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(Ret.) Prof. of IR & Human Rights. Visiting Scholar @StAndrewsIR. ORCID profile: bit.ly/orcidKM Book: bit.ly/R2P3Africa

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The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity โ€“ and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul Jared Kushner and Tony Blairโ€™s neocolonial venture would be an incompatible transplant that would be rejected by the body

'You cannot build a riviera on the bones of the dead. And you cannot build an occupation on the aspirations of the living.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

30.09.2025 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority, BBC understands The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.

Nothing neocolonial or inappropriate about this whatsoever. Absolutely not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

26.09.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'Recognition brings obligationโ€™: How declaring genocide could reshape war in Gaza The International Association of Genocide Scholars has issued a landmark resolution defining Israelโ€™s actions in Gaza as a genocide. RFI spoke to the organisation'sย Tim Williams about the evidence beh...

www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

07.09.2025 08:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Letโ€™s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!

Petition for Francesca Albanese and Gaza doctors to receive the Nobel Peace Prize secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

04.08.2025 09:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to us

โ€˜The Israeli state is committing genocide.โ€™ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

31.07.2025 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UKโ€™s commitment to international law. Yet Labourโ€™s record over the past year has been curiously mixed

'The real problem... is that you never know where Starmer himself sits.' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

31.07.2025 06:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest โ€˜mind-bogglingโ€™ Jon Farley arrested under Terrorism Act at Leeds demonstration for holding sign making joke about Palestine Action ban

โ€œWe are sorry that the man involved is unhappy with the circumstances of this arrest." The New McCarthyism gets darker every day. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

23.07.2025 09:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Landmark ruling enables justice for SAโ€™s apartheid-era crimes | ISS Africa The country is preparing for its first crimes against humanity case, reigniting hope for victims and their families.

The arc of the moral universe is long... issafrica.org/iss-today/la...

06.05.2025 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mandelson rebuked after saying Zelenskyy must give โ€˜unequivocal backingโ€™ to Trump peace plan - Politics.co.uk Lord Mandelson has been rebuked after saying Ukraine should be the first side to โ€œcommit to a ceasefireโ€ in its war with Russia, as he called on Volodymyr Zelenskyy to back Donald Trumpโ€™s minerals dea...

Does Mandelson really think Trump wants to 'bring a just and lasting peace to Ukraine'??? www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/03...

03.03.2025 09:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What to call Dumpty Trump? www.instagram.com/reel/DGgx3nW...

03.03.2025 09:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Israeli Likud MK calls for killing of 'subhuman' Palestinian men Israeli Likud and deputy speaker of the Knesset MK Nissim Vaturi called for the the killing of all Palestinian men in Gaza.

Another call for genocide from an Israeli politician. www.newarab.com/news/israeli...

02.03.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Human Rights in Scottish Foreign Policy: Constructing Scotland as a Good Global Citizen Abstract. While foreign policy is a reserved matter for the British government in Westminster, it is clear that the Scottish government aspires to, and ind

'Human Rights in Scottish Foreign Policy: Constructing Scotland as a Good Global Citizen' - Available Open Access! academic.oup.com/jhrp/article...

11.02.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Human Rights in Scottish Foreign Policy: Constructing Scotland as a Good Global Citizen Abstract. While foreign policy is a reserved matter for the British government in Westminster, it is clear that the Scottish government aspires to, and ind

'Human Rights in Scottish Foreign Policy: Constructing Scotland as a Good Global Citizen' - Available Open Access! academic.oup.com/jhrp/article...

11.02.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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There's nothing โ€˜humanitarianโ€™ about a humanitarian pause in Gaza Without a ceasefire and a negotiated peace there will be no end to the killing of civilians in Gaza.

There's nothing humanitarian about a humanitarian pause in Gaza bit.ly/3ufQnoV

15.11.2023 09:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hello???

05.10.2023 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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