Dylan Williams

Vice President for Government Affairs @CIPolicy. Former US Senate staffer. Lawyer. Cornell alum.

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

Netanyahu: Hebron neighborhood of gunmen in checkpoint attack to be “destroyed.”

Collective punishment and forced displacement are both grave war crimes.

We may be about to see a horrific escalation of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank.
https://t.co/StndXfdHod

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

This is a key reason why the UAE’s Lana Nusseibeh is a totally inappropriate choice to serve as the next UN Secretary-General.

As the UAE was arming the RSF’s atrocities—including genocide—in Sudan, Nusseibeh led its denial and cover-up effort at the UN.

https://t.co/qVTEMLBhtm

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

"Deeply disturbing."

UN human rights chief Volker Türk reacts to a BBC investigation finding evidence that the RSF systematically destroyed hospitals in Sudan, stating the actions may amount to war crimes. https://t.co/7XYLTNBrWB

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

The next UN Secretary-General must defend international institutions and norms against the forces of autocracy and corruption.

@CIPolicy explains why Lana Nusseibeh, the public face of the UAE's denials of arming a genocide in Sudan, is the wrong choice: https://t.co/qVTEMLBhtm

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

@UAEEmbassyUS @Lana_Nusseibeh https://t.co/0mXNdSo2yH

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

The next UN Secretary-General must defend international institutions and norms against the forces of autocracy and corruption.

@CIPolicy explains why Lana Nusseibeh, the public face of the UAE's denials of arming a genocide in Sudan, is the wrong choice: https://t.co/qVTEMLBhtm

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

Israeli settlement expansion & settler violence are out of control. The last 3 years saw 50,000 West Bank Palestinians forced from their homes by Israeli military operations, demolitions & settler terror attacks.

Now, dozens of lawmakers led by @JoaquinCastrotx are pushing back.

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

The next UN Secretary-General must defend international institutions and norms against the forces of autocracy and corruption.

@CIPolicy explains why Lana Nusseibeh, the public face of the UAE's denials of arming a genocide in Sudan, is the wrong choice: https://t.co/qVTEMLBhtm

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

The United Nations should confront impunity, not crown it.
The UAE has put forward a candidate for UN secretary-general. Its record is appalling.
It has armed Sudan’s genocidal RSF militia, which has carried out mass murder and mass rape. It also stands accused of arming and financing warlords and militias in Libya and across the Middle East—empowering war criminals who rule through violence and brutal repression.
It has bankrolled Trump and the dictators who crushed the Arab Spring, helping extinguish millions of people’s hopes for democracy, dignity, and freedom.
Elevating a UAE candidate to UN secretary-general would not be a triumph of diplomacy. It would be a debasement of the international system: rewarding a corrupt regime accused of enabling atrocities with leadership of the very institution charged with preventing them.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

In some ways, @Lana_Nusseibeh is a compelling candidate for UN Secretary-General. She's a woman from a moderate Gulf country and has a record of effective diplomacy -- but unfortunately she has proven her effectiveness by backing the UAE's role in arming the RSF militia as it has engaged in mass murder and mass rape in Sudan, in a rampage that both the Biden and Trump administrations have called genocide. So, sure, an effective diplomat is wonderful -- but not if the effectiveness is divorced from values the UN is meant to promote. No doubt she thought she was simply supporting the policies her country's leaders set. But hundreds of thousands have died in Sudan, as best we can tell, and she has helped lead a UAE diplomatic effort that has lied about it, covered it up and persisted in it even as the slaughter continues. Shouldn't that be disqualifying?

[نير حسون Nir Hasson ניר חסון @nirhasson]

את התמונה הזו ראו בכל העולם בשבוע האחרון, חוץ מבישראל. זוהי מרים ע'אנם, בת 3. אביה נהרג לפני שהיא נולדה. אמה נהרגה מול עיניה במתקפה על ביתה בשבוע שעבר. היא חולצה מבין הלהבות. 20% מגופה מכוסה בכוויות.
לכתבה, ביחד עם מייסאן מאדי:
https://t.co/g5JfiDR3tU
תגובת צה"ל למטה.

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

Hard to watch that interview with @IlhanMN by @chrislhayes where a sitting member of Congress describes her life in hiding because our own govt is using gestapo tactics to terrorize her family. Every Republican knows that nothing will come of this “investigation” other than this debasement of the whole system by Trump. They all know it.

[Center for International Policy @CIPolicy]

Trump & US war planners misread Tehran as on the verge of collapse. Instead, Iran's leaders are now committed to match escalation with escalation until securing a negotiated settlement based on mutual concessions, argues @SinaToossi in @CIPolicyJournal https://t.co/NPFpVri8Nu

[Ben Lorber @BenLorber8]

American Jews should demand that our synagogues, Hillels, Federations & other institutions sign a pledge promising not to discipline rabbis & other employees for expressing criticism of Israel & solidarity with Palestinians. We should withhold dues & other support if they refuse

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Impeachable offence btw.

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

Absolutely illegal. The next Congress should not only hold hearings and investigate this, but issue subpoenas and seek to punish noncompliance. The next administration should prosecute all who violated the law.

[Eric Katz @EricM_Katz]

SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.

Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.

State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

Also the first to help cover up a policy of running guns to a genocidal militia in defiance of a UN arms embargo

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

If there’s someone on this planet less self-aware than Brett McGurk, I haven’t met them.

[Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis]

How We Can Build a World for All: US Foreign Policy Beyond Empire

IRL discussion in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Nov. 11 with @mattduss @rozina_ali @lpolgreen Andrew Liu

https://t.co/O9UdAtyhkD

[hannah gais @hannahgais]

sorry, what?

[Jeremy Ben-Ami @JeremyBenAmi]

AIPAC can’t save its brand by folding its PAC. A once-revered organization didn’t become toxic because it supported candidates. It became toxic because of the policies it asks those candidates to defend.

Keeping its Super PAC while abandoning its own PAC only doubles down on the dark money politics that helped create its problem in the first place.

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

To put this in simpler terms: AIPAC is now such a political liability for candidates that it is ending its direct campaign contributions, but doubling down on dark money and other fundraising more difficult to tie back to it.

[Marc Rod @marcrod97]

SCOOP: AIPAC will no longer endorse congressional candidates or earmark donations to congressional campaigns. The group's super PAC, United Democracy Project, will continue to operate and it will urge members to donate directly to pro-Israel candidates. https://t.co/QWqS7aRWqU