Lisa Hajjar
@lisahajjar
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Professor of sociology at UCSB. Law and conflict, torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Universal jurisdiction is my favorite jurisdiction.
Joined August 2010
The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture is now available in paperback. This fight isn't over, Guantánamo isn't closed, no accountability. My book explains this dark and present chapter of US history.
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RT @carolrosenberg: Still wondering? Looking back? This lays out How the Plea Deal Came Undone.
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A case that had mostly drifted from public consciousness in 12 years of proceedings is back in the spotlight and no closer to trial.
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RT @LoriAllen72: Public Anthropologist issue on Israel's genocide of Palestinians is now open access until October: .
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"Volume 7 (2025): Issue 2 (May 2025): Special Issue: Speaking Out Against Genocide and Repression, edited by Lori Allen and Heidi Mogstad" published on 26 May 2025 by Brill.
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RT @deviatar: “The U.S. government is knowingly, explicitly, and very publicly paying another country to arguably commit gross violations o….
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With a payment to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, President Trump appears to have hired a foreign government to arbitrarily detain hundreds of men.
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RT @MouinRabbani: There seems to be a perceptible shift in the campaign to delegitimise Zohran Mamdani's candidacy for New York City mayor….
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RT @meriponline: LAUNCH EVENT: Join us Thursday, June 26 12PM EST for our New Gender Frontlines Launch Event featuring issue editors and co….
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RT @CraigMokhiber: Please read, sign, and share widely the Sarajevo Declaration on the genocide in Palestine. It takes only a few seconds t….
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Sign the Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza People's Tribunal
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Brilliant and biting.
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RT @MouinRabbani: I was contacted earlier today by a journalist seeking to understand why Iran’s coalition partners in the “Axis of Resista….
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Must-read analysis from the inimitable Mouin Rabbani.
THREAD: Various reports suggest that the United States is debating direct participation in Israel’s war against Iran. In addition to the massive supply of arms and funds to its Israeli proxy, the mobilization of anti-missile defenses to protect it from Iranian retaliation, and.
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Harriet Tubman is one of the greatest Americans, bar none. Pete Hegseth is a pathetic alcoholic loser who gets the white privilege of failing upward. Loser has the audacity to decommission a naval vessel named to honor General Tubman. We mock you, Hegseth. @PeteHegseth @SecDef
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Illegal aliens invaded America. The government of California aided and abetted that invasion. Violent mobs, incited by California leaders, attacked ICE officers to keep them from removing the invaders. California officials refused to send the police to rescue the ice officers,.
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RT @ytirawi: Gaza Today |. Just one example among dozens I encounter daily from Israeli soldiers — each one as unsettling as the last.” htt….
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RT @NimerSultany: We are here to name the genocide. Today we need to ask: what more evidence is needed now for everyone to realise the na….
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RT @Heidi__Matthews: @lisahajjar Keynote w/Raji Sourani: 'They made us into a nation of beggars. Shame on them. They weren't satisfied with….
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RT @gazatribunal: 🚨 MAY 26-29, SARAJEVO 🚨. The Gaza Tribunal convenes its first Public Assembly in Sarajevo. 🔴 WATCH LIVE: .
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RT @gazatribunal: Raji Sourani's defiant closing: "We will not leave this land. The world treats us as cowards who don't defend ourselves,….
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RT @jadaliyya: “One has to understand that international law in many areas works quite efficiently in terms of being enforced. Where it doe….
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RT @carolrosenberg: Once you’ve constrained the ability of journalists to provide independent information to the public about those in powe….
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The anti-press playbook is being used in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.
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RT @carolrosenberg: Latest: The DHS has delivered three dozen more immigration detainees to Guantanamo. Now, 26 are being held at the Pent….
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