With some timing, Biden in next 48 hours has to tell Congress if he believes Israel's delivery of aid and conduct of war breaches international law. Under a new procedure, Israel was asked to provide written assurances they are abiding by international law and US laws governing…

Impressive letter from Oxford academics. “We see the encampment in solidarity with Gaza, in the words of Professor David Ludden, as “a public-facing global education project”.

You’re only half right Miriam Cates There are varieties of learning. But it has always been about understanding when common sense (and those elites claiming to speak it) are actually failing this and future generations.

“ … It is the sense that IR cannot be reduced to abstract structural arguments based on clear causal relationships, and I suspect that I am not the only one writing IR under this existentialist influence.” Lycian Ashworth (not the only one) e-ir.info/2024/05/05/on-…

Dewey on academic freedom in US during WWII p.333 of Alan Ryan ‘s The High Tide of American Liberalism

This thread seems to be confused between a normative point that the US does have a #R2P but is failing; and an empirical point that appeals to R2P are not motivating the US. What’s the implication for IR scholars? Are you a normative scholar or what Dewey called a ‘spectator’?

Well said Valerie Morkevičius . We should, as I remember Ken Booth saying, have courage of our confusions.

The International Studies Association has finally issued a statement on academic freedom concerns..... in India.

Talk about awful timing!

isanet.org/News/ID/6389/I…

Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

Don't forget Art.16 of the Rome Statute empowers the UNSC to pass a res. to defer criminal proceedings if there is a threat to peace. Better to first put justice on the table and then defer, rather than assume justice is a problem. theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/2…

Effortlessly edgy Estonia calling: who wants to pursue a fully funded PhD in critical peace and security studies at the newly established CEE Security Hub Tallinn University? Check this out: tlu.ee/yti/call-docto…

This too is intimidating behaviour. I realise there is not a direct parallel but I think if you rightly condemn the intimidation of students and professors in the US you also condemn this.

Timely.

This. Now. Always. eisa-net.org/eisa-statement…

At some point you lose your right to be understood as a democratic society.

Noelle McAfee, the chair of the philosophy department at Emory University in Atlanta, was arrested during a pro-Palestine protest on campus.

Mr. Netanyahu, antisemitism is a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to millions.

Do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government.