academisch fetisjisme: waarheid en rechtsplicht lijken er niet toe te doen, zolang we maar ongestoord rond de inmiddels kokende pot kunnen blijven draaien. Zo wordt het debat losgekoppeld van de juridische realiteit, die ook voor universiteiten verplichtingen schept m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

“we hebben vandaag meer nodig dan empathie. Wat we nodig hebben, is solidariteit. En er is een belangrijk verschil.” www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...

"And that is the best place I've ever been. On top of an Israeli weapons' factory, shutting it down, with a hammer in my hand" recommended documentary, very interesting watch link below...

Nieuw stuk van Gert Van Hecken en mezelf 👇 “Echte solidariteit is geen seizoensartikel, geen veilige story-post, geen morele modetrend. Het vraagt om volhouden, ook wanneer de hashtags verdwijnen. Dat betekent ook burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid…” www.knack.be/nieuws/werel...

De Belgische rectoren publiceerden een gezamenlijk standpunt over de genocide (“humanitaire crisis” in hun woorden). Ze konden niet langer zwijgen over de onmenselijke situatie. (www.demorgen.be/.../belgisch...) Collega Gert Van Hecken en ik lazen dit met belangstelling. Hieronder ons antwoord:

this is what they call #progress 🤷‍♂️

US students are being forced to attend political propaganda sessions in which facts are distorted and issues conflated. It looks like the kind of "re-education" imposed by dictatorships. I speak as someone fiercely opposed to antisemitism: *This does not help*. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

Belgische staat = aandeelhouder in genocide. Nieuw rapport aan UN Human Rights Council: BNP Paribas wordt 2x genoemd als financier van genocidale activiteiten van #Israel in #Palestina. Via #FPIM heeft BE 5,59% aandelen in haar bezit. Jan Jambon is voogdijminister. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

De Amerikanen eisen het ontslag van VN-rapporteur Fransesca Albanese. ‘The US warned that continued failure to do so would not only discredit the UN but would also require significant actions in response to Ms. Albanese’s misconduct.’ Dit zijn maffia-praktijken.

De Britse overheid gaat onderzoeken of er strafbare feiten gepleegd zijn door muziekgroepen die hun solidariteit uiten met de Palestijnen. Dit terwijl ze consequent weigert achter de echte criminelen te gaan waartegen deze muziekgroepen ageren. (1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5qr...

A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

Today on the podcast, we're talking about Jean-Jacques Dessalines with @juliagaffield.bsky.social The Haitian Revolution occurred at the same time as the French Revolution and after the American Revolution, and we discuss the connections between the three events. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...

De studenten plooien niet. Respect 🙏✊

Trump post volgend bericht van Mark Rutte (huidig Navo Baas) op sociale media... Trump is een criminele president die een genocidale staat ondersteunt (net als de vorige VS-president), de Europese politici zijn een bende criminele en medeplichtige "slimeballs" (om het op zijn Rutte's te zeggen).

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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Experts International Law: * 'Israel conducts illegal attack on Iran' * 'Israel cannot invoke right of self-defense' * 'Israel violates International Law' (for decades, by the way) Europe: * ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’ * 'Iran is destabilizing the region' Is this Orwellian newspeak?

Red line yesterday in Brussels. 110.000 people on the streets demanding an end to Belgium and Europe’s complicity in supporting the genocidal and a regional warmongering regime that bombs practically all other nations in its vicinity. Sanctions now. Boycott now.

Gideon Levy van Haaretz: “Diplomats and decision-makers, do you get this? In Israel, all of us are now Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. All of us.”

“Het woord ‘genocide’ gebruiken is geen activisme. Het is een poging de realiteit bij te benen, gewogen in rechtbanken, als term nu alom gebruikt door wetenschappers, bevestigd in rapporten, zichtbaar in systematisch geweld."

New study by @marie-andreescu.bsky.social, @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, R. Loubes & A.S Robilliard offers key insights into the historical evolution of working hours and the "real" gender pay gap, once unpaid domestic work accounted for. More in the thread below🧵[1/7] ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

Trump administration hires and empowers actual Nazis. But . . . Antisemitism!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We must pledge Anti-Genocide. We must choose Palestine wholeheartedly, in every decision, in every question, in every moment of our lives. Choose Palestine because our world and the fate of humanity entirely depends on it. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/join... #Palestine #Israel

“Het associatieverdrag dat de rectoren willen opschorten, omvat ook academische samenwerking. Eigenlijk pleiten ze dus zelf voor een academische boycot. Toch blijven onze universiteiten halsstarrig vasthouden aan die academische banden – formeel of via netwerken en consortia.” 1/2

"Anyone with even a shred of responsibility or humanity can no longer buy into the propaganda. We must recognize that war crimes and crimes against humanity are openly being committed in Gaza. We're in the midst of a moral collapse."

One of the highlights of this year was co-hosting a keynote lecture by the magnificent Sherene Seikaly, titled "Palestine as Paradigm." I am so honoured to be able to share it with you all. Take some time with it. Her message has never been more urgent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq0A...

Israel's plan to handle the distribution of aid in Gaza via a U.S. private contractor is a key part of its plan to ethnically cleanse its population. Here's how. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...

“The criticism we are seeing now is simply … ass-covering. Performative opposition, so that (…), when the true scale of the slaughter in Gaza is clear, the politicians and media figures responsible for enabling and justifying this horror … can say: “Look! I said something! I didn’t just stand by!””

🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

The ‘war’ in Gaza.

This morning students again occupied and blocked the entrance to the rectorate of Ghent University. Their message was clear: a full academic boycott in all Belgian universities. Power to the students ✊

Publication day! A four-year voyage comes to an end as *Freedom Ship* sails into port. Published by @VikingBooks. Thanks to all of you for your interest along the way. Available for purchase here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...

Nogmaals, voor de zoveelste keer en absoluut schandalig dat dit nog steeds nodig is

"the real problem facing Israel is not its current government. The government might fall, but until we radically transform the nature of the regime, not much will change, and particularly not in relation to the basic human rights of Palestinians." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...