Daniela Huber

West Bank: UN rights chief warns against deepening Israeli control over Palestinian land UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Wednesday for Israel to rescind recent measures to expand control over Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.

“We are witnessing rapid steps to change permanently the demography of the occupied Palestinian territory, stripping its people of their lands and forcing them to leave”

And yet, support for Israel from most western governments continues unabated

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Progressive Yearbook 2026 - Foundation for European Progressive Studies In an eerie manner, 2025 resembled the ‘time of monsters’, which, according to the great […]

The Yearbook's 7th edition topics inc:
🇺🇸 Europe between MAGA & MEGA
🤖 EU digital policy in 2025
🇺🇳 The indefensibility of Europe in Gaza
🌱 Beyond the ‘greenlash'
💥The trade and tariff war
🇺🇦 Prospects for peace and reconstruction in Ukraine

📕 bit.ly/PYB2026

“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.”

Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini:
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

The Demise of Conflict Studies - Dissent Magazine An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete.

"That silence also appears to reflect the discipline’s ingrained worldview, in which mass atrocities are committed by bad people in faraway places—not by, and with the full support of, liberal democracies."

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This seems like a preposterous use of the term self-defense, until you remember it's also being used to legitimize destroying hospitals, schools and universities, repeatedly shooting children in the head or chest, or blocking essentials like food and medicine

www.trtworld.com/article/3806...

Forum: Global Perspectives on Democracy Support in Light of the Wars in Gaza and Ukraine Abstract. This forum critically reflects on the democracy support agenda and its future in light of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the decline of Western po

Our forum on the global perspectives on democracy support in light of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine is now out in International Studies Perspectives 👇

Many thanks to Daniela Huber and Anna Khakee for bringing this together

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Towards #Allyship in #Diversity? Critical Perspectives on the European Union’s Role as a #Global Actor @norafisheronar.bsky.social @dhuber.bsky.social and myself.

Global #Queer Agonism: Normative Theory of the EU in times of Dissensus over #LGBT equality Malte Breiding

So excited our special issue of JCMS is seeing the light of day with amazing contributions on "allyship" as a constructive frame for critical conversations about (the EU's) international relations. With special 🙏 to co-editors/co-authors @dimitrisbouris.bsky.social @dhuber.bsky.social

📢 New book review!

📗 The International Legal Subalternity of #Palestine in the #InternationalCommunity, review of the book by Ardi Imseis

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

✒️ @dhuber.bsky.social

The article is part of a SI on allyship in diversity which will be coming out soon!/7

Europe needs to listen contrapuntally to the histories of its 'others' and it needs to reckon with its colonial past, otherwise it risks to take down the international law based order which is seriously harmed by the EU. /6

Through a discourse analysis, it explains that Russia, Ukraine & Israel figure in a Eurocentric relation to Europe, while Palestine is dispossessed of its history, not set into any relationship to Europe and figures as a partially rights-less subject in official EU discourse. /5

Empirics: The article documents 1) grave violations of int law as asserted by UNSC, UNGA, ICC, ICJ in Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine & 2) if/how the EU has sought accountability for such violations and finds patterned discrepancies at the expense of Palestine. /4

Theory: the literature has explained organized hypocrisy by a logic of consequentiality/appropriateness but has omitted a third logic: the logic of coloniality which features a radical absence of the other on their own normative terms & as a rights-bearing subject. /3

How can we explain the organized nature of EU hypocrisy vis-a-vis grave violations of international law by Russia in Ukraine and by Israel in Palestine? The articles inquires into this in three parts. /2

I have begun writing this article in early 2023, it is finally out with @JCMS_EU: "Organized Hypocrisy and the Logic of Coloniality. Explaining the EU's Divergent Response to Grave Violations of International Law in Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... /1

Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

Der Staatsräson-Irrsinn wird in Berlin mittlerweile so weit getrieben, dass Polizei und Verfassungsschutz eine Veranstaltung in den Räumen einer Zeitung überwachen, um mögliche strafbare Aussagen einer UN-Sonderberichtserstatterin zu unterbinden. Dunkle Zeiten.

Men Without Qualities – the Diasporist The uninspiring leaders vying for Germany's vote

"Habeck, in his own quiet way the most contemptible of the three..." - @benwritesthings.bsky.social on the uninspiring leaders vying for Germany’s vote 🔥

thediasporist.de/men-without-...

They didn’t “lose their lives”, they were killed! Get your wording right @eudiplomacy.bsky.social @kajakallas.bsky.social

“genocide is enabled, ‘justified’ and even prescribed through a genocidal epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance constituted by not only the propagation of falsehood but also abuses of epistemic authority,” systemically excluding the targeted from the community of epistemic trust t.co/3HFrpS2RPw