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I'm using Substack more and more — to write reflective essays from the field and some personal memoir. If that sounds like your kind of thing, come find me there. 👉 janinedigiovanni.substack.com/subscribe

After years reporting from conflicts where rules collapse, I’m convening “A World Without Rules” @yalejackson.bsky.social with @trpforjustice.bsky.social w/Kenneth Roth, Timothy Snyder & leading voices on accountability. April 24 (in person + Zoom) events.jackson.yale.edu/event/a-worl...

Sexual violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians is widespread, according to new reports and harrowing first-hand accounts. @nickkristof.bsky.social The Horror of Sexual Assault in Israeli Prisons www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

So much has been erased in #Gaza—lives, schools, libraries, and years of careful, intellectual work. These are the bios of 82 Gazan scholars whose lives and contributions to knowledge, were brutally cut short when they were killed by the IDF, simply for existing. rememberinggazascholars.org

An important read from @NowrojeeOSF "Islam is now widely.. described as a backward or inherently violent religion that represents a civilizational threat. ...Muslims are portrayed as people whose customs and values are irreconcilable with western ones." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

430 activists intercepted int'l waters Hands bound Blindfolded Sexual assault A disgusting minister gloating. France and Poland banned him. EU asked to follow. Will Kaja Kallas step up? France Bans Israeli Minister Over Treatment of Detained Flotilla Activists www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/w...

France's draft antisemitism law weaponizes & exaggerates antisemitism claims to silence pro-Palestinian voices. UN agrees: it undermines free expression. This is Israel lobbying giving cover to Israel's hideous crimes in Gaza while criminalizing dissent. #Gaza www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Russia is also included on the UN’s blacklist – and it faces enormous pressure from sanctions. The same consequences must apply to Israel, says war correspondent Janine di Giovanni

Hosted by The Reckoning Project in partnership with Yale University, this one-day symposium will bring together leading practitioners, academics, and policymakers to examine how the erosion of international norms is reshaping modern conflicts and weakening the systems meant to protect civilians and enforce accountability. Through a series of expert panels and a keynote address, the event will explore the growing gap between atrocity and justice, the limits of existing legal mechanisms, and the role of evidence, documentation, and civil society in preserving the possibility of accountability. The symposium will include opening remarks by Janine di Giovanni, Yale Jackson School Senior Fellow and founder of The Reckoning Project; a keynote address by Kenneth Roth, former director of Human Rights Watch; and closing remarks by University of Toronto professor Timothy Snyder.

Sexual violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians is widespread, according to new reports and harrowing first-hand accounts. The Opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof details a pattern of systemic a...

Fatima Ali Abu Owdah, How Alone You Were (2025) Poetry in cover art excerpted from Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem “Madīḥ al-ẓẓil al-‘ālī” (“In Praise of the High Shadow”): Son of mor...

GENEVA – Draft legislation aimed at combatting “new forms of antisemitism” would seriously undermine freedom of expression, legal certainty in criminal offences, and other international human rights, ...