Ben Gerstein

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

YouTube video by K B Charley Crockett Live at the Ryman (full set)

Seeing Charley Crockett in the discourse on here. Do yourself a favor and watch his concert at the Ryman today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7V....

The Ethnic Cleansing-Genocide Nexus [Ben Gerstein (JD, BA) is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sarajevo Institute for the Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law] What is the difference between pursuing the vi…

The Ethnic Cleansing-Genocide Nexus

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Dodik: Napustit ćemo institucije, ukinuti Sud BiH i vratiti vojsku Lider SNSD-a Milorad Dodik najavio da će predložiti Narodnoj skupštini Republike Srpske da se Srpskoj vrate sve ovlaštenja koja je dobila Dejton

Emboldened by his DC visit (via lobbyists Blagojevich, Flynn) Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik says his party is pulling out state institutions, wants to abolish state courts, recreate VRS, the military force which perpetrated the Srebrenica Genocide. www.vijesti.ba/clanak/74085...

The Ethnic Cleansing-Genocide Nexus [Ben Gerstein (JD, BA) is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sarajevo Institute for the Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law] What is the difference between pursuing the vi…

My latest in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on the conceptual and doctrinal overlap between genocide and ethnic cleansing, and how the eliminatory violence in Palestine and Myanmar illustrates their nexus.

Downtown Srebrenica in the snow

Srebrenica Memorial Center in the snow

Peaceful winter day in Srebrenica, BiH

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

This is an excellent, thoughtful piece and supremely helpful to those (like me) who are just entering the space of drafting, and hopefully publishing, legal scholarship.

The political and institutional grounds for this have been built over decades. They must be completely uprooted.

World Court to hear Myanmar genocide case in January The International Court of Justice will hear a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its minority Muslim group, the Rohingya, on January 12-29, the United Nations' top court sa...

The #ICJ will hear the case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya from January 12-29, the first time the ICJ considers a genocide in a decade & one that will set precedents for South Africa’s case against Israel over the war in Gaza: www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise.

/fin

Working with complicit Emirati institutions plays directly into the UAE’s cover and aids in manufacturing consent for its sub-imperialist project in Sudan. Inspired by the legacies of boycotts against South African apartheid, the Israeli occupation, and the role boycott has played in decolonial struggles the world over, we see this tool as the strongest and most strategic weapon we have to pierce this morbid illusion, end the systematic Emirati violence against the Sudanese people, and wrest the region’s political future back from the architects of its demise.

Please join Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and many others in signing this call for an academic and cultural boycott of the UAE, in relation to its complicity in genocide in Sudan.

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The winning argument for Dem leaders could be "they want to fear monger about trans people and trans healthcare because they don't want to talk about why your life isn't as good as it could be and have no plan to make it better" — except that most Dem politicians also have no plan to make it better.

Beginning with Empire attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean have been widely condemned for violating international law. Yet much of this criticism, by focusing narrowly on the Trump…

Today, @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir argue that recent criticism of the Trump administration's bombings in the Caribbean risks repeating a familiar mistake: debating how the United States wages war while leaving unquestioned why it wages it at all.

At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’ Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

Excuse me but what in the world is this? These are outrageous accusations

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

This week, I'll be presenting "The Srebrenica Paradox" at the @genocidescholars.bsky.social conference. I've posted a draft of the paper to SSRN. The piece discusses how the Srebrenica cases at once narrowed and expanded genocide's legal definition. Check it out!

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Fall in Sarajevo

Don't make us tap the sign:

Per the Trump playbook, Jews who do not adhere to fascist tendencies are categorized as "bad Jews" alongside the enemy "other." Investigating these Jewish orgs. also tracks the targeting of JVP featured prominently in the Heritage Foundation's Project Esther: lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...

Excellent from Darryl Li:

U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say

There’s no reason to do this except racism: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Targeting Printing and Publishing Houses in Gaza: A Cultural Violation and a Memoricide Palestine Square, فلسطين الميدان

"Wars do not target bodies alone—they also seek to assassinate memory." www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

Great point @purplechrain.bsky.social and something I think David Schraub captures well in his work. On issues of abortion rights and immigration, an attempted revocation of valid and permissible Jewishness has been consistently leveraged.

In agreeing to this, Brown embraces the project of defining the Jewish community by adherence to Zionism. And even more nefariously, the institution disavows DEI while providing special measures for the ideological subset of the Jewish community the Trump administration deems valid.