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Heidi Matthews

7 months

Pleased to share "Writing and Resisting Colonial Genocide" by myself, @luanngg & Joel Ong in @SageGSP , from our Colonial Genocide interdisciplinary project. Below, some photos I write about that aren't included in the print version. @YUResearch @Osgoode

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5 months

This is one of the most dystopian images I've ever seen.

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3 months

The ICJ's written order and separate opinions will be released shortly. But my first reaction is that this is a big win for Palestinian advocates. Some will be disappointed that the Court stopped short of ordering a ceasefire. But... 🧵

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4 years

My hometown is the literal best 🏂 #Newfoundland #StJohnsNL #snowmaggedon2020 h/t Maria Cherwick (fb)

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23 days

Today, the @CIJ_ICJ heard oral arguments from Nicaragua, which has brought a case against Germany alleging that in providing political, financial & military support to Israel, Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide & has failed in its obligation to prevent genocide.🧵

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24 days

This is absolutely 100% disinformation. Under international humanitarian law violating the prohibition on employing human shields does NOT turn the civilians or their objects being used as shields into legitimate targets. Attacking civilians in this way is a war crime.

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@Heidi__Matthews Human shielding is a war crime, and it is recognized under the law of war that civilian infrastructures used by armies in this way are legitimate targets.

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2 years

@calebscoville @emilyjodell It’s about work culture: sending emails in the night or on weekends can create the sense that others should be doing the same & that in fact there is no time off. This is especially true in the context of academic hierarchy & affects young women colleagues disproportionately.

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Heidi Matthews

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5 months

Unsurprisingly, the architect of the axis of evil who lied us into the Iraq war is lying about my tweet. Tonight, Netanyahu directly used sexual violence allegations to demand that the world continue to support Israel in the use of “overwhelming force” to defend “civilisation”.

David Frum

@davidfrum

5 months

A distinguished Canadian academic expert on sexual violence can't condemn Hamas's crimes against Jewish women without adding a self-revealing "but ..." l https://x.com/Heidi__Matthews/status/1732029225564049821?s=20

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

Is wartime sexual violence a horrific crime? YES, with no mistake. But sex exceptionalism is also traditionally used to whip up support for entire military campaigns — we see Israel and the U.S. doing this now to justify a prolonged disproportionate air and ground war.

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@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

Every country that has cut funding to UNRWA is complicit in the deterioration of the humanitarian situation of Palestinians in Gaza, which the ICJ has found is at least plausibly genocidal.

Philippe Lazzarini

@UNLazzarini

3 months

UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency. Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a…

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Heidi Matthews

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3 months

Among other things, this means that in order for states to fulfill their international obligations under the Genocide Convention they must *do something*. For e.g., states exporting arms or military technology to Israel must stop.

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3 months

It shocking - and frankly irresponsible - for pieces on Oct 7 sexual violence allegations to omit the crucial fact that Israel is refusing to cooperate with international investigations (International Criminal Court & International Commission of Inquiry).

Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by Hamas in 7 October attacks

Guardian aware of sexual assaults for which multiple corroborating pieces of evidence exist

www.theguardian.com

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

Canada's refusal to say whether it 'accepts the premise' of the genocide case against Israel feeds the misperception that states' agreement matters. It doesn't. The ICJ's ruling means all states have an obligation to act to prevent genocide in Gaza.

Ruling by UN’s top court means Canada and the U.S. could be complicit in Gaza genocide

The recent ruling by the International Court of Justice means Canada could be guilty of supporting genocide in Gaza by cutting aid funding and continuing military exports to Israel.

theconversation.com

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

... the fact that the Court ordered the measures it DID, including directing Israel not to commit or incite genocide, indicates it has concluded that it is (a) plausible for Palestinians in Gaza to claim protection from genocide, and (b) that the need for protection is urgent.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

I think we can infer from this that *at a minimum* there is a serious risk that Israel will commit genocide. This is important because it puts *all states* on formal notice of the serious risk of genocide, which triggers states’ duty to take concrete steps to prevent genocide.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

1 month

The U.S. is unilaterally claiming that Security Council resolution 2728 is non-binding and therefore has no impact on its policy or the legality of Israel’s continued war. This is not so obvious… 🧵

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

7 months

Just so everyone is crystal clear: I’m a professor of international criminal law. Do I think Hamas has committed international crimes? YES. Do I think Israel has committed international crimes. YES. Do I think international crimes are a good thing? NO.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

4 years

I’ve about had enough with the “law school needs less theory and more practice” hot takes. Uncritical legal technicians — those taught to simply enact power without having spent a non-trivial amount of time thinking critically about our power structures — are not a social good.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

Another related point: I need to read the separate opinions, but my intuition is that it's a massive win that Israeli ad hoc judge Barak sided with the majority in ordering many of the provisional measures. He may have judged his own legacy as more important than Netanyahu's.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

The short story: this order on provisional measures will have an important and immediate impact on how states are required to act under international law. It will also radically shift the global conversation about what is happening in Gaza.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

Since I can't rely on my government to use my tax dollars to fund the lifesaving humanitarian services provided to Palestine refugees by @UNRWA , today I made my first personal donation. It's quick and easy. If your means allow, please consider donating:

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

6 months

On October 17, @JillDunlop1 , Ontario's Minister of Colleges and Universities in @fordnation 's government, launched a targeted attack against me, other professors, and students who have engaged in public speech supportive of Palestinians and critical of Israel's war on Gaza. 🧵

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

4 months

I spent the day at the hospital w/my 3-yr-old who was feverish & barely eating x5 days (she has a bacterial infection & will be OK). I kept thinking: Would she have survived in Gaza? Would she have had clean water? Would she have starved? Would she have had access to medicine? 🧵

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

13 days

On today in Canadian racism, the keffiyeh has been banned in Ontario’s legislative building.

Sarah Jama

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13 days

My statement on the Keffiyeh Ban at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario #onpoli #HamOnt #FreePalestine

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

Instead of supporting independent investigations of wartime sexual violence and prosecution of perpetrators, Israel prefers collectively punishing Gazans. This is what cynical weaponization of rape in service of war looks like.

Eylon Levy

@EylonALevy

5 months

So many people demanding the Hamas Rapist Regime get off scott-free for the sexual atrocities of October 7! Yes, it sounds blunt. That’s what this means.

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@Heidi__Matthews

1 month

I’m in rural Canada right now. Due to a fire at a dairy plant at the weekend there’s no milk in many areas. Now imagine Gaza.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

7 months

This is absurd and threatening. The idea, alleged here, that it is antisemitic to insist that we get the facts right about crimes that have been committed is not an idea at all — it’s an open threat to truth and any prospect of justice in this hideous conflict.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

The International Commission of Jurists ( @ICJ_org ) is sounding the alarm about the significant risk of genocide in Gaza. This is not some 'fringe', 'radical left' or 'dissident' group. These are mainstream international jurists from across the world. 🧵

icj

@ICJ_org

5 months

The blockade of Gaza, depriving civilians of water, food, medicine, electricity&fuel, may constitute the act of “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction”, under the definition of genocide

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Heidi Matthews

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4 months

I've proudly signed this statement supporting South Africa's genocide case against Israel👇 "We recognise that [the] struggles against apartheid & the racial calculus of genocide are crucial for upholding the internationalist vision of global justice"

Public Statement: Scholars support South Africa’s submission to the International Court of Justice...

Text and signature link for this public statement.

twailr.com

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

27 days

Meanwhile in Canada, federal fisheries officers arrested two Mi'kmaq fishers and then released them barefoot and without cellphones. The men walked for six hours in the cold, fearing death. This colonial policing tactic is known as a "starlight tour."

'Starlight tour': Mi'kmaq fisher allegedly dumped without boots or phone feared death

One of two Mi'kmaq fishers who reported being dumped by federal fisheries officers far from home at 1 a.m. in Nova Scotia without footwear or phones says they walked for about six hours and feared...

atlantic.ctvnews.ca

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

exports will or could be used by Israel to commit international crimes, including genocide. Certainly the fact that states are now on formal notice that there is a serious risk of genocide should mean that preventing genocide in these circumstances means halting arms exports.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

Predictably, moments after the ICJ ordered *extensive* provisional measures against Israel because it found that the rights of Palestinians in Gaza not to be subjected to genocide were at risk of irreparable harm, we get this pre-written article spreading misinformation. 🧵

National Post

@nationalpost

3 months

BREAKING: Top UN court rejects SA request to halt war against Hamas

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9 days

As a parent, imagine deciding to give CNN permission to show the face of your dead daughter, killed in an air strike while playing foosball, in the hope it might make someone care

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Heidi Matthews

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3 months

Yesterday Israeli forces disguised as medical staff and civilians reportedly entered a hospital in the West Bank and extra-judicially killed 3 wounded combatants. If true, this is a war crime, and possibly a crime against humanity. 🧵

Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in West Bank hospital raid

Hospital says the men were ‘assassinated’. Israel says they belonged to a ‘Hamas terrorist cell’.

www.aljazeera.com

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

12 days

Today the United States vetoed a Security Council resolution recommending Palestine for membership in the United Nations. 12 Council members voted in favour, with 2 abstaining (UK & Switzerland). Some 140 states already recognize the State of Palestine. A few notes 🧵

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

This headline perpetuates Robinson’s racism, referring to Palestine as the “region where Israel was established”.

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Heidi Matthews

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4 months

Human Rights Watch reports that Gazan workers detained in Israeli prisons were subjected to sexual violence: "They [forced me to take] off all my clothes…and they took pictures of me.…They beat me intensely, I was naked during this, it was humiliating."

Israel: Gaza Workers Held Incommunicado for Weeks

Israeli authorities held thousands of workers from Gaza in incommunicado detention for several weeks following the October 7 attacks, subjecting at least some of them to inhumane and degrading...

www.hrw.org

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

4 months

NEW: Israel held thousands of workers from Gaza in incommunicado detention for several weeks following the October 7 attacks. "We stayed blindfolded and cuffed [with zip ties on our hands and feet] for 10 days," one man said.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

No, not right at all. Any feminist worth their salt needs to be attentive to the way women’s sexual victimization is used by men to promote their war agendas. Period.

Lorna M Yates (she/her)

@lornamyates73

5 months

@Heidi__Matthews I appreciate that and you can appreciate that your post may be received as provocative. Like “oh those Israelis, making a big deal out of raping and drying women just to get the world on side”, right?

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

2 months

Who are the perpetrators that must be held accountable?

Mélanie Joly

@melaniejoly

2 months

We must condemn sexual gender-based violence. Allegations brought by @UNHumanRights experts' on #SGBV against Palestinian women in Gaza must be investigated and perpetrators held accountable. We believe women, condemn all forms of #SGBV , and advocate for justice in such cases.

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3 months

Note re my observation about whether states must stop exporting arms to Israel on the basis of these provisional measures. The details of domestic legislation will be important here. At a minimum, states should conduct thorough and transparent assessments of whether their arms

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22 days

PRESS RELEASE Over 1,500 academics based at more than 270 higher education institutions in North America have signed an Open Letter condemning Israel's scholasticide in Gaza. Full release: Join the letter here:

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

The dehumanising statements by @selinarobinson of the British Columbia NDP (Canada’s “left” political party) demonstrate the continuity of the logic used to justify colonial genocide in Canada and in Gaza. 🧵

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

Reinstated U of O resident @yipengGe on how smear campaigns against pro-Palestinian speech work: “The attacks are meant to discredit, call into question someone's character and integrity, and really take them down as a professional, to isolate them…":

U of O doctor suspended for pro-Palestinian posts says he's been reinstated, won't go back | CBC...

Dr. Yipeng Ge, 29, was sanctioned by the University of Ottawa last November after it got several complaints about a series of online posts that included references to 'apartheid' and ' settler...

www.cbc.ca

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

This tweet has garnered a bit of negative attention, including an alumni message sent to the entire @OsgoodeNews faculty demanding an apology and that I be "reprimanded". For those wishing to learn more about my argument, here is the text of a letter I wrote to my colleagues:

Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

Is wartime sexual violence a horrific crime? YES, with no mistake. But sex exceptionalism is also traditionally used to whip up support for entire military campaigns — we see Israel and the U.S. doing this now to justify a prolonged disproportionate air and ground war.

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2 months

The ICJ ordered Israel to report today on its compliance with provisional measures ordered one month ago. It's not clear whether the report will be made public, but @hrw has found Israel has failed to enable the provision of humanitarian aid as ordered. 🧵

Israel Not Complying with World Court Order in Genocide Case

The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice, in South Africa’s genocide case.

www.hrw.org

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4 years

Boomers be like “I went to Vietnam so I could die for Applebee’s in my 70s”

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4 years

Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren

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2 months

Thinking a lot today about how one can be both oppressed and an oppressor at the same time, and how this ambiguous status is actually central to processes of colonization. My ancestors settled Newfoundland as indentured servants *and* actively displaced the indigenous Beothuk.

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28 days

The inability of the west to see Israel’s descent into warlordism is terrifying.

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4 years

No, she will advance the class and political interests of women *like her* One of the major failings of white liberal feminism is the belief that “women” as a unified group share the same interests

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4 years

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to be replaced by a woman who walked through every door that Ginsburg opened for her so she can promptly use her position to shut them all for others behind her.

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2 months

Here we go! Hearings in the @CIJ_ICJ advisory opinion on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem have started. Palestine made its statement today. This will be my 🧵over the next 6 days.

CIJ_ICJ

@CIJ_ICJ

2 months

WATCH LIVE: the State of #Palestine opens the public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, before the #ICJ

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23 days

Nicaragua also alleges Germany is facilitating Israel's serious breaches of IHL & other peremptory norms of general international law in Gaza, including Palestinians' right to self-determination and right to not be subjected to a regime of apartheid.

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Heidi Matthews

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23 days

Nicaragua has requested provisional measures against Germany, including an order that Germany shall: -- immediately suspend aid to Israel, in particular military assistance; -- immediately make efforts to ensure that weapons already delivered are not used to facilitate genocide;

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23 days

'This would be laudable if it were applied to the Jewish people & not the state of Israel. There is a less noble reality with a lucrative quid pro quo. German military companies are directly profiting from the war, as their share prices have increased in value since Oct 7.'

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1 month

. @MelissaLantsman : "Rewarding rapists is what they are doing." That's right, folks: Lantsman has effectively conflated the Palestinian people, who have a fundamental right to self-determination via the recognition of a Palestinian state, with rapists.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

Right. On. Cue.

Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

Is wartime sexual violence a horrific crime? YES, with no mistake. But sex exceptionalism is also traditionally used to whip up support for entire military campaigns — we see Israel and the U.S. doing this now to justify a prolonged disproportionate air and ground war.

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5 months

From the BBC:

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1 month

Today the ICJ decided that the deterioration of the "catastrophic living conditions" in Gaza since January 26, esp starvation, created a further real & imminent risk of genocide justifying the indication of additional provisional measures against Israel.🧵

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

4 years

I made $15/hour as a Research Assistant when I went to law school over a decade ago. This is what law students make TODAY. Meanwhile, rent and tuition have increased at insane rates. Millennials have it bad. Zoomers have it worse. Neither are lazy or entitled.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

21 days

UPDATE: Over 2,000 North American academics have now signed the Open Letter condemning Israel's scholasticide in Gaza. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza and their students. Press release: Sign the letter:

Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

22 days

PRESS RELEASE Over 1,500 academics based at more than 270 higher education institutions in North America have signed an Open Letter condemning Israel's scholasticide in Gaza. Full release: Join the letter here:

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1 month

Canada’s whole brand — however undeserved — is based on claiming the moral high ground in global politics. This is the entire root of Canada’s power and persuasive force internationally. It is perplexing why it isn’t jumping at the opportunity to be a moral leader regarding Gaza.

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3 months

Mohammad Fadel ( @Shanfaraa ), @BhabhaFaisal & I argue that Canada & U.S. actions in the wake of the ICJ's ruling against Israel -- in particular the defunding of UNRWA -- violate the duty to prevent genocide in Gaza & could amount to complicity in genocide.

Ruling by UN’s top court means Canada and the U.S. could be complicit in Gaza genocide

The recent ruling by the International Court of Justice means Canada could be guilty of supporting genocide in Gaza by cutting aid funding and continuing military exports to Israel.

theconversation.com

The Conversation Canada

@ConversationCA

3 months

Ruling by UN’s top court means Canada could be complicit in genocide in Gaza

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1 month

The patients and staff who are besieged in al-Shifa hospital are being starved, deprived of basic medicines and sanitation. They have flies in their wounds. And the west — the US, UK, Canada, Germany etc — is facilitating this unimaginable atrocity.

Ghassan Abu Sitta

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I received this message from a colleague in northern Gaza: It's day 14 of the siege imposed on Al-Shifa Medical complex. Based on testimonies from the medical staff inside, the situation as follows;

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-- reverse its decision to defund UNRWA; -- cooperate to bring to an end the serious breaches of peremptory norms of international law by ceasing support to Israel, including by supplying military equipment

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4 months

Being in North America with two littles, I'm a little late to this party, but here we go! South Africa v Israel (ICJ) 🧵 Vaughan Lowe: "The rights claimed are the very core of the convention -- the right of the group not to be physically destroyed".

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Nicaragua notes that it has special empathy for the Palestinian people, as it too has been subject to intervention and military attacks across its history. It addresses Germany's claim that assistance to Israel is its raison d'état due to its crimes against the Jewish people.

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Iran’s attack was a sort of masterful response. Israel & the U.S. were forewarned and therefore prepared, actual damage insubstantial and calculated to minimize civilian harm (notably *zero deaths* of any kind) + performative fireworks show. No Israeli response is warranted.

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Heidi Matthews

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25 days

The Open Letter From North American Academics Condemning Scholasticide in Gaza has over 600 signatories from institutions of higher learning in the United States, Canada & Mexico. All academics affiliated with a North American institution can sign & share:

OPEN LETTER FROM NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMICS CONDEMNING SCHOLASTICIDE IN GAZA

Please input your full name, contact information and institutional affiliation in the form below the list of signatures at the end the Open Letter. Email addresses will not be shared or published....

docs.google.com

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Heidi Matthews

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2 months

Well, this is something. But what Palestinians are telling you is that systematic sexual violence — committed against women, men and children — is part of the logic of the occupation. To end sexual violence the occupation must end.

Mélanie Joly

@melaniejoly

2 months

We believe Palestinian women. Allegations on sexual and gender-based violence against them must be investigated and Palestinian women must be supported. Today, I announced in the West Bank that Canada will commit $1M to support this important work.

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Heidi Matthews

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4 months

Great to hear. It's important to unpack what 'abide by' means in the context of the Genocide Convention, where all states parties have a positive obligation to act to *prevent* genocide. Here's what this should mean for Canada 🧵

Evan Dyer

@EvanDyerCBC

4 months

GAC: Canada will abide by all rulings in the South African case against Israel at the ICJ, both provisional injunctions in the short-term, and a final determination on the allegation of genocide.

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Heidi Matthews

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After ignoring resolution 2728 demanding a ceasefire, in the wake of Iran's retaliation Israel has requested an emergency Security Council mtg. (It meets today at 4). This is hypocrisy but worse it indicates the incapacity of the post-WWII int'l system to ensure peace & security.

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BREAKING: Israel calls for an emergency meeting of the UN security council over the Iranian attack

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Heidi Matthews

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3 years

Well this is vulgar and demeaning. Left wing strippers have done more for the Democratic Party than Project Lincoln will ever do.

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3 years

Nevada count tilting agonizingly between pro-Biden Mormons and Latinos and pro-Trump gamblers and strippers

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5 months

I’ve spent much of the last weeks thinking about how we relate to one another as students, educators & professionals. Like many, I am disturbed by systematic efforts to silence pro-Palestinian politics in the name of safety. Some tentative thoughts about how such claims work.🧵

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4 months

Imagine being more concerned about children’s Santa photos being disrupted than children being murdered in the thousands

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3 months

As a human and as a university professor, I am horrified at the wanton destruction of academic life in Gaza. We talk a lot about collegiality, civility and other liberal norms in universities. The least we can do, as colleagues, is to lament this destruction.

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

3 months

Why is a university, under full Israeli control, a legitimate military target for Israeli forces to destroy? Why is that not a blatant war crime? Were the landmines used bought with U.S. funds? Were they supplied by the U.S.? We need some answers here.

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@Heidi__Matthews

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'The Israel defence minister called the sale "a moving event for every Jew". Israel proudly advertises its products as 'battle-tested.' The testing field is Palestine and its people, in particular in Gaza.'

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

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'Germany has also substantially increased joint development contracts with Israeli counterparts. In November it concluded a $3.6bn deal to acquire the Israel-made Arrow 3 missile defence system. This was the largest ever defence export deal for Israel.'

Germany, Israel sign ‘historic’ $3.5bn missile shield deal

The sale of Arrow 3 hypersonic missile system is the biggest ever deal for Israel’s military industry.

www.aljazeera.com

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

@jobearon I’m not accusing “Jewish people” of anything. Many feminists have been long critical of the weaponization of sexual violence for imperial projects. This is nothing new.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

27 days

Canadian General (ret) says there's no evidence Israel deliberately targeted the WCK convoy, ignoring the facts: there were 3 vehicles targeted in 3 separate strikes within a 2.4km range, after coordination with the IDF and in a deconflicted zone. This is genocide denial.

General Hillier

@GeneralHillier

28 days

What he said…

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 years

Today I became a homeowner of a 100-year-old, solid-as-all-hell (tested last night w/120km+ winds) traditional saltbox house on a hill in rural Newfoundland. 2020 has been weird, but it’s given us two babies and somewhere safe to tuck them away when the world burns. Our beach👇🏻🍾

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

2 years

We are watching the culture war and actual war begin to merge and this is more dangerous than we realize.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

4 years

We have some great news! @davidslavick and I are pleased to present in their online debut Effie & Percy. 💕

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

I couldn’t agree more with @AlexNeve24 . Canada’s “response” — most egregiously its suspension of funding to UNRWA — is outrageous, and wholly inconsistent with its international legal obligation to prevent genocide where a serious risk has been established, as it has been.

Alex Neve

@AlexNeve24

3 months

Canada’s response to the ICJ ruling is a colossal disgrace. Whether naïve or hopeful, I truly expected more following repeated assertions of “unwavering” support for int’l law and for the Court specifically. 1/4

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

This is an interactive map of the “evacuation zones”. Here’s the link:

استنادًا إلى أخلاقية وقيم مؤسستنا العسكرية جيش الدفاع ينشر قائمة بأرقام بلوكات لتوجيه سكان غزة في...

www.idf.il

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

16 days

It's morally & politically egregious to equate an international law professor's proportionality assessment made in the context of a call for deescalation rather than all-out war with antisemitism. Are you saying that anything short of Israeli escalation = antisemitism? I hope not

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

Those seeking to minimize, misconstrue or misinform regarding the ICJ's order of provisional measures against Israel both denigrate the Court and its authority while also emphasizing the (wrong) idea that the Court 'ordered' the hostages to be released. Let's unpack this move. 🧵

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 years

My brother, Ben Matthews, is missing. He was last seen in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan on July 23. He doesn’t know he is an uncle to little twin babies, and I dearly wish for him to meet them one day soon. Please consider sharing.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

23 days

'It is well settled that the acts of one state can generate independent legal obligations for third states. A state that aids or assists another state in the commission of an internationally wrongful act is responsible for doing so if it acts with knowledge of the circumstances.'

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

25 days

@AbeGreenwald Hi Abe. You might be interested in this Open Letter from North American academics condemning scholasticide in Gaza. We’ll be doing a press release on Monday.

OPEN LETTER FROM NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMICS CONDEMNING SCHOLASTICIDE IN GAZA

Please input your full name, contact information and institutional affiliation in the form below the list of signatures at the end the Open Letter. Email addresses will not be shared or published....

docs.google.com

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

5 months

Israel spokesman reveals again that he doesn’t understand — or is deliberately distorting — international humanitarian law. Proportionality in targeting is not measured in terms of the degree of civilian harm in relation to *all strikes*. A *single* strike can violate IHL. 1/2

Eylon Levy

@EylonALevy

5 months

Since Hamas launched this war, the Israeli Air Force has struck 22,000+ targets in the Gaza Strip. Even based on Hamas numbers passing off terrorists as civilians, that's less than 0.8 civilian deaths per airstrike. That's what world-leading precision looks like.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

23 days

Nicaragua says that the bottom line is that self-defence can never justify acts of genocide or other norms of international humanitarian law. It says that Israel appears unable to differentiate between self-defence and genocide.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

Essential reading by @ralphwilde 👇🏻 “Israel’s failure to end the occupation gives rise to a right to resist in international law on the part of the Palestinian people. This is equivalent to the right that the Ukrainian people have to resist”.

Israel’s War in Gaza is Not a Valid Act of Self-defence in International Law

[Ralph Wilde is a member of the Faculty of Laws, University College London, University of London] Israel captured the Palestinian Gaza Strip and West Bank from, respectively, Egypt and Jordan, in the...

opiniojuris.org

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

1 month

I’ve had about enough of fellow lawyers spreading misinformation about the fact of starvation in Gaza and who is responsible. On Monday, a UN report (from IPC) concluded that 32% of people in Gaza are facing *catastrophic* food insecurity.

Lawrence Gridin

@LawrenceGridin

1 month

@Heidi__Matthews @EylonALevy 74 trucks of food/day were entering Gaza before Oct 7 (which despite claims of "food insecurity" had one of highest obesity rates in the world). UN said 100 was needed on Oct 18. Now it's 300 apparently. Keep moving the goal posts. Reality: Hamas is stealing food. You know.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

2 months

Canada’s feminist foreign policy is platitudes & photo ops. Here, the woman minister of foreign affairs hugs a Palestinian girl days after Israeli forces killed a 13-year-old boy standing with a friend in front of a UN school. Western hugs will not protect Palestinian children.

Mélanie Joly

@melaniejoly

2 months

Children are our future. They must be protected in war. Les enfants sont notre avenir. Ils doivent être protégés en temps de guerre.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

7 months

Disgraceful. Canada has a moral & legal obligation to take measures to prevent genocide where there is a serious risk that genocide will be committed. At a minimum this would include condemning Israel’s disproportionate response, calling for a ceasefire & ending arms transfers.

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

@CJPME

7 months

Q: “What is Canada’s position on whether there should be a ceasefire right now, and whether Israel needs to stop its bombardment?” Shamefully, the answer was NO: Canada still supports Israel’s brutal war even after killing 2,600+ Palestinians, the majority children & women.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

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Nicaragua goes on to address aspects of the Oct 7 attacks that it says Germany hasn't taken into account. First, the Palestinian people's right to self-determination means they have the right to take up arms to resist alien occupation and the imposition of a racist regime.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

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Nicaragua notes that Germany continues to supply military weapons and other assistance to Israel despite the fact that it has been well aware since the ICJ's order of January 26 that there is at least a serious risk of genocide is being committed in Gaza.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

22 days

Today, the @CIJ_ICJ heard Germany's defence against Nicaragua's case alleging it has failed to prevent - and is complicit in - genocide in Gaza and serious violations of peremptory norms of international law.🧵 (My account of Nicaragua's case yesterday )

Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

23 days

Today, the @CIJ_ICJ heard oral arguments from Nicaragua, which has brought a case against Germany alleging that in providing political, financial & military support to Israel, Germany is facilitating the commission of genocide & has failed in its obligation to prevent genocide.🧵

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Nicaragua notes, for example, that dropping 1 tonne bombs in densely inhabited areas is one such grievous violation of international humanitarian law.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

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Nicaragua says Germany cannot invoke the argument that Israel is facing an existential threat. Israel in the top 10% of the most militarily powerful states globally. It's per capita rate of military expenditure is greater than that of even the United States.

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Heidi Matthews

@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

This 'apology' further entrenches @selinarobinson 's racist worldview. Land only has "limited resources" when we use the logic of settler colonial extractivism to make value judgments about who deserves control -- which we encode as sovereignty -- over land.

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@Heidi__Matthews

3 months

So far the U.S. reaction to today’s historic ICJ order of provisional measures against Israel misconstrues the impact of the decision on states’ international obligations. It doesn’t matter whether the U.S. itself believes specific intent has been established. 🧵

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