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Oct 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Israel just banned @UNRWA, the UN Palestinian refugee agency, from operating in the West Bank and Gaza. In the midst of a debilitating famine. This is a broader attack on the UN and multilateral legal institutions. 🧵
#Gaza #Genocide #Nakbabbc.com/news/articles/…
Last week, Israel banned the UN Secretary General from traveling to Israel- similar to how the UN special rapporteurs to the OPT have long been banned.
In my most compassionate listening, I hear the folks who oppose genocide but are voting Harris as seeking to unite the center & the left in an effort to defeat fascism. There are problems with this: 🧵
This imagines that fascism is emerging only from a Trump camp. It does not recognize how the mobilization of state violence, identity politics, the disregard of law/accountability, rejection of “truth”, media censorship,& normalization of genocide stems from the Dems now.
Oct 14 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I appreciate Mehdi & disagree at least on latter 2 of 3 points.
Re: accountability. First I think the more accurate example is 2004 & the reelection of Bush after invading Iraq. We shouldve voted him out & failed again when Obama pardoned the entire leadership for unity #Thread
Together this has created an imperial amnesia where no one learns anything- my students dont know about the war on Iraq let alone how it constitutes the crime of aggression for which no one has been held to account. It also makes plain both parties are the problem.
Sep 28 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
The WH response to Nasrallah's assassination is dismal. It reflects 2 decades of altering laws of war in the "GWOT." The outcome is to apply laws of war only among Western powers & apply what reads like just war theory to the unruly Global South #Thread
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
To regard Nasrallah’s assassination as “a measure of justice” evacuates Lebanese from the category of the civilian & deprives Lebanon any measure of sovereignty. Neighborhoods have been levelled, humans turned into landmines in the middle of civilian centers…
Sep 25 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
We are so tired. After 11 months of a live-streamed genocide w advanced weapons shipped from global superpower w 0 impunity, Israel began an assault on Lebanon through a terrorist attack blowing up humans, non-combatants, that blinded & mutilated 1000s. #Thread
I witnessed social media streams celebrating this as a victory – fantasizing that the attack cleanly targeted “terrorists” – completely oblivious &/or unconcerned that the targets were medics & other noncombatants...
Sep 12 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I wish @AchilleMbembe1 also did more reading 2 understand Hamas-not as fascist, messianic boogeyman- but as part of a Palestinian national fabric. The refusal to study Palestinian knowledge production while feigning expertise about them is also quite colonial. Short list follows:
In respect to the Green Party’s request to refrain from sharing more before their announcement this eve, I did not share more. Now I can. The Party is solid on Palestine but we disagreed on how to intervene politically in this moment. #Thread
I offered to join ticket if they would be willing to concede the election if Dems deliver on permanent ceasefire and arms embargo. The idea being using Stein’s margin in 3 swing states to compel those concessions.
Aug 10 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Jill Stein’s team approached me to run as her vice-presidential candidate, & I am seriously considering it. The Harris team is demanding our votes to “save our democracy” but has been oblivious to the fact that supporting a #genocide poses the most significant threat to it 🧵
The United States is sending weapons to Israel in violation of US law, including the Leahy Amendment & Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act on the delivery of humanitarian aid to say nothing of intl law including recent ICJ decisions & the ICC request for arrest warrants.
Jun 2 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
An important read by Prof John Quigley on #ICC's mischaracterization of #Gaza hostilities as both a non-international conflict (against Hamas) and an international armed conflict (against Palestine), when it should be understood as international
#Thread🧵ejiltalk.org/karim-khans-du…
Setting aside the legal implications, for now, I want to emphasize how treatment of Hamas as a non-state actor reflects an anxiety, even among opponents to Israel's genocide, who want to support Palestinians but condemn, Hamas as an org, as opposed to taking issue w its tactics.
May 23 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Yesterday I did an interview with @dwnews - a German outlet about Norwegian, Irish, and Spanish recognition of Palestinian statehood. It did not go well & the tape is nowhere to be found. #Thread
First off, this recognition is too little, too late. Not only did 138 states recognize Palestine in 2012, but on day 230 of genocide, we need weapons sanctions, arrest warrants, and boycott to stem Israel’s ongoing atrocities.
May 21 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Some thoughts on the #ICC request for arrest warrants.
Firstly,the request reflects its political challenges:It could not remain silent on a live-streamed genocide & as evidenced by the US, Israeli reactions, it also risked its relevance. The request threads this terrain #Thread
The ICC is incapable of delivering justice. And while its request for arrest warrants in the Situation of Palestine bears out this cynical argument, it did set a significant precedent.
#Gaza #Nakba #Genocide #ICC
Mar 22 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Aside from how the @nytimes has made discussion of American Jewish politics far more common sense than 1 among Palestinian Americans, enduring an ongoing genocide for 168 days and counting, I want to humbly to respond to a point raised by @PeterBeinart nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opi…
Beinart's call for Palestinians to imagine existence, in line with historic Palestinian calls and in the spirit of the South African Freedom Charter, is misplaced at this time. And certainly not provoked by slogans for freedom from the River to the Sea.
Feb 8 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
The recent attack on @UNRWA was never about alleged security concerns. Israel & its allies have systematically targeted the agency for years in a bid to shrink and disappear 5.7 million Palestinian refugees demanding their right to return, rehabilitation, & compensation. #Thread
Israel’s first submission for UN membership was rebuffed in part for its failure to resolve the newly created Palestinian refugee crisis.
Feb 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
US District Court dismisses @theCCR’s lawsuit demanding Biden admin abide by its duties under Genocide Con 4 presenting a non-justiciable political question (bad) but affirms that “the undisputed evidence before the Court comports with the finding of the ICJ” (good) #Thread #Gaza
The dismissal on political grounds, bc the case is better suited for another branch of government, in this case the executive, was to be expected. The coup is that the judge was so compelled by the evidence that he made powerful statements on behalf of the plaintiffs re #genocide
Jan 26 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Some quick thoughts on ICJ decision. #Thread #Gaza #Genocide #Nakba #Palestinian #Liberation #SouthAfrica
Given how Judge Donahue began by providing context as the “conflict” beginning on 10/7 in contrast to how S Africa laid out context of 75 years of settler colonialism & ongoing Nakba, I was bracing myself for a negative decision.
Dec 31, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Taking cursory stock of Israel's military campaign reveals that beyond it being #genocidal-it is characterized by systemic war crimes.
Israel's army is deliberately criminal. Accountability is imperative to ensure these tactics are never repeated anywhere.
#Gaza #Nakba #Thread
Israel has bombed at least 4 refugee camps:
Nuseirat & Bureij, Central Gaza (12/30)
Maghazi, Central Gaza (12/24)
Jabalia, Northern Gaza (10/9, 10/12, 10/22, 10/31)
#Gaza #Genocide #WarCrimes #Nakba
Dec 5, 2023 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
With all due respect & admiration for Prof Khalidi, I think his intervention here is inaccurate & echoes a dangerous trend that objectifies indigenous peoples without proper engagement with native life and history. As an ethics of our solidarity, we must reject this. #Thread
Insofar as Khalidi meant to emphasize adherence to IHL as he did in this talk, I think that would have been a different argument. Ill leave it in Khalidi’s words, you either apply IHL in which case it applies to all or you can outright reject it. mondoweiss.net/2023/11/a-para…
Nov 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
To @piersmorgan & an entire class of journos still eager to apologize 4 Israel.
Piers said “Israel, could if they wanted, kill everyone in #Gaza, they decided not to do that,” suggesting this undermines claims of genocide.
According to law & jurisprudence, youre wrong #Thread
The Genocide Convention (1948) itself criminalizes conspiring, inviting, attempting to commit, and complicity, in genocide.” Not a single person needs to be killed in order to demonstrate genocide. #Gaza #Genocide
Jul 6, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
In response to several inquiries about the criminality of Israel's 48-hour military operation against Jenin Refugee Camp- a #Thread
#WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Jenin #Israel #Thread
(1) Firstly, as an Occupying Power, Israel has no right to self-defense against a population it occupies. It has usurped their policing power & has a duty to protect them. The ICJ affirmed this in 2004. Israel cannot defend its colonial takings. jadaliyya.com/Details/27551
Jan 31, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Palestinians under siege, subject to killing by world’s 11th most powerful army & deputized settlers but news producers want me to come on air to comment on Palestinians celebrating the killing of 9 Israeli settlers? #THREAD
Why this pathology of Palestinians and apology for apartheid? Why exceptionalize this Palestinian expression when you know full well ANY human who lived under such devastating circumstances without an army or international protection would similarly respond to this operation?
Jun 24, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Israeli Army finally released the video of Ahmed’s car crash and execution. The only thing more enraging than this video being used as “evidence” of an attempted attack on soldiers are the journos who have watched it and are asking my family for comment. #Thread
Palestinians are so securitized as a threat that we can't make human mistakes, like lose momentary control of our car, press the accelerator in a moment of haste, get in a car accident. #Palestinian#Freedom#AhmedErekat
