Charlotte Epstein 🇫🇷

Scholar of politics & international relations; currently writing a book on Islamophobia in France, the E.U. & the West. Working on leaving.
(re)tweets my own.

[Charlotte Epstein 🇫🇷 @Prof_ch_epstein]

I'm deeply honoured & humbled (& stll recovering) that my book, Birth of the state: the Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics
has been awarded

the 2023 @ISA *Best Book* Award
&
the 2023 @IsaNortheast *Yale Ferguson* Award

for more on the book:
https://t.co/laNpGWkGAF

[تالا @AlfoqahaT]

Hi Professor! Current Harvard Law student here & Palestinian. Hate to take the bait, but I do want to breakdown why this article is inaccurate & intellectually dishonest. Thread:

[Johann Soufi @jsoufi]

📣 Je n’oublierai jamais, comme je ne pardonnerai jamais à certains confrères/consœurs leur silence coupable. Leur combat sélectif pour la justice internationale et les droits de l’Homme a révélé ce qu’il est réellement : un business model, sans principes. Shame on you! 🫵

[Charlotte Epstein 🇫🇷 @Prof_ch_epstein]

How sexual violence is being instrumentalised one-sidedly in the media reporting on the war.

[moonbee @BMoon_bee]

Lauréate du Prix Pulitzer pour sa capacité à vulgariser les informations complexes, la talentueuse @MonaChalabi vous résume le nouveau scandale de fake news du @nytimes sur le 7/10 avec talent et le rôle des protagonistes dont la pigiste 🇮🇱 pro génocide .
https://t.co/MLCi3PsCxE

[Rachael Swindon @Rachael_Swindon]

Iceland has picked a Palestinian for their Eurovision entry.

This is almost enough to watch it.

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

Yorim ve Bochim . Just one more thing narcissistic psychopaths do.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The mayor of Berlin, who isn’t Jewish, accused this Israeli Jewish journalist of antisemitism (for citing documented facts from human rights groups) & warned the Berlinale film festival not to allow such speeches again.

Authoritarian insanity in Germany.

https://t.co/HLDtqTTlF2

[Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage]

I am receiving letters of support from all over the world. This letter from Chile by two daughters of Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany, stands out for offering a sorry history of past Max Planck Society presidents whose path the current president seems to want to follow.

[Fondation des Femmes @Fondationfemmes]

Vous êtes 88 000 signataires à avoir répondu à l'appel lancé au @Senat. MERCI !

Le Sénat se prononce dans 2 jours pour inscrire le droit à l'IVG dans la Constitution.

Mobilisons-nous pour atteindre les 100 000 signatures. Signez, partagez la pétition : https://t.co/UzoUcrmg46

[Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage]

Marx argued that sometimes ideology works as the ideational resolution of a contradiction that cannot be resolved in practice. The category of ‘antisemite’ today has such an ideological function in Germany. It makes possible what presents itself initially as an impossibility:

[Sophie McNeill @Sophiemcneill]

But why do you apply the international rule of law so selectively @AlboMP?

War crimes are war crimes. Genocide is genocide. We want to see you stand as strongly with civilians in Gaza as you do with Ukraine. Everyone deserves freedom, democracy & to be free from fear.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

139 of 193 UN members recognise Palestine as a state, including Poland, Sweden, Iceland. The UN itself also does

This is only 27 less than the 164 UN members that have diplomatic relations with Israel

At this point, arguing that Palestine is not a state is sort of weird

[Dyab Abou Jahjah @Aboujahjah]

🚨🚨
At noon today, my doorbell rang, and three plainclothes police officers introduced themselves. "Mr. Abou Jahjah, we are here at the request of Dutch authorities, acting through Interpol, to request that you delete this tweet concerning complaints against IDF soldiers by the #March30Movement."

I was taken aback. I asked for more details.

They responded that they were not sure of the details; they were merely following orders received through Interpol. My children were questioning, "Daddy, why are the police here? What did you do, Daddy?" The neighbors peered out from their windows... Although the officers maintained professionalism, I sensed they too felt somewhat uncomfortable, indicating the awkwardness of the situation. I ponder who directed them to undertake such an action on a Sunday and in such a manner. This feels like intimidation; it's political. It's not illegal to file complaints and discuss them publicly. This incident speaks volumes about our current state of affairs.

IDF soldiers from the Netherlands, Belgium, and other countries are involved in war crimes and genocide, boasting about their actions on social media, showing genocidal intent, and posing next to dead bodies and destroyed homes, including personal items of victims. Yet, the police show up at my door because I lead a movement that is legally filing complaints against these actions?

The Dutch authorities are mistaken if they think they can intimidate me or the #March30Movement. If anything, this incident only strengthens our resolve.
No tweets will be deleted. Our freedom of expression is not debatable. Our right to denounce attrocities even less. Our lawyers in many countries are preparing more complaints. We will communicate on all of them.
Nothing can halt our momentum. Even if they target me, our movement is not reliant on just one individual; it is a collective effort, and more people are joining every day. We are resolute. Bring it on!
#EndImpunity #FreePalestine #StopGazaGenocide

[Chronik @Chronikfr]

#BFMTV retransmet en direct le ''bain de foule pour J. Bardella'' au #SalonDeLagriculture, quelques jours après avoir refusé de diffuser l'entrée de #Manouchian au Panthéon ... #BFNTV
👉L'#extrêmedroite gagne la bataille culturelle avec la complicité de #médias mainstream

[Sky News @SkyNews]

'Racism is racism. I'm unclear why Rishi Sunak and members of his cabinet aren't condemning this.'

@SadiqKhan responds to Tory MP Lee Anderson's remarks about him. He adds 'the message it sends is, Muslims are fair game when it comes to racism.'

https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3

[Amitav Acharya @AmitavAcharya]

I cannot remember the last time Indonesia used stronger language on a matter of global security:

Foreign Minister Retno affirms ICJ jurisdiction to give Advisory Opinion.

"... no country is above the law. And the sanctity of this Court must be upheld.
Indonesia believes that this legal motion is also a motion of global conscience."

Rebuffs the US view that giving an Advisory Opinion would damage any ongoing peace effort:

"...there is no viable peace process to be undermined. Israel has been consistently obstructing a negotiated Two-State solution...With such strong resistance from Israel to stop its colonial project and its “fait accompli" unilateral actions, no peace process will viably bring a just, lasting, and comprehensive solution. After all, negotiation with someone holding a gun against your head is not a negotiation at all."

US actions such as vetoing ceasefire resolutions and opposing ICJ advisory opinion on Palestine (after rejecting South Africa's "genocide" filing) will stoke anti-American sentiment in Indonesia, the world's 4th largest nation, largest Muslim-majority nation, and otherwise friendly to US, key to US Indo-Pacific strategy. It has very good relations with US, including moves to create a comprehensive strategic partnership.

Keep in mind these words come from the outgoing Indonesian govt. not looking for reelection, hence not mainly pandering to domestic Islamic voters.

Indonesia is symptomatic of how isolated the US is in Global South now. It's more than over Iraq invasion or any other conflict in memory.

On implications for world order, note that on Ukraine, most of Global South voted with the US on principle of territorial integrity, hence supporting int law & 'rules based order'; on Gaza-Palestine, majority of Global South upholds int law and 'rules-based order' against the US position.

Who is the bigger upholders of rules? Why would a 'post-western' world be lawless, as establishment western pundits fear?

@Kemlu_RI @Menlu_RI

https://t.co/PlM5OKwJYy

[Oumma.com @oumma]

Gaza: incroyable geste de solidarité de la créatrice de mode britannique Katharine Hamnett, qui a jeté son insigne de Commandeur de l'Ordre de l'Empire britannique, afin de protester contre la position du gouvernement britannique : "Je suis dégoûtée d'être britannique à cause du rôle que nous avons joué dans le génocide perpétré à Gaza" a affirmé cette icone de la mode mondialement connue , qui avait été décorée en 2011 de l'Ordre de l'Empire britannique pour ses services rendues à l'industrie de la mode

[Aaron Winter @aaronzwinter]

I work on racism - incl antisemitism & Islamophobia. Since 7/10, I've been in many discussions & find the rise in all, competition between them & divide/rule very painful - as is how the rise in antisemitism has been used to defend Israel & both used as cover for Islamophobia. 1/

[Aaron Winter @aaronzwinter]

We are currently seeing a huge rise in Islamophobia from the political & media establishment, as well as communal organisations - incl figures who attack Labour & the left for anti-zionism & Palestinian solidarity, & Muslims & migrants more generally - with no repercussions. 2/

[Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura @arnesa_kustura]

Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé calls what is happening in Gaza a genocide.

[Marcel @realmarcel1]

Il faut écouter Judith Godrèche.