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@Alonso_GD
Jul 31 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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I just made an hour-long video on how frustrating it's been to see academics excluded from Israel-Palestine discourse and here we are, a few days later, with ALL my academic mutuals saying this letter on recognition and Montevideo is an embarrasing joke and no media asking them🧵
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Vidya Kumar, SOAS University of London Image
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Gerhard Kemp, UWE Bristol Image
Nimer Sultany, SOAS University of London Image
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Aug 2
Bartov, Grossman & a growing number of Israeli public intellectuals are saying things like “I refused to believe it but now I can’t deny it further: Israel is committing genocide”. As they open the Overton Window in ways genocided Palestinians never could, one thing is important
This “I can’t deny it any longer” angle was part of the global structure that enabled a genocide. What for you was a process of personal self discovery, for Palestinians it was months of atrocity denial where tens of thousands of people died, were tortured, starved, etc.
You held the keys to the Overton Window and took 10, 15, even 20 months to say so. This is not guiltless, bloodless or costless. It’s 22 months. People see an IDF shirt and react with fury. It may have taken you 20 months, but it took its victims days to see where this headed
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Jul 28
The problem with Elliot’s analysis is that frankly it is trapped by two methodological choices: narrow interpretation and excessive formalism. Why he makes these choices is for him to reveal, but I do think it is important for people to know they are choices 🧵
It is a fundamental principle of law that laws that protect rights should be read expansively and laws that restrict rights should be read narrowly. Rules regarding the protection of people from genocide therefore should be read expansively.
Elliot thus incorporates new elements to the definition of genocide (like the only reasonable inference test) because the ICJ mentions them, but he does so to close the door on the protection from genocide by making the narrowest possible reading.
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Jul 26
I’m pretty sure I’m one of the people who knows most in the world about a relatively obscure Brazilian diplomat and nobleman called Felippe Lopes Netto. I came across him researching for my PhD and I’ve been obsessed with his life ever since. 🇧🇷 😍
I was looking for non-Euro-American actors implementing the laws of war in the 19th Century. One of the key arguments I make in my dissertation is that 19th Century laws of war were really, literally, *laws* in plural, with different parts of the world adopting different readings
I argued that the Euro-American Clausewitz-inspired interpretation that puts military necessity at the heart of the discipline was just that: one interpretation among a larger global ecosystem. In fact, I argued, it was one that was not as popular as people tell us today
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Jul 26
I’ll play
Here’s what Elliot is neglecting: we are not establishing the genocidal intent *of the war cabinet* but *of the Israeli state*. This is part of an ecosystem of genocidal beliefs in Israeli society, from Netanyahu to the IDF grunt singing may your village burn in Gaza 🧵
If this was “just” Israeli leadership making genocidal statements, what we’d have is a “risk” of genocide, demonstrated by the leadership’s “incitement”. But the idea that this neat division can exist in practice is absurd given what we know irl.
First, like I said, these are not isolated statements. When a cabinet member says something, it’s then repeated by a military officer and then eventually by a soldier and then, importantly, *carried out* on the ground.
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Jul 25
All this tells me frankly is that the hubris and sense of absolute impunity of the past 21 months is gone.
In meme form:
“We wont punish incitement to genocide”
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Jul 23
This article makes two main claims

“If it doesn’t look like The Holocaust it can’t be genocide”

“If it were genocide, Israel would kill more people”

Both make little sense 🧵
First: No genocide looks like the Holocaust. Just like no genocide looks like the Rwandan genocide or the Herero genocide. There are common aspects and patterns. But genocide does not come with a franchising manual.
Russia’s kidnapping and transferring of Ukrainian children to Russian families is also genocidal under int’l law. It looks *nothing* like The Holocaust. What it has in common is the intent to destroy another group. Russia does not believe Ukrainians exist as a people
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