Dr Melanie O'Brien

My work at home buddy 🥰😍 #doggos

Middle East Eye has assembled statements from experts across #intLaw & #genocide studies, all in agreement that what is happening in #Gaza is genocide. I am one of those experts, along with @vukusiciva.bsky.social, @dirkmoses.bsky.social, ‪@nimersultany.bsky.social & others youtu.be/LhT5DsSE8l4?...

In this post on @opiniojuris.bsky.social, I walk through the components of the legal definition of #genocide and apply the actions on the ground in #Gaza to these components, to answer the question 'Is genocide happening in Gaza?'. opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/i...

Spanish actor Javier Bardem has referred to the @genocidescholars.bsky.social #Gaza Resolution on the Emmy's Red Carpet. He says the IAGS declared it a #genocide ‘and that’s why we ask for a commercial and diplomatic blockade and sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide'. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Ba ha ha ha 🤣 🤣 chaser.com.au/general-news...

Happening here, too. Same responses to misconduct allegations, indicating use of automation platforms to write responses.

Easy to do!

Hinton on our #AUS news about #USA senate candidate who had a #Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest. Hinton says his main concern is still with the right wing of US politics, where apologies over Nazi references and symbols are less forthcoming.

Ughhhh, Turkiye! #discrimination #intLaw www.ejiltalk.org/criminal-bou...

I got to visit the #SouthAfrica Constitutional Court on the weekend. A beautiful building w/so much significance in its design. Located on the site of fmr prison as a reminder of injustice & how not to corrupt the legal system. #law

#ICC judges reject jurisdictional challenge from #Duterte. But his fitness to stand trial will be assessed later. (Of course, he was perfectly healthy until his suddent health problems upon arriving in The Hague. Another old perp who will try to get away w/crimes) www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

New SR OPT report on the complicity of influential Third States in the #Gaza #genocide. Looks at sanctions, diplomatic relations, military ties, facilitation of the degradation of living conditions, economic & trade relations. Quite a few states mentioned, esp #USA, #UK, #Germany, #Italy & EU.

My thread on the #ICJ's AO ruling. #Israel has been hammered, its obligations under treaty law & CIL made clear. Honestly, nothing surprising, just the ICJ confirming #intlaw obligations. But plenty of noting of Israel's violations of intLaw. Sebutinde out in the cold as was expected.

Time for another #ICJ ruling! Advisory Opinion on Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other Int Organizations & Third States in & in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory dropping now.