Jessica Whyte
@jessicawhyte.bsky.social
Assoc Prof. of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. Writes about economic sanctions, human rights, neoliberalism, international law.
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 sanctions webinar is on tonight (Southern hemisphere)! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This sanctions webinar is on tonight (Southern hemisphere)! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reuters misspelled ‘prosecution’.
September 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Reuters misspelled ‘prosecution’.
Yep, it’s been confirmed by the ambassador of the ‘most truthful country’ whose insistence should always be front-page news.
July 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Yep, it’s been confirmed by the ambassador of the ‘most truthful country’ whose insistence should always be front-page news.
Michael Milshtein, the head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University tells Isaac Chotiner that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been “a total failure”. No, it is working just as intended—as a technology of genocide and humanitarian camouflage.
July 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Michael Milshtein, the head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University tells Isaac Chotiner that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been “a total failure”. No, it is working just as intended—as a technology of genocide and humanitarian camouflage.
A great piece that draws on my work on anti-colonial law-making to challenge the idea that those who seek to restrain the practice of war simply lack experience of it.
July 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A great piece that draws on my work on anti-colonial law-making to challenge the idea that those who seek to restrain the practice of war simply lack experience of it.
Rubio says Francesca Albanese has been sanctioned for waging "economic warfare" against the United States. These sanctions are to protect the fundamental right of US and Israeli corporations to continue to profit from genocide.
July 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Rubio says Francesca Albanese has been sanctioned for waging "economic warfare" against the United States. These sanctions are to protect the fundamental right of US and Israeli corporations to continue to profit from genocide.
Israel’s dystopian ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ was condemned by all established aid groups. Now even Jake Wood, the former U.S. Marine sniper who headed it, has resigned as even he is unable to able to defend the pretence that the GHF is a ‘humanitarian’ endeavour.
May 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Israel’s dystopian ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ was condemned by all established aid groups. Now even Jake Wood, the former U.S. Marine sniper who headed it, has resigned as even he is unable to able to defend the pretence that the GHF is a ‘humanitarian’ endeavour.
But they ‘regret the inconvenience caused’ (which is more than Jenin’s people get when they’re shot at).
May 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
But they ‘regret the inconvenience caused’ (which is more than Jenin’s people get when they’re shot at).
The Global Centre for the R2P is preparing to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its ‘global commitment to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing’ (!)
May 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The Global Centre for the R2P is preparing to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its ‘global commitment to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing’ (!)
I keep thinking about this phrasing and how it reveals the extraordinarily hard work (psychic work but also political work and outright repression) that has made it possible to only now be starting to ‘suspect’ that Israel aims to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
May 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I keep thinking about this phrasing and how it reveals the extraordinarily hard work (psychic work but also political work and outright repression) that has made it possible to only now be starting to ‘suspect’ that Israel aims to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
The Atlantic worries human rights NGOs are “looking at the complicated stew of politics and culture in Israel and Palestine and blaming Israel foremost.” In other news, the body of leader of a missing rescue team has been found buried with destroyed ambulances & fire trucks. 13 others still missing.
March 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The Atlantic worries human rights NGOs are “looking at the complicated stew of politics and culture in Israel and Palestine and blaming Israel foremost.” In other news, the body of leader of a missing rescue team has been found buried with destroyed ambulances & fire trucks. 13 others still missing.
Amidst all the horror in Gaza and the West Bank, the repression of those who oppose it, and the submission of so many of our cultural institutions and universities, I am so grateful for all the courageous people of UNSW Staff and Students for Palestine!
March 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Amidst all the horror in Gaza and the West Bank, the repression of those who oppose it, and the submission of so many of our cultural institutions and universities, I am so grateful for all the courageous people of UNSW Staff and Students for Palestine!
Adam Shatz on liberalism and the Palestine exception that has become the rule: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
March 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Adam Shatz on liberalism and the Palestine exception that has become the rule: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Those worried that Trump Admin’s annual human rights report may be ‘politically motivated’ should re-read the 2023 report, which described Israel as taking “credible steps to identify and punish officials who may have committed human rights abuses.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Those worried that Trump Admin’s annual human rights report may be ‘politically motivated’ should re-read the 2023 report, which described Israel as taking “credible steps to identify and punish officials who may have committed human rights abuses.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
This is precisely what the letter addresses.
March 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This is precisely what the letter addresses.
More than 200 Australian Research Council grant recipients have signed this open letter calling for the ARC to immediately reinstate Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Future Fellowship and protect grant recipients from politically motivated campaigns. Letter & signatory list: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
March 20, 2025 at 6:36 AM
More than 200 Australian Research Council grant recipients have signed this open letter calling for the ARC to immediately reinstate Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Future Fellowship and protect grant recipients from politically motivated campaigns. Letter & signatory list: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...
Trump Admin: we must avoid the overuse of sanctions so as not to jeopardise the US dollar. Also Trump admin: we will sanction anyone who assists the international criminal court to prosecute US allies.
March 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Trump Admin: we must avoid the overuse of sanctions so as not to jeopardise the US dollar. Also Trump admin: we will sanction anyone who assists the international criminal court to prosecute US allies.
After Trump’s Executive Order imposing sanctions on the ICC, OFAC has now added Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan to the Specially Designated Nationals list, blocking any property he holds in the U.S. and banning his entry. Many others who assisted the ICC’s prosecutions of Israeli leaders will be added…
February 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
After Trump’s Executive Order imposing sanctions on the ICC, OFAC has now added Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan to the Specially Designated Nationals list, blocking any property he holds in the U.S. and banning his entry. Many others who assisted the ICC’s prosecutions of Israeli leaders will be added…
Ihab Shalbak’s ‘Human Rights in Palestine: from Self-Determination to Governance” has been awarded the Andrea Durbach prize. It traces the shift from an anti-colonial struggle for popular sovereignty and self-determination to post-Oslo human rights as tool of governance. More here bit.ly/3Olspz3
November 22, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Ihab Shalbak’s ‘Human Rights in Palestine: from Self-Determination to Governance” has been awarded the Andrea Durbach prize. It traces the shift from an anti-colonial struggle for popular sovereignty and self-determination to post-Oslo human rights as tool of governance. More here bit.ly/3Olspz3
In the midst of a genocide, Australia’s national broadcaster provides an architect of that genocide with a platform to “slam critics” of his plan, calling them either ignorant or evil.
November 19, 2024 at 11:55 PM
In the midst of a genocide, Australia’s national broadcaster provides an architect of that genocide with a platform to “slam critics” of his plan, calling them either ignorant or evil.
Milton Friedman asked for the records of his time on Reagan’s Economic Policy Coordinating Committee. The response: ‘I didn’t even remember that you served on the committee’.
November 18, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Milton Friedman asked for the records of his time on Reagan’s Economic Policy Coordinating Committee. The response: ‘I didn’t even remember that you served on the committee’.