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Pascal Lottaz

@PLottaz

Associate Professor for Neutrality Studies at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Law & Hakubi Center

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Zachary Foster
Zachary Foster@_ZachFoster·
If 51 Jews were killed in 24hrs, every world leader would issue a statement of condemnation & it would be described as the nth worst antisemitic massacre since the holocaust. When Israel kills 51 people in Lebanon in 24hrs, it's called a ceasefire.
Drop Site@DropSiteNews

🚨Israel killed 51 people in Lebanon in 24 hours on Saturday as the Israeli army continued its attacks despite the so-called ceasefire. The toll since the beginning of March has surged past 2,846 killed and 8,693 injured, the Ministry of Public Health announced today.

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Rabbi David Mivasair
Rabbi David Mivasair@RabbiMivasair·
Don’t like people wearing watermelon pins at your shitty medical conference? Don’t care. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” makes you feel scared? Don’t care. Seeing Palestinian flags on university campuses upsets you? Don’t care. A student calling Israel an apartheid state hurts your little feelings? Don’t care. A doctor speaking publicly about Palestinian children being massacred feels “divisive” to you? Fuck you. People refusing to condemn Palestinian resistance makes you uneasy? Don’t care. Hearing the word “genocide” feels inflammatory to you? Don’t care. A keffiyeh in a workplace gives you a panic attack? Don’t care. “Globalise the intifada” sounds genocidal to you? Don’t care. People interrupting politicians feels disrespectful to you? Don’t care. You no longer being able to monopolise victimhood makes you angry? Truly could not care less. What I care about are the Palestinian children being burned alive. The doctors being tortured. The families erased under rubble. The starvation. The concentration camps. The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and universities and refugee camps and entire civilian infrastructure. But for the nearly last 1,000 days and decades prior, Western institutions have demanded everyone stop and carefully tend to Jewish emotional discomfort instead. Not Palestinian lives. Not Palestinian suffering. Not Palestinian speech. Zionist discomfort. Zionist fragility. Zionist political sensitivity—elevated, enforced, and institutionalised across universities, hospitals, media outlets, professional associations, politicians, donors, and advocacy groups. All working in sync to transform Zionist discomfort into institutional emergency. While Palestinian suffering is rendered invisible. While Palestinian speech is disciplined. While Palestinian humanity is treated as negotiable. That is the function of the Jewish Feelings Industrial Complex. Not safety. Not care. Not protection. Institutionalised Zionist emotional management at scale. Fuck every single institution that constantly weaponizes “Jewish safety,” “Jewish discomfort,” and “Jewish feelings” to justify censorship, repression, career destruction, anti-Palestinian racism, and silence in the face of mass atrocity. If a watermelon pin destabilises you more than the annihilation of Gaza, the problem is not the watermelon pin. The problem is you. -- from "The Anti-Zionist" patreon.com/posts/awww-you…
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Pascal Lottaz@PLottaz·
Here we go. Whether this account by one of Saudi Arabia‘s leaders is an accurate depiction of how they saw the war at the time it started or not doesn‘t even matter. Fact is that now the pressure to „go neutral“ is so huge that I can‘t see how they and the other gulf states can take any other decision. A neutral (non-allied) Gulf region is now inevitable.
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand

This (arabnews.com/node/2642938) is, by any measure, an extraordinary article: Prince Turki Al-Faisal is a son of King Faisal and ran Saudi intelligence (the GID) for over two decades. He is writing that the plan of "the US-Israeli war on Iran" was "to ignite war between us [Saudi Arabia] and Iran," so that Israel could "impose its will on the region and remained the only actor in our surroundings." This further confirms that, contrary to what many have asserted, the notion that the Saudis were quietly backing the war on Iran was a myth (alongside the recent fact the Saudis denied the U.S. access to its bases and airspace: x.com/RnaudBertrand/…). From the horse's mouth they're literally saying it was as much a war on them as it was on Iran! Pretty crazy when you think about it: this is Saudi Arabia saying that their real enemy in this war was the U.S. and Israel. Hard to overstate how significant a rupture this represents. Now of course they could be saying so because, seeing how the war turned out, they're trying to retroactively position themselves on the winning side (at least strategically, by saying they didn't take the bait), or trying to justify domestically why they absorbed hits from Iran without retaliating. And, of course, it's not like they're presenting Iran as some sort of ally here: Prince Turki explicitly calls them a "neighbor" that caused "pains." But still, the end result remains: the Saudi establishment is now committing, on the record and in plain language, to a framing in which, while Iran is a "painful neighbor", the U.S. and Israel represent the deeper strategic threat, having tried to engineer their destruction. If you had any lingering doubt that this war accelerated the collapse of U.S. influence in the region, this should settle it.

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Hüseyin Dogru
Hüseyin Dogru@hussedogru·
“Today I stand before you not because I was acquitted (...) but because I was never charged.” This is my speech on Press Freedom and EU sanctions that I was barred from delivering in person at the European Parliament. Read my full speech here 👇 open.substack.com/pub/hussedogru…
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UN Special Procedures
UN Special Procedures@UN_SPExperts·
#Israel must immediately release @gbsumudflotilla activists Thiago Ávila & Saif Abu Keshek, arrested in int'l waters: UN experts. “The apparent ease with which Israel carried out these actions raises alarm about the possible complicity of European govts." ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
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Iran Embassy SA
Iran Embassy SA@IraninSA·
The way the United States closed the Strait of Hormuz.
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Pascal Lottaz@PLottaz·
A real German ratio. The german FM praising the visit by his Israeli counter part (ignoring the genocide, as is german tradition), saying his country stands with Israel, but getting a view 100 likes. HAHAHA. What‘s next? The red army back in Berlin?
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Manuel Cadonau
Manuel Cadonau@myswiss·
Unglaublich! Ein Affront: Deutschland erklärt die Schweiz 🇨🇭 zum «Sicherheitsrisiko» Es ist mehr als nur ein fragwürdiger Kommentar – es ist ein Affront. Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) bezeichnet die Schweiz allen Ernstes als «Sicherheitsrisiko für Europa». Eine bemerkenswerte Verdrehung der Realität – ausgerechnet aus Deutschland. Ein kurzer Blick in die Geschichte genügt: In den letzten Jahrhunderten gingen die grössten militärischen Konflikte Europas nicht von der Schweiz aus. Während andere Nationen Kriege entfesselten, blieb die Schweiz neutral und hat seit über 500 Jahren kein anderes Land angegriffen. Diese Tatsache wird in der aktuellen Kritik vollständig ausgeblendet. FAZ-Korrespondent Johannes Ritter bedient bekannte Narrative: Die Schweiz als «Trittbrettfahrerin», als «Rosinenpickerin». Diese Schlagworte sind nicht neu – sie werden regelmässig dann hervorgeholt, wenn politischer Druck aufgebaut werden soll. Der eigentliche Kern ist klar erkennbar: Die Schweiz soll sich stärker an Strukturen wie Europäische Union und NATO anbinden. Dabei wird bewusst unterschlagen, dass die Schweiz seit jeher einen eigenständigen sicherheitspolitischen Weg verfolgt – mit Neutralität als zentralem Prinzip. Dieses Modell passt nicht in das Denken zentralisierter Machtstrukturen – und genau das scheint zu stören. Besonders irritierend ist jedoch, dass Kritik nicht nur von aussen kommt. Wenn ein Schweizer Armeechef wie Benedikt Roos öffentlich erklärt, das eigene Land stelle ein Sicherheitsrisiko dar, liefert er damit Argumente, die im Ausland dankbar aufgegriffen werden. Solche Aussagen wirken nach aussen wie eine Bestätigung – unabhängig davon, wie sie intern gemeint sind. Die Debatte zeigt ein grundlegendes Problem: Es geht längst nicht mehr nur um Sicherheit, sondern um politische Deutungshoheit. Wer nicht im Gleichschritt mitläuft, wird problematisiert. Vielleicht wäre etwas mehr Selbstreflexion angebracht, bevor mit dem Finger auf andere gezeigt wird. Europas Stabilität ist ein komplexes Zusammenspiel – und sicher nicht durch vereinfachte Schuldzuweisungen erklärbar.
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Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi@tparsi·
Iran must, Iran must, Iran must... Germany is in no position to issue any "musts" against Iran. After all, Merz himself famously said just a few weeks ago that international law does not apply to Iran...
Clash Report@clashreport

Germany's Chancellor Merz continues to demand: Iran must come to the negotiating table. It must stop playing for time. It must no longer take the region and the entire world hostage. Its military nuclear program must be ended completely and forever, and there must be no further strikes against Israel and our partners in the region.

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Pascal Lottaz@PLottaz·
I‘m actually loving this one. The US is asking the UN to help with the mess they created… this is new. Doesn‘t read like the usual dismissive „the UN is powerless“ hubris, but more like a „please help“ plea for intervention by the global community. Seems the sorcerer‘s apprentice is regretting the infantile spell?
Department of State@StateDept

SECRETARY RUBIO: We’re asking the UN to call on Iran to stop blowing up ships, remove the mines, and allow humanitarian relief. If the international community can’t rally behind this and solve something so straightforward, then I don’t know what the utility of the UN system is.

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Pascal Lottaz@PLottaz·
I also call on the @GermanyDiplo @_FriedrichMerz regime to immediately end its persecution of @hussedogru. The Berlin regime must halt its campaign of pro-Israel terror, persecution and intimidation against this journalist and his family, lift the sanctions and respect his human and political rights.
Ali Abunimah@AliAbunimah

I call on the @GermanyDiplo @_FriedrichMerz regime to immediately end its persecution of @hussedogru. The Berlin regime must halt its campaign of pro-Israel terror, persecution and intimidation against this journalist and his family, lift the sanctions and respect his human and political rights.

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Hüseyin Dogru
Hüseyin Dogru@hussedogru·
Invited to speak at the European Parliament on sanctions — as a sanctioned journalist. We've asked permission for me to travel to Brussels. Let's see if @GermanyDiplo and @EUCouncil let me in, or if EU values quietly expire at the border.
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European Commission@EU_Commission

Let the truth be told, let the press be free. 📰 Journalists hold power to account, uncover injustice, and keep citizens informed often at great personal risk. This #WorldPressFreedomDay, we reaffirm our commitment to protecting journalists and defending independent media. Because free press is the foundation of democracy.

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Iasonas Apostolopoulos
Iasonas Apostolopoulos@Iasonas_Apost·
🔴 Δύο φωτογραφίες που θα μείνουν στην ιστορία για την ελεεινότητα του ελληνικού κράτους. 1️⃣ Γενοκτονικός στρατός που διώκεται από διεθνή δικαστήρια μπαίνει στα ελληνικά χωρικά ύδατα μετά από σωρεία παράνομων πράξεων και παραδίδει βασανισμένους ακτιβιστές στο ελληνικό λιμενικό. Μετά, φεύγει χωρίς καμία απολύτως συνέπεια, ΕΝΩ ΚΡΑΤΑΕΙ ΑΚΟΜΗ δύο συντρόφους μας ως ομήρους. 2️⃣ Το ελληνικό κράτος παρατάει τους απαχθέντες στον δρόμο χωρίς τρόφιμα, νερό, ρούχα, στέγη, και άλλα είδη πρώτης ανάγκης, αφού προηγουμένως οι Ισραηλινοί τους κατέσχεσαν τα πάντα. Κάποιοι από αυτούς είναι ξυπόλητοι και η αστυνομία τους αναγκάζει να περπατήσουν από τον Καρτερό μέχρι το αεροδρόμιο Ηρακλείου. ❗️Δεν έχει συμβεί ποτέ ξανά κάτι τέτοιο, οι Μητσοτάκηδες δεν έχουν νομιμοποίηση για κάτι τέτοιο. Αυτό δεν είναι απλά συνενοχή, είναι απροκάλυπτη υποστήριξη σε στρατιωτική επιχείρηση ενάντια σε άοπλους πολίτες, πολλοί εκ των οποίων Ευρωπαίοι. Και όλα αυτά μέσα στην ελληνική επικράτεια. Γι αυτό η κυβέρνηση προσπαθεί με κάθε τρόπο να θάψει το θέμα, πριν η κοινωνία συνειδητοποιήσει το ιστορικό μέγεθος της παρανομίας και της συνεργασίας. Να μην τους αφήσουμε!
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Pascal Lottaz@PLottaz·
A) Gibt es in DE heute kein Gesetz dass verbietet zu sagen, was der Kreml sagt. B) Noch wenn es so ein Gesetz gäbe, müsste Dogru in einem Rechtsstaat vor Gericht gebracht werden wo er die Möglichkeit haben müsste sich VOR der Verurteilung zu verteidigen. C) Bestreitet Dogru die Vorwürfe wurde aber trotzdem OHNE irgendeine Anhörüng bestraft. Ergo: die EU und DE sind keine Rechtsstaaten mehr.
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Ti Lo
Ti Lo@XXXbuke·
@hussedogru @EUCouncil You were sanctioned because you spread Kremlin propaganda and took money from Russia
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Pascal Lottaz@PLottaz·
The press in Europe is free to say what the leadership likes. If you report anything else, you are declared a disinformation agent and sanctioned to death, together with your wife and children. That‘s free europe 2026. Orwell dreamed of this place back in the days.
Hüseyin Dogru@hussedogru

You can't make this up. It's World Press Freedom Day, and these posters are on my doorstep: "Free Press. Protect what matters to us." The very same @eucouncil literally sanctioned me for exactly that. This is definitely going to be my campaign poster.

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