Giulia Raimondo

thinking about this & about the fact that he was killed almost two years ago in a precision strike and that his eldest daughter was then killed five months later with her husband and newborn

[for all the int'l migration nerds:] fireworks!

Race and the question of Palestine in a time of genocide: Lana Tatour | Podcast Episode on RSS.com The second episode of 2 Pals & a Pod features special guest Dr Lana Tatour, a ‘48 Palestinian, academic, writer, and relentless critic of settler colonialism. Tune in as we discuss Lana’s new co...

'What does it mean to live in a society where you know your neighbours would do the same to you?' rss.com/podcasts/2-p...

"This is the moment of accountability" w/ Michael Fakhri YouTube video by Makdisi Street

Fantastic interview with @michaelfakhri.bsky.social on Gaza, starvation and, more broadly, the crisis and re-appropriation of international law: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024"

Chris Sidoti spells it out

Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water Latest attack comes as Israel’s military urges people to leave Gaza City with 60,000 more reservists to be called up

Israel killed 5 children in Gaza today who were just trying to get water as Israel starves them. When this article was published, this morning at 11:30 am ET, nearly 80 Palestinians had been executed by Israel. By the end of the day Israel had killed 20 more. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

From One ICJ to Another

I fleshed out a few of my thoughts about the comms from the ICJ to remove Judge Sebutinde and @verfassungsblog.de were kind enough to publish them: verfassungsblog.de/from-one-icj...

Importantly, the IAGS Gaza Resolution recognizes that Israel has already destroyed a substantial part of the Palestinian group by killing and maiming (I would add starving and stunting) tens of thousands of children.

"It is a famine we could have prevented.. food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel. It is a famine within a few hundred metres of food.. a preventable famine sustained by complicity"

Tom Fletcher from the UN on famine being declared in Gaza City

I used to go at enormous lengths debating my fellow Ukrainians (especially pro-Israel ones) telling them that if we lose the war, our situation will be very much like that of Palestine. People laughed at me.

Ezra Klein's interview with Philippe Sands is very good overall.

But I want to reiterate that the ICJ has never said that the definition of genocide requires a "single intent."

Nor does the ICJ's standard of proof preclude a finding of genocide in cases of plural intent.

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‘Do the pilots who bomb children have children’

#Israele bombarda la Sacra Famiglia di #Gaza, la parrocchia alla quale Francesco telefonava ogni giorno. Tre morti. Non è un "attacco militare" sferrato da forze oscure. È un crimine contro l' umanità. L' ennesimo perpetrato da Israele che Leone XIV nemmeno cita.
Ci sono Papi e Papi.

Germany has arrested Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri and will surrender him to the ICC.

"El Hishri is alleged to have been one of the most senior Mitiga Prison officials ... suspected of having committed directly himself, ordered or overseen crimes against humanity and war crimes"

t.co/D5YYLPiFWh

Airbnb is advertising rentals inside Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank to my email now… www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

YouTube video by Alonso Gurmendi Israel's Economy of Genocide: Reading Francesca Albanese's Third Report

Yesterday, Chat and I read Francesca Albanese’s latest Report on Israel's Economy of Genocide together. If you haven’t had time to read it and you want to listen to the “audiobook + commentary” version while you do the dishes, this video is for you

youtu.be/mv-qwXvaavw

"Frontex collected personal data for years through covert interrogations of migrants after their arrival in Europe that lacked basic legal guarantees"

Apostolis Fotiadis, @stavinoha.bsky.social + Lola Hierro expose another scandal involving Frontex and migrants' rights

elpais.com/internaciona...

Remittance crackdown is a tax on the poor Planned US levy is part of a bigger squeeze on capital flows to poor countries

Scandalous.

Contained in the 1,000-plus pages of the [Trump budget bill] going through Congress is a mean-spirited measure to tax money sent abroad by non-US citizens, including visa holders and permanent residents.

on.ft.com/3FHDyK6

Not "preemptive."

Illegal.

There is no evidence of an actual or imminent armed attack by Iran.

This is a blatant violation of the UN Charter.

It has no legal basis in the right of self-defense.

Now we wait to see how many civilians will die because of this insanity.

Absolutely horrifying.

Note that at the end of the piece we learn that the UN staff member was reportedly beaten to death, not shot from a distance.

The prosecutorial approach of criminalising parents fleeing from horrors with their children -- to keep them safe -- on the ground that they are people smugglers is just pure cruelty.

"The Jerusalem municipality advertises the event, known as the flag march, as a 'festive procession'"

It wasn't his speech.

It was the applause from his peers.

You don't need this level of repression for one student's personal views.

You need this level of repression to crush a generation.

EU commission defends declaring Tunisia as 'safe' The European Commission continues to defend Tunisia as 'safe' for prospective Tunisians wanting international protection in Europe.

While @ec.europa.eu defends declaring Tunisia a safe country to return Tunisians to, @amnesty.org’s @oliviasundberg.bsky.social warns that the assessment “absolutely downplays the human rights backsliding that we've seen in the last few years”.

Via @euobserver.com 👇

"Most common of all, when famine threatens, people move. In the ‘Famine Codes’ of the British Raj in India, colonial officers noted the ‘aimless wandering of the destitute’ as a sign of impending famine. Gaza is starvation under siege."

This is what everyday bordering looks like. And yes, it's racialised.
It's also replicated in and supported by the media. Eg in popular TV shows like Border Security.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The west’s shameful silence on Gaza The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu

'The global tumult triggered by Trump has already distracted attention from the catastrophe in Gaza. Yet the longer it goes on, the more those who remain silent or cowed from speaking out will be complicit.'

on.ft.com/3Z0TJs3

Op-Ed: “On Genuine Links, Burdens of Proof, and Declaration No. 2: Some Musings on the Court’s Reasoning in Commission v. Malta (C-181/23)” - EU Law Live The Court’s judgment in Commission v. Malta (C-181/23), delivered on April 29th, has already become a landmark case: both the underlying subject-matter (Malta’s so-called ‘golden passports’ scheme), t...

And another critique of the CJEU's investor citizenship judgment, from
@guilleiniguez.bsky.social - eulawlive.com/op-ed-on-gen...

A screenshot of the title (“Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights”) and abstract of the paper available at the link above

📄 New article:

Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus

Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

📢 Report: Greece’s Illegal Use of Police Stations to Detain Migrants
Today, @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social, @bordercrim.bsky.social and the Border Violence Monitoring Network publish a new report on the detention of migrants in police stations in Greece
➡️https://shorturl.at/blFgg