Apropos of nothing: self-defence under art. 51 UN Charter aims at repealing armed attacks until the UNSC intervenes. Self-defence is not punitive. Necessity, proportionality, and immediacy are required.

Two things can simultaneously be true:

1. Bombing State A’s embassy in State B is a violation of B’s territorial integrity, & of the inviolability of A’s diplomatic premises = violation of int’l law!

2. Retaliatory attack is not legitimate use of force (not self defence)!✌🏿

I urge the UN to authorize the deployment of a protective presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, with the explicit mandate to prevent & repe attacks against civilians. The Israeli army has abundantly proven unwilling or unable to ensure that task.

PM Jonas Gahr Støre and I met w 🇪🇸PM ⁦Pedro Sánchez⁩ today.

Norway stands ready to recognize the State of Palestine & its appropriate place in the United Nations, and will coordinate w 🇪🇸 an other like-minded countries on the right time & setting. regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/pri…

As Chair, I’m looking much forward to the OPEN Cost Action’s first annual conference on the state of play of academic freedom and institutional autonomy. Universities in times of geopolitical uncertainty! Thanks Sara Diogo and the University of Aveiro for hosting this.

Always important to have a good book to read when you're being deported

Dansk fredsforskning fik en stor cadeau igår. Ole Wæver fik Hartmann prisen (300.000) for hans prisværdige forskning og samfundsmæssige engagement. Selv fik jeg Hartmann diplomprisen (150.000), der kommer med en forventing om fremtidig indflydelse, som jeg agter at lave op til.

Great to see journalism on UK universities in crisis.
But what still needs writing is an investigative piece on the 100s of millions spent by UK unis on private consultancies etc. Public money on corporate outsourcing is a key part of the picture.
smh.com.au/education/they…

Ny stor dimensionering af universiteterne vil føre til lukning af flere uddannelser. Det sætter Danmark i bakgear! 😢 #dkpol
Læs interview med Hanne Leth Andersen fra RUC her i DM Akademikerbladet👇🏼
dm.dk/akademikerblad…

Nicaragua stating that Israel's claim to self-defence can only mean the right to protect its citizens, not art. 51 of the UN Charter, because it is an occupying power in Gaza. This is an important distinction

.World Health Organization (WHO) and partners managed to reach Al-Shifa — once the backbone of the health system in #Gaza , which is now an empty shell with human graves after the latest siege. The team witnessed at least five dead bodies during the mission.

Most of the buildings in the hospital complex…

Wonderful to see our book ‘Greenland in Arctic security’ at #MPSA2024 . Wish I was there too with my coeditors Ole Wæver and Ulrik Pram Gad and all of our coauthors.

A free online version is available via University of Michigan Press’ webpage: press.umich.edu/Books/G/Greenl…

israel has killed more aid workers in the tiny gaza strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years

World Central Kitchen is calling for an independent investigation into the IDF strikes that killed seven members of our team on April 1, 2024. Read our full statement here: wck.org/news/idf-inves…

Identifying an armed man is not enough to turn a clearly marked aid convoy into a target. This is the same twisted logic used for al-Shifa, where any kind of military use means there are no more limits to Israel’s actions. It is wrong. IHL still applies /1

This is the devastating impact of Israel's attack - not only because WCK has had to suspended all their operations, not only because a shipload of aid is turning back, but because other aid agencies will have to do the same. Civilians are starving and more will starve in Gaza

Old fashioned crude censorship, once limited to the worst authoritarian states, is really making a comeback. EU banned Russian state sponsored media in 2022 and now Israel grants Netanyahu powers to ban media foreign deemed a threat to national security.

MSF is horrified that Al-Shifa hospital is in ruins after a 14-day long operation by Israeli forces in and around the facility. Gaza’s largest hospital is now out of service. Given the extent of the destruction, people in the north are left with even fewer healthcare options.

Just received New #Gaza resolution by La France à l'ONU 🇫🇷🇺🇳 calling for “immediate ceasefire,” immediate and unconditional release of hostages, condemns Hamas Oct 7 attacks, demands unhindered humanitarian flow to Gaza, and urges int’l efforts to find peaceful solution

I'm Jewish. So I'm disposed to love fellow Jews in Israel - esp. my family & friends there - and to love the family/friends of people who're part of my Jewish community here.

Then I see these poll results about Israeli attitudes towards the suffering of Gazans & I am disgusted: