Climate change, migration, conflict, humanitarian affairs, Palestine etc etc. Chair of @ALNAP 2016-22. Associate Senior Fellow @SIPRIorg

Joined September 2014
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Johan Schaar retweeted
16 Dec 2025
"Att ta emot färre kvotflyktingar är en politisk ståndpunkt. Att ta emot noll är något helt annat. Det är att ge upp vår humanitet och det samhälle de flesta av oss brukar säga att vi vill vara." Bra av Åsa Widell, generalsekreterare vid Sverige för UNHCR. Om vikten av att stå emot, inte vaska våra humanitära principer och inte ge efter för de högerauktoritära strömningar som präglar tidsandan. dn.se/debatt/med-kvotflyktin… #svpol
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Johan Schaar retweeted
My video report from the perilous front lines of what President Trump described as “war-ravaged” Portland, a city “on fire,” requiring troops to come save us.
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RT @GRFriedrich: Despite the delicate ceasefire now in place between Israel and Iran, there has been no respite for the #WestBank. Out of t…
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RT @muhammadshehad2: Number of Israelis killed today: ZERO Number of Gazans killed today: OVER 100 Yet not a single headline about Gaza r…
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Johan Schaar retweeted
Important initiative by Belgium. Coincidentally just today, a thorough study on exactly this topic has been published - written by 2 leading legal experts and commissioned by 5 Members of EU Parliament: barryandrews.ie/post/expert-… Now the EU has to act on it.
Belgium, together with eight other EU Member States - Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden - asks the European Commission to examine how trade in goods and services linked to illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory can be brought into line with international law. This follows the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, which clearly states that third countries must refrain from any trade or investment that helps sustain an illegal situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Upholding international law is a shared responsibility. In a rules-based international order, legal clarity must guide political choices. A united European approach can help ensure that our policies reflect our values. @BelgiumMFA
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Johan Schaar retweeted
19 Jun 2025
Det är ett krigsbrott att bomba sjukhus - oavsett om sjukhusen ligger i Tel Aviv eller i Gaza.
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He was right. Every word of it.
19 Jun 2025
There has never been a better time to watch this video
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Johan Schaar retweeted
Haaretz just published an article detailing the scale of destruction in Gaza over the past 20 months. The devastation caused by the IDF stands out, even when compared to some of the most extreme cases in modern history. Here are a few astonishing key findings from the article:
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Johan Schaar retweeted
Israel can surgically bomb a specific apartment in Tehran to kill a top general without collapsing the whole building But in Gaza, they carpet bomb & annihilate a whole neighbourhood to “target” a rank & file member (the destruction is the goal, the “target” is the pretext)
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Johan Schaar retweeted
The EU immediately activates a "special mechanism" to flood Israel with everything it needs to fight wild fires Same EU hasn't once tried to airdrop a single parcel of food on Gaza since Israel's total siege began, let alone press Israel to end the starvation! Shared values...
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Johan Schaar retweeted
In Gaza, an entire population is being starved. They could be reached - there are hundreds of trucks waiting to go in, currently denied entry. Women, children, families, living crammed together in unsanitary conditions, and facing dozens on airstrikes everyday:
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Johan Schaar retweeted
Since #Sweden's sudden defunding @UNRWA, SEK 300m are re-directed to other UN agencies and @ICRC, implying that they can carry out its work. Critics say this undermines #UNRWA’s primary mandate, which is children’s education. #GazaWar development-today.com/archiv…
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RT @GRFriedrich: UNRWA schools in #EastJerusalem are under threat, with closure orders issued against six of them today by Israeli official…
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❌ALARMING❌The Israeli government's formally announced intention to permanently annex the entire occupied West Bank is such a serious and egregious violation of int'l law, that if not halted, the collapse of the multilateral system built on universal principles (such as sovereignty, self-determination, primacy of int'l law) will be unavoidable.
BREAKING: In a joint statement, #Israel's co-ministers of defense @Israel_katz (Likud) and @bezalelsm (Religious Zionism) confirm the government's intention to permanently acquire, colonize, and annex the entirety of the occupied West Bank, at the expense of #Palestinian sovereignty.
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Johan Schaar retweeted
31 Mar 2025
A tragedy against humanitarian work. The Red Crescent emblem, meant to protect you, has instead become the shroud that wrapped your bodies. Mustafa Khafaja, Ezzedine Shaat, Saleh Ma’amar, Rifaat Radwan, Mohammad Bahloul, Ashraf Abu Labda, Mohammad Al-Heila, and Raed Al-Sharif.
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Johan Schaar retweeted
PER WIRTÉN: Dags att tala sanning om Sveriges invandring
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RT @_jwhittall: 1/6 First responders should never be a target. Yet today @UNOCHA supported @PalestineRCS and Civil Defense to retrieve coll…
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Johan Schaar retweeted
We are witnessing a terrible evil. Livestreamed and recorded for the first time in history.
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Johan Schaar retweeted
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas speaking in Israel about the close ties between Israel & the EU. The head of the Israeli regime is a wanted war criminal, Israel is currently imposing collective punishment on 2m Palestinians & they've killed over 600 people in the last week
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