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“In Yemen, war’s costs have too often landed on civilians who bear no responsibility for the war nor for the wrongs committed during it.”
on the case for reparations:
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Please join us for a discussion sponsored by the American Society of International Law & Georgetown University in Qatar.
With Asli Bali (/), Sarah Leah Whitson (), Nora Aboueldahab (), Fadel Abdul Ghany () and myself ()
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“My questions wouldn’t be directed at Saudi Arabia. My questions would be directed at the highly questionable judgment and scruples of (FIFA). , executive director of , told .
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New from & : how does the IMF's loan to Egypt stack up from a human rights perspective? Some goods news, but (shock!) millions of people still left w/o support, including from impact of conditionalities
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“Alaa Abdel Fattah’s vision of a very different Egypt, along with that of millions of young Egyptians, has itself been imprisoned by Sisi’s regime.”
in on America’s shameful backing for Egypt’s police state:
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“The biggest question here is about 's model of relying on volunteers who are operating in authoritarian countries, and putting them in danger, and not advocating for their release when they are in trouble,”
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Join 's Public Panel on Humanitarian Intervention. Scholars and experts including DAWN's Executive Director will speak at . RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI
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“I suspect it will only escalate from here,” said , Palestinian analyst and former negotiator and DAWN Fellow. “In the past there has always been some effort to de-escalate. And in this case there is nothing."
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GO DEEPER: "It does not champion universal human rights, but the human rights of Jews, in a Jewish state."
Article by in
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Khan al-Ahmar isn't a tipping point for the two-state solution anymore—that's moot by now. But what it says about Israel's intentions should be a tipping point for the US-Israel relationship.
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The International Monetary Fund's new US$3 billion loan agreement with Egypt largely continues an economic approach that leaves the economic rights of millions unprotected, and Democracy in the Arab World Now () said today.
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New report: More than 1,000 people have been executed since MBS, and his father came to power in 2015, incl child defendants, protesters, vulnerable women in domestic service, alleged drug mules & people whose only 'crime' was exercising freedom of speech.
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In a joint report published today, and speak of a new US $3 billion loan agreement between Egypt and the IMF. They argue that the agreement risks leaving millions of Egyptians' economic rights unprotected.👇
✍️ Thaer Mansour
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The International Monetary Fund's new US$3 billion loan agreement with Egypt largely continues an economic approach that leaves the economic rights of millions unprotected, and Democracy in the Arab World Now () said today.
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“The death toll over both in the West Bank and now in Jerusalem is in fact the entirely predictable result of an extremist Israeli government that is propagating violence,” .
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With Pompeo’s heinous statements about Saudis’ murder of Khashoggi, don’t miss this angle:
Who was in charge of CIA and State Department that year?
Pompeo
I wrote this piece at the time about fishy State Dept statements and U.S. duty to warn Khashoggi.
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Ahead of the visit by of Jordan to Washington D.C. for meetings in Congress, urged members to ask the following questions: Why is the King permitting his security forces to harass, intimidate, and arrest activists? read more:
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Instead of trying to put out fires, of which there will be many in the coming days, weeks, and months, the Biden Admin must reexamine the most basic assumptions underlying the US-Israel "special relationship." This is the real Israel, Mr. President. It’s time to wake up.
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The admin's response so far today, calling for deescalation and denouncing a PA decision to cease security cooperation with Israel, is indicative it's stuck in the Oslo framework. This Israeli gov’t has made clear that era is over. The US must adjust its approach accordingly.
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Today's deadly devastation from a military raid deep inside a civilian population center must be a wakeup call for the Biden Administration and the international community as a whole.
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The new gov't is indeed dangerous and led by racists, pyromaniacs, and advocates of ethnic cleansing, but Israel was killing Palestinians at an alarming and record-setting pace even under the more "palatable" Lapid-Bennett government.
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It is not, however, an anomaly to be cast aside as somehow unique to or indicative of the dangers Israel's new extremist government poses.
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Since the beginning of the year, when Israel’s new extremist government took office, Israeli forces have killed at least 29 Palestinians, including five children. This follows 2022, the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since 2005.
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The Israeli attack was the deadliest single Israeli military operation in the West Bank since the UN started tracking such data in 2005, according to the Guardian.
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We woke up this morning to news that Israeli forces killed at least 9 Palestinians—including two children—and wounded over 20 in the heart of the occupied West Bank's #Jenin Refugee Camp overnight.
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“The deafening silence at the heart of Hayut’s speech hinted at what is usually kept under wraps: the Supreme Court is a stronghold of justice for Jews only.”
of on how Israel’s Supreme Court crushes Palestinian rights.
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“It is safe to say that Sisi’s political brutality is matched only by his economic incompetence.”
in on the anniversary of Egypt’s Jan. 25 revolution and “the destruction wrought on Egyptian political life by Sisi and his ilk.”
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Don't let the headline deceive you, this is actually a story about Israel's National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, the extremist supremacist former member of a U.S. designated terrorist organization. [Thread]
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"The national security implications of payments from a grotesquely abusive foreign dictator to a US president who provided extraordinary favors to him are as dangerous as they are shocking." DAWN called on US gov to investigate dealings btw LIV and Trump.
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According to , #Biden has not held #Saudi Arabian leaders accountable for their crimes, and has pledged billions in "defensive" arms sales. Sales for offensive action may resume as well. These policies are unsatisfactory. Read: forumarmstrade.org/bidenyeartwo.h
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"It is despicable that a senior American official is suggesting that it's ok to kill a journalist if his political views are ones he doesn't like," said , Executive Director of DAWN, in response to comments made by in his new memoir.
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“We had to work years to build confidence among senior leadership that this was an important place for us to go”, fear “if you cross those red lines, they'll try to decapitate you as an effective advocacy group.” re-apartheid designation.
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"It is despicable that a senior American official is suggesting that it's ok to kill a journalist if his political views are ones he doesn't like," said , Executive Director of DAWN, in response to comments made by in his new memoir.
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At two year mark, experts assess #Biden admin on arms transfers, civilian protection, #landmines, cluster munitions, firearms exports, Arms Trade Treaty, #Taiwan, #SaudiArabia, human rights, #EWIPA and more. Read at forumarmstrade.org/bidenyeartwo.h
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The Harvard Kennedy School reversed course on Thursday & said it would offer a fellowship to a leading human rights advocate it had previously rejected, after a public outcry over academic freedom, donor influence and the boundaries of criticism of Israel.
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What is Kahanism? A political movement? An ideology? A cult following?
“It’s all of those things,” tells of the “far-right, ethnic supremacist, ultranationalist movement” that is now in Israel’s government.
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“We had to work years to build confidence among senior leadership that this was an important place for us to go”, fear “if you cross those red lines, they'll try to decapitate you as an effective advocacy group.” re-apartheid designation.
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Had a great conversation with 's about Itamar Ben Gvir, the history of Kahanism, and what it means to have Kahanists in the Israeli government
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"We face ongoing, relentless attacks by Saudi government agents against activists in the US, even after the murder of Khashoggi. We are working to make this stop,” re-new Khashoggi Ban submission of Alhussayen who works for the Saudi Royal Court.
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