Maryam Jamshidi

Securitizing the University lawreview - Minnesota Law Review By MARYAM JAMSHIDI. Full Text. Since October 7, 2023, public and private actors have doubled down on efforts to securitize the American university. In large part, these initiatives aim to quash a voca...

Important and timely new article by @msjamshidi.bsky.social out today from the University of Minnesota Law Review: Securitizing the University. Open access.
minnesotalawreview.org/article/secu...

Oh wow thank you Mary!

Poster for webinar on coercion.

As the U.S. uses sanctions and tariffs against those who seek to hold Israel accountable for genocide, @shahdhm.bsky.social and I have organised this panel on economic and physical coercion with an excellent group of speakers: twailr.com/webinar-geno...

Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela

This is only marginally more insane than the Bush admins invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. That invasion was also unlawful under intl law but the good ol Congress decided to make it legal under US law by passing the 2002 AUMF. Here there isn’t even that www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

“My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded and legs shackled. Then they released the dogs on us, each weighing around 80 or 90 kilos. You fall on your head while blindfolded, and your body starts spinning. One or two of the soldiers come and start kicking you with their military boots while you’re on the ground.” Dr. Ahmed Mahana was taken from Al-Awda Hospital to Israel’s Sde Teiman torture camp. Emaciated and visibly shaken, he told Channel 4: “There were interrogation sessions lasting between two and eight hours. They accused me of failing to comply with army orders to evacuate the hospital. Secondly, they said you had defamed [Israel] on international forums in the media.” More than 400 healthcare workers from Gaza have been detained by Israel; around 80 remain in custody.

Secunder Kermani @SecKermani "My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded, and legs shackled... Then they released the dogs on us" Doctors from Gaza - held by Israel in prison / detention centres, without charge or trial - describe the torture they faced At least 80 Gazan healthcare workers remain in detention Israel denies prisoners are abused, despite dozens having died in custody With @YousefHammash

“My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded and legs shackled. Then they released the dogs on us, each weighing around 80 or 90 kilos. You fall on your head while blindfolded, and your body starts spinning. One or two of the soldiers come and start kicking you with their...

The NY Times is taking its renowned skills at writing obfuscating headlines & applying c it to the Trump admin’s illegal assassination campaign against civilians in boats. You’d think from these headlines the boats had no ppl on them when they were “destroyed” but, actually, 14 ppl were killed.

France urges Israel to comply with international law in line with UN court’s advisory opinion France urged Israel on Thursday to comply with obligations under international law in accordance with an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which assessed the legal conse…

France urges Israel to comply with international law in line with UN court’s advisory opinion

Looks like Julia Sebutinde continues to believe God has chosen her to save Israel by just making shit up about intl law bsky.app/profile/drme...

The cases relating to Palestine at the ICJ are going to build on 1 another. It was already likely ICJ was going to conclude Israel was committing genocide in Gaza in the South Africa case. Seems like this adv op has made that as close to 💯 certain as it could bsky.app/profile/drme...

The ICJ has now said what so many have been saying for months - that Israel has NOT proven that UNRWA’s employees are “Hamas” and that the org - which continues to be blocked from entering Gaza by Israel - is vital to providing aid to the Strip. bsky.app/profile/drme...

The ICJ is issuing its UNRWA advisory op today. Follow Melanie for a play by play of the decision which is being read now. bsky.app/profile/drme...

Looks like the court is making some very helpful statements about the immunities of UN subsidiaries like UNRWA, as well as UN officials and experts. This is important given efforts by private parties & US govt to strip UNRWA, Francesca Albanese, and others of this immunity bsky.app/profile/drme...

Looks like the ICJ rightly slammed the Gaza Humanitarian Fund as being a ruse that did nothing to alleviate Israel’s legal duties to provide aid to Gaza and instead hurt the people of Gaza bsky.app/profile/drme...

ICJ torches Israel's notion of 'voluntary' transfer: It observes that individual or mass population transfer are prohibited and that transfer may be "forceable" not only due to use of physical force, but also when population has no choice but to leave due to resulting conditions.

'The court finds that the local population has been inadequately supplied and that Israel has obligation to provide humanitarian provisions. The court notes that there is no evidence that UNRWA has breached the principle of impartiality'

The ICJ finds that Israel as an occupying power and based on 4th Geneva Convention and customary convention has obligation to protect the civilian population, even under conditions of active fighting.

VP JD Vance has hailed it as a "model" for bringing "peace" to the world. Are you kidding me?! There is ALREADY an existing inter-state institution that is supposed to do that. Maybe get out of its way and stop trying to destroy the UN so it can do the work it was supposed to do.

US is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the Gaza ceasefire deal The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and privat...

This is insane, the US-Israel are effectively trying to create an alternative to the UN. They're calling it the "civilian-military coordination center." It's been established in Israel & is basically overseeing all things related to Gaza, bringing in other countries etc. apnews.com/article/mide....

Well the Trump admin has apparently charged so-called members of “Antifa” - which isnt even a group - w/material support for terrorism, which doesn’t exist as a federal charge for domestic groups, let alone non-existent ones. The imperial boomerang is coming hard and fast apple.news/AKjoMnscgSVW...

Horrifying and unsurprising at the same time.

Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social fled the country with his family after receiving death threats amid a right-wing campaign targeting him for his scholarship on antifa.

This is an important piece even if there is little hope that many law scholars in the US will heed its call - especially if they haven’t already. The navel gazing is painfully real & enduring even in this moment hrhttps://bsky.app/profile/evanbernick.bsky.social/post/3m3adm2yoq22a

Pretty sure no one who works on Palestine - we are amongst the most vulnerable and threatened - is getting any of these fellowships from the state that has taken some of the most repressive actions against anyone advocating for the rights & freedom of the Palestinian ppl bsky.app/profile/brad...

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song. "Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me." Epic

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

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IDF is still shooting people in Gaza

Also the illegal and criminal and immoral strikes against Venezuelan civilians in boats. The “shock doctrine” of committing these criminal strike, of kidnapping and terrorizing immigrants (and frankly anyone who is black or brown) quickly, at scale is normalizing all this bsky.app/profile/unra...

No, seriously, he said this. had to watch the clip to be sure and then watch it again

U can know the work is just beginning but also be awestruck that this diabolical phase of genocide is actually maybe over. I can’t believe it’s finally happened. I can’t cry anymore after 2 yrs of this horror, but the lump in my throat is catching my breath for the first time in a long time.

Trump made comments on Air Force One about the “long-term” solution in Palestine as “some people like the one state solution, some people like the two state solution” and said he hadn’t taken a public position on the issue. Lol what?!! 🤣🤯