Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social

Political Violence, Atrocities, Human Rights, International Law, Canadian Law | Prof @goUFV | @WayamoFound | BCL/JD McGill | PhD, @LSEnews | PostDoc @munkschool

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

To understand genocide in Gaza & elsewhere, we need to talk about it as a process not an event.

Perhaps the most important op-ed I've written for @globeandmail: https://t.co/B50Q4VO7uw

Thanks to @AlexNeve24 for comments on a draft & @itsmarkmedley & team for running it!

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Yankee go home

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

For the first time, Germany has lost a campaign for a temporary seat on the UN Security Council👇

The world cares about int’al law, & this is a lesson for states: whether it’s Venezuela, Gaza, Iran, or Lebanon, promoting the consistent application of int’al law is good politics.

[DW Politics @dw_politics]

Germany has failed to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) secured 104 votes in the General Assembly, falling 23 short of the required two-thirds majority. It is the first time Germany has missed out on a rotating seat.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Finally.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Some Palestinian student visas being expedited after long wait https://t.co/ZfhtybEQqD

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Treating Canadians as too dumb to know what you’re doing isn’t diplomacy, it’s just stupid - and we see through it.

🤡

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Pete Hoekstra: "As the president's representative to Canada, I present the president's views, the United States' views to Canada. Mechanically, I don't do all the reposting and retweeting myself. My understanding is we repost 100% of the president's tweets that deal with Canada."

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

@USAmbCanada Close the door on your way out, thanks.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

“nothing can justify the continuation and scale of its military operations in Lebanon.” - France

Security Council Members Call for Israel to Withdraw From Southern Lebanon: https://t.co/lKufpgBhVJ #Lebanon #WarCrimes

[Kjell Anderson @Kjell_Anderson]

Remove Pete Hoekstra's credentials. He's unwelcome in Canada. These idiots are doing generational damage to the relationship between Canada and the united states.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Also Hoekstra: I don't know why Canadians would be upset with our direct threats to their way of life and sovereignty!

These guys are drunk at the wheel.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Major universal jurisdiction news.

Ex-Syrian general and a former senior Syrian police officer went on trial in Vienna on Monday, accused of torturing opponents of the now-deposed regime of Bashar al-Assad, in Raqa: https://t.co/dUqv06Dx55 #Syria

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Hope is radical. #MSF

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

IDF 'double-tap' strikes are so frequent that medics wait 40 minutes to attempt a rescue.

In one case, it wasn't enough.

I also think of the civilians who die from their wounds who might be saved if medics could do their jobs without fear.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wab Kinew: "The thing that working people need to keep in mind is that even when Trump leaves, Trumpism will remain. And it is being bankrolled by a group of the wealthiest people who've ever existed on planet Earth. And they care only about enhancing their own wealth."

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Beautiful words.

“Hungary: Withdrawal of the Notification of Withdrawal.”

#ICC

https://t.co/aRx9ppLbDA

[Ezequiel Jimenez @ezejim7]

Hungary’s official notification: staying as a Rome Statute State Party.

📍 https://t.co/AdU8mgSGsr

[Hadja Lahbib @hadjalahbib]

Gaza's humanitarian space is further shrinking.

As Israeli military control expands, shifting lines hamper aid workers & cut essential services (including clean water) for those in need. Families are trapped between boundaries that move without warning.

IHL must be respected.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

The full report covers conflict-related sexual violence in Afghanistan, CAR, Colombia, DRC, Israel & Palestine, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Russia, and Yemen.

Naturally, conspiracy theorists will insist the part they don't like is biased.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

The genocide case at the ICJ is proceeding predictably slow.

So, a reminder: the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide obligates states to **prevent** genocide where a risk of it exists.

In Gaza, that risk is years old and patently clear.

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

South Africa's reply is due November 22, 2027.

Israel's rejoinder is due May 22, 2029.

As noted many times before, this case will take years to reach a final judgment.

The people of Gaza cannot wait.

States must act now.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Reasonable and important question about the economy posed to Poilievre, an answer to which would be helpful to Canadians.

Poilievre: “which outlet are you with?”

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Reporter: We have economists saying that today's numbers are so nominal they could be forecasted away and revised away. So aren't you jumping the gun a little bit calling this a full-blown recession?

Pierre Poilievre: Which outlet are you with?

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

Canada exported $14.6 million worth of military goods directly to Israel last year, according to a report published today by Global Affairs Canada. https://t.co/i2ZyTp9VVG

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

“A report by the office of Secretary General António Guterres said the UN had last year verified 31 cases of sexual violence perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.” https://t.co/O6Ryimi7E1