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Tamer Morris

@tamermorris.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer in International law at the University of Sydney … and all things Kdrama and Kpop.

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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am pleased to share my current publication on Information Warfare and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Information Warfare and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict - Netherlands International Law Review
Disinformation attacks have become a common tool within military strategy. Information warfare is not considered to fall within the scope of IHL. In analysing IHL, the principle of the protection of c...
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Mohammed al-Wahidi understood that dignity is just as important as survival. Organising World Cup screenings may seem insignificant, but it gave the people of Gaza a moment of joy, a sense of normality, and a brief escape from the suffering surrounding them. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Palestinians mourn Gaza World Cup screenings organiser killed in Israeli strike
Aid worker Mohammed al-Wahidi had become a prominent humanitarian figure during the Israel-Hamas war.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This needs a lot more attention and action www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Evacuees from flooded remote Indigenous areas in NT housed in compound likened to ‘a prison camp’
Exclusive: Residents must sign in and out at a security gate, and vehicles and bags are routinely searched
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The ABC published an extended version of my post on the Conversation, if anyone is interested www.abc.net.au/religion/goo...
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‘We’re the good guys’: Moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal - ABC Religion & Ethics
The war on Iran reveals a growing preference for moral storytelling over legal reasoning. Once the narrative of “just cause” replaces the rule of law, once legitimacy replaces legality, there is littl...
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I wrote a short reflection on moral storytelling to justify an illegal war. Moral storytelling assumes one moral framework is inherently superior to all others, allowing any side to claim the same justification. theconversation.com/were-the-goo...
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‘We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal
Once the narrative of a “just war” replaces the rule of law, there is little left to restrain powerful states from dominating weaker ones.
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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This short piece from @tamermorris.bsky.social is excellent and worth your time to read it: theconversation.com/were-the-goo...
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‘We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal
Once the narrative of a “just war” replaces the rule of law, there is little left to restrain powerful states from dominating weaker ones.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I feel uneasy when morality is used to justify regime change, because it echoes the same reasoning once used to “civilize” the world. Claims “we’re doing this for your own good” resembles the same patterns of racism and imperialism that were used in the past to dominate others.
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Mark Klamberg @klamberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Repeat of the Venezuela-intervention? Remove the leader while allowing the regime to survive with concessions to the benefit of U.S. business interests.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Seriously?! We’re not even trying to hide the double standards anymore. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese says Australia supports US action against Iran and stands with the Iranian people’s ‘struggle against oppression’
Department of foreign affairs warns travellers of risk of reprisal attacks, further escalation and flight cancellations in Middle East
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Trump says US has begun ‘major combat operations’ in Iran after Israel launches strikes - live
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Why is it always those who set the house on fire are the first to ask why everyone is screaming? Politicians can’t inflame tensions in Australia by inviting President Herzog and then feign ignorance and shock at the public reaction.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
According to Trump "Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place". Let’s like the Avengers if the Avengers were modern day colonizers. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Blair and Rubio among names on Gaza 'Board of Peace'
The former UK prime minister and US secretary of state will sit on the "founding executive board", the White House says.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Absolutely worth the read
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Trump posted that Rubio should be president of Cuba. The next episode of ‘what did he do now?!’ www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump tells Cuba to 'make a deal, before it is too late'
Trump has been turning his attention to Cuba since US forces seized Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Donald Trump has said that he does not “need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality” - unfortunately you don’t have a good track record for ‘morality’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’
President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
We are walking down a road with the erosion of any legal order, we are currently in the place where we can attack anywhere and for any reason www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US launches 'powerful strikes' against Islamic State in Nigeria, says Trump
The US president says IS targets were attacked in north-western Nigeria, accusing the group of killing Christians.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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UN strongly condemns Israel's unauthorised entry of UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem
The UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that Israeli police raided its compound in East Jerusalem early on Monday, representing “a new challenge to international law.”
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests
Anti-government demonstrators are likely to have been targeted with camite, our investigation finds.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Another Peace Plan that echoes imperalistic and colonial pasts - with ‘smaller’ States forced to concede to ‘greater’ powers www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Zelensky warns Ukraine risks losing US support over White House peace plan
Vladimir Putin says the plan could be the "basis" for peace but warns Russia is prepared to fight on.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It’s interesting how the Security Council endorsed a peace plan, granting its governing body and an intervening force, legal authority - without knowing any of the details or parameters of the plan. And at the same time denying the Palestinian People involvement in their self determination.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and land as West Bank attacks surge
Several Palestinians were also injured when settlers launched arson attacks targeting an industrial area, a Bedouin village, and farmland east of Tulkarm.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This is the largest military presence by the US in Caribbean since the 1980s www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Pentagon’s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela rise
USS Gerald R Ford’s arrival marks the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The ICJ’s Arrest Warrants case? aje.io/uedq77
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Turkiye issues arrest warrant for Israel’s Netanyahu over Gaza ‘genocide’
Turkiye accuses Israeli officials of 'genocide and crimes against humanity' over Israel's war on Gaza.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The RSF are hunting down activists, journalists. They are searching phones for any sign of communication with the media or human rights groups - to detain or execute them. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’
For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are ...
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
So I did a thing…
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Approximately 1,500 have been killed in three days. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sudan war: New videos show executions after RSF militia takes key city
RSF troops executed a number of unarmed people after seizing el-Fasher, videos reviewed by BBC Verify show.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
For the last 18 months, El Fasher has become the “epicentre of suffering”, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped. Now there are reports of widespread ethnically and politically motivated killings news.un.org/en/story/202...
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‘Horrific’ violence as thousands flee Sudan's El Fasher
After 500 days of siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have reportedly taken control of the key Sudanese city of El-Fasher in Darfur, triggering widespread fear among families, and forcing th...
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
For the last 18 months, El Fasher has become the “epicentre of suffering”, with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped. Now there are reports of widespread ethnically and politically motivated killings news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org
‘Horrific’ violence as thousands flee Sudan's El Fasher
After 500 days of siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have reportedly taken control of the key Sudanese city of El-Fasher in Darfur, triggering widespread fear among families, and forcing th...
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It’s worrying that Judge Sebutinde uses misinformation to try to warn about disinformation, including her footnote regarding senior UN officials - not technically correct.
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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
How Not to Trade with Occupying Powers: Western Sahara and the Amendment to the EU-Moroccan Association Agreements | by Andrea Maria Pelliconi and Sebastian von Massow
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How Not to Trade with Occupying Powers: Western Sahara and the Amendment to the EU-Moroccan Association Agreements
On October 3 2025, the EU and Morocco concluded an amendment (‘the amendment’) to the EU-Mediterranean Agreement (‘the association agreement’). With the approval of the Council it is already being app...
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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AU suspends Madagascar as military leader to be sworn in as president
Colonel Randrianirina set to assume presidency in Madagascar after President Andry Rajoelina removed.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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UN lists 158 firms tied to illegal Israeli settlements
Report exposes global firms profiting from Israel’s unlawful settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank.
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Just Cause @justcauseusyd.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Why has Australia placed so few sanctions on Israel? Why are we still exporting fighter jet parts to a state that continues to deny humanitarian relief to civilians in Gaza? Can sanctions be an effective means of changing Israel’s behaviour? Find out from Ben Saul in today's episode.
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Ben Saul: Sanctioning Israel for Violating International Law
Why has Australia placed so few sanctions on Israel? Why are we still exporting fighter jet parts to a state that, over the past two years, has systematically attacked civilians in Palestine and delib
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
UN General Assembly adopts resolution endorsing the New York Declaration and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution In favor: 142 Against: 10 Abstain: 12
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Someone should remind Trump what the themes of Apocalypse Now are. Not sure he wanted to use a movie that explores the darkness of human nature, and war as a corrupting force that leads to moral ambiguity and the descent into madness of the lead character. Or maybe he do?
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Edward Said said it in the 70s and here we still are - “The moment this starts becoming chaotic — like, animalistic — we’re gone. So, you want to know what’s happening? Act civilised, act kind, act tolerant, because this is the problem with what is happening in the region.” aje.io/qt763z
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US envoy says calling Lebanon reporters ‘animalistic’ was ‘inappropriate’
Tom Barrack says he was telling Lebanese journalists to ‘be civilised’ but notes that they were ‘just doing their job’.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief
More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new UN-backed food security report released on Friday...
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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North Koreans tell BBC they are sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia
More than 50,000 North Koreans will be sent to work in Russia, as Moscow's war in Ukraine drains labour pools.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The situation in Sudan is getting worse with each day aje.io/nj44sr
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‘We’re suffering’: People in Sudan’s el-Fasher eat animal fodder to survive
A deadly cholera outbreak adds to the misery in a region that has witnessed fighting between the army and the rebels.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Some good news… www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hope for peace as DR Congo and M23 rebels sign peace deal in Qatar
The declaration says both parties must sign a final peace deal by mid-August.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The legal definition of ethnic cleansing is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas. www.axios.com/2025/07/18/i...
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Scoop: Israel seeks U.S. help on deals to move Palestinians out of Gaza
The head of Mossad claimed Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya have expressed openness.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Jewish Council of Australia’s executive officer, Max Kaiser, said if the government followed the envoy’s recommendations it would function as a tactic that “echoes the authoritarian playbook used by figures like Donald Trump – using funding as a weapon to enforce ideological conformity”
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Australian envoy’s antisemitism plan criticised as ‘Trumpian’ over concerns changes could be used to silence dissent
Recommendations to remove funding from institutions or charities that fail to act on antisemitism are ‘deeply dangerous’, critics say
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
It was fantastic to be part of two amazing panels at #ANZSIL2025 annual conference @anzsil.org
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Some light in the midst of the darkness aje.io/3n0wrv
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DR Congo, Rwanda sign peace deal in ‘turning point’ after years of conflict
The US and Qatar-brokered peace agreement must be followed by disengagement and return of displaced families, DRC says.
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Well said - “any ambiguity here is entirely due to decades of efforts by the states concerned, some of their government lawyers, and some academic lawyers, to generate as much flexibility in the existing rules as possible”
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
And the hits just keep on coming…
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
“All in all, there is scope to establish a humanitarian action by the GA as much as it did in the past regarding peacekeeping missions… The obvious objection is that all this seems to be a utopian tale in a situation where grim hatred overrides the sense of humanity.“
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
If my students made the same comment as the G7, that the attack on #Iran falls with the legal parameters of self-defense, I would have failed them. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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G7 Leaders\' statement on recent developments between Israel and Iran
\nWe, the leaders of the G7, reiterate our commitment to peace and stability in the Middle East. \nIn this context, we affirm that Israel has a right to defend itself.  We reiterate our support for th...
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“But scientists who are civilians – and most probably are – cannot (as persons) lawfully be made the object of an attack. Simply working on a weapons programme as a researcher does not entail direct participation in hostilities that could remove civilian immunity from an attack.”
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Tamer Morris @tamermorris.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The word is many States will take this opportunity to formally recognize Palestine. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Diplomats prepare ground for June conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine
Diplomats convened at UN Headquarters in New York on Friday to lay the groundwork for a crucial international conference in June, aimed at advancing global efforts towards achieving a two-State soluti...
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