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KriSol @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social · 9d

Vorlesungsreihe im WiSe 2025/26:
„Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien“
Alle Vorträge finden öffentlich, hybrid auf Zoom und vor Ort, in deutscher Sprache statt.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/

krisol-wissenschaft.org

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Olga Rodríguez Francisco @olgarodriguezfr.bsky.social · 24d

Madrid: Thousands demostrating against the Israeli team’s participation in Spain’s cycling ride

They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended

The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish

The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 29d

Looking forward to this conference on "Resistance, Refusal, Survival: Contesting Hostile Environments” in St Gallen with a really cool line-up

www.unisg.ch/de/universit...

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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · Aug 11

Israel has normalised killing journalists, like it normalised killing medical workers, like it normalised destroying hospitals and schools, like it normalised killing the equivalent of a classroom of children per day.

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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Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social · Aug 1

Rashid Khalidi is a brilliant critical theorist and historian, and an exceptional colleague and friend at Columbia. His course this summer @nssrnews.bsky.social at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry was so important to our students. This is a great loss: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

www.theguardian.com

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Jul 29

‘We urge all states to fulfill their responsibilities under international law: demand & enforce a permanent ceasefire, an arms embargo, the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops, unimpeded distribution of humanitarian aid, equality & self-determination for all Palestinians. End the genocide now.’

Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · Jul 29

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter

Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

www.theguardian.com

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · Jul 24

“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses”: a colleague in #Gaza told me this morning.

Meanwhile, according to UNRWA latest findings: one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day.

—Philippe Lazzarini

www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jul 22

"[D]ehumanizing the enemy ... as the embodiment of absolute evil poses a direct threat to the fundamental values of democratic states."

From the latest issue of Critical Times, @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 21

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · Jul 20

The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza.

Among them are 1 million children.

Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.

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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · Jul 10

Gideon Levy: The Jewish state is building a ghetto

#Gaza #Genocide #Germancomplicity

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

The Jewish state is building a ghetto | Opinion

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www.haaretz.com

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Jul 3

Wie in Berlin so in Bern:

„Es ist nicht neu, dass Debatten über Palästina unterdrückt werden. Schockierend ist, dass dies mitten im gewalttätigsten Krieg geschieht, den Israel je gegen die Palästinenser geführt hat.“

www.republik.ch/2025/07/03/c...

Agnès Callamard und Francesca Albanese: «Die Schweiz spuckt auf ihre Geschichte»

Die Amnesty-Generalsekretärin und die Uno-Sonderberichterstatterin zur Situation in Gaza.

www.republik.ch

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Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Statelessness is not abstract. It is a condition that touches every part of daily life. [..] It means growing up knowing that systems are not built for you. And that no one is coming to fix it."

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness

This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

slate.com

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · Jun 24

The normalization of killing Palestinians has been ongoing but this murderous “humanitarianism” is something new. I can’t recall a situation where people seeking aid risk getting shot en masse daily from the people —the Israelis— providing the “aid.”

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Jun 24

An important message and appeal from Rashid Khalidi, IPS-USA President and Board Chairman. For over 60 years, IPS has been the leading institution for independent Palestinian research and publishing. Our essential work needs your support.

palestine-studies.networkforgood.com/projects/254...

Help Sustain the Institute for Palestine Studies—A Vital Pillar of Palestinian Knowledge Production

An Urgent Appeal from Rashid Khalidi Dear friends, Since October 2023, the dozens of scholars, editors, and researchers of the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) in Beirut , Ramallah , and Was...

palestine-studies.networkforgood.com

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Critical Times @criticaltimes1.bsky.social · Jun 23

Issue 8:1 of Critical Times is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!

Featuring @makdisi.bsky.social, Ajay Skaria, Hengameh Ziai, Zamansele Nsele, Senzeni Marasela, Adil Hasan Khan, and @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social

All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · Jun 23

New issue of @criticaltimes1.bsky.social !

including:

@makdisi.bsky.social:
Beyond the Palestine Exception

Ajay Skaria:
Gaza and the Unsettling Equality of Academic Freedom

@hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social:
Can the Terrorist Be Grieved?

and more, open access at:

read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

Volume 8 Issue 1 | Critical Times | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Leire Urricelqui @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social · Jun 23

and the political systems that authorize state violence to determine which lives are considered grievable — and which deaths are not only permissible, but required.

Leire Urricelqui @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social · Jun 23

In this article @criticaltimes1.bsky.social
I interrogate how the category of the ‘terrorist’ is constructed and deployed to expose the moral hierarchies of grief,

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Leire Urricelqui @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social · Jun 23

mass displacement and eradication of a population, and therefore, the most extreme material consequences of the production of the inhuman enemy.

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Leire Urricelqui @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social · Jun 23

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🧵In the wake of the ongoing genocide in Gaza we have seen multiple examples of politicians and the media using the label of terrorism to justify the mass starvation,

Can the Terrorist Be Grieved? | Critical Times | Duke University Press

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Leire Urricelqui @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social · Jun 23

and the political systems that authorize state violence to determine which lives are considered grievable — and which deaths are not only permissible, but required.

Leire Urricelqui @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social · Jun 23

In my article, “Can the Terrorist Be Grieved?” @criticaltimes1.bsky.social , I interrogate how the category of the terrorist is constructed and deployed to expose the moral hierarchies of grief,

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Leire Urricelqui @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social · Jun 23

mass displacement and eradication of a population, and therefore, the most extreme material consequences of the production of the inhuman enemy.

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Leire Urricelqui @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social · Jun 23

and the political systems that authorize state violence to determine which lives are considered grievable — and which deaths are not only permissible, but required.