@francescaalbanese.bsky.social spoke in Berlin a few weeks ago, when the documentary about her was screened. A really inspiring movie but even better to hear her talk about how everyone can support respect for international law in their own way.

Don’t let the assholes get you down! I make comments like this on someone else’s feed once a year, and this seems like the moment. I like your wit and integrity in what you post, Molly, so don’t spare any time for trolls.

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Children as young as 12 were “beaten, kicked, threatened with dogs and forced to perform degrading sexual acts.” And this was documented by Save the Children Netherlands, who had two staff killed and their office in Palestinian Occupied Territories destroyed.

Please sign this petition against the talks by Israeli “Iron Dome” weapons manufacturer to convert an Osnabruck VW auto plant into a weapons factory, with the German government’s support: tinyurl.com/m9xs4j24
I didn’t believe it until I saw it confirmed in the Financial Times: tinyurl.com/ybkn3n6n

Are there no black or brown people in the US Navy?

'My mother cried out one last time': Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car Khaled Bani Odeh's parents and two brothers were shot dead as they drove home from a shopping trip in the occupied West Bank.

"The use of lethal force against a civilian car carrying four young children has again focused attention on how Israel's well-armed soldiers respond to Palestinians in the West Bank, and what constitutes a threat." Or it focuses attention on the IDF as racist, genocidal crazies: tinyurl.com/3xvtbukm

"This rubble is of my first home. The home where my father also grew up. Where my husband and I said our marriage vows." What’s happening in Lebanon is a “human rights and humanitarian disa... "This rubble is of my first home. The home where my father also grew up. Where my husband and I said our marriage vows." What’s happening in Lebanon is a “human rights and humanitarian disaster in th...

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A powerful if rare first-person statement from an international human rights NGO on an impending humanitarian disaster in Lebanon

Bad Readers | James Gleick Richard Powers’s new novel, Playground, features an artificial intelligence resembling the new generation of “large language models,” like ChatGPT and

“It’s scary how often people find (AI) useful. They get the benefit of quick school reports and news summaries and business letters, and truthfulness is devalued. The result is chatbots that gaslight their customers and pollute the information environment...” www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless". Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The Moorish castle of Sintra in Portugal is spectacular.

Cancelled Amazon Prime. Reasons:
1. Jeff Bezos fired 300 Washington Post journalists; tinyurl.com/mskdfda2
2. Amazon invested US$75 million for the Ivanka Trump movie to curry favour; and
3. Amazon partners with the Israeli military in cloud computing for facial recognition in West Bank & Gaza.

Second this. All four of his primary vices define him, motivate him, explain him: racism, misogyny, greed, and vanity. It's simple, obvious, relentlessly so.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

It’s a tragedy to see #ruleoflaw trampled by the @FBI and FBIDirectorKash tinyurl.com/yc89tadc
I hope more federal prosecutors follow Joseph Thompson’s example of being guided by their conscience. tinyurl.com/24j9d8tv

It’s Time for Concrete Action on ICE. Sadly, We Have the Democrats. Democrats have offered cussing and scolding after the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. We need a real plan of attack, now.

Walz initially scolded protesters and still takes no action on ICE, Clinton and Obama are “concerned” but fail to suggest what to do, and seven Dem congresspeople voted to give ICE even more money — the Democratic Party is afraid of taking a stand.

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European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

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Please consider signing — if you are an EU citizen. (Me, I’m still waiting for my paperwork to go through.)

Arctida Мы исследуем, как устроена российская Арктика за фасадом громких проектов и официальной риторики. Мы собираем данные, разбираем скрытые связи, показываем, кто принимает решения, и к чему они ведут.

I’m proud teach at Hertie School of Governance on “Advocacy for Influencing Positive Political Change” It is a hands-on consulting experience for a real client, Arctida.io, on evidence-based advocacy with guest speakers including Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Transparency International.

Putting together the reading list has been fun!

Arctida Мы исследуем, как устроена российская Арктика за фасадом громких проектов и официальной риторики. Мы собираем данные, разбираем скрытые связи, показываем, кто принимает решения, и к чему они ведут.

I’m proud to be teaching “Advocacy for Influencing Positive Political Change” at @Hertie to equip students with strategic advocacy planning skills. Participants work on a semester-long strategy for a client, Arctida.io, which focuses on accountability, climate, and human rights in the Russian Arctic

Southlake Texas Apple Store this weekend -- sound on...

There he goes again

Who Were the 2,000 Palestinians Freed by Israel?

Palestinians deported where? “Of the 1,968 Palestinians released Israel deported 154 of them because it says it did not want people to rally around them as heroes or leaders fighting against Israeli occupation” tinyurl.com/rbdvepsv There is a right to raise defense to deportation and to family unity

Cheering Crowds Greet Palestinian Prisoners Freed by Israel

So of the total 1,978 Palestinian prisoners, the NYT interviews a guy who had a court trial and was convicted of assaulting three soldiers.@NYT misses the “roughly 1,700 more who were detained in Gaza without charge during the war” — A 13% chance to interview someone. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/n...

One group is called detainees, the other, hostages. They are both hostages, Palestinians and Israelis.

Microsoft Azure should be ashamed of supporting genocide in #Gaza. @972 discovered how Azure cloud servers store intelligence on Palestinians used to plan deadly airstrikes tinyurl.com/mvaesv33

How odd (laden with sarcasm). I posted this on X and it disappeared.

“@dmitry140 I’ve been a loyal user of @perplexity_ai until today, when I learned you’re in bed with @realDonaldTrump and @TruthTrumpPost Count me out!” tinyurl.com/7n5yc5nm

CPJ welcomes Sara Qudah as Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, April 7, 2025–The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sara Qudah as the new Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Qudah ...

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We Don’t Deserve to Be Forgiven The dead are starving. The living cannot swallow.

And a similar pointed reflection about helplessly reading daily news of Gaza: "Let us not get distracted by our feelings. We don’t deserve to be forgiven. Not while we sit in comfort watching our people shrink. Not while Gaza rots and the world is consumed by its own grief or inaction." rb.gy/bqsqj4

Desperate Pleas from Starving Palestinians Shouldn’t Be Ignored Imagine watching your children cry inconsolably because their stomachs are cramping with emptiness and there’s nothing you can do. These are the desperate pleas coming out of Gaza.

Here is a powerful piece by a Human Rights Watch activist, reflecting on his own son's brush with death in the context of children starving in Gaza. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

We Don’t Deserve to Be Forgiven The dead are starving. The living cannot swallow.

And here is a similar piece about helplessly watching the news: "... let us not get distracted by our feelings. We don’t deserve to be forgiven. Not while we sit in comfort watching our people shrink. Not while Gaza rots and the world is consumed by its own grief or inaction." rb.gy/bqsqj4

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

"Continued denial of (Genocide) by states, international organizations and legal and scholarly experts will cause unmitigated damage ...to the system of international law established in the wake of the horrors of the Holocaust. It is a threat to the foundations of moral order." tinyurl.com/3dzhh27v