Daniel Weissmann
@danweiss.bsky.social
polcomms guy, post-doc researcher
also researching the politicisation and misuse of antisemitism scholarship primarily in context of German Memory Culture.
Safety Through Solidarity!
Join a Union and leave this earth better than you found it.
also researching the politicisation and misuse of antisemitism scholarship primarily in context of German Memory Culture.
Safety Through Solidarity!
Join a Union and leave this earth better than you found it.
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Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.
Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech
Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.
jacobin.com
I wrote a piece for Jacobin about the misuse of antisemitism scholarship for authoritarian projects and the role German antisemitism scholarship plays in the dehumanisation of Palestinians and the justification of the genocide in Gaza.
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»For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.«
Der ÖRR ist überhaupt nicht in der Lage mit AfDlern umzugehen. Jeder Hans Wurst AfDler wickelt ÖRR Interviewer um den Finger weil man in erster Linie um Civility und Höflichkeit bedacht ist und nicht Konfrontation*.
*es sei denn es werden Leute interviewt die gegen einen Völkermord demonstrieren.
*es sei denn es werden Leute interviewt die gegen einen Völkermord demonstrieren.
Geschehen.
February 7, 2026 at 11:45 AM
»For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.«
Leute, lenkt mal bitte mit dieser Miosga Nummer nicht vom eigentlichen Skandal im ÖRR ab: Sophie von der Tann weigert sich Netanyahus Stiefel zu lecken.
Die große Illusionistin Caren Miosga lässt am Sonntag per Entzauberung wieder einen Nazi verschwinden
February 7, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Leute, lenkt mal bitte mit dieser Miosga Nummer nicht vom eigentlichen Skandal im ÖRR ab: Sophie von der Tann weigert sich Netanyahus Stiefel zu lecken.
Ich denke ja, dass die Opfer dieser Clique die größten "Verlierer" sind, die aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach keine Gerechtigkeit erfahren werden, aber maybe that's just me...
Alles Genozid außer wenn ihn Israel begeht.
*russische Spionageaffäre* 🤡
*russische Spionageaffäre* 🤡
February 7, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Ich denke ja, dass die Opfer dieser Clique die größten "Verlierer" sind, die aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach keine Gerechtigkeit erfahren werden, aber maybe that's just me...
Great piece of research here: "Solidarity With Palestinians in Germany and the United Kingdom: The Distinctiveness of Beliefs, Emotions, and Attitudes for Third-Party Solidarity in Democratic, Yet Issue-Specific Repressive Contexts"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 7, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Great piece of research here: "Solidarity With Palestinians in Germany and the United Kingdom: The Distinctiveness of Beliefs, Emotions, and Attitudes for Third-Party Solidarity in Democratic, Yet Issue-Specific Repressive Contexts"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
hey folks, don't be nasty to an algorithm otherwise it will normalise cruelty towards humans.
*leans back, switches TV on, watches a live-streamed genocide*
*leans back, switches TV on, watches a live-streamed genocide*
🎯🎯🎯 "When you start to treat an LLM with cruelty, the only thing you're really revealing is what you have in your heart, not whether the machine has one... Practicing this language - even toward AI - normalizes the social patterns that enable cruelty toward humans."
felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language
February 7, 2026 at 10:28 AM
hey folks, don't be nasty to an algorithm otherwise it will normalise cruelty towards humans.
*leans back, switches TV on, watches a live-streamed genocide*
*leans back, switches TV on, watches a live-streamed genocide*
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Should we extend this absolutely dipshit opinion to all objects without minds? The sea? Rocks? Dust? Lightning? The sun? How about money? Mathematics? The concept of beauty? Where should it end?
🎯🎯🎯 "When you start to treat an LLM with cruelty, the only thing you're really revealing is what you have in your heart, not whether the machine has one... Practicing this language - even toward AI - normalizes the social patterns that enable cruelty toward humans."
felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Should we extend this absolutely dipshit opinion to all objects without minds? The sea? Rocks? Dust? Lightning? The sun? How about money? Mathematics? The concept of beauty? Where should it end?
Der ÖRR ist überhaupt nicht in der Lage mit AfDlern umzugehen. Jeder Hans Wurst AfDler wickelt ÖRR Interviewer um den Finger weil man in erster Linie um Civility und Höflichkeit bedacht ist und nicht Konfrontation*.
*es sei denn es werden Leute interviewt die gegen einen Völkermord demonstrieren.
*es sei denn es werden Leute interviewt die gegen einen Völkermord demonstrieren.
February 7, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Der ÖRR ist überhaupt nicht in der Lage mit AfDlern umzugehen. Jeder Hans Wurst AfDler wickelt ÖRR Interviewer um den Finger weil man in erster Linie um Civility und Höflichkeit bedacht ist und nicht Konfrontation*.
*es sei denn es werden Leute interviewt die gegen einen Völkermord demonstrieren.
*es sei denn es werden Leute interviewt die gegen einen Völkermord demonstrieren.
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Reposted by Daniel Weissmann
Ja gut, die gleichen Journalist*innen schauen ja auch seit über zwei Jahren live einem Völkermord zu und tun da auch so als ob sie nicht wüssten was abgeht.
Unsere Medien:
"Ob das Erschießen unschuldiger Bürger mit 10 Schüsse in den Rücken, das illegale massenhafte Eindringen in Wohnungen, das Zerren von Frauen und Kindern durch bewaffnete maskierte Männer in Vans wohl schon Faschismus ist? Wir analysieren für Sie das Pro & Contra!"
"Ob das Erschießen unschuldiger Bürger mit 10 Schüsse in den Rücken, das illegale massenhafte Eindringen in Wohnungen, das Zerren von Frauen und Kindern durch bewaffnete maskierte Männer in Vans wohl schon Faschismus ist? Wir analysieren für Sie das Pro & Contra!"
February 6, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Ja gut, die gleichen Journalist*innen schauen ja auch seit über zwei Jahren live einem Völkermord zu und tun da auch so als ob sie nicht wüssten was abgeht.
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One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
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““the major choice faced by the intellectual is whether to be allied with the stability of the victors and rulers or—the more difficult path—to consider that stability as a state of emergency threatening the less fortunate with the danger of complete extinction.”
"What is the task of the intellectual at a time when, at the heart of liberal democracies, genocide is normalized and protest suppressed?"
Rebecca Ruth Gould revisits Edward Said: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/edward-said-representations-intellectual-gaza-crisis-israel-fitzcarraldo/
Rebecca Ruth Gould revisits Edward Said: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/edward-said-representations-intellectual-gaza-crisis-israel-fitzcarraldo/
February 7, 2026 at 8:29 AM
““the major choice faced by the intellectual is whether to be allied with the stability of the victors and rulers or—the more difficult path—to consider that stability as a state of emergency threatening the less fortunate with the danger of complete extinction.”
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I was in East Palestine this week for the 3-yr anniversary of one of the worst industrial disasters in US history. Here's the compilation of testimonies residents in/around EP shared w/ me @therealnews.com
I beg you to listen & share their stories w/ everyone you can
therealnews.com/biden-trump-...
I beg you to listen & share their stories w/ everyone you can
therealnews.com/biden-trump-...
Biden, Trump, the media, the public—we have all failed the residents of East Palestine, OH
“I'm pissed at how many people have forgotten about what happened here. I'm pissed that everybody thinks we're doing fine, that everything in East Palestine, OH, is good. It's not.”
therealnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I was in East Palestine this week for the 3-yr anniversary of one of the worst industrial disasters in US history. Here's the compilation of testimonies residents in/around EP shared w/ me @therealnews.com
I beg you to listen & share their stories w/ everyone you can
therealnews.com/biden-trump-...
I beg you to listen & share their stories w/ everyone you can
therealnews.com/biden-trump-...
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Allerdings.
Es gibt auch nen Graeber Essay dazu, der dank Staatsräson einfach nicht aufhört, sich aktuell anzufühlen.
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...
Es gibt auch nen Graeber Essay dazu, der dank Staatsräson einfach nicht aufhört, sich aktuell anzufühlen.
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...
For the first time in my life, I’m frightened to be Jewish
David Graeber For the first time in my life, I’m frightened to be Jewish And non-Jews attacking the Labour party aren’t helping. 6 September 2019
theanarchistlibrary.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Allerdings.
Es gibt auch nen Graeber Essay dazu, der dank Staatsräson einfach nicht aufhört, sich aktuell anzufühlen.
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...
Es gibt auch nen Graeber Essay dazu, der dank Staatsräson einfach nicht aufhört, sich aktuell anzufühlen.
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...
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“Fascism doesn’t require genius to achieve power. It requires vacancy: an absence of courage, of imagination, of commitment to truth. But instead of moral clarity, our political class offers yet more managerial noise.”
@judeinlondon.com: The centre shrinks
@judeinlondon.com: The centre shrinks
Jude Wanga | The centre shrinks
Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own until it is forced, by leakage...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
“Fascism doesn’t require genius to achieve power. It requires vacancy: an absence of courage, of imagination, of commitment to truth. But instead of moral clarity, our political class offers yet more managerial noise.”
@judeinlondon.com: The centre shrinks
@judeinlondon.com: The centre shrinks
To all the people who are constantly wrong about everything, I can assure you that being right all the time isn't fun at all. Especially if it's about catastrophes like this.
I cannot begin to express how happy I am that everyone, including the people I hate viscerally, now agree with me specifically
February 6, 2026 at 6:22 PM
To all the people who are constantly wrong about everything, I can assure you that being right all the time isn't fun at all. Especially if it's about catastrophes like this.
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Engagement für #Wissenschaftsfreiheit in Deutschland heißt in einer Zeit von Einsparungen auch Einstehen für Forschung jenseits der „etablierten Disziplinen“ die von Kürzungen am meisten betroffen sind. Der Einsatz für eine vielfältige Forschungslandschaft inkl. Disabilty Studies ist daher Zentral.
February 6, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Engagement für #Wissenschaftsfreiheit in Deutschland heißt in einer Zeit von Einsparungen auch Einstehen für Forschung jenseits der „etablierten Disziplinen“ die von Kürzungen am meisten betroffen sind. Der Einsatz für eine vielfältige Forschungslandschaft inkl. Disabilty Studies ist daher Zentral.
Die bürgerliche Mitte war schon immer der Steigbügelhalter und Türöffner für Faschisten. Da gehören Journalist*innen eben auch mit dazu.
February 6, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Die bürgerliche Mitte war schon immer der Steigbügelhalter und Türöffner für Faschisten. Da gehören Journalist*innen eben auch mit dazu.
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Apropos deutscher Journalismus:
Der Versuchung, der Nervenkitzel ist zu groß, um diesen Titel nicht zu bringen.
Der Versuchung, der Nervenkitzel ist zu groß, um diesen Titel nicht zu bringen.
February 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Apropos deutscher Journalismus:
Der Versuchung, der Nervenkitzel ist zu groß, um diesen Titel nicht zu bringen.
Der Versuchung, der Nervenkitzel ist zu groß, um diesen Titel nicht zu bringen.
This is Obama's leading from behind approach. Wait until the public mood has changed so much that speaking out comes at zero risk but you still present yourself as a brave truth teller.
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
February 6, 2026 at 4:22 PM
This is Obama's leading from behind approach. Wait until the public mood has changed so much that speaking out comes at zero risk but you still present yourself as a brave truth teller.
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Well well well how the turn tables
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Well well well how the turn tables
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If Reform win the next election, Labour have already put in place a solid framework for them to execute their most wild and dystopian fantasies about ICE-style enforcement, scrapping legal protections prohibiting torture and imposing indefinite detention without trial.
I hope those who condemn Reform for their comments about "mass deportations" but continue to support Labour's inhumane treatment of migrants are paying attention.
Labour's policies are all about deportation and framing migrants as criminals. It only leads one way
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour's policies are all about deportation and framing migrants as criminals. It only leads one way
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Home Office says nearly 60,000 people deported from UK or left voluntarily since 2024 election
Shabana Mahmood insists deportations will rise, as Labour government is accused of promoting ‘harmful stereotypes’ of migrants
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
If Reform win the next election, Labour have already put in place a solid framework for them to execute their most wild and dystopian fantasies about ICE-style enforcement, scrapping legal protections prohibiting torture and imposing indefinite detention without trial.
People's trust in politics and institutions is evaporating because for elites it's all just a game. A year ago the Democrats did everything in their power to smear Mamdani as a communist and antisemite. Now they post cute videos of him going "You need to watch this 💙".
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 PM
People's trust in politics and institutions is evaporating because for elites it's all just a game. A year ago the Democrats did everything in their power to smear Mamdani as a communist and antisemite. Now they post cute videos of him going "You need to watch this 💙".
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”