Quote: “The damage that Merz and Steinmeier have inflicted on both Germany’s international credibility and the order put in place with the founding of the United Nations will likewise be felt for decades to come.”

"What We Lost in the Skies Above Tehran"

HENNING LAHMANN (@hlahmann.bsky.social‬) on Germany’s failure to uphold international law – and why it’s not the breach of international law that threatens normative stability, but how the international community responds.

verfassungsblog.de/what-we-lost...

Légion d’honneur pour Sophia Aram : l’islamophobie distinguée La Légion d’honneur attribuée à Sophia Aram le 14 juillet incarne une dérive de cette distinction, désormais utilisée pour récompenser des voix qui stigmatisent les musulmans et dévalorisent les lutte...

Décorer Sophia Aram, c’est officialiser l’islamophobie en grand ordre républicain. Une récompense pour avoir tapé sur les musulmans, caricaturé les luttes antiracistes et flatté la doxa médiatique. Pas un honneur : une ligne politique. Mon parti pris : www.politis.fr/articles/202...

150.000+ people drew the Red Line in The Hague this weekend!

Details #RodeLijn Protest:
🗓️ Sunday June 15th
⏰ 13:00 – Gather at Malieveld, The Hague
🚶‍♀️ We’ll walk together to the Peace Palace
🔴 Dress in red to form a human red line!
More info via @oxfamnovib.bsky.social: www.oxfamnovib.nl/rode-lijn-st...

“If the free-traders cannot understand how one nation can grow rich at the expense of another, we need not wonder, since these same gentlemen also refuse to understand how within one country one class can enrich itself at the expense of another.”

—Karl Marx

The final section of this interview is so powerful. Dr Haj-Hassan refusing to let the BBC “two-side” the genocide in Gaza.

"You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide their opinion on whether they are committing a genocide".

The eloquence in her rage is extraordinary.

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This is essential viewing.

A remarkable interview with Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatrician working in Gaza, following the killing of her colleague’s NINE children by Israeli forces.

Going to post this video in two clips.

Here she responds to ludicrous IDF denials & calls out the genocide.

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Gaza : « La qualification de génocide est plus pertinente que jamais » Les exactions récentes et les dernières déclarations de hauts responsables israéliens qui appellent à la « destruction » de l’enclave viennent nourrir les procédures déjà en cours devant la justice i…

Gaza : « La qualification de génocide est plus pertinente que jamais ». C’est l’avis prépondérant des juristes spécialisés en droit international. @jeromehourdeaux.bsky.social sur @mediapart.fr
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

the right will not be defeated in the marketplace of ideas mostly because like the marketplace of ideas is very much a *market* and like all markets it's not actually particularly meritocratic or democratic hope that helps

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.

It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

La une de Mediapart mardi 13 mai.

Gérard Depardieu condamné pour avoir agressé sexuellement deux femmes sur un tournage.

La maltraitance des plaignantes par l'avocat de la défense lors du procès est aussi reconnue par le tribunal.

Édition spéciale sur @Mediapart 👇
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

« Personne n’y comprend rien » sort en VOD 🎉

Après 155 000 entrées au cinéma, « Personne n’y comprend rien », le film documentaire co-produit par Mediapart sur l’affaire Sarkozy-Kadhafi, est maintenant disponible en VOD à l’achat et à la location.

Pour le voir ➡️ https://l.mediapart.fr/3L8

Join us this Thursday for a screening of Isaac Julien’s ‘Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask’, and a tour of The Black Archives.

📍 Screening + discussion (14:00-16:00) REC A1.07
📍 Tour of The Black Archives (17:00-18:00) Bijlmerplein 140
🔗 Info & registr.: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Someone holding a sign saying: Respect existence or expect resistance.

Parents holding up a sign saying: "this mum says trans rights are human rights" and "our beautiful daughter is trans."

Someone holding a sign saying "you can't legislate us out of existence."

Someone holding a sign saying "i love my trans self. I love my trans friends."

Today, thousands gathered across the country - from Hastings to London to Glasgow - to say: we will always stand with trans people.

Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

Palestinian Scholarship

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Call for applications: International Law Commission assistants roster

Secretariat launches call for qualified individuals to be included in roster of potential research assistants for Special Rapporteurs, Study/Working Group Chairs

Deadline: 15 April

🔗 legal.un.org/docs/?path=....

Join us next Tuesday for a talk by @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social on her forthcoming book, "The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law"

I know a lot of people are traveling right now, and CUNY Clear has created an amazing know your rights resource on how to protect yourself while traveling in this moment (they also a ton of other valuable KYR resources on their site)

www.cunyclear.org/know-your-ri...

Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders Amnesty International describes legislation as ‘full-frontal attack’ on country’s LGBTQ+ community

Today Hungarian Parliament voted to ban Pride events.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Huge crowd is now protesting on the streets in Budapest.
444.hu/2025/03/18/a...

"Mein Weg hat mich einsamer gemacht, aber ich bereue nichts" Im Interview spricht Gianluc Grimalda über seine Reise durch bald unbewohnbare Regionen, den Rechtsstreit mit seinem Institut und seine neue Dokumentation.

Als sich Gianluca Grimalda weigerte, von einem Forschungsaufenthalt in Papua-Neuguinea zurückzufliegen, kündigte ihm sein Institut. Im Interview spricht er über den folgenden Rechtsstreit, seine Reise durch bald unbewohnbare Regionen und seine neue Dokumentation. www.klimareporter.de/gesellschaft...

Steven Spielberg has spent his entire career warning us about the dangers of dinosaurs and Nazis and I personally think we should have brought back the dinosaurs instead

A reminder for these times.

Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest

www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Palestine was represented by Nilüfer Oral, Co-Chair of the International Law Commission Study Group on Sea-Level Rise, and Kate Mackintosh, deputy chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide.

Powerhouses. Worth a watch.

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