lawyer: human rights, discrimination; public interest and community campaigner; swimmer; Antarctic tragic; she/her/hers

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Joined July 2012
Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
A full lockdown of the West Bank just before the election.
סיימתי כעת הערכת מצב עם שר הביטחון, הרמטכ״ל, ראש השב״כ, ראש המל״ל ומפקד פיקוד המרכז. אני משבח את לוחמינו הגיבורים שפעלו בנחישות ומנעו פיגוע גדול ומאחל החלמה מהירה לפצועינו. הנחיתי את צה״ל וכוחות הביטחון להטיל כתר מיידי על העיר חברון ולהיערך לסגר מלא על כל יהודה ושומרון החל מהיום. כוחותינו פועלים בכוחות מוגברים לסיכול הטרור ומבצעים גלי מעצרים נרחבים. אנו נרדוף את מחבלי החמאס ושולחיהם בכל מקום ובכל זמן. אין לכם מקום מסתור.
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
Trump’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court won’t take effect for 6 months, but their effect is already being felt. The European Union should act now to protect the court, including by invoking its blocking statute to negate them in Europe. trib.al/lidarFL
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Look forward to presenting this seminar at Yale Law School on Friday, hosted by the Schell Center for International Human Rights
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
Reads like satire but it's a horrifying reality we're all complicit in creating and sustaining
Earlier today, a number of harvesters, accompanied by dozens of individuals, arrived to conduct an uncoordinated olive harvest in an area near Beitar Illit. Harvesting in this area requires a request to be submitted to the relevant authorities in advance of the start of the olive harvest season. This coordination is necessary to ensure the security of the area and maintain public order. Due to the security risk posed by conducting an uncoordinated harvest near an Israeli community, IDF soldiers, Border Police forces in Judea and Samaria, and officers from the Judea and Samaria District Police arrived at the scene and detained those present. The landowner was informed that he must coordinate the olive harvest on his plot of land and was provided with the relevant contact information to arrange a harvest at a later date. It should be emphasized that authorized olive harvests have taken place and continue to take place. To date, approximately 100 coordinated harvests have been conducted across Judea and Samaria, yielding many dozens of tons of produce, with security provided and coordination by the security forces, without any unusual incidents. In areas designated for coordinated harvesting, only harvesters will be permitted to enter, solely for the purpose of harvesting. As in previous years, security forces are working to facilitate a safe and orderly olive harvest season, with a firm commitment to enabling harvesting without unusual incidents or interruptions, alongside their ongoing defensive and counterterrorism missions.
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
The United Nations is launching a new initiative on the military uses of artificial intelligence, aimed at addressing some dire concerns about the threat the rapidly developing technology could pose to humanity. trib.al/RZAggov
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
The #ICC thanks the European Parliament @Europarl_EN for awarding the Court and its officials the 2026 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, at a time when the Court and its officials face unprecedented challenges.
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
How Israel has redrawn the map of one corner of the Middle East, since Hamas' deadly October 7 terrorist attack. Take a deep dive into the results of our months of painstaking analysis and speaking to the communities on the ground. abc.net.au/news/2026-10-22/i…
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
bird of the day 40: Albert's lyrebird (menura alberti) > found in: eastern Australia > habitat: rainforests > eats: insects, insect larvae, and small invertebrates > status: least concern photo by Tim Boucher 📸: inaturalist.org/observations…
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
Absolute silence from MSM on the most important speech on democracy and the will of the people Thank you @DavidPocock Tax the gas 25% Make Data centres work for Australia Accountability for lobbyists
YESTERDAY: Senator David Pocock, ACT Independent Senator, Addressed the National Press Club on "What we could build with our natural wealth if we thought and planned for the long term". Watch the replay on ABC iview or on the National Press Club of Australia YouTube channel. youtube.com/watch?v=dydA4DvB… Fernanda Pedroso Photography
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
An investigation suggests that the "American company Axon still supplies Israel with Taser weapons despite evidence they have been used to torture prisoners." trib.al/nIIyaow
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
Artist Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952 #womensart
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
"Heidi Levine recounts how Palestinian youths helped save her in settler attack. US photojournalist describes ‘protective shield’, vows to return to work in West Bank and criticises Netanyahu comments on incident" theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
Exactly
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
UAE is complicit in Sudan genocide. A Minister from that govt must not be elected
It's official: Lana Nusseibeh, the United Arab Emirates minister of state, has announced her candidacy for the United Nations Secretary-General. She joins a somewhat crowded race of female and male candidates, some whom have already undergone the long interview process.
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying. No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints. Palestinian farmers do not — and should not — need permits to harvest their own olive fields. But they fear doing so, because the IDF doesn’t protect them from settler violence. We’re trying to model solidarity & co-existence between Jews and Palestinians, and to call attention to the horrors of the occupation. The Israeli government is trying to foment violence between Jews and Palestinians, and to make it impossible for Palestinians to harvest their olive groves, drive on their roads, or live in their homes.
This was not about harvesting olives. It was about harvesting headlines. Brad Lander’s latest stunt is nothing more than a calculated political provocation. Lander traveled to a foreign country, deliberately entered a restricted security area, and participated in an unauthorized activity without the required coordination. What makes this stunt even more outrageous is that his own team contacted Israeli representatives in the United States ahead of his visit and was explicitly informed that proper coordination with the relevant authorities was required. He chose to ignore those instructions. At a time of heightened security tensions, Israeli security forces have a responsibility to protect lives, prevent dangerous incidents, and maintain public order. Had anyone been injured as a result of his reckless political theater, Lander would undoubtedly have been among the first to demand that Israeli authorities intervene and provide protection. Brad Lander came looking for a confrontation. Now he is pretending to be its victim.
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
Appalling behaviour by the medical staff who failed in their duty of care to protect this patient and her child @Ahpra @RACGP @amapresident
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
Plate, c.1928 by Grete Marks (1899-1990), ceramic artist and a Bauhaus student #womensart #BauhausWomem
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
The Israeli military detained ~80 US, Israeli & British volunteers trying to protect Palestinians from Israeli settler violence as they harvest olives near Bethlehem, including a NY congressional nominee, several rabbis and Israel’s former deputy AG. trib.al/n2PMPyV
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
I’ve lost count of the number of politicians using taxpayer funds for illegitimate purposes. There’s a lesson here for young criminologists. Never underestimate the importance of incentive and opportunity as a cause of crime.
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Robin Banks 💉💉💉💉 retweeted
Brad Lander: "We're being arrested by the Israeli military for harvesting olives." 🔗Read more: haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1… Credit: Tamar Glazerman, @rabbis4HR
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