Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.

-> A operação – filmada, noticiada e defendida como um ato de coragem – teve como efeito fazer a extrema-direita, que estava acuada e sem narrativa diante os afagos de Trump a Lula, recuperar o protagonismo.

-> None of the 117 people killed by police were among the 69 suspects named by prosecutors in the complaint providing the basis for the raid. -> Santos argued the raid involving 2,500 police officers "showed that the state holds the monopoly on the use of force."

Mahmood Mamdani: "In the world we grew up in, the idea was that the wider society could claim free speech but only the university could claim academic freedom. And academic freedom was broader and stronger and deeper than free speech. Now it’s the reverse."

Great read 💥 "Some people say this; however, others say this." "What you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised."

Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET. Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social). networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The Association of Historians and Archaeologists of Togo invites submissions for its upcoming conference on Colonialism, Resistance, and Legacy, to be held at the University of Lomé from 21 to 23 April 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2025.

For those following the 💔 story of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo publicly assassinated Saturday, an account of what it's like to live in increasingly violent criminal governance - from Chilpancingo, Guerrero after mayor Arcos brutally murdered & displayed www.thetroubledregion.com/running-for-...

The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine." Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

heartbroken for Complexo do Alemão. end this global death machine www.correiodopovo.com.br/not%C3%ADcia...

Two colleagues interviewed me for a new podcast series on the second Trump Presidency. We discussed some of the 'gender politics' of the current moment and how they are entangled with the politics of race, fascism and (settler) empire. The episode is titled 'Tradwives and Techbros'

Refaat Al Areer’s “If I must die” poem on the streets of Mexico city

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

📅 Save the date! The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled: Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide 🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw More details to follow.

Copies of *The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza* have arrived! Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j. Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).

Here's an insightful piece about Lorde confronting Germany's silences, drawing from the archive and painting some resonances with today. newlinesmag.com/essays/how-a...

Today is German Unity Day, celebrating reunification of East & West. In 1992, Audre Lorde co-wrote a letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, decrying how unification is used to reinforce the ideal of "Germany for Germans," producing racist violence. Apt today, with police cadets chanting "Ausländer raus!"

Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece. open.substack.com/pub/journalg...

Great 🧵 Similar developments were taking place in the Latin American frontiers as the "Indian Wars" ended in the US. Mexico was immersed in a "war" with the Yaquis in the Northwest. Mazocoba is the most famous "battle". January 1900. Like Wounded Knee, it was also a massacre amidst a genocide.

a criminal complaint was filed against numerous German politicians today by several NGOs for abetting genocide in Gaza – and as far as I can tell it was entirely ignored by German media elsc.support/the-time-for...

Grateful for this show of solidarity by our academic colleagues at GHSCN.

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

Germany knew - every step of the way.

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 For our an upcoming Critical Perspectives on UNSCR 1325, Philipp Schulz and Chloé Lewis consider where men and masculinities fit into the women peace and security agenda in their article "Pieces of the Same Puzzle." #gendersky #polisky buff.ly/ASx1mDl

"There is too much invested in maintaining that this is not what it is. There’s too much at stake to admit, fully, that this is what it is. And that’s still assuming that those who wield power in this world even care." 🖋️ Sana Saeed

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

If a proposed rare-earth minerals mine goes forward in northern Sweden, it could ruin the lives of Sami Indigenous herders whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years.

This is who the Labour gov is arresting. This is who the Labour government calls terrorists. Hundreds more of them. www.instagram.com/reel/DORapkR...

We're really thrilled to share the program of our upcoming @trace-center.de conference on slow violence @zfk-mr.bsky.social including keynotes by Eyal Weizman and Rachel Pain. Check it out and register here: www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...

Ask yourself, who will be on the right side of history: these people protesting against genocide or the government enabling it and who is passing laws to intimidate and arrest those who protest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Brazilian politics, cara! Joia! This is easily one of the BEST podcasts I've ever heard. Impecable edition. Freaking brilliant, acid analysis.

#OpenAccess throughout September.

"There is no government that is cooperating with us more than the government of Mexico, than the government of the president of Mexico."

This post inadvertently reveals exactly why war studies is a marginalised and often parochial academic field. Just imagine a historian studying genocide in order to learn how to do it better - and lacking the self-awareness to realise that this is what they're doing...

Someone is playing tough in the "backyard"... There is a strict procedure before firing: 1) multiple warnings; 2) targeting only the engine with a small special missile and processing an inspection. If not, it points to a massacre of civilians, thus a crime. What's Rubio's game in Latin America?

The morning #Genocide read. I agree that they "could be", but I don't think they will. The courts struggle even with much more straightforward cases than complicity of third states...Not to mention the politics of it. #ICC #ICJ #Accountability www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...

And I'm afraid he's just warming up...

An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

Emphasis on "even the last experts in the back".

And the timing... Then again, we know the NYT is not precisely acquainted with editorial judgement.

Got comments and questions, but finally: @genocidescholars.bsky.social "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)"

Check out @alonso-gd.bsky.social's summary of "The Academic Consensus on Gaza": www.youtube.com/watch?si=jOU... #genocide #genocidestudies

"And as the rancid rotten people of the world pontificate and debate the definition of genocide, you are at war with yourself, trying desperately to ignore the material meaning of the word." Mohammed el-Kurd

Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada pleads guilty to US charges reut.rs/45KBEkM

Presidents of the Al-Aqsa University, Al-Azhar University – Gaza, and the Islamic University of Gaza ask for practical, structured and enduring partnerships. How: institutional partnerships, financial support, online teaching; joint research projects, especially focusing on genocide, expulsion.

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...

The Miccosukee tribe is helping block the construction of Alligator Alcatraz. A federal judge has ordered the Trump admin to pause construction in a lawsuit the tribe, whose land the detention center is located on, is part of. www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...

This line: “the remembrance of colonialism is treated as a dangerous gateway, for it might—among other things—open the door to a critique of Israel, and must therefore be shut down before it is fully grasped.”

Germany enshrines Wiedergutmachung as proof of moral reckoning after the Holocaust, yet denies it for its colonial crimes. What this reveals about a politics of memory built on evasion. Read the full piece on my Substack. hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/the-limits...

“It is a famine in 2025, a 21st-C famine, watched over by drones & the most advanced military technology in history. It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war…Everyone owns this. The Gaza famine is the world’s famine.” www.democracynow.org/2025/8/22/he...