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Mauro Gatti

@maurogatti.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of EU Law, University of Bologna. Research on EU foreign policy and freedom of religion.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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eliovito.bsky.social @eliovito.bsky.social · 4d

Neofascisti hanno picchiato del manifestanti dopo il corteo.
Guarda un po’, questo al Tg1 non lo hanno detto, i giornali di destra non ne hanno scritto e Meloni non ha condannato… che strano!

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 5d

A demonstration with a view.

A palestinian flag, a demonstration and the Colosseum

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · 5d

Criticism of biased media coverage of Gaza is often discarded as baseless..

so we set out to study the coverage of Palestinian and Israeli victims by German press systematically!

The resulting study 'Hierarchies in Death' was just published #OA by Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 6d

Twice, workers in Italy went on strike against the genocide. Twice, our department suspended its lectures. Not because professors joined the strike — most didn’t — but because the administrative staff did. A reminder: neither power nor morality are the prerogative of the elites. Quite the contrary.

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Nico PIro @nicopiro.bsky.social · 6d

Roma ti amo! #Gaza #GazaBus

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Federica Formato (she/her) @genderedform.bsky.social · 6d

@giuliaevolvi.bsky.social and myself presented our paper on populism and social media in G.Meloni's election campaign at the symposium on populism here in Thessaloniki. We are happy to share this work with a different and welcoming audience.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

In my experience, these are still not well-known:

1- Netanyahu’s intelligence ministry openly declared Israel’s intention to ethnically cleanse all Palestinians a few days after Oct 7.

Not even a week naa passed since the Hamas-
led attacks of October 7 when Israel's
(somewhat impotent) Intelligence Ministry, led by Gila Gamliel of Netanyahu's Likud Party,
published an official plan calling for the
"evacuation" of Gaza's 2.3 million residents.
The army began implementing a policy of destroying entire neighborhoods to prevent the return of the displaced not long after, and this became its primary mode of operation starting with the so-called "Generals' Plan" in late
2024.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7d

🇩🇪🇵🇸 #WATCH | German police have escalated the violence used against peaceful protesters, who bravely take to the streets demanding an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

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Articolo 21 liberi di… @articolo21.bsky.social · 7d

“Il diritto conta fino a un certo punto”. Lo ha detto il ministro Tajani e lo mette in pratica il governo israeliano: negata l’assistenza legale ai fermati della Flotilla.

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 7d

Italian town of Santarcangelo revokes honorary citizenship granted to Mussolini 101 years ago. In 1924, 12 councillors deserted the meeting in an act of courage to defy the régime.
In 2025, Fratelli d'Italia councillors deserted the meeting in an act of cowardice to show their true colours.

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 7d

"Quello che dice il diritto è importante, ma fino a un certo punto".
L'avevamo intuito, ma grazie per la chiarezza.

www.repubblica.it/politica/202...

Tajani a Porta a Porta: "Il diritto internazionale è importante ma fino a un certo punto"

www.repubblica.it

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Yolanda Díaz @yolandadiaz.bsky.social · 8d

El ataque de Israel contra la Flotilla Global Sumud es un crimen contra el derecho internacional.

Exijimos a Israel la liberación inmediata de cualquier detenido.

La UE debe romper relaciones con Israel ya.

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natangelo @natangelo.bsky.social · 11d

Flotilla rossa - la mia vignetta per la prima pagina de Il Fatto Quotidiano oggi in edicola

#flotilla #gaza #israele #vignetta #fumetto #umorismo #satira #ilfattoquotidiano #natangelo

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Licia Corbolante (@terminologia) @terminologiaetc.it · 13d

26 settembre Giornata europea delle lingue.
Come commentare il dettaglio che la pagina istituzionale del sito della Commissione europea sulla giornata sia in inglese e per tutte le altre lingue sia disponibile solo la traduzione automatica?
translation.ec.europa.eu/get-involved...

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 14d

Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday.
Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

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Bue Rübner Hansen @buerubner.bsky.social · 14d

This is despite consistent obfuscation, banalization and both-sidesism by German media and politicians.

But it's no surprise - a very large part of the population has long been indifferent or hostile to the political, cultural and media elite's unconditional support for Israel.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 14d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 15d

Nearly 2 years. Nearly every single day of the past two years I find a video of a parent or anyone else looking for the corpse of a child in Gaza in the hope that the obvious is not true.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 16d

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

qnews.com.au

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 16d

I'm glad Kimmel is coming back.

However, "free speech" where you can reverse government-coerced corporate censorship but only if your supporters make stock price influencing noise would be like a healthcare system in which you need a GoFundMe to go viral to afford treatment.

... wait.

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 16d

No one should be surrendered to Orban’s Hungary, let alone a member of an EU institution which has triggered the exceptional procedure of Article 7(1) TEU before subsequently holding Hungary to be the EU’s first electoral autocracy

www.politico.eu/article/ital...

Italian MEP fears Hungarian ‘revenge’ ahead of immunity vote

The European Parliament will vote on whether to waive Ilaria Salis’ immunity.

www.politico.eu

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Mauro Gatti @maurogatti.bsky.social · 17d

♥️ Bologna

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 17d

Historic: Italy is on strike, disrupting business as usual & protesting complicity in Israel’s genocide & apartheid against Palestinians, bringing major cities to a halt.

Hundreds of thousands are demonstrating across 80 cities & towns, from south to north, blocking roads, ports & railway stations.

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Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון @raphmim.bsky.social · 18d

Liberal Zionism means believing that Israel must remain a Jewish state *and* that Israel can and should be just to Palestinians.

In many ways, being liberal Zionist in 2025 is being delusional:

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 18d

Why recognize the State of Palestine?

Isn't it pointless?

Mere symbolism?

Isn't the two-state solution an illusion?

Or even a trap?

Whatever your view, take a minute to read this speech by Palestine's Deputy Ambassador to the UN from June 30.

digitallibrary.un.org/record/40861...

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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · 18d

Jorge Jiménez from Madrid researched exposed undercover cops. Now the police took revenge and arrested the activist for his research:
digit.site36.net/2025/09/21/a...
#PoliceSpiesOutOfLives

Activist arrested for research on police spies: Jorge Jiménez from Madrid exposed undercover investigators | Matthias Monroy

The Spanish activist Jorge Jiménez has been researching undercover investigators in social movements for years. Now he is himself under investigation – including on charges of breach of secrecy. Since...

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Mauro Biani @maurobiani.bsky.social · 19d

#sciopero per #Gaza #19settembre #22settembre #lavoro #GlobalSumudFlotilla
Oggi per @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 20d

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

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