'For too long, the threat of the far right and reactionary politics has been externalised and exceptionalised. It is time to accept that the current system can indeed accommodate the far right if its survival is threatened by other crises' This is why we need Red Lines reacpol.net/why-red-lines/

The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn’t Begin in Europe truthout.org/articles/the...

“I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human […] And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.” - James Baldwin

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.

Dear colleagues, If any of you know the members of the @europeanisa.bsky.social EISA Governing Board, I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this with them. There is a very unfair system in the application for mobility funds, and I believe it requires the attention of senior members.

No surprise in this article to anyone seen as racialized in the German context. I’m not, but I remember years ago being sent away from *the immigration office* because it was ”not their job” to communicate with me using words I could understand 🫠

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

this video of AOC with the SPD in the Bundestag inadvertently captures what it’s like talking to a room full of glitching Germans about a reality they'd prefer to ignore -- alternating between condescending skepticism, boredom, and confusion. www.instagram.com/reel/DU0VwrQ...

A must-read, horrific piece.

German foreign minister @aussenminister.diplo.de discredits UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the basis of fake news that is easily verifiable. Unbelievable. Full solidarity with Francesca Albanese.

What do we do with a story whose real-life details are so fitted to antisemitic conspiracy? @arielleangel.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social on the Epstein files:

My new article "Kant as Methodology: Race, White Ignorance, and Intellectual Responsibility" is now out in Critical Philosophy of Race (Penn State University Press). Open Access copy here: jasminekgani.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... (summary of core arguments in thread below) @lseir.bsky.social

Dirk Moses senses ‘an air of desperation’ in recent responses of the pro-Statsrason thinkers. ‘Their catechism is buckling under the reality that the German public—including even some functionaries of the German state—can clearly see.’

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

“In war machines, the bristling armaments are on display, but more important are the ideas, ideologies, fantasies, and words that justify war, the sacrifices of our side, and the death of others.” @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Antisemitismusdefinitionen - eine rechtliche Perspektive. Mein Vortrag im Rahmen der Hamburger Ringvorlesung "Israel, Palästina und Deutschland – zwischen Menschenrechten und 'Staatsräson'" lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v...

-> And Lebanon is on the wrong side, just like me. Lebanon is not white.” Jordan is not saying that identity doesn’t matter. She’s employing a strategy. She’s asking: How do I communicate about this atrocity that is so far away from my own people in a way that makes them feel a sense of connection?

Astute analysis of right wing fury and denial of reparative justice claims: King Charles’ guilty secret medium.com/@evansd66/ki...

In a video shared on her Instagram and X accounts, Gaza-based Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has said TikTok has closed down and banned her account, days after the social media platform was acquired by new investors in the US

I’m not sure how much notice this has received but the Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DT-_SacDEH...

Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?

@hahauenstein.bsky.social interviewed me on his splendid podcast about the pitfalls of German memory culture youtu.be/UO54Cjg3-7Q

"As Europe finds itself increasingly exposed [...] the language suddenly shifts. Confidence gives way to candour. Certainty dissolves into confession. The pit dug for others is no longer at a safe distance."

I very much disagree with @whstancil.bsky.social on this - how are you going to oppose ICE and the Trump administration if you don't understand that this *is* indeed who you are as a nation and that what we're seeing today is the culmination of a long history of American violence? 1/

American pedagogies of cruelty.

The CAFs of the German Middle Eastern Association (DAVO) & @brismes.bsky.social condemn Israel’s military assault on Birzeit University and call on the international community to pressure Israel to end its systematic targeting of Palestinian universities. ➡️ davo1.de/wp-content/u...

Germany never stopped arming Israel’s genocide A new bilateral cybersecurity deal and the continued flow of weapons leave little ambiguity about Germany's stance: not accountability, but normalization. By Hanno Hauenstein www.972mag.com/germany-isra...

CfP: Antikolonialismus in Deutschland: Transnationale Solidarität seit den 1970er Jahren (Anti-colonialism in Germany: Transnational solidarity since the 1970s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... @aselmeyer.bsky.social

Israel preparing facility in Rafah to corral Palestinian survivors, according to surveillance analysis by @forensicarchi.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

DJfdV webinar “Never Again!” on January 27, 2026 www.deutsche-juristinnen-voelkerrecht.org

"The above-named civil society studies and “fact-checks”, while constituting a small part of a wider network of organizations, expose an agenda of narrative construction through which genocide denial in Germany is actively produced and legitimized."

"We need an academy that refuses to translate pain into mere sentiment, or collapse critique into consolation, one that asks not only what we know about Gaza, but how we come to know it, who is centered in that process, and what violences are obscured in the telling." 👏👏👏

"No one has ever been charged or prosecuted for the killing of Patrice Lumumba, but a lot of people have been considered responsible for it." Excellent write up by Professor Foluke Adebisi. Pair it with Césaire's *A Season in the Congo* (1966).

Have a look at the workshop on Feminist Knowledge Production as Resistance in Times of Remilitarisation @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social and I are organising, and join us in Izmir, Turkey this July! eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

Bravo. Great piece. "Why study atrocities in Africa but not in Gaza? And it would raise a question that now haunts us: Was our work just a prop for advancing Western hegemony? Was conflict studies, even if inadvertently, an imperial science?" My humble take: Yes.

New paper on the impact of the war on university students in Gaza: "Despite these conditions, 60% of students reported continuing their studies, demonstrating significant resilience; however, this resilience occurs in the absence of adequate institutional, governmental, or humanitarian support."

Great podcast. Urgent reminder by @lisares.bsky.social: pay attention to who is invited to the table when discussing decolonization in Russia...

"Instead of developing an economy around these resources, Denmark brought Greenland into the European Common Market although the Greenlanders voted against it 74%." Gentle reminder that Kalaallit Nunaat is a European colony.

According to expert testimony by Canadian historian Marc Drouin, in 1979, former Guatemala City mayor Manuel Colom Argueta declared that “the methods of Algeria” were imported “under U.S. auspices.” “A form of genocide previously unknown in Guatemala is beginning.” beta.elfaro.net/en/from-the-...

“It’s a humiliating new way of men silencing women. Instead of telling you to shut up, they ask Grok to undress you to end the argument. It’s a vile tool,” she said.

New Dig covering the US attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro. An expansive conversation analyzing Trump’s imperialist project and assessing Chavismo and its oppositions from Chávez through Maduro with Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland, and Yoletty Bracho. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/vene...

I mean sure, but you know who else helped? Germany. Germany's behaviour during the 2-year long carnage in Gaza also helped. You cannot pick and choose. International law is not a menu. You have to respect it. Always. Otherwise it breaks down and then we're where we are now. #IntLaw #Germany

I wrote an Expert Comment for the University of Oxford on the implications of the US aggression against Venezuela for International Law and Global Security. My argument in brief below: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

"They have declared olive trees independent from their inconvenient roots. So many olive trees, inconvenient olive trees with inconvenient roots in an inconvenient land that was cared for by our inconvenient, non-existent grandparents. Why do they hurt olive trees?" Painfully beautiful 🖋️

"That the futurists who want to break the bounds of mortality are the ones most committed to the immutability of gender says something about how useful the concept is to them. Their insistence on masculine hegemony is an insistence on order and hierarchy."

Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition to disperse students during a protest and film screening. At least three students were injured as troops entered the campusand classrooms.