The man who rescues books from rubble: Omar Hamad opens Phoenix library in Gaza www.channel4.com/news/the-man...

The problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers

The Teotihuacan shooter was inspired by the Columbine High School massacre, was wearing a t-shit with the legend “Disconnect & Self-Destruct”, and appeared doing the Nazi salute in his social media. The attack was directed at foreign turists.

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil found dead after being trapped in rubble following Israeli strike, obstruction of rescue: cpj.org?p=583367

‘The tide of destruction flowed inwards from Gaza’s perimeter fences, pushing Palestinians into enclaves referred to by the Israeli army as “safe areas” and “humanitarian zones”, though they were never safe or humane.’ Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Students & university staff in Germany are right now holding Israeli Apartheid Week to raise awareness & build solidarity against violations of international law. They're doing it at great personal & professional risk. An interview by Sabine Broeck with the organizers:

"Rather, I believe Trump has introduced a profound degree of uncertainty and fear, affecting even those individuals and nations that previously felt secure because they were „on the right side” of the international community." Great interview with Aaron Winter.

“Greece’s defense industry is collaborating with Israeli companies that test out their technology on Palestinian bodies; under American guidance, Greece has connected its policy since 2010 with war crimes and an apartheid state, and called this voluntary relationship a ‘strategic alliance.’”

This interview, released now at @nd-aktuell.de, is actually from October 2025. Another magazine had decided not to print it upon reading the transcript. This version, as it says at the end, is slightly shortened and with an added question about Iran and Lebanon www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199...

Academia, power, white men, merit, meritorious institutions, cover up through diminishing sexual assault, he’s a renowned classicist after all, media complicity — structure. Academia closes ranks. And of course we get read as the ‘haters’ because we bring race, gender, sexuality into everything.

An interview on gender violence in Mexico, with nice illustrations, at te México Solidarity Bulletin: mexicosolidarityproject.org/es/archives/...

Just out journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

What the appalling, far-right coverage of the BBC shows us again is that the institutions we were told to passively rely on to protect us against fascism can in fact be enablers if put under any pressure This is what I argued here at length onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

It is very weird to be in a profession that wants to pretend most of the labor by most of the intellectual workers in its field does not exist.

I'm not very active on social media anymore so any help spreading the word would be appreciated!

"It was 10 minutes of terror, a day that the Lebanese are calling Black Wednesday."

Jewish Currents speaks with philosopher Elad Lapidot about how our understanding of antisemitism changes in an era in which Jews and Zionism have been conflated. jewishcurrents.org/when-jewishn...

Roundtable on the War on Iran and International Law with Noura Erakat, Luigi Daniele, Shahd Hammouri, Ata Hindi, Maryam Jamshidi, and Darryl Li www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47234

Looking forward to the workshop “Aterrizar la decolonialidad” in Hamburg. I’ll be giving a talk on "Confronting the Colonial Past in Times of Postcolonial Anxiety: The Case of Hamburg" Excited for the exchange! www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/last/forschu...

Somehow slavery was simultaneously not that bad, not that important, and also the founders wanted to end it because they were so moral and good

9 Aprill: LALEH KHALILI, "The Politics of Life and Death in Extractive Capitalism" register here: bit.ly/sprcyale-apr9 'racisms & colonialisms in the longue durée,' a collaboration between ucl sarah parker remond centre and yale center for race, indigneity & transnational migration

"I regret to have to inform you that I cannot review work that is partially processed by a product that in my opinion fails to meet standards of scientific integrity that I need to comply with."

Darband, the backdrop of so many of my favorite childhood memories. Physically sickened by this. Hearing from relatives that the bombing today has been relentless, that every day is worse than the one before, but read mainstream news and you’d barely know how bad it is.

The genocidaires have already started their shooting and crying films.

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the logistics of shipping oil and the economics of Iran’s wartime closure of the Strait of Hormuz substack.com/@turbulencep...

The Nakba after Genocide—a panel organized by the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network. Tuesday, April 7.

It's publication day! We have a complete issue now in "German History". With @aselmeyer.bsky.social I edited a volume on "Colonial Transactions in the German Empire". The contributions offer new insights into the construction of railways and colonial societies. academic.oup.com/gh/issue/43/4

Say their names: Fatima and Mohammad Ftouni, sibling Lebanese journalists murdered today by Israel

Neo-Nazi machete attack injures two teenagers in Berlin. One of the wounds went down to the bone. www.the-berliner.com/english-news... The attackers shouted Sieg Heil before running off.

'Operation Exterminate All The Brutes' was right there...😑 www.thecanary.co/global/world...

germany, to nobody's surprise, abstained.

"Habermas first lit my path as a critical theorist. I remain deeply grateful for that. But over the years the light he cast flickered and waned – until, with his stance on Gaza, it seemed to go out."

VW to shift from cars to missile defence in deal with Israel’s Iron Dome maker ft.trib.al/wKYO8HG

‼️‼️‼️ Israel has expanded it's genocidal violence to Lebanon, threatening to make it "resemble Khan Younis". We have seen in Gaza that they mean what they say. Israel needs to be stopped by all means and with all available pressures NOW. #ceasefire #NoToWar www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

See also: Gaza

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

📸 In the last year, at least 53 journalists fled El Salvador. Now I’m a photographer in exile, another migrant among the many migrants from my country. Among the many colleagues who’ve also become migrants. 🖊️ Víctor Peña beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

Call me a raving radical but I literally do not care whether your imperialist massacre of children is “constitutional” or not.

Open Letter by over 1000 scholars in support of Francesca Albanese and her commitment to international law, universal human rights and legal accountability In the absence of accountability, justice becomes unattainable. voelkerrechtsblog.org/open-letter-...

"In February of last year, the Trump administration declared six Mexican cartels to be foreign terrorist organizations, yet these same organizations are acquiring ammunition made at the plant owned by the U.S. Army."

someday the story will be told of how Germany voluntarily destroyed its soft power crown jewels -- flagship international cultural events and institutions – because of a bunch of ungrateful foreigners who wouldn't keep their mouths shut about the actual destruction of Gaza

'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

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 🫠