Structural change now - abolish the notwithstanding clause!
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Structural change now - abolish the notwithstanding clause!
I do not disagree with the truth stated in article or the comments above, but I do think that the root problem is not Smith or her brand of populism. Rather, it is a structural problem in the sense that an antiquated, anti-human rights mechanism even exists - the so-called notwithstanding clause.
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I do not disagree with the truth stated in article or the comments above, but I do think that the root problem is not Smith or her brand of populism. Rather, it is a structural problem in the sense that an antiquated, anti-human rights mechanism even exists - the so-called notwithstanding clause.
I study in a grad program in Europe, and literally EVERYBODY speaks a minimum of 3 languages except of course the average Canadian and American. Some speak 2, but only a very few.
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I study in a grad program in Europe, and literally EVERYBODY speaks a minimum of 3 languages except of course the average Canadian and American. Some speak 2, but only a very few.
It is only by confronting these culturally entrenched stories and structures that international law can fulfill its claim to universal justice rather than remain a tool of empire.
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Free Palestine!
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Free Palestine!
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It is only by confronting these culturally entrenched stories and structures that international law can fulfill its claim to universal justice rather than remain a tool of empire.
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Free Palestine!
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Free Palestine!
Thus, the path forward demands a deliberate decolonizing agenda: revisiting treaty language, redefining sovereignty on the basis of self determination instead of Eurocentric standards, and creating institutional mechanisms that recognize and empower historically subaltern actors.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thus, the path forward demands a deliberate decolonizing agenda: revisiting treaty language, redefining sovereignty on the basis of self determination instead of Eurocentric standards, and creating institutional mechanisms that recognize and empower historically subaltern actors.
By exposing these story telling mechanisms, we see that every imperial legal order rests on a narrative that creates the law it later claims to apply, and that de-colonising international law requires dismantling those stories as much as revising statutes.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
By exposing these story telling mechanisms, we see that every imperial legal order rests on a narrative that creates the law it later claims to apply, and that de-colonising international law requires dismantling those stories as much as revising statutes.
Finally, Imseis’ concept of international legal subalternity shows how the UN’s language, inherited from the Mandate system, keeps Palestine in a permanent state of exception, a direct continuation of the narrative-driven imperial logic.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Finally, Imseis’ concept of international legal subalternity shows how the UN’s language, inherited from the Mandate system, keeps Palestine in a permanent state of exception, a direct continuation of the narrative-driven imperial logic.
Burks’s critique of the human rights empire demonstrates that contemporary security narratives recycle the civilizing story to legitimize extraordinary legal measures such as the war on terror.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Burks’s critique of the human rights empire demonstrates that contemporary security narratives recycle the civilizing story to legitimize extraordinary legal measures such as the war on terror.
Anghie’s analysis of the civilizing of sovereignty reveals how the same narrative logic underlies the exclusionary foundations of international law.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Anghie’s analysis of the civilizing of sovereignty reveals how the same narrative logic underlies the exclusionary foundations of international law.
Moses Hess’s philosophical call for a Jewish national rebirth and Theodor Herzl’s political blueprint for a Jewish state turned cultural longing into a legal claim to statehood.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Moses Hess’s philosophical call for a Jewish national rebirth and Theodor Herzl’s political blueprint for a Jewish state turned cultural longing into a legal claim to statehood.
For instance, Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden” framed imperial rule as a moral burden that later appeared in the Mandate system’s rhetoric of a “sacred trust of civilization”.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
For instance, Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden” framed imperial rule as a moral burden that later appeared in the Mandate system’s rhetoric of a “sacred trust of civilization”.
Furthermore, the manner in which these narratives have emerged from notions of cultural hegemony and have thus been woven into legal doctrines shows how story becomes law.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Furthermore, the manner in which these narratives have emerged from notions of cultural hegemony and have thus been woven into legal doctrines shows how story becomes law.
Inclusion is not an open invitation but a conditional acceptance predicated on the adoption of European norms, while exclusion is the default for those who resist or cannot be assimilated, rendering them sub-sovereign and peripheral. #palestine #cdnpoli
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Inclusion is not an open invitation but a conditional acceptance predicated on the adoption of European norms, while exclusion is the default for those who resist or cannot be assimilated, rendering them sub-sovereign and peripheral. #palestine #cdnpoli
In other words, repurposing humanitarian rhetoric to justify new forms of exclusion and control.
Together, these scholars compel us to reconceptualize the relationship between inclusion and exclusion in international law.
Together, these scholars compel us to reconceptualize the relationship between inclusion and exclusion in international law.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In other words, repurposing humanitarian rhetoric to justify new forms of exclusion and control.
Together, these scholars compel us to reconceptualize the relationship between inclusion and exclusion in international law.
Together, these scholars compel us to reconceptualize the relationship between inclusion and exclusion in international law.
This paradox – whereby oppressed peoples mobilize the very law that marginalizes them – echoes the broader pattern identified by Burke, who argues that contemporary practices such as the “war on terror” are continuities of the same imperial genealogy. #freepalestine #cdnpoli
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This paradox – whereby oppressed peoples mobilize the very law that marginalizes them – echoes the broader pattern identified by Burke, who argues that contemporary practices such as the “war on terror” are continuities of the same imperial genealogy. #freepalestine #cdnpoli
denying Palestinians full self-determination despite their continual appeal to human rights norms. #palestine #canada
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
denying Palestinians full self-determination despite their continual appeal to human rights norms. #palestine #canada
The case of Palestine illustrates how these colonial legacies persist today. Imseis’ notion of “international legal subalternity” captures the way the UN and the broader international legal order have kept Palestine in a “permanent state of exception”,
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The case of Palestine illustrates how these colonial legacies persist today. Imseis’ notion of “international legal subalternity” captures the way the UN and the broader international legal order have kept Palestine in a “permanent state of exception”,
The League of Nations’ mandate system institutionalized this logic, cloaking imperial control over territories such as Palestine in the language of a “sacred trust” to “civilize” non-European societies while preserving economic and political subordination.
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The League of Nations’ mandate system institutionalized this logic, cloaking imperial control over territories such as Palestine in the language of a “sacred trust” to “civilize” non-European societies while preserving economic and political subordination.
Anghie demonstrates that the very concepts of sovereignty and the international legal order were defined by a “civilizing mission” that granted rights only to those who met European standards, leaving the majority of peoples legally invisible and subject to domination. #canada #palestine #cdnpoli
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Anghie demonstrates that the very concepts of sovereignty and the international legal order were defined by a “civilizing mission” that granted rights only to those who met European standards, leaving the majority of peoples legally invisible and subject to domination. #canada #palestine #cdnpoli
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In the meantime, the rich profit and capitalism further entrenches itself. And even those of us who are decolonizing ourselves struggle to release the "bad people/good people" narrative and centre a more human, and accurate, appreciation of systems and structures.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
In the meantime, the rich profit and capitalism further entrenches itself. And even those of us who are decolonizing ourselves struggle to release the "bad people/good people" narrative and centre a more human, and accurate, appreciation of systems and structures.
Organize and fight back, beloveds:
Organize and fight back, beloveds: