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...

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“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.

“If the Charter cannot discipline its guarantors, then it is not clear there is any justification for business as usual at the UN.”

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...

Thanks for this. As you can see, I framed this as a statement about what many Israelis experienced... On the point you raise, I think the risk is there. The other risk is to erase the extreme trnasformation of patterns of violence and intentions among Israelis following the horrendous attack of 7/10

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

Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World

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...

normal mural at German university

Remaking the United Nations

Great post here (as always) from Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social on reform of the UN Security Council @verfassungsblog.de

verfassungsblog.de/remaking-the...

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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.

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

Somalia president: Somaliland agreed to settle Palestinians and build Israeli base

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...

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

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

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.

Of course

I’ve not been convinced that antisemitism should be treated differently from racism

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

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.

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#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.

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The soldiers explained it all perfectly

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.

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.

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.

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.