Udi Ofer
@udiofer_
Visiting Professor & Lecturer @PrincetonSPIA. Founding Director, Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic. Chair, Advisory Council, @acri_online. Former ACLU attorney
Friends, I have some big news. After 20 wonderful years at the @ACLU, today is my last day. I have so much love for this organization. I started at the @NYCLU in 2003, fighting against USA PATRIOT Act, Guantanamo Bay & NYPD's surveillance of Muslim, Arab & South Asian residents🧵
"We had to bend over and eat off the chairs with our mouths, like dogs," Harpinder Chauhan, a British entrepreneur who was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this spring and eventually deported, told the report's researchers reason.com/2025/07/21/rep…
Plenty of Jews love Zohran Mamdani. He has consistently denounced antisemitism & has spoken movingly about Jewish fear. And he has committed to “understand the perspectives of those with whom I disagree, and to wrestle deeply with those disagreements.” nytimes.com/2025/06/27/opi…
This is the right message: "Israel has more than the right to exist. It has the strength to exist. The Jews who live there have more than the right to self-determination. They have self-determination. The same cannot be said for Palestinians. About two million Palestinians live…
DEPC Executive Director and @OhioStateLaw Professor Douglas Berman (@slandp), an expert on criminal sentencing, recently discussed the Supreme Court case, Hewitt v. United States, with @Law360. law360.com/access-to-just…
"In 2025, the homicide rate will be the lowest since 1959. The homicide decline will likely decelerate after 2025, but by 2026 or 2027, the homicide rate may be the lowest ever recorded in the post-World War II era." Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/crimeforec…
“Keren and I are good friends. She’s Israeli, I’m Palestinian,” @PrincetonSPIA Dean Amaney Jamal said. “We’ve always supported peace. We disagree all the time, but always through the prism of respect.” Respectful dialogue: A bedrock @Princeton commitment princeton.edu/news/2025/07/2…
Omer spent 500 days as Hamas hostage. For 50 days he was locked in tunnel cell, so low he couldn't stand up, so narrow he couldnt stretch out arms and so deep it was pitch black. He couldnt see his hand in front of his face & was given bottle to piss into economist.com/1843/2025/07/1…
Crime continues to fall in US in first six months of 2025. Decline in crime began in 2023 and picked up steam in 2024. Now it's accelerating even faster in 2025. Both violent and property crime fell with large drops in both murder and motor vehicle theft (down 24%)…
"What happened in May is Stephen Miller pulled 25 ICE field office directors & 25 Homeland Security field directors into a room, screamed at them & said, “Business as usual is over. Stop focusing on people with criminal records. I want you to hit numbers” conversationswithbillkristol.org/conversation/a…
It's important that the work of the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory continues. All three members of UN commission investigating Israel resign amid Trump crackdown timesofisrael.com/three-members-… via @timesofisrael
Huckabee calls the killing of an American citizen by Israeli settlers in the West Bank last Friday a “criminal and terrorist act” and said “there must be accountability.”
I have asked @Israel to aggressively investigate the murder of Saif Mussallet, an American citizen who was visiting family in Sinjil when he was beaten to death. There must be accountability for this criminal and terrorist act. Saif was just 20 yrs old.
As President Trump’s immigration crackdown continues, we need to eliminate the confusion officers are creating by wearing masks during their raids. I'm proud to join @SenAlexPadilla and @SenBooker's bill.
We’ve all seen the videos: masked ICE agents in plainclothes and unmarked vans, grabbing people off the street. No more hiding. The VISIBLE Act requires agents to be clearly identifiable—so impersonators can’t exploit the chaos and fear of unidentifiable immigration…
Despite overall global trend towards death penalty abolition, total known executions worldwide increased for the 3rd consecutive year, led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. As in 2023, Iran accounted for most of the global execution total deathpenaltyinfo.org/research/analy…
“If they can do this sort of thing to Abrego Garcia, to 238 people that nobody knows, and send them to CECOT forever with no due process, they can do that to anyone...It should be deeply, deeply worrisome to anyone who cares about their safety and their liberty, that the…
Proud of @acri_online for protecting the right to protest in Israel. Threats from opposing groups cannot justify restricting constitutional right to protest. ACRI victory as High Court of Justice reaffirms that freedom of assembly applies across Israel nif.org/stories/human-…
"She was queuing to get the children supplements when the incident happened," Intisar said. At least 15 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli strike while queuing for nutritional supplements in front of a clinic in central Gaza, a hospital says. bbc.com/news/articles/…
So proud of my @PrincetonSPIA Policy Advocacy Clinic students. Last week they presented in Geneva to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, @UNHumanRights, on their research on US compliance under the Universal Periodic Review and Convention Against Torture.…
I appreciate the sentiment and, no doubt, the sincerity of what Dr. Hooven quotes Andrew Sullivan as saying here, but I believe it's off the mark. The advocacy groups he's talking about cannot "recover" principles they never had. The activities for which AS (rightly!) criticizes…
"Maybe there’s a chance for what’s left of the former gay groups to recover their liberal principles, support free speech, engage opponents, respect religious dissent, use plain English, and trust rigorous, evidence-based science again. If we can do that, and help kids in gender…
One of the most important aspects of a liberal democracy is the ability to hold people in power accountable for wrongdoing. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently on trial for corruption, and the president of the US should not try to interfere in that trial.
🚨Trump continues to press for canceling Netanyahu's corruption trial and hints he could suspend military aid to Israel if the trial continues. This is an unprecedented threat in the U.S.-Israeli relations
“#MassIncarceration has been so persistent & pervasive that #reform groups dedicated to reducing the prison population by half have often been derided ... But the next decade could see this goal met & exceeded ...” Read free gift article @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…