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Esra Demir-Gürsel

@esrademir.bsky.social

human rights • researcher • Hertie School

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International law, populism and Palestine: an interview with Nahed Samour In this interview, Dr Richard Joyce and Professor Sundhya Pahuja are joined by German-Palestinian international legal scholar, Dr Nahed Samour, currently b

An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

02.10.2025 12:29 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I am happy that this finally out now—and we are now very close to the publication of the full special issue. Stay tuned!

17.09.2025 08:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Introducing the Symposium ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’

a timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org :
‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’

voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

08.09.2025 11:14 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

What boggles my mind even more than this is the fact that this is what they think about, what they care about, what they take action against…

31.07.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Both B’Tselem and PHR said Israel’s western allies were enabling the genocidal campaign, and shared responsibility for suffering in Gaza. “It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world,” Novak said. “Any leader that is not doing whatever they can to stop it is part of this horror.””

28.07.2025 17:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vertrauen und Vertretbarkeit

@jtheilen.bsky.social und ich haben für @verfassungsblog.de das Ramstein-Urteil analysiert.
Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.

21.07.2025 14:34 — 👍 35    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance On 3 July 2025, Justice Nancy Hernandez, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), announced the issuance of the new Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency (AO-32). In front o...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎

18.07.2025 10:37 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

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How do we make sense of what's happening in Germany?

"...there is active suppression of speech, but that the reason may not be law, but obedience or something beyond “law”."

Stacy Douglas engages in a significant discussion here: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/08/i...

08.07.2025 09:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

From economy of occupation to economy of genocide

www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

06.07.2025 12:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nervous Conditions

05.07.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...

‘I appreciate depreciation’

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

03.07.2025 12:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Material Foundations of War Three emerging dynamics in the global economy: slowdown, militarization, and geopolitical tensions

open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...

29.06.2025 06:17 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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America's Imperial Unraveling - Boston Review Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?

"Trump is little more than a symptom of the forces that over decades have produced this gradual decline, though he may also prove to be the final nail in the coffin."

www.bostonreview.net/articles/asl...

27.06.2025 18:07 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

When we are all enemies of the state

www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

27.06.2025 13:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"It fosters meaningful discussion about the origin, accumulation, and distribution of extreme wealth and the harms it causes."

23.06.2025 17:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The human rights case for drawing a line under extreme wealth An extreme wealth line focuses attention on a simple question: How much is too much?

Drawing a line under extreme wealth

"the very idea of an extreme wealth line focuses public and political thinking and narratives around the question of how much is too much."

www.openglobalrights.org/the-human-ri...

23.06.2025 17:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

These are just lies. Iran didn’t actually leave the negotiating table. Israel simply bombed Iran and now the US has joined. And the UK just declared that it supports these bombings.

It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is

22.06.2025 08:49 — 👍 854    🔁 275    💬 55    📌 8

Nurbanu examines two competing frames of human rights in European human rights law and thought that underpin the conflicting claims on externalised migration control before the ECtHR.

@jtheilen.bsky.social

17.06.2025 08:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Following contributions by @cohelongo.bsky.social, @drqv.bsky.social, and @vanditak.bsky.social, the 4th piece in our special issue on Framing Europe in Human Rights, authored by Nurbanu Hayır, has just been published. Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

17.06.2025 08:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
The article’s abstract, available at the link in the post

The article’s abstract, available at the link in the post

Another paper from our special issue on Frames of European human rights is out: “Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: Framing global inequalities” by @vanditak.bsky.social — absolute must-read on humanitarianism, responsibility & structural inequality

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

10.06.2025 09:21 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#Arboreality

01.06.2025 07:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If I were teaching a course on authoritarianism, I would ask students for an essay comparing Harvard with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. So different, on the one hand, and comparable, on the other.

23.05.2025 05:11 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 0
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Rachel Malik | ‘It’s enough now’ My mother would say, simply and unmelodramatically, to anyone she knew well, that she wanted to die: ‘I’ve had...

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Lyndal Roper | How is the German Peasants’ War remembered? Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series of...

"For the last thirty years there has been almost no new scholarship on the Peasants’ War. After reunification the subject was simply too difficult, because the former East and the former West had diametrically opposed interpretations of it."

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

22.05.2025 10:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us for the conference "Utopian Imagination and Dystopian Practices: Future in the Past / Past in the Future"

June 6-7, 2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social

21.05.2025 08:04 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity will soon be used to power AI.

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI
"We need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever."

futurism.com/google-ceo-c...

19.05.2025 08:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Misogyny in the metaverse Advances in technology and artificial intelligence have created a brave new world – and women are hated here, too.

Scary...

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

16.05.2025 07:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CCRD Konuşmaları Ali Yalçın Göymen'le Mayıs 20 Salı günü devam ediyor. Berlin'deyseniz bekleriz.

@goymenyalcin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @irgac-rls.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social

15.05.2025 08:39 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I fell asleep reading #Arboreality by R. Campbell, a collection of stories about ecological collapse. In the morning, instead of news on degrowth, I find myself scrolling through headline after headline about expanding military collaborations and massive tech investments. Which one is the fiction?

15.05.2025 06:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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