Jessica Simor KC
@JMPSimor
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Public law, Human Rights, energy, climate/environment. Vis. Prof @LSELaw @GoldsmithsLaw, fellow @BinghamCentre @GlobalPartnersD @justicehq @Robertsbridge VMO
London, England
Joined May 2017
This was such a lovely hour chatting with the brilliant.@SheroyZaq . I was a little over-relaxed having just returned from a hike and swim in Loweswater. But hey, there comes a point in life….
Then from @yumnakamel, Legal Education Officer @Right_to_Remain and the co-founder and executive director of @earthrefuge, the planet's first legal think tank dedicated to climate migrants. Enjoy!.
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Extraordinary language - just extraordinary when you think about it.
Today, we reached an agreement with Israel to expand humanitarian access to Gaza. This deal means more crossings open, aid and food trucks entering Gaza, repair of vital infrastructure and protection of aid workers. We count on Israel to implement every measure agreed.
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An important piece from 2018. Worth reading.
@JMPSimor Piece from 2018, by Stephen Miller's uncle, Dr. David S. Glosser, lamenting his nephew's utter betrayal of his Eastern European refugee ancestors who were granted an American sanctuary where they could contribute and prosper.
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RT @ronenbergman: A New York Times Investigation:.How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power. This is the inside story, conta….
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The objective is to seek out & kill every person involved in October 7 irrespective of whether that achieves any military objective or of how many innocents are killed in the process. This is not even a Hiroshima/Nagasaki strategy; it is not to end a ‘war’ but to punish & avenge.
@JMPSimor It is both lawful and regrettable when terrorists hide amongst their children. Every October 7th monster will be found.
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“Children will be taught to love America” - White House rhetoric gets more Soviet everyday.
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology." @atrupar.
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Consider this ‘defence’: if a murderer is in a school, it is justified to blow up that school and kill the children not to neutralise any threat or to achieve any military objective but purely to punish the murderer.
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Consider this ‘defence’; if a murderer is in a school, it is justified to blow up that school and kill the children not to neutralise any threat or to achieve any military objective but purely to punish the murderer.
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It is plainly neither lawful nor morally defensible to kill infants and children queuing to be given nutritional supplements, in order to take out a 7 October murderer, which is what the IDF say they were doing and which some people seem to be arguing is justifiable/reasonable.
According to BBC news this evening the IDF has said this was an intentional strike because there was believed to be a Hamas operative amongst them. How can one even begin, if this is considered an answer; acceptable “collateral damage”.
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According to BBC news this evening the IDF has said this was an intentional strike because there was believed to be a Hamas operative amongst them. How can one even begin, if this is considered an answer; acceptable “collateral damage”.
We’re appalled by the reported killing in Gaza today of children and women waiting in line for nutritional supplies provided by UNICEF’s partner organization, Project HOPE. The killing of families trying to access life-saving aid is unconscionable.👇
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I did not want to watch it; I forced myself to and it should be obligatory watching. The BBC decision not to air it is terrifying & shocking, particularly in light of Israel’s refusal to allow the media, including the BBC into Gaza or its prisons.
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RT @lewis_goodall: A truly chilling story. Guardian reporting that the Israeli Defence minister has asked IDF to draw up plans to move 600,….
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N’importe quoi.
Yesterday a young man was murdered in broad daylight for his watch. And now Starmer is on the verge of giving killers a 70% reduction on the full sentence. Our streets aren’t safe. We’ve got to fix it, and that starts by getting dangerous criminals off our streets.
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“the leaders of the Yishuv realised…that there could be a Jewish State only if there were a large Jewish majority in it. Establishing the State in the whole of Mandatory Palestine would have meant that the Jews were a minority in their own State.”
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Ignorance is bliss.
Norway, Switzerland and Iceland show us how small countries not in EU can do so much better than the EU. It is nonsense to say the EU‘s size is crucial to prosperity. The single market is an unhelpful over regulated customs union.
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“A principled Brexiteer” is one who is repentant.
Great to have the brilliant David Jones joining Reform. David’s a principled Brexiteer who understands what is needed to get Britain growing again
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Even Netanyahu does not claim this. Even Golda Meir didn’t claim it. It was not even Israel’s claim when independence was declared in 1948. The ICJ has rejected it. Natasha tours the world with this mistaken thesis. It is wrong and extremely irritating.
Israel is not occupying Arab land. Egypt and Jordan occupied Israeli land and Israel reconquered it. Here, international law expert Natasha Hausdorff explains.
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An old friend, Cambridge Jones, has started a new podcast on photography. Sharing with you here but can of course be found on all podcast providers:
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