I don't even know what to say anymore. Not a single government is willing to do anything to check Israel for illegally seizing 50 boats and 428 civilians in international waters. Ben Gvir mocks them and tweets about it. Looks like forced stress positions for the prisoners, which is torture.

If this is how Ben Gvir and Israeli authorities treat detainees on camera, just imagine how they treat them off-camera. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i... #ICC

Attenzione alla Flotilla - la mia vignetta per la prima pagina de Il Fatto Quotidiano oggi in edicola! #flotilla #israele #satira #vignetta #natangelo

When people talk about "our shared European values" making the argument for a common 'defence' alliance, I think of this. The EU has turned its back on her, Gaza and Lebanon and FFG still uses the institution as an excuse for avoiding any meaningful unilateral action. It's profiteering.

More than 25 national pavilions at the Venice Biennial shut their doors in protest this week, including France, Belgium, Austria, and Italy in an unprecedented revolt over Israel’s continued participation despite it’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Palestinians forced to demolish own homes to make way for Israeli theme park

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Among those who are listed to be studied is Giovanni Gentile, an influential idealist philosopher who went on to become minister of education under Benito Mussolini and to co-author the 1932 work The Doctrine of Fascism with the dictator. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

A piece on what happened at VU recently: ‘Academic freedom does not license genocide denial’. I do predict a rises in commentary & research on #genocideDenial in the future due to #Gaza. www.scienceguide.nl/2026/05/acad...

It is with deep sadness that Dr Marianne Moen and I resigned our positions as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Archaeology this morning. What follows is the letter we sent to the EAA's executive board, outlining the reasons for our resignation 1/n

EU Foreign Ministers failed to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. Over 1 million citizens asked them todo so, but as usual there’s no follow up. You can sign it too. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary was exposing the company to legal liability under EU law due to its illegal surveillance of Palestinians. Thanks to the investigative work of @972mag.com and The Guardian. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

I actually cannot describe the horror of reading about the genocide as a very new mom with my own infant sleeping on my chest. My heart broke in a way I hope never fully heals, because I never want to understand what goes on in a mind and heart that can justify this.

Foto di Saher Alghorra, palestinese, Premio Pulitzer. #FestaDellaMamma

People in Gaza are looking for something normal like a marathon and German tabloid pundit Maike Klebl (from the Bild Zeitung) is making jokes about mass hunger. What is wrong with these people?

The Palestine Marathon ❤️‍🩹

So, about the theory that the UK can’t shift from FPTP because PR systems would give a voice to extremism…

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

[post doc] Projet DemoCIS - Faculté de droit - Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Contrat de projet - Post doc de 1 an Objet : étudier sous ma supervision les illibéralismes Candidature à soumettre au plus tard le 30 mai recrutement.univ-lyon3.fr/poste/307vsf...

Academia of today We publish articles nobody reads to build our CVs in order to get jobs that do not exist. Brilliant, just bloody brilliant.

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

"I’m not anybody’s martyr. I’m a tenured professor. I’m not going to lose my job." "I think the important work that folks with the protections of academic freedom can do is to refuse to bend the knee to the willful forgetting, the willful covering up of what happened in Gaza."

Enormous admiration for Rajiv Menon KC, whose actions embody a rare truth amongst many myths about the Bar: a barrister should fearlessly defend their client against the State.

Perhaps, Hungary was not the only EU Member State with rule of law issues

Serious questions.

Israel's top military commander in the occupied West Bank has privately boasted that Israeli forces are killing Palestinians at a rate 'not seen since 1967', according to reports

The EU still supports Israel. No matter what. The Christian village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, before and after it was destroyed by the Israeli army.

I missed this a few days ago: "On Friday, May 1, 2026, Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee officially declined an invitation to attend the 14th International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, delivering a forceful critique of the Israeli state and its intellectual community." iol.co.za/entertainmen...

Do *not* listen to this video. The university authorities have *condemned* it and urge you *not* to listen to it and *not* to share it in case you cause others to listen to it.

Two news stories I saw this morning: First, Israel is investing $730 million in PR initiatives to improve its declining public image. Second, the country's senior police officials attended Itamar Ben-Gvir's birthday party last night, where they were served a cake decorated with a noose.

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

Ben Gvir's wife presents him with a birthday cake bearing a drawing of the gallows, in celebration of the recent decision to execute Palestinian prisoners. What evil sickness is this in Israel’s government.

THREAD 🧵 More than 200 activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla have been released after being seized at sea by Israeli forces and taken to Crete. Images show injuries including bruises and cuts, with participants alleging they were beaten and mistreated in custody. #Infograph

Dr Assal Rad— "Look at NYT’s original framing. It makes it sound like the flotilla is doing something wrong. "In reality, Gaza is Palestinian territory, Israel’s blockade is illegal, as is its abduction of civilians in international waters. This is how they normalize Israeli crimes."

Me: do you know what I do for work? Daughter: yes, you study people. Which isn’t very much fun. I’d rather study dinosaurs

I've been discussing the Malvinas/Falklands a lot. Some strongly believe that it is ironic for anticolonial leftists to defend Argentina's position because in this context it would be the colonialist imperialist side. I push back against that claim here: opiniojuris.org/2026/04/30/t...

Israel has again illegally intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters over 1,000km from Gaza, detaining aid workers on a mission to deliver aid to the strip. We call for their immediate release.

I beg non-disabled people to stop using the "but what about people with disabilities" argument when mobility lanes or traffic calming are proposed in their neighborhood.

Frontex prévoit d'utiliser une appli et des chatbots pour "profiler" les réfugiés et accélérer leur éloignement, sur le modèle de ICE. L'appli, appelée "Return and Reintegration App", a été mise au point par la firme polonaise Fabrity, qui a pour devise "Empowering business through tech innovation".

Review of the start of the trial against the #Ulm5 yesterday by @theleftberlin.bsky.social and the defence’s press release: Motion for recusal against the presiding judge: theleftberlin.com/ulm-5-first-...

Stammheim: German justice on show.

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Western officials are like "Violence has no place in our society [bombs a school]. We've all got our differences and disagreements [sponsors a genocide], but it's important for us to find a way to make peace [starves a civilian population with siege warfare]."

A brief reminder on terminology This account follows the distinctions outlined by distinguished political scientist @casmudde.bsky.social ‘Far right’ is a generic description of an ideology to the right of conservativism, which is a belief system that favours tradition & the current social order

The brutality of the Israeli regime knows no boundaries. They kill almost at random and make life impossible for those that survive the killings. While the U.S. is the most important protector of this rogue state, most European countries have done nothing to hold it accountable either.

Same here! Since Trump’s return, I have had almost no interview requests from US media but also almost no lecture invitations from US NGOs or universities (!). Invitations for academic and public speaking from the rest of the world are the same level if not higher.

The land of the free, the shining city upon a hill...