Orde F. Kittrie

Law professor & think tank senior fellow; former US State Dept attorney; author Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War (Oxford Univ. Press) RT/like/follow≠endorse

[Yosi Levi Sfari @LeviSfari]

10 million people, surrounded by enemies.
Two spots in the global top 10 for entrepreneurship. The Technion and Tel Aviv University, right next to Stanford, MIT, and Harvard.

This isn’t luck - it’s a deeply rooted culture of resilience and excellence.

Israel’s integration into European and global research programs is not a favor, a political gesture, or charity. It is earned through pure merit. Our scientists and researchers are there because they bring irreplaceable value to global progress. 🇮🇱✨
#Innovation #Research #Tech #Israel @TechnionLive
@TelAvivUni
@IsraelinEU @EUinIsrael

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Israel's far-right ministers weren't invited to the NYC Israel Day Parade. They weren't on the consulate's list. The organizers didn't know they were coming.

They showed up, walked to the front anyway, and handed Mamdani's boycott a cover story it hadn't earned.

Link in reply.

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

"The Iranian negotiation style is generally known in the world as the ‘bazaar style,’ which means continuous and tireless bargaining,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in his 2025 diplomatic memoir. “This method is a process of interaction that requires great patience and time,” and thus, “he who gets tired and bored quickly will lose.” https://t.co/6RPjkzFCdg

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

Morocco is an Abraham Accords country and has normalized its ties with Israel and focused on growing its economy.
South Africa is a country that’s been eroding its peace ties with Israel, obsessed with vilifying the Jewish state, and ignoring its corruption-ridden economy.

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

South Africa’s baseless “genocide” case at the ICJ is collapsing.

South Africa has requested an extraordinary 18-month (!) extension to submit its arguments.

The written submissions will not end before 2029.

All the claims of “urgency” have now turned into South Africa’s quiet requests to buy more time.

This case was never about the facts.

It has always been a propaganda campaign by South Africa in the service of Hamas, masquerading as a legal process.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

The UN blacklisted Israel for 13 alleged cases of sexual violence in 2025.

But in 2023 alone, the UN logged 758 sexual abuse cases by its own staff.

The same institution prosecuting Israel can't even keep its own "peacekeepers" from preying on those they're meant to protect

[FDD @FDD]

The US has three times previously used budgetary leverage to extract significant UN reforms. Ensuring that the UN holds Albanese accountable for her rules violations, and removes her from her post, should be a top priority for the US—@ordefk
https://t.co/1OPbRv3rBt

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: Author of U.N. report placing Israel on sexual violence blacklist admits she has not personally viewed any evidence. “I made it clear to Israel I would not visit any detention facility, even if offered. It's not the responsibility of my office to do any verification.”

[FDD @FDD]

Numerous countries have condemned Albanese’s antisemitic comments and biased conduct. She has clearly violated UN rules requiring impartiality, stresses @ordefk:
https://t.co/wT1WEdAkkw

[David Gerstman @soccerdhg]

This is really good.
@politico whitewashed @FranceskAlbs . Then they reported when the sanctions were stayed.
But Politico hasn't covered the Colorado ruling against her or the reinstatement of the sanctions.

[Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk]

New article: Arrest warrants for Israeli officials, pushed by UN’s Albanese, “set a dangerous precedent, directly endangering current and former United States personnel, including active service members of the Armed Forces, by exposing them to harassment, abuse, and possible arrest” (quote from Trump executive order authorizing sanctions for specific types of engagement with ICC).

[Behnam Ben Taleblu بهنام بن طالب لو @therealBehnamBT]

🚨This is why even the best deal (aka the approach below by yours truly, @ordefk, @StrickerNonpro & @mdubowitz) will have a “sunset date,” aka the day the Trump leaves office. @POTUS has a historic opportunity to not pass the buck on Iran policy as his predecessors have.

[Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk]

New article: US court temporarily reinstates sanctions on UN envoy Albanese who violated UN code of conduct, including by repeatedly comparing Israelis to Nazis and promoting statements calling Israel “the incarnation of evil.”

https://t.co/YYMVzzmesH

[Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk]

New article: US court temporarily reinstates sanctions on UN envoy Albanese who violated UN code of conduct, including by repeatedly comparing Israelis to Nazis and promoting statements calling Israel “the incarnation of evil.”

https://t.co/YYMVzzmesH

[Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk]

New article: Arrest warrants for Israeli officials, pushed by UN��s Albanese, “set a dangerous precedent, directly endangering current and former United States personnel, including active service members of the Armed Forces, by exposing them to harassment, abuse, and possible arrest” (quote from Trump executive order authorizing sanctions for specific types of engagement with ICC).

[FDD @FDD]

Court of Appeals Temporarily Reinstates Sanctions on Antisemitic UN Envoy Francesca Albanese

@ordefk's analysis:
https://t.co/5kd5Vat1RK

[FDD @FDD]

Court of Appeals Temporarily Reinstates Sanctions on Antisemitic UN Envoy Francesca Albanese

@ordefk's analysis:
https://t.co/5kd5Vat1RK

[FDD @FDD]

Ensuring that the United Nations undertakes reforms to hold Albanese accountable should be a top priority for the United States, stresses @ordefk in his latest Policy Brief: https://t.co/FaFBlZhApn

[Toby Dershowitz @TobyDersh]

New developments associated with the Alberto Nisman murder case:
1. NEW: Former Argentine prosecutor Viviana Fein has been charged with concealing evidence in the 2015 death of AMIA investigator Alberto Nisman. She faces up to 3 years in prison if convicted. The judge ordered a preventive freeze of 15 million pesos on Fein’s personal assets.
2. Nisman was found shot dead on January 18, 2015, just hours before he was to present evidence to lawmakers accusing then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and a dozen of her cronies of covering up Iran's role in the 1994 AMIA bombing, which killed 85 people.
3. Fein had admitted that investigators used toilet paper from the apartment's bathroom to wipe down parts of the .22 caliber Bersa pistol to find its serial number. This severely compromised potential fingerprint and external DNA evidence.
4. The magistrate reported that the prosecutor “manipulated and/or allowed the manipulation and alteration of evidentiary elements without proper authorization,” including serious failures in the chain of custody of the weapon that fired the fatal bullet, which was in different locations in the apartment without control.
5. Judge Julián Ercolini found that Fein allowed some eighty people to enter Nisman's apartment, trampling around without protective gear and other controls, in the hours after his death, potentially contaminating or destroying evidence. Fein denies the charges.
6. A 2017 forensic report concluded Nisman was assassinated for his role in investigating the AMIA bombing and calling out Iran for its role. Fein, who her critics say tilted the Nisman murder investigation to politically shield the Kirchner administration from murder suspicions, initially said she believed he committed suicide, a critical backdrop to the new judicial development.
7. Argentina's Supreme Court ordered Kirchner to stand trial in connection with an MOU with Iran, which Nisman said was aimed at absolving Iran of its role in the deadly bombing. The trial has not yet been scheduled. The former president is serving a 6-year sentence under house arrest in a separate corruption case. She has a lifetime ban on holding public office again.
#AlbertoNisman may no longer be physically present, but many are determined to see that justice is served in his murder case, in the alleged attempt by Kirchner and her cronies to white wash Iran’s role in the AMIA bombing, and in holding the Islamic Republic of #Iran accountable in the AMIA terrorist attack, the deadliest bombing in Argentina’s history.

[Orde F. Kittrie @ordefk]

The U.S. sanctions on Francesca Albanese have been reinstated, at least temporarily. A three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for DC has issued an administrative stay authorizing the executive branch to "implement and enforce" the sanctions on Albanese pending next steps in the judicial proceedings.

The Justice Department had requested the stay in a May 21 emergency motion arguing that federal district court judge Richard Leon wrongly blocked the sanctions on Albanese, an Italian citizen living in Tunisia. Judge Leon had ruled that the sanctions violated Albanese's First Amendment rights, finding that foreign nationals located abroad have Constitutional rights if they can demonstrate "substantial connections" to the US and that Albanese has such connections, principally because "she bought -- and she still owns --property in the United States," and also because her daughter was born in the U.S. and is thus a U.S. citizen.

In the emergency motion, the Justice Dept. replied that "substantial connections" do not qualify a non-citizen residing and speaking abroad for First Amendment protection -- yet even if they did, Albanese lacks such connections.

In issuing the administrative stay, the Court of Appeals ordered the parties to submit filings, due May 28 and June 2, on, in essence, whether the sanctions should continue to remain in place during proceedings thereafter.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

No deal is better than a bad deal. America out negotiated again. #Iran