Some thoughts on how torture impacts humans and nonhumans, written for yesterday's anniversary of the Convention Against Torture. Read it on Instagram, LinkedIn, or Facebook: www.instagram.com/p/DSFmgOmCGrJ/, www.linkedin.com/feed/update/..., www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

My interview with Vegans for Palestine on Israel's crimes against animals and nature in Gaza. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGMG...

Vast profits for the merchants of death from having millions of humans and nonhumans murdered, injured, maimed, displaced, and nature destroyed, often irreversibly. My highlights after reading the latest SIPRI study on the top 100 arms producers: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Why do we choose to not see, feel, care about the crimes perpetrated in our name? In “Unseeing Settler–Extractive Colonialism: The ‘Blindness Epidemic’ in the (com)Promised Lands”, I show how the denial and rationalization of crime are central to colonialism. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

On 27 November I’m giving a guest talk at Queen’s University Belfast, on the forgotten victims of Israel’s genocide–ecocide in Gaza: animals and nature. The event is in person and online. Message me if you wish to attend and I'll send the Zoom link. Details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Tomorrow, 9 pm Jerusalem time: “Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine”. Scan the QR code to register; if the registration is closed already, message me and I’ll send you privately the Zoom link.

Pomegranate festival in Halabja/Iraq last week. The red reminds me of a different red. In 1988, Saddam Hussein's forces massacred over 5,000 Kurds in Halabja, using sarin and mustard gas. Nearly 10,000 people were injured. Halabja was among the first stages of the Anfal genocide.

Presenting tomorrow at the “Conscious Beings: Rethinking Animality and Awareness” anthrozoology symposium. Sharing my research on the sinister ties between animal torture and corporate profit. If you wish to attend, message me & I'll send the Zoom. Program: anthrozoology.acadiasi.org/wp-content/u...

My research on Israel’s crimes against the dead and unborn in Gaza was published in Current Affairs. Read it here: www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels-crimes-against-the-dead-and-unborn-in-gaza

From 16 to 18 September 1982, 1,300 to 3,500 civilians, mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias, were killed in Beirut by Lebanese forces, supported by Israeli troops. Don Wagner's "I Saw Israel's 'Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem' in Lebanon 41 Years Ago":

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“Torture and Genocide: The Shattered Futures of Former Palestinian Detainees in Gaza”, report by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, draws on testimonies from 100 Palestinian detainees to document the systematic use of torture as integral to the ongoing genocide.

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Today it’s International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Hundreds of thousands of people have disappeared: abducted, confined, tortured, murdered by state authorities, non-state armed groups, criminal networks. Here I put together examples & resources. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Tomorrow the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights launches “Voices of the Genocide”, report drawing on 1,225 interviews with victims and eyewitnesses, alongside extensive open-source evidence, to document the ongoing genocide on Gaza.

Register to join the launch:
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