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Jessica Wolfendale @jessicawolfendale.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Delighted that my paper "Collateral Voices: Civilian Perspectives, Moral Injury, and the Ethics of War" is now available open access in Ethics & International Affairs: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

So many law review articles and he just tweeted it out

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

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Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I spoke with @NPR about the U.S. strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed at least 165 civilians: "At every level, civilian protection has been deprioritized . . . A modern army has to fight according to the law, and the law requires that you protect civilians." www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

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Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school

A military assessment suggests a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile was responsible for at least 165 deaths at an Iranian girls' school, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly...

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 26/02/2026

An immigration case in Minnesota modeled how to hold the Trump administration accountable for violating court orders. JoAnna Suriani on the lessons learned: www.justsecurity.org/131966/trump...

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Holding the Trump Admin Accountable for Violating Court Orders

A Minnesota judge reveals ICE’s sweeping defiance of court orders and models new tactics for holding the Trump administration to account.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/12/2025

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Be sure to also check out the video abstract below! 📺👇

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

'Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia' 🌎 New Review of International Studies article and video abstract by Neil Christopher Renic and Jessica Wolfendale co-authored with Christopher Elliott 🌟 Read and watch it here! 👉 ow.ly/WIKs50XAtge

Soldiers dressed in camouflage lined up with their backs to the camera seated in a military truck with a green awning

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and
to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes.
• If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder.

Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads:

Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

👏 Hegseth did not commit a war crime👏 👏There are no war crimes without war👏 👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏

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Jessica Wolfendale @jessicawolfendale.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

When you want a side of feudalism with your chicken and chips

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia" by Christopher Elliott, @ncrenic.bsky.social & Jessica Wolfendale is now available #OpenAccess! Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/i8OUoL1

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Jessica Wolfendale @jessicawolfendale.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Thrilled to share that my book American Torture and American Terrorism: The Myth of American Decency is now available for pre-order from OUP! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Always getting those lists of Most Cited Philosophers or Works Featuring in the SEP Most Often or whatever and when you look there's never nothing by any women or POC. Well, finally, thanks to President Trump, a list of philosophical works has come out which heavily features women and black people!

They are:

Visible identities : Race, Gender, and the Self by Linda Martín Alcoff
I’m Not a Racist, But– The Moral Quandary of Race by Lawrence Blum
Pragmatism and the Problem of Race by Donald F. Koch.
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J. Lebron
Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race by Charles Mills
Beyond the White Shadow: Philosophy, Sports, and the African American Experience, edited by John H. McClendon III and Steven C. Ferguson II
Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege by Shannon Sullivan
Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice, edited by Laura Westra and Peter S. Wenz.
Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America by George Yancy
Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, edited by George Yancy and Janine Jones
White Self-Criticality Beyond Anti-Racism: How Does it Feel to Be a White Problem?, edited by George Yancy

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 29/03/2025

When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

No Other Land wins the Academy Award: "When I look at Basel, I see my brother. But we are unequal. We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law and Basel is under military laws that destroy his life and he cannot control. There is a different path." youtu.be/3gzo7PiFiaM?...

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'No Other Land' Wins Best Documentary Feature Film | 97th Oscars Speech (2025)

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

He nails it.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Medicaid didn't go offline because it was too "woke." School lunch programs weren't put at risk because of immigrants. Funding for cancer research wasn't on the chopping block because of trans people. All of this (and more) was jeopardized because of one person: Donald Trump.

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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Airwars on the first 25 days of Gaza “By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented.”

By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented.

At least 5,139 civilians were killed in Gaza in 25 days in October 2023. This is nearly four times more civilians reported killed in a single month than in any conflict Airwars has documented since it was established in 2014.
In October 2023 alone, Airwars documented at least 65 incidents in which a minimum of 20 civilians were killed in a particular incident. This is nearly triple the number of such high-fatality incidents that Airwars has documented within any comparable timeframe.

Over the course of 25 days, Airwars recorded a minimum of 1,900 children killed by Israeli military action in Gaza. This is nearly seven times higher than even the most deadly month for children previously recorded by Airwars.
Families were killed together in unprecedented numbers, and in their homes. More than nine out of ten women and children were killed in residential buildings. In more than 95 percent of all cases where a woman was killed, at least one child was also killed.
On average, when civilians were killed alongside family members, at least 15 family members were killed. This is higher than any other conflict documented by Airwars.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

To establish genocidal intent, Amnesty examined Israel’s overall pattern of conduct in Gaza, analysed racist, dehumanising and genocidal statements by senior Israeli officials and considered the context of Israel’s apartheid system, unlawful occupation & inhumane blockade

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/11/2024

The number of Palestinians killed since the start of Israel's war on Gaza has risen to at least 44,363, with another 105,070 wounded, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

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Israel kills dozens across Gaza, accused of ceasefire violations in Lebanon

Israeli air strikes hammer Gaza as ceasefire in Lebanon continues to hold despite Israel accused of truce violations.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

83% of plant life in Gaza has been destroyed. Israel's genocide is making Gaza uninhabitable - and our media outlets are complicit by suppressing the truth. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/83-all-pla...

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83% all plant life in Gaza destroyed: two devastating reports on Israel's genocide

Two reports detail the hideous consequences of Israel's Western-facilitated genocide. And yet the Western media bury or ignore them altogether.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Don’t keep me in the loop anymore I wanna be completely out of the loop. Nowhere near the loop. I don’t want to even see a loop from here on out.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

ICC charges against a democratic leader set a dangerous precedent that the law applies equally to everyone

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 23/11/2024

Catch up on our recent analysis: • Israel-Hamas War / ICC arrest warrants • Russia-Ukraine War • Symposium: Technology / Atrocity prevention • United Nations / Crimes against humanity • Abu Ghraib • September 11 / Accountability • Sanctions www.justsecurity.org/104905/diges...

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Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Nov. 18-22)

Israel-Hamas War / ICC arrest warrants • Russia-Ukraine War • Symposium: Technology / Atrocity prevention • United Nations / Crimes against humanity • Abu Ghraib • September 11 / Accountability • Sanc...

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 21/11/2024

I know all eyes are on Netanyahu but it deserves to be mentioned that the ICC has also carefully looked at Hamas violence on 7 October and against hostages

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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

January 11 will be the 23rd "anniversary" of the illegal detention camps at Guantanamo Bay. In the weeks immediately prior/following, several big issues are scheduled to be litigated - my client Ammar's right to an independent medical eval; the suppression of torture evidence; and the plea deals. 👇🏾

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This story by my @washingtonpost.com colleagues about the toll of Israel's air war on Lebanon's children is devastating. "The bodies of the adults had long since been retrieved. Pieces of the children, though, were still being found everywhere." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

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Israel’s war on Hezbollah takes terrible toll on Lebanon’s children

At least 231 children have been killed and 1,330 injured, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 19/11/2024

Israeli Holocaust historian on Gaza: “That is genocide.” Genocide studies professor Omer Bartov discusses Gaza, Israel's far right, antisemitism, and more with Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Watch here: zeteo.com/p/that-is-ge...

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'That Is Genocide!' Israeli-American Holocaust Historian Tells Mehdi

A powerful, wide-ranging conversation, plus audience Q&A, on Gaza, Israel, antisemitism, and more, with Omer Bartov, the world-renowned Holocaust and Genocide Studies professor.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

"The developments in this report lead the Special Committee to conclude that the policies and practices of Israel during the reporting period are consistent with the characteristics of genocide" - from the UN Special Committee that, ignored by our media documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A year on from the IDF's assault on Gaza's largest hospital, it has yet to provide any compelling evidence to suggest facility was a Hamas HQ, as alleged by Isreal and US. Attack set the tone for a campaign that has since decimated Gaza's medical system. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

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The case of al-Shifa: Investigating the assault on Gaza’s largest hospital

The evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the hospital as a command and control center, a Post analysis shows.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It’s mostly white people who talk about echo chambers. Maybe you need the internet to meet people with different ideas but the rest of us do not. We know what the “other side” thinks because we deal with it every day! Everywhere! We’re fine. Carry on. Happy Saturday!

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Jessica Wolfendale @jessicawolfendale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Delighted to be a contributor to this excellent volume, edited by Cian O'Driscoll and Daniel Brunstetter! My chapter argues that Charles Mills's work reveal how just war theory reflects and reinforces colonialist and white supremacist assumptions. www.routledge.com/Just-War-Thi...

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Just War Thinkers Revisited: Heretics, Humanists and Radicals

This book comprises essays that focus on a range of thinkers who challenge the boundaries of the just war tradition. The ethics of war scholarship has become a rigid and highly disciplined activity, c...

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