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[Politics and International Studies Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS]

PhD candidate Cristian Rivera’s recent paper presents a compelling way out of the discursive dilemma—showing that we don’t have to choose between responsiveness and coherence in collective decision-making.

Read it here: https://t.co/6cSAA6GCco

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@rs_bartolomei Lo de Jorgito es papelonear. #Truth

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

There is one thing we should all be able to agree with Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel's war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, "absurd and false" and a "distortion of reality".

Here's why:

* Israeli war crimes have been ongoing for more than seven decades, long predating Hamas' creation.

* Israel has kept the Palestinians of Gaza caged into a concentration camp for the past 17 years, denying them connection to the outside world and the essentials of life. Hamas managed to besiege a small part of Israel for one day, on October 7.

* For every Israeli killed by Hamas on October 7, Israel has slaughtered at least 35 times that number of Palestinians. Similar kill-ratios grossly skewed in Israel's favour have been true for decades.

* Israel has killed more than 15,000 Palestinian children since October – and many tens of thousands more Palestinian children are missing under rubble, maimed or orphaned. By early April, Israel had killed a further 114 children in the West Bank and injured 725 more. Hamas killed a total of 33 Israeli children on October 7.

* Israel has laid waste to Gaza's entire health sector. It has bombed its hospitals, and killed, beaten and kidnapped many hundreds of medical personnel. Hamas has not attacked one Israeli hospital.

* Israel has killed more than 100 journalists in Gaza and more than 250 aid workers. It has also kidnapped a further 40 journalists. Most are presumed to have been taken to a secret detention facility where torture is rife. Hamas is reported to have killed one Israeli journalist on October 7, and no known aid workers.

* Israel is actively starving Gaza's population by denying it food, water and aid. That is a power – a genocidal one – Hamas could only ever dream of.

* Israel has been forcibly removing Palestinians from their lands for more than 76 years to build illegal Jewish settlements in their place. Hamas has not been able to ethnically cleanse a single Israeli, nor build a single Palestinian settlement on Israeli land.

* Some 750,000 Palestinians are reported to have been taken hostage and jailed by Israel since 1967 – an unwelcome rite of passage for Palestinian men and boys and one in which torture is routine and military trials ensure a near-100% conviction rate. Until October 7, Hamas had only ever managed to take hostage a handful of the Israeli soldiers whose job is to oppress Palestinians.

* And, while Hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by western states, those same western states laud Israel, fund and arm it, and provide it with diplomatic cover, even as the World Court rules that a plausible case has been made it is committing a genocide in Gaza.

Yes, Netanyahu is right. There is no comparison.

[Alberto C. Medina @AlbertoMedinaPR]

July 25 marks the 125th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico, of PR’s 1952 constitution, and the 1978 murder of independence activists.

In @newrepublic I argue these three events share one lesson and conclusion: Puerto Rico must be independent. https://t.co/bJczD23LN0

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@Seun22482036 @saronalexx Hi, are you still selling this ticket?

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@jasminedenisex @saronalexx Hey, are you still selling these?

[Camilo Weichsel @camiloweichsel]

Sharing my piece in Cambridge Human Rights Law Journal on the law and politics underlying the impeachment trials before the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights
https://t.co/5k2ru3gw8Y

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@jensensuther @buffsoldier_96 But none of those are as effective as anti-war films as Come and See—that must have some claim to the “best ww2 film” label. Also, Nemes’ film feels too much like a video game to be considered a serious attempt at engaging w trauma. Ending is masterful tho

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@ToTheHappyNone @lint_ax Don’t watch Come and See then… especially not on wine and movie night…

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@BrankoMilan Especially disappointing when compared to truly nuanced films such as La Historia Oficial (released in 1985!) which, without resorting to spectacle, convey a deep sense of dread and the deep dilemmas of transitional justice.

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@jayctigerfan Agree with this reading. I was particularly conflicted by the tonal shift at the end of the film but, come to think of it, isn’t such self indulgence not only destructive, but also just so silly? Good film.

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@GerardoMunck Given the likely outcome of this (weakening of Bolsonarismo), and how it plays into the new govt’s hands, the muted response might have been deliberate. Not saying this is most probable explanation, but it is a possible one

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@KeirMilburn Millenials’ bucking of the trend is clear, but I wonder to what extent this is due to Dems and Labour’s neoliberal turn rather than Millenials genuinely following an alternative trajectory

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@fernandotormos @josebernardo_pr @EstadistasMVC @TheAtlantic The devastating irony of complaining about historical cherrypicking but citing the results of the last plebiscite as evidence of popular sovereignty…

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It also more generally impoverishes our engagement with films as literary texts that operate within particular social and political contexts. (5/x)

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Still disappointed to see the dearth of engagement on 1) the civil war theme and 2) the ode to Beckett's absurdism coursing through @Banshees_Movie. @alissamarie is a refreshing exception here (1/x)

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Overlooking this engagement strips the film of its critical valence and the artistic credentials that McDonagh so thoroughly deserves. (4/x)

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@Yutopia_ba @Footymac If stereotypes are season 2’s downfall, season 1 can’t possibly be superb. That is, unless you discount the Hawaiian stereotypes relative to the Italian ones…