nuclear plant by conventional means, then it must use its unconventional capabilities for this purpose." 1/2
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@QMUL is now the only university in the sector which is carrying out punitive deductions!.
On Friday, through collective action by members, HR REMOVED THE THREAT of punitive deductions for ASOS from their strike declaration form. This is a victory for us. We still have a fight ahead but there is strength in unity. Thank you!.
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100 participants @OfficialBrismes discussion on what academics can do to support colleagues, students and higher education infrastructures in Gaza as they face scholasticide.
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@PeruginiNic and I have studied the history of human shields and this is UNIQUE. The fact that the Israeli military dresses the Palestinians in IDF garb, means that the Palestinians, some of whom are youth, are used not as human shields, but simplyย asย shields. 1/2.
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Excited to be hosting @mayaywind to discuss the complicity of Israeli universities in the violation of Palestinian rights. Join us at @QMSchoolofLaw, together with @StateCrime @clsgcQM @ccccjustice and @GPUnbound. In person or zoom registration๐.
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Appalled by the way an Israeli soldier celebrates the scholasticide in Gaza.
Israeli sergeants walking through the now blown up & destroyed Al-Azhar University mock #scholasticide, suggesting that a new academic semester in Gaza is never to start again. From the ruins of Azhar their genocidal intent is yet again live-streamed .
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Data mining has become the tool of choice of the proponents of the new antisemitism. Excavate social media accounts, pull phrases made years ago, present them out of context, and charge the person of antisemitism. @FranceskAlbs is just the latest victim of such attacks.
I have signed this important statement of scholars in defence of UN human rights rapporteur on Palestine @FranceskAlbs, who is being targeted in a politically motivated smear campaign โbased on disingenuous allegations of antisemitismโ โ please read & share widely ๐งต 1/7
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Nadera Hearing: The judge ordered Nadera's release with 2k bail from her and a third party.
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Palestinian doctors in Israeli hospitals work among warmongering staff who have called on the gov to bomb Gaza's hospitals. We must be vigilant about everything we say, while putting up with comments that spark a mixture of rage, fear and impotence.
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Victory for QMUL encampment!.
CASE ADJOURNED. The encampment stays put!.
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Strikers in solidarity with the earthquake victims in Turkey and Syriar
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All eyes are on Rafah, and the rest of the devastated Gaza Strip, yet Israel is undeterred, carrying out its crimes under the limelight, while the US, the United Kingdom, France and Germany continue to supply it with weapons. @PeruginiNic via @AJEnglish.
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Few people own their mistakes. @GeorgeMonbiot has done it. Do you think that Jonathan @Freedland will have the courage to do the same?.
I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.
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In 2020 @PeruginiNic and I described in #EJIL the history of hospital bombing, while claiming that IHL actually enables warring parties to bomb medical units. We called for a legal ban on bombing hospitals, but most IHL experts disagreed. Time to rethink๐.
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When @univofstandrews cannot justify its dismissal of Rector Stella Maris, it asks @OfficialBrismes to agree to disagree. I guess @univofstandrews will now have to meet @elsclegal in the court.
#AcademicFreedom | BRISMES CAF received the following short response from @univofstandrews to our letter regarding the dismissal of Rector Stella Maris. Unfortunately, the University declined to engage with any of the points raised in our letter. (1/2)
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Thrilled to have joined Amy @democracynow to discuss Israel's use of #humanshields, efforts to displace Palestinians and resettle the north Gaza Strip, Israel's aspirations in Lebanon and Iran, and the horrific complicity of the Biden administration. โฌ๏ธ.
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The #ICJ concludes: .Israel must IMMEDIATELY HALT its military invasion. Israel must take measures to ensure ACCESS to Investigative Commissions. Israel must ensure UNHINDERED HUMANITARIAN AID, including the opening of the Rafah Crossing.
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Bad news. Political prisoner Maher al-Akhras who has been on #hungerstrike for three months has been taken by #securityservices from hospital to prison clinic and his administrative detention renewed. Unclear how long he will be able to survive. #SaveMaher
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Over 200 people @QMUL Except Palestine event. @SelmaDabbagh: โAnyone .can find Gaza in public discourses.โ It is part of the โmore land with no Palestiniansโ of the Zionist project.
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NYT says that Israel does not have a "day after" plan. They are wrong. The plan is as follows:.1) Cleanse north Gaza of Pal and build settlements, while keeping boots on ground in south to police caged Pal. 2) Move Hezbollah north of Litani river. 3) Bomb nuc reactors in Iran.
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My 11 year old son Avivi made this poster out of pictures we took on the picket line. #supportthestrike #UCUstrikesback .@leilaullrich @JeffreyCKennedy @qmulpanda2020 @lizze @enanopoulos @fletcher_ruth @NPapadopoulou_.@qm_ucu @ucu @ConorCrummey
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Thrilled to be the runner up for the @IntlEthics_ISA. book prize for our @ucpress book Human Shields. A History of People in the Line of Fire. Congratulations to the winner Sinja Graf @sinja_graf for her amazing book the humanity of universal crime!.
@PeruginiNic and @nevegordonโs book, โHuman Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire.โ.
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It is mindboggling that universities in the UK and elsewhere are limiting staff and students from talking about genocide while also silencing basic demands to end violence. Looking forward to sharing thoughts on how to pushback.
21 March Symposium: Academic freedom & ethical scholarship in times of precarity & genocide.Speakers include @AdHabb @SOAS @BashirAbuManneh @nevegordon .Register to join us for this full day event @CamEdFac or online:.
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Honoured to featured again on @democracynow to discuss Israel's mass surveillance in Gaza, the atmosphere and protests inside Israel, and what a just future might look like.
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While humanities at @UniKent are slashed, the UK government is spending 5 mil to better implement the IHRA def of antisemitism in universities and schools -- a def @OfficialBrismes and @elsclegal have shown is not fit for purpose! ๐
Our department is under threat of being cut entirely. All of us would lose our jobs and there would be no more linguistics (or modern languages, and others) at Kent. Please help us out by signing this petition:
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One of the allegations made by Israel's Ministry of Justice Deputy State Attorney's Office against Nadera was that she calls for the abolition of Zionism. 1/3
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@UssamaMakdisi Here is an image of a contraption -- with two Palestinian human shields -- connected to the front of an armoured train in order to protect it from Palestinian attacks.
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Prof. Yinon Cohen from @columbiasoc was asked by @QMUL to rank it in @worlduniranking. Read his response.๐ Colin Bailey, he claims, is damaging the reputation that has taken years for academic and professional staff to build.
Every day our campaign for the academic boycott of Queen Mary grows stronger! . Read Dr Yinon Cohen's letter to Principal Bailey where he explains why he wont be participating in university ranking surveys that are used to boost QMUL's reputation. Thank you for your solidarity!
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"Up to 20 Palestinian patients lay virtually naked, blindfolded, with hands and feet shackled to their beds and wearing diapers." . Wondering about the doctors who participate in this torture and humiliation. @CNN .
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Sometimes the obvious needs to be said. Criticism of Israel and anti-Zionist positions voiced by students in the encampments across the UK are not antisemitic. Take a look at this thread of staff, including Jewish Staff, supporting the encampments.
Students across the UK have set up encampments in solidarity with #Palestinians. A growing number of university faculty (many of whom are Jewish and Israeli) have publicly supported these encampments. A thread with links ๐งต. 1/15. #Palestine #Gaza @NationalSJP
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Silencing pro-Palestinian voices has become the modus operandi of universities in Berlin. @OfficialBrismes pushes back.
#AcademicFreedom | We have written to @BerlinUAlliance to express our profound concern over the continued restriction of protests against the war in #Gaza and actions in #solidarity with the Palestinian people on campuses in #Berlin. Read our letter: 1/4
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Several years ago @PeruginiNic and I wrote how @oritstrock established a settler human rights NGO aimed at dispossessing Palestinians. Now she is a Minister in the Israeli government and these are her genocidal utterances at the Knesset from Feb 19 2024. The ICJ is watching๐.
The Israeli Minister of Settlements and National Missions and founder of Yesha for Human Rights (an NGO for the โhuman rights of the settlersโ), Orit Strock, speaking at the Knesset: โthere is no such a thing as the Palestinian peopleโ
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To survive, we need intersectional solidarity @AJEnglish @JNUSUofficial.@RMTunion.@Tchowdhury88.@ucu.@XRLondon.@ExtinctionR.@QMSU.@QMSchoolofLaw.@StateCrime.
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When Israel regularly targets medical units and staff in Gaza is it really surprising that security forces target doctors providing first aid to protesters inside Israel. They have been taught that medical professionals are free game.
ืจืืคื ืืชื ืื ืืืืืฉื ืืขืืจื ืจืืฉืื ื ืฉื ืืืืื ืืืคื ืืืคืืื ื ืขื ืืจืฆืคื ืืืคื ืขื-ืืื ืฉืืืจืื ืฉืกืืจื ืขืืื, ืืื ื ืคืืข ืื ืืจืจ ืืืืงืื ืืืื. ืืืืืจ ืืจืืคื ืฉื ืืฉื ืืคืื ืืืืื ืืืืืื ืืืื ืืืคืืฉืื ืขื ืฉืืืจืื. ืืืขืจื ืืขืฆืืจืื ืฉื ืืืืื ืืืืจืื ืฉืืฉื ื ืจืืคืื ื ืืกืคืช ืืื ืืขืฆืืจืื
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The doctor whistle-blower described hot the torture in Sde Teiman is structural, and not about a few rotten apples.
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Pushing back against the clampdown on #AcademicFreedom and #FreedomOfExpression in I/P, USA, Europe and UK.
#OnlineEvent | 'The Gaza War and Academic Freedom' Join us next week for this webinar with Hassan Jabareen, Laurie Brand, Giovanni Fassina, Andrea Teti, Lewis Turner and Neve Gordon. ๐๏ธ14 November, 17:00-18:30 (UK time).More info and registration:
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Check this out โฌ๏ธ The only way forward is for UK Universities to rescind the adoption of the #IHRA definition of #antisemitism.
๐ขBRISMES and @elsclegal have published a joint report demonstrating the harmful impacts of the IHRA definition of antisemitism on #academicfreedom & the rights to lawful speech in relation to Israel-Palestine in UK universities. #NOIHRA .Report: (1/9)
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Oct. 17 @OfficialBrismes is holding roundtable responding to the recent uprisings taking place in Iran, asking how we can engage in meaningful forms of solidarity through transnational, feminist, and queer movements and perspectives. register in link.
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We marched today with hundreds of thousands to thank South Africa and demand an end to the genocidal violence.
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In this piece @PeruginiNic and I describe how Israel uses the Geneva Conventions to provide a legal justification for genocide. The very architecture of the international legal order is at stake.
"When Israel invokes international law to frame everything above ground in Gaza as a potential human shield, it operationalizes the law itself as a tool of genocide". @PeruginiNic @nevegordon on Israel's unprecedented expansion of the "human shield" charge
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Thrilled that my book with @PeruginiNic is finally out. Click the link below to read the Introduction!.
The first ever history of human shields is finally out today! @nevegordon and I chronicle how the human body is weaponized to justify or resist violence in both international and domestic conflicts. You can read the introduction here @ucpress:
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As academics and non-academics this is one way to support our colleagues and the students in #Gaza. Please donate and share.
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies @OfficialBrismes is raising money to support the rebuilding of higher education in Gaza. A committee led by @ncpratt & @MalakaShwaikh will decide where to donate, led by the priorities of institutions in Gaza
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The Israeli military takes Palestinian youth and adults as hostages, dresses them in Israeli military garb and then uses them as human shields in both the tunnels and elsewhere.
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The twisted irony is that Netanyahu's government might fall not because it is carrying out genocide in Gaza and not because it is corrupt through and through, but because it is not conscripting ultra orthodox Jews into the military.
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When faculty choose to support academic boycotts, they can legitimately seek to protect and advance the academic freedom and fundamental rights of colleagues and students who are living and working under circumstances that violate freedom and one or more of those rights. 2/3.
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In the face of genocide elite universities decide to remain silent.
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