Eric Goldstein

Ex-HRW, tweeting about the Middle East & North Africa, human rights, and other pursuits & passions, including urbanism, public transport, cycling.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Congrats to @saribashi on her memoir, "Upside Down Love," about how a Jewish woman in Israel falls in love with a Palestinian man in the West Bank. It's a love story and a window into the injustices Palestinians face daily. And it's hope: if love can survive, maybe peace can.

[Ahmed Benchemsi @AhmedBenchemsi]

Only in Morocco: a sea of Palestinian flags in a Jewish cemetery, a casket adorned with Hebrew scripture carried by a member of an Islamist movement... RIP Sion Assidon who inspired such union (pic and montage by ⁦@FAbdelmoumni⁩)

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

15 year ago today, #Morocco security forces dismantled a protest camp in Western Sahara. 19 Sahrawi men remain unjustly imprisoned for the violence that ensued. It is past time to free them. My thoughts: https://t.co/uzToki1Nhq @hrw

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

https://t.co/YM2eDA6PIT. The best part of this is that Suri’s a beneficiary of a “Scholars at Risk” grant.

[Sophie Richardson @SophieDRich]

If this is happening without improvements by the #China govt on its widespread, systematic #humanrights abuses—which prompted the sanctions in the first place—it’s a profoundly anti-rights move.

[Bassam Khawaja @Bassam_Khawaja]

The court did not give even a semblance of a fair trial in Tunisia's conspiracy case, a mass trial of 40 people. It issued harsh sentences of 13-66 years after just 3 sessions, without hearing defendants' side and barring journalists and trial observers https://t.co/FglNCu6ejP

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Got to give Doge credit for being the first to cut entitlements. End telephone support for Social Security, cut dozens of SS offices and make Grandma and Grandpa finally get online to confirm their payments.
What an amazing back door way to cut payments! Gonna be some upset seniors at town halls !

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

"Weaponizing antisemitism" used to be about stifling criticism of Israel. Trump is taking it in dark new directions. @baddiel. My take: https://t.co/stW8YvZKxp

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

Relieved that Hamas finally released two civilian men with psychosocial disabilities who they had held for ten years without ever confirming to their families that they had them and what state they were in.

[Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1]

Relieved to see the release of Avera Mengitsu and Hisham Al-Sayed, who were detained over a decade ago. I advocated for their release w my colleague ⁦⁦⁦@goldsteinricky⁩ on our last trip to Gaza. https://t.co/CSUkLDcGCD

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

Great news, at long last, Morocco did the right thing.

@AhmedBenchemsi @salahh @jgmariner

[MENA Rights Group | منّا لحقوق الإنسان @MENA_Rights]

We and @SafeguardDefend welcome the release of Yidiresi Aishan, a Uyghur activist detained in #Morocco for 3+ years.

At risk of extradition to #China, the Committee against Torture requested his release following our submission. https://t.co/LS3oBhB8Kh

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

Morocco frees Uyghur activist at risk of extradition to China via @MENA_Rights https://t.co/Lmaagtl0Fp @jgmariner @HananMSalah

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

Giving the city of Paris credit where due, at a time when US cities are bracing for Trump 2.0 @ColeStangler
https://t.co/EJE9pLopNk.

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

The vengeful, WTF-we’re-you-thinking clips Israeli soldiers posted on social media from Gaza are now haunting them when they travel abroad. The intersection of Israeli insularity and cosmopolitanism.

[Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1]

"If the threat of arrest nudges Israelis toward questioning the near-total impunity their troops enjoy, then 'immoral witnesses' will have aided, however unwittingly, the long and honorable efforts of the moral ones," @goldsteinricky writes @DAWN_Journal https://t.co/B0GpDsOYFm

[Ahmed Benchemsi @AhmedBenchemsi]

14 janvier: la #Tunisie fête sa révolution... et Sihem Bensedrine, en prison sans procès depuis août, entre en grève de la faim. Traiter ainsi l'ex-présidente d'une commission chargée d'instruire les abus du passé... Y a-t-il symbole plus frappant du retour de la dictature ? 👇

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

A good recap of the persecution of #Tunisia truth commission chief Sihem Bensedrine, and the burying of the country’s transitional justice process.

[JusticeInfo.net @justiceinfonet]

🇹🇳 #Tunisia - Sihem Bensedrine, the former president of the Truth Commission, has been in pre-trial detention since 1 August. Her lawyers fight for her release, denouncing “a judicial cabal with the sole objective to bury Tunisian #TransitionalJustice”.

https://t.co/HzCOz6isEt

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

If you want a clear, concise explanation of how @hrw found Israeli authorities are perpetrating the international crimes of extermination and acts of genocide, watch @billvanesveld here: https://t.co/3gHGFttDgJ

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

Le Monde, responding to an article in Le Figaro accusing it of anti-Israel bias:
https://t.co/fFuoFD2wZP

[Ahmed Benchemsi @AhmedBenchemsi]

كان جو يشخص مفهوم "جنود الخفاء". فهم النضال الفلسطيني وشرحه للأمريكان سنوات قبل أن يتخده اليسار قضية. خلال عقود من العمل الحقوقي في @hrw_ar نسج شبكة من الصداقات الوطيدة عبر الشرق الأوسط. كان أستاذا ورفيق درب ومصدر إلهام للعديد. رثاء بقلم @goldsteinricky
https://t.co/e1koCCWAzB

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

A tribute to the great Middle East expert activist writer editor Joe Stork, in English here: https://t.co/aqXLFeXbFn and in French here: https://t.co/rLbJBsqueH
@hrw @meriponline @OrientXXI
RIP, Joe.

[Eric Goldstein @goldsteinricky]

Before retiring from @hrw last May I took part in conversations about the crime of forced displacement in Gaza. Last week, HRW published its report, just as I was reading the diary a friend wrote when she worked in Gaza in 1989. Some thoughts: https://t.co/xzkqVbeiQI