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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 24d

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Das kommt eh noch hinzu...

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Sep 8

In einem 'guten' Jahr kann ich mich auf ca. 4 Professuren bewerben; allerdings sind die meisten dann nicht in meiner 'Bindestrich-Soziologie', sondern einer anderen, also noch geringere Erfolgsaussichten als eh schon.

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bewerbungsportale sollten verboten werden. Kann nicht KI alle nötigen Informationen aus den Bewerbungsunterlagen herausfiltern??
#IchBinHanna verbringt viel zu viel Zeit mit copy and paste für (fast) aussichtslose Bewerbungen...

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Such an important paper!

Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · Aug 22

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A screenshot of the abstract displayed under the link in the post

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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · Aug 11

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

www.theguardian.com

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 31

"Genocide does not happen without mass participation: a population that supports it, enables it or looks away."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak

My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to us

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 31

Is this from an article? Can you provide the link? Thank you!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 30

An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl

The shocking scene in Northern Ireland is the result of a decade spent militarising Europe’s fringes – and dismissing the human cost, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl

www.theguardian.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jul 28

Israeli strikes, including on declared ‘safe zones,’ kill 63 in Gaza despite announced pauses, as hunger worsens and six more Palestinians, including two children, die from malnutrition aje.io/67etrz

Israeli strikes kill 63 in Gaza despite ‘pauses’, as hunger crisis deepens

Israel attacks ‘safe zones’ in Gaza as six more Palestinians, including two children, die from malnutrition.

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 27

"Immediately and decisively"!!!

International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · Jul 25

Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.

This tragedy must end now.

Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt

"There is no excuse for what’s happening in Gaza.

This tragedy must end now, immediately and decisively.

Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch, will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.”

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Sarah Brockmeier-Large @sarahbrockmeier.bsky.social · Jul 25

„Once this tipping point is passed,famines tend to follow a catastrophically self-reinforcing pattern, which is already visible in Gaza.A slow creep of death yields to swift mass mortality as organs fail,immune systems collapse and victims lose the will to go on.“ www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

Open the Gates to Save a Starving Gaza | International Crisis Group

As ceasefire talks drag on, Gaza is tipping from mass starvation toward mass death. Israel must allow assistance in immediately. But that step alone will not save the strip’s depleted population. Gaza...

www.crisisgroup.org

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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · Jul 25

“Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

Gaza extermination: Hasan should have turned three. Instead, he starved to death

Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed

www.middleeasteye.net

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 23

Zu unserer Zeit und vor unseren Augen.

Carolin Emcke @emcke.bsky.social · Jul 23

Dies geschieht. Zu unserer Zeit. news.sky.com/story/gaza-f...

Gaza faces mass starvation with supplies 'totally depleted', aid agencies warn

Israel denies it is responsible for shortages of food - but aid groups have accused its government of creating "chaos, starvation, and death".

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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · Jul 23

Wer soll die westliche Welt noch ernst nehmen, wenn sie sich auf die Menschenrechte beruft? Die Entmenschlichung in Gaza findet unter Mithilfe der Welt statt, die sich als die freie betrachtet.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 23

More than 100 aid agencies and rights groups, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, warned on Wednesday that “mass starvation” was spreading across Gaza, adding to growing calls for Israel to lift restrictions on humanitarian aid to the enclave.

Aid Agencies and Rights Groups Warn of ‘Mass Starvation’ in Gaza

More than 100 organizations blamed Israel’s siege of the territory, adding to growing calls for aid restrictions to be eased and the war to end.

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 23

Teilweise sehr passiv-aggressive Fragen, aber tolle und wichtige Antworten und Einblicke von @beauftragte.bsky.social zur Aktualität und Relevanz von Diversität und Antidiskriminierung:

www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

Ferda Ataman: "Warum sollte man auch fragen: Haben Sie Frau Ataman lieb?"

Ist zu viel Diversity ein Grund für den Rechtsruck? Unterkomplex, sagt Ferda Ataman und warnt vor Desinformation – auch durch die Bundestagspräsidentin.

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 15

Best feedback on a class I was teaching this semester on cities & whiteness: "We discussed it a lot during our free time" :)

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 14

Starting Monday morning with a unicorn coffee and (finally) reading @michelelancione.bsky.social highly important and inspiring book!

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 4

I can only second this - the introduction alone is eye-opening (and infuriating) in so many ways!

Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · Jul 3

I cannot emphasize enough how important the book Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social is, if you are truly interested in understanding how we got to "Alligator Alcatraz" and what we'll need to do to dismantle the crimmigration complex

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1553-b...

Border and Rule

An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Christine Barwick-Gross @christine-bg.bsky.social · Jul 1

Berliners: Next Monday, my students will present their projects on 'Sensing Kreuzberg' at the HU Georg Simmel Center's Think & Drink Kolloquium. Come by - they did great work!

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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · Jun 28

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jun 16

It is peak “Brussels Bubble” for the EU to celebrate 40 years Schengen rather than address that Schengen is “melting before our eyes.”

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Helen Schwenken @hschwenken.bsky.social · Jun 13

Eine ausführlichere Analyse/ Kommentierung der zynischen Frontex-Broschüre für Kinder: netzpolitik.org/2025/frontex...

Frontex-Kinderbuch: Oh, wie schön ist Abschiebung

Ein buntes Abenteuer und ein spannender Start in ein neues Leben. So verkauft die EU-Grenzagentur Frontex Kindern und Jugendlichen ihre Abschiebung in einer perfiden Broschüre. Wen es da nicht schütte...

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Erik Marquardt @erik-marquardt.eu · Jun 5

Spätestens wenn Richter bedroht werden, erwarte ich von einer Bundesregierung öffentliche Solidarität, Unterstützung und Einordnung der Rechtsprechung. Stattdessen verbreitet Dobrindt Falschinformationen über die Begründung des Gerichtsbeschlusses und die rechtlichen Gefahren für Polizeibeamte.

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Astrid Deilmann @astriddeilmann.bsky.social · May 21

Radikale Rechte fühlen sich so sicher wie nie – nicht nur im Digitalen, sondern auch auf der Straße.

Rechtsextreme Gewalt erreicht ein neues Rekordhoch, rechte Straftaten stiegen massiv an, von 28.945 auf 42.788 Delikte.

Dieser Höchststand muss die Politik alarmieren!

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