Sign the European Declaration of Conscientious Objection - No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in #Palestine. No collaboration with Israeli institutions and companies complicit in violations of international law. #BDS ✒️ uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Are out of work benefits at a record high? Prof. Ben Geiger (@benbgeiger.bsky.social) from the ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health explains that the official statistics are wildly misleading on BBC radio 4’s More or Less this morning. Have a listen! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

📆 Upcoming event: Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of forcibly displaced populations The Refugee Mental Health in Place Network at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social are hosting a seminar with Dr Ross White to discuss his research on 22 October at 4pm. Find out more here: bit.ly/3K4fm6m

Palestine solidarity at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (@fau.de). Good to see.

What an honor! I’ve been awarded the DAVO 2025 Best Dissertation Award for my thesis “Spying (on) Comrades: The Relations of the East German Stasi and the Syrian Mukhabarat.” 🥳

🧵 New blog: Belongings Workshop organised by the Refugee Mental Health & Place Network at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. The project explored how creative methods can challenge anti-immigration narratives & foster pathways of belonging and improved mental health. 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/belongings-w...

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms over 200,000 killed in Gaza. Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I Just received the DAVO dissertation award for the best dissertation in Middle Eastern Studies from a German university in 2024. 🙏🏾 to my supervisors: Wolfgang Merkel @humboldtuni.bsky.social & Donatella Della Porta @sns.it and the many colleagues that have supported my research along the way.

🧵New blog: BELONGINGS Workshop organised by the Refugee Mental Health & Place Network The CSMH-supported project explored how creative methods can challenge anti-immigration narratives & foster pathways of belonging & improved mental health with people seeking asylum & refugees. 🔗 bit.ly/3Ijbo9k

Roughly a year ago I left the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) over its undemocratic structures. I wrote about it here: share.google/pu7uCF9IkJlU... Today, DAVO voted for a new board of amazing colleagues whom I trust to steer this ship into a new direction! I may have to reenter now..

Here we go again. Including the obligatory statement by the mayor of Berlin saying that an appearance by Francesca Albanese ist "out of the question" and that he expects (!) the FU to "take a stand against antisemitism" (ie cancel the appearance). Mafia tactics www.morgenpost.de/berlin/artic...

Herr @ronensteinke.bsky.social, weshalb schreiben Sie regelmäßig Artikel darüber, dass Israel angeblich keinen Völkermord begeht? Warum schreiben Sie nicht darüber, wie das Töten, Verstümmeln, Vertreiben und Aushungern der Palästinenser durch Israel gestoppt werden kann? bsky.app/profile/rone...

Listen to the powerful interview with Palestinian psychiatrist Dr Samah Jabr on dealing with trauma in Gaza presented by David Marr - ABC Radio National (Australia) www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

[1] A quintessentially German story: Judith Scheytt gets offered a prize by the Grimme Institut for her media critical work in January, then they get a call from an unnamed association and retract the prize, accusing her of antisemitism because, amongst other things,

The EU's Horizon Programme has pumped billions of euros into Israel's military-industrial complex, including millions since Israel was accused of genocide. It is high time to exclude Israel from EU Horizon. Article by @natebear1.bsky.social www.donotpanic.news/p/eu-science...

In a statement on 18 Aug - 22 months into Israel's onslaught on Gaza - the presidents of @humboldt-foundation.de and @daadworldwide.bsky.social said: "We stand in unwavering solidarity with the state of Israel, its people, and its science." Here's our response:

🧵We rewrote the unacceptable statement by @humboldt-foundation.de & @daadworldwide.bsky.social on Gaza & Israel. Our version names Israel’s atrocity crimes and centers human rights & justice. Read the statement by @christinebinzel.bsky.social, Michael Barenboim & me drive.google.com/file/d/1x6Aw...

Sociologists and social scientists in and from Germany support the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) from the International Sociological Association (ISA). This is contrary to the position of the German Sociological Association (🇩🇪 ⬇️) drive.google.com/file/d/1RrXh...

Statement by sociologists and social scientists in and from Germany on the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) by the International Sociological Association and the position of the German Sociological Association👇 t.co/DwuSnkv9Uo

haOlam is shocked that academics in Germany/ German academics abroad call to boycott Israeli universities over the genocide in Gaza—but not shocked by the horrendous violence itself. Shame. ✍️Sign the Uppsala Declaration here: uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/ haolam.de/artikel/Deut...

Die Uppsala Declaration kann weiter unterschrieben werden. Aktuell gibt's viel Aufmerksamkeit – wir Wissenschaftler:innen aus 🇩🇪 & deutsche Wissenschaftler:innen im Ausland haben mit dem Boykott israelischer Unis einen Nerv getroffen. ✍️ uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

Verantwortung & deutsche Wissenschaft 👇 #HRK @humboldt-foundation.de @daadworldwide.bsky.social #Gaza #Genocide #GermanComplicity www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

📚My new Symptomspeak blog is published: "The Moral Economy of Spells: Expressions of Distress and Justice from the Margins" 🔗 symptomspeak.com/2025/08/16/t... 🧵1/2

Offener Brief an deutsche Regierung: @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social & ich verurteilen das Dok. „Hintergrund zur Erklärung des Kanzlers zur Entscheidung des israelischen Sicherheitskabinetts“. Deutschland trägt Mitschuld an Israels Genozid in Gaza! (EN 🧵) 1/3 🔗 drive.google.com/file/d/12kW6...

We are deeply saddened to say farewell to our beloved colleague Professor Anthea Tinker at @GHSMatKCL. An extraordinary woman – hugely successful in her career, a kind mentor to colleagues and students, and someone with a remarkable sense of purpose. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

Mohammed El-Kurd about the killing of journalist Anas Al-Sharif- "The instinct of many allies is to dispel the connection between slain Palestinian journalists and their supposed political leanings, as if anywhere in the world these exist in isolation" 🔗 mohammedelkurd.substack.com/p/guilty-by-...

We've written to KCL Management urging them to urgently lobby UK Government to enable safe passage for Chevening Scholarship students from Gaza to the UK. Considering the level of institutional complicity that KCL has with the genocide, it's really the LEAST they can do. See our statement below.👇

Deutschland 2025: Genozid aktiv unterstützen? Völlig legal. „From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free“ sagen? Strafanzeige. Absurder geht’s kaum.

We were 300,000 people in London, marching for Palestine and demanding an end to Israel's genocide, occupation, and apartheid, as well as an end to our government's complicity in these horrendous crimes.

National March for Palestine is starting in London. We are loud, we are angry, and we are here to demand an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza, which our governments are supporting. #ShutItDownForPalestine #StopGazaGenocide #Intifada

European heads of state (e.g., UK, Germany, France) are asking Israel to reconsider its plans to further destroy Gaza City and occupy the Gaza Strip (Israel has occupied the Gaza Strip since 1967, but never mind…) while Israel continues to escalate its genocidal violence. 1/7

Israel is giving genocide a humanitarian makeover by allowing limited aid to enter Gaza. This is a perversion of what aid and support are meant to be. The delivery of aid itself has become part of the machinery of genocide: people have been killed while trying to access it. 🧵1/6

I am absolutely DISGUSTED & HORRIFIED that someone can present on 'killjoys' at an event with an IDF office & a speaker from the IDF. Shame on you! Katharina Klappheck GET THAT WORD OUT OF YOUR PAPER & THIS EVENT! White supremacy = this. Genocide = this. NO to this! www.hsu-hh.de/ztb/tagungsp...

🎓We're hiring! Join us the ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health (@kingscsmh.bsky.social) at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social as Qualitative Postdoctoral Research Associate in Marginalised Communities & Mental Health. 📍London | 💼 2 yrs 📅 Apply by 19 Aug 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/jobs/120485-... Please share! 🙏

BREAKING: At least 36 Palestinians have been killed, including 13 aid seekers, in Israeli attacks across Gaza today. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/sbiqpb

250 signatures by academics in Germany/German academics abroad pledging to boycott Israeli institutions supporting and/or benefiting from military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Join the growing movement‼️

Und all das, während ihr, die Bundesregierung, weiter Waffen an Israel liefert und somit den Genozid an den Palästinensern aktiv unterstützt. Für die Schande, die ihr auf euch ladet, gibt es keinen Persilschein.

"Schon jetzt lässt Deutschland nichts unversucht, um den Menschen in Gaza zu helfen." Soll das ein schlechter Witz sein?! Deutschland unterstützt seit 22 Monaten Israels Genozid an den Palästinensern militärisch, politisch und ökonomisch. Aber jetzt ist plötzlich genug, oder was?

As leaders of states, parties, corporations, universities, and other institutions begin to take a stance against Israel’s politics of starvation, they still fail to call it what it is: a weapon of genocide against Palestinians. Their shame won't wash away with symbolic gestures.

We (...) conscientiously refuse to cooperate with the state of Israel and Israeli institutions that are complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law. We (...) are committed to the following principles: 👇 uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

'Can we please ensure that the Israeli flags are taken down in front of German town halls and state parliaments?'

@goldi.bsky.social @hahauenstein.bsky.social @deborahfeldman.bsky.social @carbadtraingood.bsky.social @comradedarth.bsky.social @jvp.bsky.social @meterfeldweg.bsky.social @hannakienzler.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @mommunism.bsky.social

New blog out! 'A few years later: The lasting impact of Better Connect & ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health's partnership' #impact #betterconnect #ActionTowardsInclusion www.kcl.ac.uk/a-few-years-...

I mean, how can you not stand with Francesca Albanese? She’s called out politicians, the Zionist lobby and complicit media to name the truth: this is not war—it’s genocide. Gaza is being annihilated by Israel with the active support of Western powers. All power to you, Francesca!

Der Wiarda Blog features our open letter demanding Germany to end its complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians by suspending academic & economic ties with a state enforcing illegal occupation & apartheid. law.https://www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07/07/israels-krieg-deutschlands-dilemma

📢 We, scholars and educators, have written a letter to the German government. Our demand: Stop supporting Israel’s annihilation of Palestinians. What is happening in Gaza is a genocide – with German complicity. 🧵1/7 drive.google.com/file/d/1SdP4...

@jmwiarda.bsky.social article discussing, amongst other things, our letter to the German government and specifically the demand to impose economic sanctions and halt cooperations that sustain the illegal occupation and apartheid: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

The British government actively supports Israel's genocide in Gaza-the starvation of an entire population, the depraved killing of 250,000 people, the bombardment of refugee tents. The British government should be charged with terrorism, not those who oppose it - #PalestineAction

📢Wir, Wissenschaftler & Lehrende, haben einen Brief an die Bundesregierung geschrieben. Wir fordern: Stoppt die Unterstützung Israels bei seinem Vernichtungskrieg in Gaza. Was dort geschieht, ist Genozid – mit deutscher Mittäterschaft (English ⬇️) 1/7 drive.google.com/file/d/1sVzB...