Tom Dannenbaum

Professor @StanfordLaw | @StanfordCISAC | @FSIStanford International Law: IHL, ICL, IHRL, use of force, ethics. Editor @just_security:

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

Just posted @just_security

I join Alex de Waal (@WorldPeaceFdtn) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.

Time has run out.

Link in next post.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

NEW: The Trump administration’s deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents to Minnesota led to widespread human rights violations, terrorized residents, and spotlighted the deeply abusive patterns in US immigration enforcement.

In a new report, HRW documents how the US government’s “Operation Metro Surge” caused a human rights crisis in Minnesota.

Learn more: https://t.co/70QrspCftO

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

For details on the customary IHL rule:

https://t.co/zbc6SQNtUO

Water deprivation is a component of the ICC’s arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

https://t.co/2A6YEtbDOa

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

Drinking water installations are quintessentially “objects indispensable to survival,” a category with heightened protection in international law.

Attacks directed against such installations are presumptively unlawful.

This report strongly indicates precision strikes on two.

[Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc]

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the United States hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl @johnismay @ArtemisChats

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

Shoigu and Gerasimov:

https://t.co/8fcjkLAhU9

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[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

In light of Trump’s renewed threats to target critical infrastructure, note that electricity deprivation is a key component of ICC warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant (re Gaza) + Kobylash, Sokolov, Gerasimov, & Shoigu (re Ukraine) for war crimes & crimes against humanity.
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[Trey Yingst @TreyYingst]

NEW: President Trump tells me he "may keep going" with strikes against Iran and is getting closer to targeting Iranian power plants and bridges.

The President also spoke about the U.S. military helicopter that was downed saying that an Iranian drone lodged between the two pilots. The drone was on fire, but didn't explode, according to President Trump.

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

Kobylash and Sokolov:

https://t.co/EYw6O2VZHV

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[Financial Times @FT]

Iran says 20,000 people left without water after US hits reservoir tanks https://t.co/k7n7ODtvQJ

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Trigger Warning. This is absolutely horrendous and it is not settler violence. Sanctions on settlers won’t stop this- only real pressure to change Israel’s national project.

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

@leloveluck @guardian Congratulations, Louisa!

[Yousuf Syed Khan @yousufsyedkhan]

My brief post for the @WorldPeaceFdtn ‘Famine Voices’ series – on the Rohingya, food deprivation, and the slow, bureaucratic destruction of a group’s capacity to survive

https://t.co/eYYYjOSrhT

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

@ntabrizy Congratulations, Nilo!

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Authoritative essay by leading election law expert.

On how Roberts Court's voting rights cases - now, most recently, the Alabama decision - have thrust the country away from multiracial democracy and toward the undoing of the Second Reconstruction.

By Professor Pamela Karlan

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

An obviously *criminal* solution.

This has been reported before, but (as the piece notes) an investigation announced in March 2025 has yet to lead to charges.

They almost never do. When charges are (exceptionally) brought, public outcry ensues & they are dropped.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

In the first few weeks of the war in Gaza, the use of captured Palestinians to clear areas of improvised explosive devices was seen as an obvious solution to a lack of sniffer dogs, a former Israeli soldier told 1843 https://t.co/glqJ3mcLr7

[Cambridge University Press - Philosophy @CambUP_PHILNYUK]

Powers of Judgment by David Luban
A comprehensive study of Hannah Arendt's moral philosophy and her contributions to international law.
https://t.co/WawGaviFyP

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

From teaming up with Netanyahu to launch an illegal war in Iran to creating a humanitarian crisis in Cuba to muzzling free speech, Secretary Rubio's tenure has been a disaster.

As our top diplomat, he's responsible for this dumpster-fire.

[Gabriel Elizondo @elizondogabriel]

Late Monday the UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting, at the request of France, on the situation in Lebanon. The majority of Council members - almost unanimously - called for Israel to withdraw from southern Lebanon. The U.S. didn’t, instead focusing of Hezbollah and Iran. Our report ⬇️

https://t.co/5aZpWc5B1U

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

Appalling. But to be clear, this campaign is murderous whether narcotics are present or not.

These are crimes against humanity.

(👇 excerpts from the ICC decision confirming charges against Rodrigo Duterte for murder as a crime against humanity in his so-called “war on drugs”)

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Kaine grills Rubio on the "targeting criteria" for blowing up boats around the Caribbean, which Kaine says don't include the actual presence of narcotics on boats

[Eliav Lieblich @eliavl]

Published in Haaretz: Israel cannot dismiss allegations of abuse while barring the Red Cross, restricting Israeli inspectors mandated by law, and keeping journalists away from the places where answers might be found.

https://t.co/kIpSZLnvLa

[Declan Walsh @declanwalsh]

I traveled with @ArletteBashizi to Mongbwalu, the gold mining town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak that is sweeping northeastern Congo. This is what we found.
https://t.co/gPUrQ9ubsz