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Alonso Gurmendi Profile picture
@Alonso_GD
Jul 31, 2025 • 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🧵
Marco Milanovic, University of Reading Image
Vidya Kumar, SOAS University of London Image
Juliette McIntyre, University of South Australia Image
Gerhard Kemp, UWE Bristol Image
Nimer Sultany, SOAS University of London Image
Adil Haque, Rutgers University Image
Victor Kattan, University of Nottingham Image
Mark Kersten, University of Fraser Valley Image

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Dec 25, 2025
“Genes determine skin colour”
Yes they also determine height, moles, and hair colour. But we dont build social hierarchies around that. That doesn’t mean races are genetic. It means you ring fenced some genes and attributed moral/social value to them. We call this “racism”
Like imagine saying stuff like “height is determined by genes, this is why tall people face a higher risk of thyroid problems! [apparently true] You can’t deny there is a physical difference between Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenneger!!”
Or like “there are studies that have found that short people tend to commit more crimes than tall people! [apparently this is true too!] Obviously this is a result of the different genes in tall and short people!”
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Dec 14, 2025
Hero of Bondi Beach 14/12/25 Ahmed El Ahmed, Muslim

Hero of Huntingdon 15/11/25 Samir Zitouni, Muslim

Hero of Paris 26/05/18 Mamoudou Gassama, Muslim

Hero of Hypercacher 9/1/15 Lassana Bathily, Muslim

How many lives must Muslims save before we stop calling them terrorists?
Mamoudou Gassama saved a child who was hanging from a window

Samir Zitouni saved people in a non-terror related stabbing attack

If you assumed these were all heroes because of Muslims committing terror attacks… well maybe you are racist
The list continues
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Oct 12, 2025
The nominal debate about sexual organs is a rather dumb one. You either think gender is assigned or innate and frankly that is of little consequence. The consequential discussion is why you think that: it’s either fragile masculinity or concern over safety in private spaces /1
IMO the latter is the only valid reason. I don’t care if a dude is scared that he will “accidentally” be attracted to a trans woman and hit on her. Deal with your own insecurities without trampling on other people’s rights. But safety in private spaces or fairness in sports? Sure
Here’s the thing though: safety and fairness are not “trans issues”. A fully cis male bathroom can be unsafe for a little boy (hi Catholic Church). Privacy concerns can be addressed with lockable personal booths. Transness is not the reason why private spaces can be unsafe
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Sep 21, 2025
Piers Morgan approaches taxonomy as an ontological phenomenon. Categories are objective, universal and true. He never worries whether a tomato is a vegetable or a fruit, humans have perfectly taxonomized nature and categories never overlap. Hence he thinks this is a clever gotcha
The problem is @EdwardJDavey apparently agrees with him, but has to assume a pro trans position for political reasons. So he is confronted with an impossible problem: his categories are ontological, but his position is not. He cannot resolve the conflict and this is the result
Gender theory and feminism are not about ontological categories. Women are *not* ontologically (by the very fact of being women) the "weaker sex"; they don't "belong in the kitchen"; or "born to be mothers". This is why de Beauvoir said one is not “born a woman, but becomes one”
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Sep 16, 2025
Unsurprisingly, Elliot’s conclusion is based on a misunderstanding of the applicable law. The statement “inference to genocide requires that no other reasonable explanation exist” is… let’s say inexact.
The applicable test is not “can you *explain* what Israel is doing *as a whole* through any reasonable explanation other than genocide”, but rather whether intent to destroy can be reasonably inferred from a specific pattern of conduct
So saying “it is more reasonable to explain Israel’s actions as trying to destroy Hamas and save hostages, than commiting genocide” is not really what the test requires. What is the specific pattern of conduct that Elliot is examining here? None. He is making an abstract argument
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Sep 12, 2025
This is what I call “legal vulturing”. Salo loiters above the text looking for anything he can slap a red underline and claim “he is the only one who noticed”. It’s bad faith work that deserves no serious engagement. So let me treat this like the piece of disinformation it is 🧵 Image
Salo claims there is a secret paragraph 141 that scholars ignore on purpose to deny Israel a right to self defence. But article 141 is part of a subsection of the Opinion dealing specifically with self-defence. It goes from §138 to §142.
As Salo shows, in §139, the ICJ concludes that art. 51 of the UN Charter, which sets out the right of self defence, is not applicable to Israel’s actions in Palestine because

1) the threat it claims is not imputable to a state and article 51 only applies between states Image
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