Maryam Jamshidi
@msjamshidi.bsky.social
Law Prof. Interested in Intl law, national security, sanctions, & SWANA (aka the Middle East & North Africa).
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My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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MSF (Doctors Without Borders) was born in part of the realization by the Red Cross that they'd failed to speak out against the Holocaust of Jewish people in the Nazi camps. Founding MSF in 1971, former RC medics vowed to bear witness as well as rendering aid.
Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...
Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...
December 31, 2025 at 6:35 AM
MSF (Doctors Without Borders) was born in part of the realization by the Red Cross that they'd failed to speak out against the Holocaust of Jewish people in the Nazi camps. Founding MSF in 1971, former RC medics vowed to bear witness as well as rendering aid.
Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...
Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...
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A 🧵on Israel’s ban of 37 international humanitarian organizations:
This is a ban. Calling it de registration or suspension diminishes the severity of this unprecedented action: barring the who’s who of global humanitarian orgs from aiding Palestinians
This is a ban. Calling it de registration or suspension diminishes the severity of this unprecedented action: barring the who’s who of global humanitarian orgs from aiding Palestinians
December 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A 🧵on Israel’s ban of 37 international humanitarian organizations:
This is a ban. Calling it de registration or suspension diminishes the severity of this unprecedented action: barring the who’s who of global humanitarian orgs from aiding Palestinians
This is a ban. Calling it de registration or suspension diminishes the severity of this unprecedented action: barring the who’s who of global humanitarian orgs from aiding Palestinians
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Israel not only inflicts pain, hunger, death & destruction on the Palestinians, it also prevents any aid & relief from reaching its victims. There are no limits to its depravity.
List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending
#humanRights #booksky #Gaza
@mommunism.bsky.social
List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending
#humanRights #booksky #Gaza
@mommunism.bsky.social
List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending
Israel says it's suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in Gaza.
apnews.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Israel not only inflicts pain, hunger, death & destruction on the Palestinians, it also prevents any aid & relief from reaching its victims. There are no limits to its depravity.
List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending
#humanRights #booksky #Gaza
@mommunism.bsky.social
List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending
#humanRights #booksky #Gaza
@mommunism.bsky.social
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New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
wapo.st
December 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
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NPR reported today that the overwhelming majority of the aid Israel is allowing into Gaza is *commercial.*
In other words, Israel is banning free food and shelter aid and only allowing in goods that Palestinians have to buy.
With money they don't have.
In other words, Israel is banning free food and shelter aid and only allowing in goods that Palestinians have to buy.
With money they don't have.
December 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
NPR reported today that the overwhelming majority of the aid Israel is allowing into Gaza is *commercial.*
In other words, Israel is banning free food and shelter aid and only allowing in goods that Palestinians have to buy.
With money they don't have.
In other words, Israel is banning free food and shelter aid and only allowing in goods that Palestinians have to buy.
With money they don't have.
Undoubtedly another effort by Israel to manufacture a pretext for unleashing its war machine on Iran with US backing bsky.app/profile/msja...
Gaslighting on a stunning scale: the country that has assassinated more civilian nuclear scientists than any other is investigating the very country whose nuclear scientists it has targeted for death over and over again. x.com/nypost/statu...
x.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Undoubtedly another effort by Israel to manufacture a pretext for unleashing its war machine on Iran with US backing bsky.app/profile/msja...
Gaslighting on a stunning scale: the country that has assassinated more civilian nuclear scientists than any other is investigating the very country whose nuclear scientists it has targeted for death over and over again. x.com/nypost/statu...
x.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Gaslighting on a stunning scale: the country that has assassinated more civilian nuclear scientists than any other is investigating the very country whose nuclear scientists it has targeted for death over and over again. x.com/nypost/statu...
Im a @brownupolisci.bsky.social alum & am sickened by this. This is a deeply disturbed country where gun ownership is better protected than almost any other constitutional rt, ppl can own military grade weapons, and students, faculty, and universities themselves are treated as enemies of the state.
December 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Im a @brownupolisci.bsky.social alum & am sickened by this. This is a deeply disturbed country where gun ownership is better protected than almost any other constitutional rt, ppl can own military grade weapons, and students, faculty, and universities themselves are treated as enemies of the state.
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My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The slaughter in #Sudan ends when the #UnitedArabEmirates, the main backer of RSF / Janjaweed, is hit with boycotts and heavy sanctions, @kajakallas.bsky.social & @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu.
#UAE needs to suffer consequences. The war must end.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251204-4-c...
#UAE needs to suffer consequences. The war must end.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251204-4-c...
4 children among 9 killed in RSF drone attack in southern Sudan: Medics
Nine civilians were killed, and seven others injured Thursday in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in South Kordofan in southern Sudan, local medics said, Anadolu reports. Suicide …
www.middleeastmonitor.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The slaughter in #Sudan ends when the #UnitedArabEmirates, the main backer of RSF / Janjaweed, is hit with boycotts and heavy sanctions, @kajakallas.bsky.social & @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu.
#UAE needs to suffer consequences. The war must end.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251204-4-c...
#UAE needs to suffer consequences. The war must end.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251204-4-c...
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The case appears to be an example of a tactic that the Trump administration has used to pressure undocumented immigrants to leave the United States by separating them from their families after they refuse to comply with deportation orders.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...
ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The case appears to be an example of a tactic that the Trump administration has used to pressure undocumented immigrants to leave the United States by separating them from their families after they refuse to comply with deportation orders.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/n...
My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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“Access to clean water remains a challenge for people in #Gaza. UNRWA colleagues are working tirelessly to provide and improve such access. In November, our teams supplied 90,000 cubic metres of water to communities.”
— UNRWA Commissioner-General
Full statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
— UNRWA Commissioner-General
Full statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“Access to clean water remains a challenge for people in #Gaza. UNRWA colleagues are working tirelessly to provide and improve such access. In November, our teams supplied 90,000 cubic metres of water to communities.”
— UNRWA Commissioner-General
Full statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
— UNRWA Commissioner-General
Full statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
Hey @ssrn.bsky.social please approve my paper Cc
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Securitizing the University
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<p><span>Since October 7, 2023, public and private actors have doubled down on efforts to securitize the American university. In large p
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December 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Hey @ssrn.bsky.social please approve my paper Cc
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Important and timely new article by @msjamshidi.bsky.social out today from the University of Minnesota Law Review: Securitizing the University. Open access.
minnesotalawreview.org/article/secu...
minnesotalawreview.org/article/secu...
Securitizing the University lawreview - Minnesota Law Review
By MARYAM JAMSHIDI. Full Text. Since October 7, 2023, public and private actors have doubled down on efforts to securitize the American university. In large part, these initiatives aim to quash a voca...
minnesotalawreview.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Important and timely new article by @msjamshidi.bsky.social out today from the University of Minnesota Law Review: Securitizing the University. Open access.
minnesotalawreview.org/article/secu...
minnesotalawreview.org/article/secu...
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As the U.S. uses sanctions and tariffs against those who seek to hold Israel accountable for genocide, @shahdhm.bsky.social and I have organised this panel on economic and physical coercion with an excellent group of speakers: twailr.com/webinar-geno...
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
As the U.S. uses sanctions and tariffs against those who seek to hold Israel accountable for genocide, @shahdhm.bsky.social and I have organised this panel on economic and physical coercion with an excellent group of speakers: twailr.com/webinar-geno...
This is only marginally more insane than the Bush admins invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. That invasion was also unlawful under intl law but the good ol Congress decided to make it legal under US law by passing the 2002 AUMF. Here there isn’t even that www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela
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November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is only marginally more insane than the Bush admins invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. That invasion was also unlawful under intl law but the good ol Congress decided to make it legal under US law by passing the 2002 AUMF. Here there isn’t even that www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
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“My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded and legs shackled. Then they released the dogs on us, each weighing around 80 or 90 kilos. You fall on your head while blindfolded, and your body starts spinning. One or two of the soldiers come and start kicking you with their...
![“My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded and legs shackled. Then they released the dogs on us, each weighing around 80 or 90 kilos. You fall on your head while blindfolded, and your body starts spinning. One or two of the soldiers come and start kicking you with their military boots while you’re on the ground.”
Dr. Ahmed Mahana was taken from Al-Awda Hospital to Israel’s Sde Teiman torture camp. Emaciated and visibly shaken, he told Channel 4:
“There were interrogation sessions lasting between two and eight hours. They accused me of failing to comply with army orders to evacuate the hospital. Secondly, they said you had defamed [Israel] on international forums in the media.”
More than 400 healthcare workers from Gaza have been detained by Israel; around 80 remain in custody.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:avtgggryiqtjlg5wwsufccua/bafkreiffr36kca5zbvom7wlmvvoztzkqqzg57vpkut7nxxi4jkywsqbbm4@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“My hands were cuffed behind my back, my eyes were blindfolded and legs shackled. Then they released the dogs on us, each weighing around 80 or 90 kilos. You fall on your head while blindfolded, and your body starts spinning. One or two of the soldiers come and start kicking you with their...
The NY Times is taking its renowned skills at writing obfuscating headlines & applying c it to the Trump admin’s illegal assassination campaign against civilians in boats. You’d think from these headlines the boats had no ppl on them when they were “destroyed” but, actually, 14 ppl were killed.
October 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The NY Times is taking its renowned skills at writing obfuscating headlines & applying c it to the Trump admin’s illegal assassination campaign against civilians in boats. You’d think from these headlines the boats had no ppl on them when they were “destroyed” but, actually, 14 ppl were killed.
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France urges Israel to comply with international law in line with UN court’s advisory opinion
France urges Israel to comply with international law in line with UN court’s advisory opinion
France urged Israel on Thursday to comply with obligations under international law in accordance with an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which assessed the legal conse…
www.middleeastmonitor.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
France urges Israel to comply with international law in line with UN court’s advisory opinion
Looks like Julia Sebutinde continues to believe God has chosen her to save Israel by just making shit up about intl law bsky.app/profile/drme...
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Looks like Julia Sebutinde continues to believe God has chosen her to save Israel by just making shit up about intl law bsky.app/profile/drme...
The cases relating to Palestine at the ICJ are going to build on 1 another. It was already likely ICJ was going to conclude Israel was committing genocide in Gaza in the South Africa case. Seems like this adv op has made that as close to 💯 certain as it could bsky.app/profile/drme...
Humanitarian crisis in #gaza is direct risk to existence of #Palestinian people & their ability to exercise self-determination. #Israel cannot prevent requirements of people in #Gaza to exercise self-determination.
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The cases relating to Palestine at the ICJ are going to build on 1 another. It was already likely ICJ was going to conclude Israel was committing genocide in Gaza in the South Africa case. Seems like this adv op has made that as close to 💯 certain as it could bsky.app/profile/drme...
The ICJ has now said what so many have been saying for months - that Israel has NOT proven that UNRWA’s employees are “Hamas” and that the org - which continues to be blocked from entering Gaza by Israel - is vital to providing aid to the Strip. bsky.app/profile/drme...
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The ICJ has now said what so many have been saying for months - that Israel has NOT proven that UNRWA’s employees are “Hamas” and that the org - which continues to be blocked from entering Gaza by Israel - is vital to providing aid to the Strip. bsky.app/profile/drme...
The ICJ is issuing its UNRWA advisory op today. Follow Melanie for a play by play of the decision which is being read now. bsky.app/profile/drme...
Time for another #ICJ ruling! Advisory Opinion on Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other Int Organizations & Third States in & in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory dropping now.
October 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The ICJ is issuing its UNRWA advisory op today. Follow Melanie for a play by play of the decision which is being read now. bsky.app/profile/drme...
Looks like the court is making some very helpful statements about the immunities of UN subsidiaries like UNRWA, as well as UN officials and experts. This is important given efforts by private parties & US govt to strip UNRWA, Francesca Albanese, and others of this immunity bsky.app/profile/drme...
Court considers particular relevance obligation to respect priv & immunities of UN, premises & property; of UN personnel; to address any concern regarding priv & immunities within legal framework.
October 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Looks like the court is making some very helpful statements about the immunities of UN subsidiaries like UNRWA, as well as UN officials and experts. This is important given efforts by private parties & US govt to strip UNRWA, Francesca Albanese, and others of this immunity bsky.app/profile/drme...