came out last week

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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...

All they will find is sand - Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza

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It's so refreshing to read a book with a genuinely fresh and critical approach to the Vietnam War - strongly recommend Gina Marie Weaver's 'Ideologies of Forgetting - Rape in the Vietnam War', which hasn't received the attention it deserves.

(h/t @susieprotschky.bsky.social)

The Unmixing of Populations in Wartime Algeria, 1954–1962∗ Abstract. The length and brutality of Algeria’s decolonial war has tended to obscure the centrality of refugeehood to the conflict and its outcomes. Mass d

The Unmixing of Populations in Wartime Algeria, 1954–1962

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Archives and Algorithms: The Plancondor.org Experience and the Human Rights Potential of New Technologies

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The Guardian view on defence spending: should the UK’s security rest with Donald Trump? | Editorial Editorial: A former Nato chief demands more cash while fixing Britain’s global role. Before billions are spent, ministers must define the purpose of its military

“With Mr Trump in office, there is no better time to ask: whose security are we funding – Britain’s or America’s?”

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Global food crisis warning, accusations of Hormuz piracy as blockade begins The fragile truce in the Middle East and the stand-off in the Strait of Hormuz could have dire consequences for the rest of the world. Matthew Doran has your daily update on the latest in the Middle E...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is warning a protracted dispute in the Strait of Hormuz could cause a food crisis around the world.

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U.S. Port Blockade on Iran to Hit Food Supplies A U.S. blockade on Iranian ports is set to rapidly hit food imports to the Islamic republic, according to commodities provider Kpler. “Unless the U.S. grants exemptions for food and animal feed...the ...

US blockade on Iran to hit food supplies

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Als je alle zwarte vrouwen bent: Carrie Mae Weems maakt indruk in het Fotomuseum ★★★★☆ Activistische kunst kan zo drammerig zijn dat ze haar doel voorbijschiet. Niet bij de Afro-Amerikaanse Carrie Mae Weems, die verzet al vijftig jaar koppelt aan poëzie: dat toont een retrospectieve in het Antwerpse Fomu.

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came out last week

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From the Rooftops of Tehran | Anonymous We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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The Man Who Shaped Washington’s View of the Middle East Brett McGurk advised four presidents on a contested region—but to what end?

The Man Who Shaped Washington’s View of the Middle East

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

"Synonymous with European empire (...) permanent security is sovereignty's conceit that reserves right to “shock conscience of mankind” in name of self-preservation. Whether “genocide” serves/contests this conceit is the question."

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just accepted a senior fellowship at the RefLex Centre at Humboldt - very much looking forward to being there next year.

reflex.hu-berlin.de

came out this month

academic.oup.com/book/62553

Gaza, Ukraine, and the Lessons of the Nazi Past This essay discusses Germany’s changing sense of the lessons of the Nazi past and its implications for foreign policy. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Germany suddenly abandone...

Gaza, Ukraine, and the Lessons of the Nazi Past

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Ben Roberts-Smith arrested over multiple war crimes Australia’s most famous soldier has been taken into custody over the alleged murders of unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners.

Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested in relation to multiple counts of murdering unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners in what looms as the most significant war crimes prosecution in Australian history. www.smh.com.au/national/ben...

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 27, 2024 Volume 27 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law addresses key controversies relating to the application and interpretation of international humanitarian law (IHL) raised by the armed confl...

the new Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law just came out

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America Is Used to Hiding Its Wars. Trump Is Doing the Opposite.

"[Obama’s shift] was a perverse consequence of concern over civil liberties violations of Bush years: a replacement of black sites and Guantánamo with ghostly assassinations [by] airborne machines, the particulars of which would remain far from the view."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/m...

Brutal Mau Mau camps in Kenya were an extension of Britain’s colonial prison system – historian traces their roots Characteristics that would come to define Mau Mau camps – neglect, forced labour and ill-health – were ingrained long before 1952.

"My research shows that an emergency detention system was shaped by an earlier network of “ordinary” detention camps. These were established in 1926 and processed more than 400,000 people before the Mau Mau uprising."

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Someone sent me this.

the underlying point here is that the UK considered ICL ‘therefore’ to be in its own interest for first time with inclusion of combat law - and given that Nuremberg had sidelined bombing and 1949 Geneva had done so as well, incl within grave breaches regime.

how UK perceived first criminalization provisions of combat law, including universal jurisdiction, adopted as part of 1977 Additional Protocols - revealing their assumption of always being on winning side, as noted critically by W-German allies who'd been on other side in Nuremberg recently.

ICC moves ahead with disciplinary proceedings against chief prosecutor Khan ICC member states have voted to pursue disciplinary proceedings against Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan after receiving reports ​regarding sexual assault allegations against him, two sources briefed on th...

ICC member states have voted to pursue disciplinary proceedings against Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan

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The demographics of victim participation at the International Criminal Court

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coming in May

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coming out in June

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Billionaire Chris Rokos donates record £190mn to Cambridge university Gift from hedge fund boss will fund new school of government

Billionaire donates record gift for a new school of government in Cambridge

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