Avner Gidron
@avnergidron.bsky.social
Senior Policy Adviser, Amnesty International
Soldiers in Robes: Why Military Lawyers Can Not and Should Not Serve as Immigration Judges at www.justsecurity.org/124574/soldi...
Military Lawyers Should Not Serve as Immigration Judges
DOJ’s decision to appointment several military lawyers, or JAGs to serve as immigration judges is not only against the law, but a bad idea.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Soldiers in Robes: Why Military Lawyers Can Not and Should Not Serve as Immigration Judges at www.justsecurity.org/124574/soldi...
The lives and bodies forever scarred by Israeli state-backed settler violence projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...
The lives and bodies forever scarred by Israeli state-backed settler violence
Attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank have surged to record levels, with Israeli settlers and soldiers operating in near-total symbiosis. Victims of shootings, beatings, and stonings reveal the...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The lives and bodies forever scarred by Israeli state-backed settler violence projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...
@amnesty.org : Escalating crackdown on human rights organizations in Tunisia reaches critical levels www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Tunisia: Escalating crackdown on human rights organizations reaches critical levels
Tunisian authorities must end this campaign of intimidation and immediately release all NGO workers and human rights defenders.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
@amnesty.org : Escalating crackdown on human rights organizations in Tunisia reaches critical levels www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Doing Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements, the Dutch Way opiniojuris.org/2025/11/14/d...
Doing Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements, the Dutch Way
[Alessandra Spadaro works as Assistant Professor in public international law at Utrecht University. She is conducting a three-year project on “Business in and for war: the role and limits of intern…
opiniojuris.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Doing Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements, the Dutch Way opiniojuris.org/2025/11/14/d...
UN OHCHR : Occupied West Bank - Increased Israeli violence against Palestinians must stop www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
Occupied West Bank: Increased Israeli violence against Palestinians must stop
Images of mobs of masked Israeli settlers carrying out arson attacks in the occupied West Bank this week are abhorrent and reflect a wider pattern of increased violence against Palestinians. Several p...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
UN OHCHR : Occupied West Bank - Increased Israeli violence against Palestinians must stop www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
IDF Declares West Bank Village Closed Military Zone as Activists on Way to Aid in Harvest www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
IDF declares West Bank village closed military zone as activists on way to aid in harvest
'It's Sad That the Army and Police, Who Fail to Stop Jewish Terror, Are Investing Massive Resources in Targeting Peace and Human-rights Activists,' Said the Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Righ...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
IDF Declares West Bank Village Closed Military Zone as Activists on Way to Aid in Harvest www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
@amnestyuk.bsky.social : MPs must press government to end all arms transfers to Israel after court ruling www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
UK: MPs must press government to end all arms transfers to Israel after court ruling
The UK continues to send arms to Israel even as it commits genocide and enforces a system of apartheid on Palestinians. It’s outrageous that ‘international security’ is being used to justify the ongoi...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@amnestyuk.bsky.social : MPs must press government to end all arms transfers to Israel after court ruling www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
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theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
theintercept.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
@amnesty.org : Landmark trial in Paris of DRC armed group leader is a crucial step to ending impunity www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
DRC: Landmark trial in Paris of Congolese armed group leader is a crucial step to ending impunity
This historic trial is an opportunity to send a clear signal that those suspected of criminal responsibility of mass atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are mistaken if they believe t...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
@amnesty.org : Landmark trial in Paris of DRC armed group leader is a crucial step to ending impunity www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
@amnesty.org : Israel must immediately halt legislation of discriminatory death penalty bill www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Israel must immediately halt legislation of discriminatory death penalty bill
In response to the passing of the first reading of a controversial new amendment to the Israeli Penal Law making it mandatory for Israeli courts to impose the death penalty against individuals convic...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
@amnesty.org : Israel must immediately halt legislation of discriminatory death penalty bill www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
In the shadow of Al-Aqsa, a Palestinian neighborhood faces mass evictions www.972mag.com/batan-al-haw...
In Al-Aqsa's shadow, Palestinian neighborhood faces mass evictions
Backed by the Israeli state and courts, settlers are taking over multi-story homes in East Jerusalem’s Batan Al-Hawa — with 700 more residents targeted.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
In the shadow of Al-Aqsa, a Palestinian neighborhood faces mass evictions www.972mag.com/batan-al-haw...
Reposted by Avner Gidron
As winter approaches, attacks on critical infrastructure add pressure to systems already struggling after years of armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
When the electricity supply is interrupted, the taps run dry, and the heating goes off, civilians are left vulnerable.
When the electricity supply is interrupted, the taps run dry, and the heating goes off, civilians are left vulnerable.
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
As winter approaches, attacks on critical infrastructure add pressure to systems already struggling after years of armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
When the electricity supply is interrupted, the taps run dry, and the heating goes off, civilians are left vulnerable.
When the electricity supply is interrupted, the taps run dry, and the heating goes off, civilians are left vulnerable.
UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children www.reuters.com/business/hea...
@amnesty.org : Nigeria - Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Nigeria: Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine
Marking 30 years since the Nigerian government’s brutal execution of nine leading environmental activists – the Ogoni Nine – for fighting to protect the Niger Delta from oil giant Shell, Amnesty Inter...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
@amnesty.org : Nigeria - Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
@amnesty.org : Russia - Street musicians jailed for a third time over anti-war songs www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Russia: Street musicians jailed for a third time over anti-war songs
Authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Naoko and Aleksandr Orlov and other street musicians detained for acts of anti-war protest
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November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
@amnesty.org : Russia - Street musicians jailed for a third time over anti-war songs www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Born to Unwed Mothers, These Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Born to Unwed Mothers, These Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Born to Unwed Mothers, These Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Two Palestinian Families Evicted From Their Homes in East Jerusalem's Silwan www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Two Palestinian families evicted from their homes in East Jerusalem's Silwan
The Eviction Comes Amid a Decades-long Legal Battle Between Hundreds of Palestinian Residents and an Israeli Nonprofit, Which Claims the Land Under a 1970s Law Allowing Jews to Reclaim Property in Eas...
www.haaretz.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Two Palestinian Families Evicted From Their Homes in East Jerusalem's Silwan www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
The Israeli army’s top legal official is being hounded over her role in a scandal that has split the nation. Her complicity in the genocide goes unmentioned. www.972mag.com/sde-teiman-l...
Both sides of the Sde Teiman leak debate reflect Israel’s moral decay
The Israeli army’s top legal official is being hounded over her role in a scandal that has split the nation. Her complicity in the genocide goes unmentioned.
www.972mag.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Israeli army’s top legal official is being hounded over her role in a scandal that has split the nation. Her complicity in the genocide goes unmentioned. www.972mag.com/sde-teiman-l...