Christian De Vos

adjuncting @CUNYLaw & @ishrcolumbia / formerly @P4HR & @OSFJustice / board member @EI_Network / JD/PhD, dad to 2 littles, no relation to Betsy / he, him

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

It looks like Liberace and Saddam designed a 19th New Orleans century whorehouse, without the taste and elegance.

[bechamilton @bechamilton]

The ICC's work on Palestine does not depend on any single office holder. This is a crucial pt & the media conflation between Khan personally, & justice in Gaza must be disentangled. Please read the petition & sign if you agree: https://t.co/RO6bT582KC

[Liz Evenson @liz_evenson]

Excellent round-up of expert reactions to latest US threats to international justice over @just_security: https://t.co/Jhdl237t2e

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

I do not appreciate anyone - Democrat or Republican - taking this moment to make TACO jokes to say Trump “chickened out.”

The president was threatening genocide against 90 million Iranians.

I’m grateful there’s a ceasefire & scores of innocent people didn’t die tonight.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

A new spate of tragic attacks on health across #Sudan has resulted in the deaths of health workers, assaults on health personnel and patients, looting of hospitals and damage by air strikes to vital health facilities.

On 2 April, a drone strike on White Nile State's Al-Jabalain Teaching Hospital killed 10 health care workers and injured 22 people.

A day earlier in White Nile, another strike on the central medical warehouse in the city of Rabak seriously injured three people, including a pharmacist and two warehouse workers, with unexploded ordnance found inside the facility.

On 2 April, the Family Hospital in East Darfur’s capital, Al-Daein, was looted, with patients and health workers assaulted and expelled from the facility. This hospital was blocks away from the Al-Daein Teaching Hospital that was recently destroyed in a strike, killing at least 70 people, including patients and health workers.

In a similar incident, a hospital in the Blue Nile State city of Al-Kurmuk was looted on 25 March, with equipment destroyed and staff and patients forced from the facility. A health worker was critically injured.

The continued attacks on health care facilities, health workers and patients who depend on them are unacceptable. This worrying pattern reveals a level of disregard for human life that no responsible actor can tolerate.

Health is #NotATarget.

[Marci Shore @marci_shore]

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with the IRGC demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents - including hundreds of children - dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.

[bechamilton @bechamilton]

10.5.3.2. DoD Law of War Manual: "Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited."

[Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway]

Over 100 international lawyers (including me) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the UN Charter and may be war crimes.

[Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv]

"Governance of International Courts and Tribunals: Institutions, Practices, and Norms" now has its own page @OUPAcademic.
Fingers crossed that some of these courts' governing bodies & like-minded states manage to avert the worst before this book comes out. https://t.co/SO89FeP6YI

[Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller]

They. Weren't. Fighting. This. Is. Not. An. Armed. Conflict.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

My book gives a special shout out dedication to Ukrainians for a reason. In the global battle between Autocrats vs Democrats, no group of people today are sacrificing more for liberty, freedom, and democracy than Ukrainians.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I’m sorry. He doesn’t know anything about who he’s pardoning? This alone should be a scandal no one lets go of.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Over 460 people were reportedly killed at a hospital in western Darfur that was taken by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO chief says. https://t.co/vhRdXRC7uG

[EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk]

Dousing the fire in the democratic forest: Lessons for the Council of Europe from Russia | by Alice Donald https://t.co/eoIRjxLJzm

[Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1]

“The UNGA should hold its September meeting in Geneva to allow Palestine to participate. Moving the meeting there will send a message to the Trump administration that the international community does not tolerate these breaches of long standing law requiring access to all representatives."

https://t.co/St7TcLLTjJ

[Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller]

Non-conflict-specific reminder: there is an absolute duty in #IHL to warn a hospital before attacking it. That duty applies even if the hospital is being used to commit acts harmful to the enemy. See GC I, Art. 21; GC IV, Art. 19; AP I, Art. 13(1); AP II, Art. 11(2).

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

When Marjorie Taylor Greene is beating you on calling moral balls and strikes…
You have a serious problem.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

This is the same Grok that was "manipulated" into praising Hitler last week.

What could possibly go wrong when integrating this AI into our national security?