Colin Wight
@colwight
Prof Emeritus (International Relations); Guitar fanatic; NUFC Supporter. Views mine. Yes, I pay for things I value. 🎗️
Mistake to think Twitter is a medium for academic exchange. It's not, it's a madhouse, and everyone on it is mad, in both senses of word.
Goodbye dear friend - thanks for all those years - we had some great fun. 4 kids from Aston- who’d have thought, eh? So glad we got to do it one last time, back in Aston. Love you.
I just can’t believe it! My dear dear friend Ozzy has passed away only weeks after our show at Villa Park. It’s just such heartbreaking news that I can’t really find the words, there won’t ever be another like him. Geezer, Bill and myself have lost our brother. My thoughts go…
A one off. Go in mayhem Ozzie, it’s the only way you knew. youtu.be/sNgiN8hXK6M?si…
Now there’s a reliable source. 🤦🏻♂️
HUNTER BIDEN SAYS MOSSAD WERE AWARE OF OCTOBER 7 ATTACK 1 YEAR BEFORE
Minute 1:05 : An entire Druze family executed in the streets of Suwayda
One of the dumbest tweets I’ve seen in a while. Well today at least.
653 days, the 15th biggest military power in the world, a tiny 40km stretch of seaside land containing only 20-30k Hamas fighters & over which Israel has complete control of access. It seems to me obvious that this was an intentional military failure - a planned catastrophe.
Gotta love it when the Free Palestine crowd fight each other. Hate is their only currency.
I’ve instructed my attorney to sue @Partisangirl for a slew of defamatory tweets. And when I win, I will take ownership of her home, sell it and then donate 100% of proceeds to survivors of Assad’s chemical weapons attack, and Palestinians who survived her dictator’s starvation…
The number of replies to this suggesting the allies were guilty of genocide is eye watering. Priceless.
If WW2 was happening now the Allies would be getting accused of genocide.
If WW2 was happening now the Allies would be getting accused of genocide.
What’s striking about this is that these countries should be doing what will bring about an end rather than endlessly talking about an end. And that would be easy. Form a multinational force to go in and take over the aid distribution from both Israel and the UN. Israel has a…
Britain and more than 20 other countries called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and criticised the Israeli government's aid delivery model. King Phillipe of Belgium criticized the situation is Gaza as well. jpost.com/israel-news/ar…
And now as an article! Thank you to the peer-reviewers for their very helpful comments and suggestions and to the team at the Military Law and the Law of War Review for publishing. elgaronline.com/view/journals/…
Does #Israel have the #obligation to allow and facilitate #humanitarian #relief to #Gaza? @OriPomson discusses the obligation to actively provide enemy’s #civilian population with #humanitarianrelief and possible #exceptions to this obligation. lieber.westpoint.edu/obligation-all…
Can someone please tell Yvonne that I am absolutely saying that she is a liar and that I dare her to try and sue me.
Scepticism and epistemological humility are essential characteristics for an academic to develop. When you come across academics that don’t display them, particularly when it’s information coming out of a war zone and fed by a group like Hamas, you know someone has made the wrong…
The GHF is the most systematic way through which Israel has carried out its extermination of Palestinians since the Genocide began
I don’t know what’s going on in Sweida, but I’m not going to call it a genocide, because that’s a term that should only be used in extreme circumstances, and it’s been devalued by overuse against Israel. However, whatever it is, it’s terrible, and three things strike me about it.…
So if Islamist butchers aren’t colonisers, what’s their excuse? Alonso is a parody of everything wrong with academia. If he didn’t exist we’d have to invent him.
Because of how racialisation in colonial and/or apartheid systems works. In the same way as the French colonisers were not moved by the Algerians they threw dead into the Seine or the Southern Democrats did not care about the African Americans they lynched every other day
It's really important that we are clear that the U.N. Human Rights Council has a pro-terrorist wing, and then a completely separate wing that are just idiots.
“Eliminating Hamas means eliminating a political party, and this is not a military objective. It is the elimination of Hamas that is at the heart of the genocidal logic that Israel has implemented.” — Francesca Albanese, U.N. Special Rapporteur for Hamas Rights