James Robins

@James_ARobins

It’s the International Law Department, which gives the army permission to kill 15 to 20 civilians per combatant death and pastes a veneer of properness over IDF operations.

During war, cultural property is supposed to be immune from attack. ​In Gaza, it’s being rapidly destroyed.

The settlers and their allies take for granted that fewer Palestinians—not counting those already slain—will live in their homeland once the conflict is over.

The judges’ provisional ruling dismissed almost every objection—moral, technical, procedural—thrown up by the Israeli defense team.

Lawyers for Israel defended the country’s bombardment of Gaza with a polite, legal form of blackmail.

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the U.N.’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

Workers once confronted industrialization by taking a hammer to the new machines.

The year that Europe went to the barricades changed the world. But it has not left the same impression on the public imagination as 1789 or 1917.

The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.

Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.

There’s no question that climate change is killing people—but you could also argue that it qualifies as wanton extermination of entire cultures.