Mark Chadwick

Principal Law Lecturer, NTU. Opinions expressed are my own. Interests: international criminal law, piracy, universal jurisdiction. Book:

[Mark Chadwick @letter_of_mark]

I now have a "Researcher Spotlight" Q&A article available via the NTU website: a little something about me and my research. #research #ntu #nls #law #piracy #internationalcriminallaw https://t.co/J4FDWmEwfn

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.

Trump avoided military service 5 times.

How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

[Mark Chadwick @letter_of_mark]

@danny_robins Love to hear yours and the experts' take on Gef the Mongoose for "Cold Cases", that one's always fascinated me. There's a great book by Christopher Josiffe to get you started 🐿️👻 (and congrats on the Mastermind win!)

[Mark Chadwick @letter_of_mark]

What does international law tell us about the US seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela? https://t.co/hpRyRmIigD via @ConversationUK

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Ceasefire, Israeli style: Gaza bombed, Palestinians killed in the West Bank, more land taken in both.

The int’l community dares call it “peace.”

To those who’ve recently recognised the State of Palestine: you see, recognition means nothing if you do not protect it.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mariella Frostrup, "I just don't know when we started dehumanising people to the extent that we do now"

>Huge clap<

*In response to Nadine Dorries's long rant on leaving the ECHR and using the Royal Navy to address Farage's Brexit Small Boats Arrivals*

"I find it really shocking"

"Imagine if nobody wanted to come here then we'd really be depressed by Britain as a nation"

"Of course it is an issue. But we've decreased our budget for international development"

"We have a completely shambolic asylum system"

"You talk about people coming here illegally, but what are the legal routes?"

"We still don't have proper legal routes"

Nadine Dorries, "We do"

Mariella Frostrup, "Explain. I'm a woman in Congo. I'm one of the 80,000 women who has been raped as a result of the conflict going on there. I need to escape. My family has been wiped out. What's my legal way of applying to join my sister who is in the UK?"

*Nadine Dorries goes silent*

"It is impossible, our system is broken"

"The way we talk about people trying to come here, and the way we completely ignore the dilemmas that they face. And the fact that we have been instrumental in a lot of those conflicts"

"What happened to Afghanistan? When we were determined that people from Afghanistan could come here because of the way they supported us during that war"

"And now we're talking about them as if they're rubbish on the street"

"I think it's a shame we're allowing Reform UK to set the tone and the agenda and the way we talk about illegal immigrants"

*Nadine Dorries is now biting her lips*

>Another huge clap<

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

#PalestineTrials.
History is being written.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.

[Mark Chadwick @letter_of_mark]

@danny_robins @RoyalNottingham @RoyalDerngate @ciaranokeeffe @uncannypodlive @_EvelynHollow Such a terrifying and fun night Danny, Evelyn, Ciaran! (And Happy Birthday Danny! 🎂👻)

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Well done to all those who have tirelessly campaigned for the recognition of Palestine — an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.

Next, the UK should recognise the genocide in Gaza, end its complicity in crimes against humanity, and stop arming Israel.

[MSF International @MSF]

On 15 September, Israeli forces fired upon our clearly marked water truck in Gaza City.

This attack cannot be dismissed as an error. It was a deliberate attempt to sabotage water distribution to civilians:

https://t.co/0OqdaDvlUv

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it. https://t.co/gOjqFnGv0I

[Gearóid Ó Cuinn @Gocuinn]

"Rather than doing everything in its power to protect an occupied people, the UK Gov has opted to back a state committing war crimes, while trialling future legal defences that allow the Government to say “if you read carefully, we actually never concluded anything at all”

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The day the UN accuses Israel of Genocide, 106 Palestinians are killed and there is barely a squeak about it most of the Western media...

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

So the list of humanitarian institutions who accuse Israel of genocide now includes:

1. The UN
2. International Association of Genocide Scholars
3. B'Tselem (Israeli)
4. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (Israeli)
5. Amnesty International
6. Doctors Without Borders
7. European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
8. Human Rights Watch
9. International Federation for Human Rights
10. Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention

The list of humanitarian institutions who say Israel is NOT committing genocide in Gaza includes:

1. Nobody
2. No one
3. Zero
4. Nothing
5. Nada
6. Zilch
7. Fuck all
8. A complete absence
9. Diddly squat
10. Bupkis

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

"I do not write these words as an adversary of Israel.... Our commission has documented the crimes by Hamas. But no crime, however grave, justifies genocide. To respond to atrocity with atrocity is to abandon the very values international law was created to protect."

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

There's much gaslighting going on right now- the idea that political violence or demonisation in politics is the preserve of one side, or is unique to the liberal left. All the evidence says otherwise- it is dangerous nonsense. I went on @PiersUncensored last night to say why.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

❌️ BREAKING! ❌️ At least 114 Palestinian children were killed in Gaza with SINGLE GUNSHOT to head/chest, consistent with shooting aimed to kill. A genocide unfolding everyday under our eyes. Will Israel ever be held accountable? And when will the killing machine be stopped?

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is how you introduce war criminals when you're interviewing them.

[Mark Chadwick @letter_of_mark]

Grateful to be able to contribute a chapter to this much needed forthcoming collection. I consider "The End of Piracy", looking at the need for an overhaul of the present definition 🏴‍☠️

[Vernon Press @VernonPress]

📕UPCOMING📕
"Blue Crimes and International Criminal Law" edited by Regina M. Paulose is now available to pre-order with a 24% discount on our website: https://t.co/7ZCN4wo6Qe

#Piracy #bluecrimes #waterrights #genocide

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Spain’s National Court opened a criminal investigation into senior Israeli officials for the attack last month on a humanitarian aid ship, the Madleen, en route to Gaza. https://t.co/aOg20641R5