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Max Koch

H-index: 27
Political science 35%
Economics 24%
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On Saturday I take part in the Scientists Responsibility Summit in #Berlin. I talk about Challenges for the Degrowth Transformation: The Role of Academia. Berliners can still register and livestream will be provided (link below). @scientistrebellion.bsky.social

blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsre...
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Congrats! I am interested in reading your article.

Best wishes, Max
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The European Uppsala Declaration to end the EU-Israel Association Agreement has over 3,000 signatures. Let's make it 10,000 by Oct 23 when European NGOs will meet with members of the European Parliament to put pressure on the Commission. Fellow academics. please sign! uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – Uppsala Declaration
uppsaladeclaration.se

by Max KochReposted by: Wolfgang Crämer

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“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others”

According to another observer, she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy”
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
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Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reposted by: Max Koch

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Just signed the European Declaration of Conscientious Objection to end academic collaborations and bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law.

Colleagues in European academia are more than welcome to do the same (via the link below)!
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EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
Screenshot from the website of the European Declaration

Reposted by: Max Koch

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EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
Screenshot from the website of the European Declaration
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“I hope, as a result of our report, that the minds of states will also be opened” says Navi Pillay, the head of the commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and a former international criminal court judge
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry
Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement
www.theguardian.com
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Jewish Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in Gaza
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfK1...
How Germany’s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right | Featured Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Fantastic-looking new book by @ferracimo.bsky.social on @scientistrebellion.bsky.social! I look very much forward to reading it.
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The International Association of Genocide Scholars

"Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (1948)."
genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
genocidescholars.org
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150 years ago, Marx described contemporary capitalism rather well:
"In proportion as labor develops socially, and becomes thereby a source of wealth and culture, poverty and destitution develop among the workers, and wealth and culture among the nonworkers."
www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
www.marxists.org

Reposted by: Max Koch, Göran Bolin

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Jag tror att vi bara har sett början på hur vreden inför folkmordet i Gaza och politikernas ryggradslöshet kommer att rita om den politiska kartan, här hemma och i Europa.

www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/zAn...
Politikerna underskattar folkets vrede om Gaza
KARIN PETTERSSON: Skillnaden mot 1990-talet är avgrundsdjup – då stod politiken stadigare
www.aftonbladet.se
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Was in GER nach der "Staatsraison" zu tun wäre: Entschuldigung, Rehabilitierung, Kompensation und Einsetzung eine Kommission zur Dokumentation repressiver Maßnahmen und zur Entwicklung von Leitlinien für politische Meinungsäußerung im öffentlichen Dienst und an Hochschulen jacobin.de/artikel/gaza...
Glaubwürdigkeit verlangt Aufarbeitung
SPD, Grüne und Union vollziehen eine vorsichtige Kehrtwende in der Israel-Politik. Glaubwürdig ist das nur, wenn sie jetzt Verantwortung für ihre Repression der Palästina-Solidarität übernehmen.
jacobin.de
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"Journalism in the service of violence:"

"Germany’s “never again” pledge should carry weight given its deeply genocidal history. Yet it rings hollow when the country’s dominant outlets launder or supply propaganda to legitimise mass killing in Gaza."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein
In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by: Max Koch

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Den förstörelse av det palestinska samhället som just nu kulminerar inför öppen ridå har pågått ända sedan 1948, när Palestinas infödda befolkning fördrevs för att ge plats åt judiska överlevare från Europa.

www.dn.se/kultur/pette...
Petter Hellström: Gaza kan snart vara historia – vart ska överlevarna ta vägen?
Den svenska debatten om Gaza vittnar om en utbredd förnekelse av verkligheten. Men ansvaret faller tungt på Europa, skriver Petter Hellström.
www.dn.se

Reposted by: Max Koch

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#uppsaladeclaration has more than 2,300 signatories. We refuse to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law. Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se
Uppsala Declaration
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Just signed a German version of the #uppsaladeclaration:

uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

People working in German academia as well as German academics abroad can do the same

Reposted by: Max Koch, Mats Widgren

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"Cheferna kan inte längre gömma sig bakom argument som 'allt vi gör är rätt och du är en enstaka bråkig journalist' "

Över 500 (!!) svenska journalister i upprop mot den bedrövliga rapporteringen från Gaza. www.etc.se/kultur-noje/...
500 svenska journalister missnöjda med rapporteringen från Gaza
Magda Gads upprop har skrivits under av bland annat Cecilia Uddén och Johan-Mattias Sommarström.
www.etc.se

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