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Alonso Gurmendi
@Alonso_GD
Fellow in Human Rights @LSESociology | writes @opiniojuris | Editor @j_ufil | Streams @Twitch | Esp/Eng/Port | Views personal
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Aug 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
To give you an idea how the IDF lies, a year ago, The Guardian published a piece quoting an IDF Spokesman that the IDF saw “no difference” between Hamas’ TV network and its military wing. The IDF quickly issued a “clarification” denying this. But now they want to normalise it so: It’s “the IDF doesn’t target hospitals” all over again
Aug 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I agree with @owenjonesjourno here and I’d caution against views that only frame “terrorism” from its problematic uses in the Western authoritarian gaze. These views risk Eurocentrism and the erasure of non-Western experience. Terrorism doesn’t only exist in a West/non-West axis Indigenous Peruvians talk about the Shining Path in the context of the Manchay Tiempo (the Time of Fear/Terror) and talk about their fight against them as a fight against “the terrorists”. In Argentina, collective memory has framed the Junta’s atrocities as “state terrorism”
Aug 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I can’t believe how incredibly stupid this is. I’m sorry this garbage deserves no scholarly respect. It’s called a *threshold* of harm BECAUSE THERE IS A THRESHOLD. Not every harm counts. If I call an IDF soldier a doo doo head I’m “harming” them, but not in legally relevant ways Image Obviously, “shaping a narrative against the IDF” (even if that were what Gaza journalists do - it isn’t) is below that threshold. If Fox had done even the most basic of lit revs he would have come across the ICTY Prosecutor’s Report on the NATO Bombing Campaign of Serbia: Image
Aug 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I don’t get this viral trend of extremist Zionists sharing long-form testimonials about why they wont go on his show. It’s a bizarro negative-earth virtue signalling where it makes you popular to advertise you care about defending war crimes too much to tolerate any pushback Yes, he interrupts his guests. Boo hoo, how mean. Are you serious? You’re defending one of the worst atrocities of this century and you’re the victim? Seriously these porcelain dolls would not last a day as Palestinians.
Aug 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is… not a very good argument? Of course the meaning of the sky has changed over time (and space). From hunter gatherers tracing stars for navigation to the home of [the] God[s] to modern-day astrophysics, the sky has *meant* many different things for many different people You can argue the “nature” of the sky never changed, that it was a constant regardless of social meaning all you want. When you see a beautiful sunset, you don’t think “this is lovely because it is just a giant ball of gas refracting light through water vapour at an angle”
Aug 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For many Zionists it is simply methodologically impossible to conclude Israel is committing genocide, in Gaza or anywhere, bc Israel can’t genocide, period. Which is why it is important to be cautious with lists of scholars who say Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza If they believe this because they believe Israel is incapable of committing genocide, as opposed to their reading of a definition, their view is unreliable. I explain this in further detail here:

“What is the Academic Consensus on the Gaza Genocide?”
Aug 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“La frontera con Perú es la línea más profunda del fondo del río Amazonas” *en 1922*.

En ninguna parte del tratado Salomon Lozano dice que la frontera cambiará con el cambio de la morfología en la zona.

Al revés: el propio acuerdo de Río que menciona Petro le da la contra 🧵 El Protocolo de Amistad y Cooperación de Rio de Janeiro de 1934 que Petro cita es claro al señalar que la línea que traza el Tratado Salomón Lozano solo puede ser “afectada” por “mutuo acuerdo” o “decisión de la Justicia Internacional”. No dice por “cambios morfológicos” Image
Aug 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It is anguishing to think, after so many boycotted negotiations, that the remaining hostages’ plight will end with Hamas executing them so Netanyahu can claim their lives as the excuse for taking over Gaza. The worst most cruel most bloody outcome possible I am in despair for the hostages and their families and for the thousands of Palestinians that will be killed as a result of this new demential course of action. No one -NO ONE- should be used as bargaining chip for geopolitical goals. I know the despair of hoping against hope
Aug 4 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Ok, let’s read it, cuz I’ve really had it with the distortion being made by some here

🧵 The article starts:

“Each High Contracting Party shall allow the free passage of all consignments of medical and hospital stores and objects necessary for religious worship intended only for civilians of another High Contracting Party, even if the latter is its adversary”
Aug 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’d argue the main reason why it would be incomplete to assess Israel’s operations as “indiscriminate” is because there is increasing evidence that Israel is not simply failing to direct attacks at military targets, but that it’s directly targeting civilians So really the attacks are not indiscriminate in the sense that they do not distinguish between military targets and civilian populations. On the contrary, they do distinguish between them and then shoot at the civilians.
Aug 4 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This is the problem with racist colonial mindsets. They define “advanced” as “those things about me that I like, minus what I don’t, w/o minding local context”
Ffs the Spanish also burned people alive to appease their god, what the hell do you think was the Spanish Inquisition?🧵 The Inca also did have a way to record valuable information- it was just not written through an alphabet. The quipu was a complex system that records information based on texture, colour and the shape of knots. It’s so complex that we have not been able to decipher it to this day Image
Aug 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jul 31 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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
Jul 28 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
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.
Jul 26 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
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
Jul 26 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jul 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
All this tells me frankly is that the hubris and sense of absolute impunity of the past 21 months is gone. In meme form:
Jul 23 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
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.
Jul 21 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
We’ve gone from “Hamas hides under hospitals” to “Hamas made us to build insufficient food hubs in the south far from people in the north and put kill zones in between then Hamas made us to shoot at those who survived the trip and torture those our AI said had a cousin in Hamas.. “Then Hamas forced us to displace those who remained so that we can put everyone in a ghetto while we try to deport them away from Gaza so that we can take control of and colonise this land. Don’t you see? It’s all Hamas’ fault!”
Jul 18 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Some are pointing to Salo’s list in response to this post (cant RT cuz Im blocked). There is of course disagreement in both genocide studies and int’l law about this but there’s 3 things you should know about his list… Image 1) Many of the Genocide Scholars he cites like Yehuda Bauer and Benny Morris have ideological limitations that prevent them from concluding that Israel can commit genocide at all.
Jul 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
See, if you treat suicide bombing as “barbarism” - “what kind of culture does this?”, you’ll respond with an “exterminate all the brutes” kind of mindset. If you instead see it as a type of modern political violence, you can understand the politics and address root causes People like Eyal want to simply state “they are savages that only understand violence”. Mamdani is saying “wait a minute, these people aren’t just insane, there’s modern political concerns that we need to understand to explain why someone would transform themselves into a weapon”