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Jessica Whyte

@jessicawhyte.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof. of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. Writes about economic sanctions, human rights, neoliberalism, international law.

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy October! Check out what's coming at The Philosopher: Reproductive Injustice and Settler Colonialism On Bourgeois Coldness The Philosopher and the News Resisting Erasure: Palestine, Neutrality, and the Politics of Science All FREE, on Mondays at 2pm ET/ 7pm UK (except 3pm ET on Oct 26)
On Philosophy: Autumn 2026. Events are free via zoom. All events are Monday at 2pm ET / 7pm UK, except Oct. 26th is 3pm ET.

October
5th - Reproductive Injustice and Settler Colonialism ~ Gala Rexer with Andréa Becker
12th - On Bourgeois Coldness ~ Henrike Kohpeiß with Fred Moten
19th The Philosopher and the News ~ Alexis Papazoglou with Special Guest(s)
26th - Resisting Erasure: Palestine, Neutrality, and the Politics of Silence ~ Rafeef Ziadah with Sara Marzagora

See thephilosopher1923.org/events for more information.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I read drafts of bits of this and cannot wait for the final book!
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The IDF, and those who fought for the IDF in the genocide in Gaza, should not be celebrated or platformed in any country that believes in humanity and basic international justice. They should not be allowed to use the Sydney marathon as a platform this weekend.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“In January, the US began to block fuel shipments to the island – a blatant violation of international law, designed to inflict deadly harm on the entire civilian population. There can be no justification for such sustained and systematic cruelty towards the Cuban people” Tony Wood in @lrb.co.uk
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Tony Wood · Maximum Pressure: Cuba on the Brink
If every accusation is a confession, then the US State Department report released on 20 July, which describes Cuba as...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I am organising a workshop on ‘full-spectrum economic coercion’ at UNSW Sydney, December 9-10 2026 CFP below. Please share. And come! criticallegalthinking.com/2026/08/05/c...
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CfP: Full-spectrum economic coercion: tariffs, sanctions and (the end of) neoliberal governance
During his second term, US President Donald Trump has used or threatened tariffs against numerous countries in ways that blur the borders between economic
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My latest article on the Algerian War, insurgent normativity, and international norms for armed conflict
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Genocidal Apartheid State ¶ Haaretz archive.is/qf1UX
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/06/2026
The @nytimes.com choosing to depict the dangerous and severe impacts of fossil fuels like this when tens of people have already died is an explicit choice to help mask the impacts of this industry, and the fact we don't have to suffer this unpaywalled link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/w...
urope Is Sweltering. Here’s What That Looks Like
Temperature records were broken in several European countries on Wednesday.

In Pictures and Videos
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is what’s called ‘soft’ climate change denial, which is arguably more damaging that the more classical (‘hard’ denial) kind. People are being actively discouraged to think about reality.
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Awful Taste But Great Execution @awfulbutgreat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Man throwing shoe at George W Bush gold ring
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I was very happy to sit down with @tnovitz.bsky.social and record this super exciting CTTB episode on the ICJ AO on the right to strike and, more broadly, the history and current predicament of the ILO: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...
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80. The Right to Strike in International Law
Is there a right to strike in international law? And how did a century-old debate within the International Labour Organization (ILO) end up before the International Court of Justice? In this episode,
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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
World Refugee Day. The sublime Mahmoud Darwish ‘Think of Others’.
As you prepare your breaktast, think of others (do not forget the pigeon's food).
As you conduct your wars, think of others (do not forget those who seek peace).
As you pay your water bill, think of others (those who are nursed by clouds).
As you return home, to your home, think of others (do not forget the people of the camps).
As you sleep and count the stars, think of others (those who have nowhere to sleep).
As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others
(those who have lost the right to speak).
As you think of others far away, think of yourself (say: "If only / were a candle in the dark").
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/06/2026
CORRECTION: Israel plans major settlement push across occupied West Bank reut.rs/4uZ5Fsr We will delete a post that referenced Israel’s latest settlement push as being seen by many as illegal; Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are deemed illegal under international law
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Israel plans major settlement push across occupied West Bank
Israel's hardline finance minister announced on Wednesday a major expansion ​by more than 2,000 homes of three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank that Palestinians ‌hope will be part of a fu...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New report based on interviews with those sanctioned for their work with the ICC—including individuals in The Hague who now can’t book flights or hotels, and a Palestinian human rights organisation whose website and social media accounts were shut down. coalitionfortheicc.org/news/cicc-la...
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Coalition for the ICC launches groundbreaking report on US sanctions: "Criminalising Accountability: The US lawfare against the international justice system" | Coalition for the International Criminal...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“One person willing to keep acting as if there is no alternative is Carney himself. Indeed, Carney treats the policy tenets of neoliberalism as a truth that we can simply live.” @richardjoyce.bsky.social on the limits of Carney’s call to live ‘in truth’.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“This stalemate suits Israel perfectly.” A great piece by Michelle Burgis-Kasthala on Israel’s consolidation of its control of Gaza under cover of a ‘peace plan’ that offers no peace and licenses israel’s seizure and destruction of Palestinian land.
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I hope teachers at all levels will request a desk copy or an examination copy of our new graphic novel *The Black Schooner*, to be published next week, June 9, by Beacon Press. Follow the link below. penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/book/?isbn=9...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
'A top Sydney academic used AI to write an opinion piece that urged students to “do the work” and not cut corners by using such technology, with the Sydney Morning Herald removing the “unacceptable” piece from its website.' 1/3
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Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’
Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’
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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 03/06/2026
Most of Trump's current tariffs are only temporary, expiring in July. Last night we got more details of how the USTR is planning to replace them. The Trump administration is accusing 54 economies of failing to ban imports made with forced labour...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It wouldn’t be an Israeli ceasefire if Israel wasn’t constantly violating it. Netanyahu orders the IDF to seize most of Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...?
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Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal
Speaking in West Bank settlement, Israeli PM, who is fighting for political survival before elections, says ‘we are squeezing Hamas’
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is an excellent piece and I think it’s true that we are witnessing the death of the myth of peaceful economic sanctions. But this raises the question of what kind of politics is adequate to the death of liberal mythology and the stark revelation of the violent underside of liberal ‘peace’.
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A little over a month until our book launch in the centre of Bristol for our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Histories and Practices on 17th June @ 5.30pm. Join @briandrohan.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication and all its contributors! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/military-h...
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'Military Humanitarianism' Book Launch
Join us in Bristol to celebrate the launch of our edited volume 'Military Humanitarianism: Aid Operations & Armed Forces'
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
There’s an article in the Guardian today which I was interviewed for: I wrote about it here, giving a fuller account of how and why I won’t be working with UQP anymore. sakr.substack.com/p/leaving-uqp
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Leaving UQP
a follow-up on the expanding cultural apartheid
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 01/04/2026
We were wrong, he wasn’t empathising, he was asking us to form an orderly queue at the checkout. Inspiring stuff, thanks Albo!
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
There is widespread bombardment of civilians and civilian structures across Iran over the last 2 days, a continuation of the entire US/Israel approach to war-making that has intensified. I’m posting screenshots of some reports in the hopes of capturing the scale of these attacks
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Scott Marsh's John Farnham mural has not survived intact under the Crisafulli regime. We've got two strong hearts We stick together like the honey and the bee You and me We've got two strong hearts Reaching out forever like a [redacted] h/t : Jaraparilla
John Farham mural after Crisafulli.John Farnham mural before Crisafulli.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Habermas’ last contribution to the public sphere was a demand that israel must not be accused of genocide. But as Meaney writes in @newleftreview.bsky.social, ‘one would have to look far back for the original traces of Habermas’s locked-in Zionism.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Thomas Meaney, Normcore — Sidecar
Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026).
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nordacious @nordacious.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A statement regarding recent contact from Queensland Police about my work.
A written statement from artist James Hillier / Nordacious regarding contact from Queensland Police about artworks containing slogans recently criminalised under new Queensland hate speech laws. The second image shows three Nordacious illustrations - with the words on their clothing and signage obscured by yellow and red CENSORED stamps.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It was so fun much fun to write this with @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social On the transition from dollar hegemony to ‘dominance without hegemony’.
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Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A new archive of some of the Palestinian scholars in Gaza assassinated and killed by Israel rememberinggazascholars.org/the-scholars...
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Sonja van Wichelen @sonjavw.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
📣 PhD opportunity at University of Sydney/University of Glasgow! Come work with me, Sophie Chao, @sotiriagrek.bsky.social & @dremilinesmith.bsky.social on "Epistemic Infrastructures of Planetary Health Governance in Southeast Asia" #STS #hitmed #Planetary #PhDopportunity
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Sarah Missen @sarahmissen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
🧵 Putting together a thread of statements put out by Australian unions regarding the 2026 War in Iran. I was collecting these for myself, and thought others might find it useful. Let me know if your union puts out a statement and I'll add it. #ausunions
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“There has perhaps never been a conflict anticipated by American and Israeli warmongers in this degree of detail, or for longer…Some targets struck in the early days of the war were probably chosen by planners when the pilots who actually dropped the bombs were children.”
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
During her Senate hearing today, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, said that the only person in the entire world who can determine whether the US is facing an imminent threat is Donald Trump… God help this planet x.com/acyn/status/... x.com/atrupar/stat...
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba is underway. 🔗 Find out more online: nuestraamericaconvoy.org
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The Israeli genocidal army’s proud sons in a Lebanese home destroying a random old woman’s property just because it’s fun www.instagram.com/reel/DWBm9Rv...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It is good to know that Albanese is now 'urging' the US to end the war on Iran. But it is galling that, before fuel prices spiked, he spent the last couple of years telling us that he couldn't speak out against Israel's genocide in Gaza because Australia has no influence www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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Albanese urges US to end war as petrol fears grow
The effective withdrawal of support for the conflict came as the government warned domestic fuel supplies could not be guaranteed from the middle of next month.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The US/Israel have hit 77 medical facilities in Iran. In a little over 1 week. Medical facilities receive some of the highest protections under int'l law. But for US/Israel targeting them is just another way of launching total war against civilians x.com/AryJeay/stat...
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
There were THREE strikes on the girls school in Minab in southern Iran. THREE. And the "military" compound it was located on - it had closed fifteen years ago. The school was there all on its own. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/k...
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What we know about the strike on a school in Iran as the death toll rises
Iranian authorities said at least 168 people, many of them children, were killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
‘The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even the pretence that it was compelled by evidence of an Iranian dash for a bomb or an imminent attack.’ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi in @lrb.co www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together
The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
‘The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even the pretence that it was compelled by evidence of an Iranian dash for a bomb or an imminent attack.’ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together
The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
the bombings will continue until peace improves
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Pat Caruana @patbcaruana.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Damn i wonder who this guy speaking out against the Iraq War is. Wonder what he's up to these days
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Surprised to see that Trump, who is usually so deliberate and thoughtful, has decided to create a world where kidnapping or killing world leaders is a normalized method of handling threats.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
A pathetic statement from Albanese. Apparently we need an unlawful war of aggression waged by states that have long been trashing international law and the UN Charter to uphold ‘international peace and security’.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Up goes the sign again.
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