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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

The bare minimum of steps to be considered in compliance with international law and to not be abetting the longest military occupation in postwar history and they've not been taken by France, the UK, Australia, Germany, or even Ireland or Canada.

Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 1d

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death

Location, contact networks, patterns of communication, and group affiliations make it possible to map the social life of an entire people

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote a lengthy piece about genocide, geopolitics and international law in the new era, for e-international.bsky.social.

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Genocide in the New Geopolitics

Gaza appears to be the Achilles’ heel of the idea that the liberal order can be salvaged from the Trumpian onslaught.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 3d

The UK does not need to ‘step up a gear’ on defence but to get a new vehicle, focused on real security threats to UK (eg cyber, subsea) and solidarity with Ukraine, not acting as a handmaiden of US global aggression and Israel’s genocide.

Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 4d

Starmer at MSC was his version of Carney at Davos - without the anti-Trump message. Starmer thinks the EU needs to step up a gear or more on defence - whatever the US decides 1/

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4d

“We are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore”

Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 3d

The sort of thing you do when you’ve given up actually talking to the voters.

Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 3d

When I lived in Japan, far-right parties used to drive around blaring out propaganda from loudspeaker vans. People saw them as public nuisances at best, dangerous nutters at worst. Interesting to see Matt Goodwin adopt the same strategy.

Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 3d

When I lived in Japan, far-right parties used to drive around blaring out propaganda from loudspeaker vans. People saw them as public nuisances at best, dangerous nutters at worst. Interesting to see Matt Goodwin adopt the same strategy.

Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 4d

Starmer at MSC was his version of Carney at Davos - without the anti-Trump message. Starmer thinks the EU needs to step up a gear or more on defence - whatever the US decides 1/

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4d

“We are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore”

Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d

Trump UK’s Matthew Goodwin has a women problem.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments

Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d

That’s what they said. But the other two were tiny groups and could have been banned separately. The SNP and LDs copped out.

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d

The French and Czechs have followed suit. Official Europe’s buy-in to genocidal Israel is so deeply embedded.

Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 5d

German foreign minister @aussenminister.diplo.de discredits UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the basis of fake news that is easily verifiable. Unbelievable.

Full solidarity with Francesca Albanese.

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d

2 hours at Geneva in November. People who’d already gone through it still had to wait in the line.

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d

Admissions that the UK government knows that Israel has committed war crimes. It needs now to publish its full assessment and then be held to account for its support for Israel.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5d

🔴Did Keir Starmer’s Government Just Accidentally Admit Its Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes?

Two statements by Government ministers, one private and one public, appear to acknowledge for the first time that Israel’s actions have broken international law

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/13/d...

Did Keir Starmer's Government Just Accidentally Admit Its Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes?

Two statements by Government ministers, one private and one public, appear to acknowledge for the first time that Israel's actions have broken international law

bylinetimes.com

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d

So what was the excuse?

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5d

🔴Did Keir Starmer’s Government Just Accidentally Admit Its Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes?

Two statements by Government ministers, one private and one public, appear to acknowledge for the first time that Israel’s actions have broken international law

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/13/d...

Did Keir Starmer's Government Just Accidentally Admit Its Complicity in Israel’s War Crimes?

Two statements by Government ministers, one private and one public, appear to acknowledge for the first time that Israel's actions have broken international law

bylinetimes.com

Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 5d

German foreign minister @aussenminister.diplo.de discredits UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the basis of fake news that is easily verifiable. Unbelievable.

Full solidarity with Francesca Albanese.

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d

High Court squashes Palestine Action ban: a huge victory for freedom of protest and a humiliating defeat for the Labour government.

A huge embarrassment too for the hundreds of MPs (Labour, Liberal Democrat and SNP) who voted for, or abstained, on the ban despite knowing it was wrong.

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 7d

The SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies event, "Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza", with me and Peter Oborne, is now available on YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ab...

@nimersultany.bsky.social

Nimer Sultany (@nimersultany.bsky.social)

Reader in Law, SOAS; Editor-in-Chief, Palestine Yearbook of International Law; author, Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring (OUP 2017).

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 9d

Dirk Moses senses ‘an air of desperation’ in recent responses of the pro-Statsrason thinkers. ‘Their catechism is buckling under the reality that the German public—including even some functionaries of the German state—can clearly see.’

Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 10d

I answer critics of “Education after Gaza” here.
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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 10d

I answer critics of “Education after Gaza” here.
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 11d

@hrw.org may have blocked Omar Shakir & Milena Ansari’s report because it linked Israel’s denial of Palestinians’ right of return to a prosecutable international crime against humanity. So it should, after 77 years of enforcing genocidal mass expulsions.

jewishcurrents.org/researchers-...

Researchers at Human Rights Watch Resign Over Blocked Report on…

The departures have roiled the prominent watchdog group over a decision one staffer called “unprincipled and cowardly.”

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 11d

‘The largest displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank in one operation since the 1967 war.’

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 11d

‘Since the onset of the Gaza genocide, a staggering 10,000 Palestinians have been internally displaced across the West Bank, with entire villages emptied, dismantled, and erased. This is in addition to the more than 30,000 Palestinians displaced from refugee camps’

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Israeli Settlers, Military Accelerate Violent Expulsion of Palestinians Off Their Land in the West Bank

What was once creeping encroachment by settlers has escalated over the past three years into a state-backed campaign of mass expulsion.

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 11d

‘Since the onset of the Gaza genocide, a staggering 10,000 Palestinians have been internally displaced across the West Bank, with entire villages emptied, dismantled, and erased. This is in addition to the more than 30,000 Palestinians displaced from refugee camps’

open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Israeli Settlers, Military Accelerate Violent Expulsion of Palestinians Off Their Land in the West Bank

What was once creeping encroachment by settlers has escalated over the past three years into a state-backed campaign of mass expulsion.

open.substack.com

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 11d

‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

www.nytimes.com

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 12d

Yvette Cooper with the Israeli embassy, using Holocaust Memorial Day to cover up the Gaza genocide: ‘I am committed to preventing atrocities and pushing for accountability wherever they occur – from Sudan to Iran.’

www.gov.uk/government/s...

Holocaust Memorial Day 2026: Foreign Secretary's speech

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper gave a speech at the FCDO's Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration, co-hosted with the Embassy of Israel, on 26 January 2026.

www.gov.uk

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 14d

A defeat for anti-Palestinian repression in the UK. The victory of the Filton protesters is a strong sign to the government to lift the Palestine Action ban, and to the courts to uphold the judicial review.

Here in their own words:

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POST VERDICT PRESS RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE 04/02/2026 HUGE VICTORY FOR FILTON24 AS JURY ACQUITS FIRST SIX DEFENDANTS OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY AND DOES NOT CONVICT ANY DEFENDANT OF ANY OFFENCES Videos and Images available here, w...

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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 14d

I only just came across this - it’s really important research and relevant to the controversy over the surveillance threat posed by AI.

Daniel Weissmann @danweiss.bsky.social · Jun 2

I wrote a piece for Jacobin about the misuse of antisemitism scholarship for authoritarian projects and the role German antisemitism scholarship plays in the dehumanisation of Palestinians and the justification of the genocide in Gaza.

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · May 29

Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 16d

Hi Nick, it’s really nice to hear from you. Babies above all I fully understand. There will be a recording online.

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 16d

Tomorrow!

Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · Nov 27

For your diaries (3 February): join Peter Oborne, Nimer Sultany and me at SOAS to discuss Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza. Register now.

www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza

The Centre for Palestine Studies is honoured to host a discussion of British complicity in mass atrocities in Gaza with two prominent authors: Peter Oborne, author of Complicit: Britain’s Role in the ...

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