On the myth of reverse racism, and the stubbornness of the political and media establishment in looking at the far-right and racists as those who require democratic representation. By Aaron Winter 🔽

What a story... It’s been a long time since I read a piece that had me so gripped and so disgusted at the same time. A book review of over 15,000 words—and every paragraph is worth it.

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

I have compiled a simpler version. As a qualified ethnographic sociologist (yes, really!) I can assure you this is equally methodologically valid

Opposition from indigenous groups to a German-backed ammonia plant in northwestern Mexico is growing. Astrid Arellano reporting for @mongabaylatam.bsky.social

"our co-resistance seeks to expose, not conceal, structures of oppression and dismantle the discourses and policies that sustain inequality and dispossession." Read the position paper of PJA here (in ENG and DE)⬇️ pja-verein.de/on-solidarit...

Brilliant, as usual: "Psychic threats are no match for the world’s most moral army; through yoga, therapy, surfing, self-affirmation (saying “we’re the most moral army” over and over), the threat can be eliminated, and the integrity of the self reconstituted." thebaffler.com/latest/warri...

18) And, crucially, fascism does not start with death camps - that is where it can end. 19) Both democracy collapse and fascism start with the limitation of rights for specific communities; the undermining of the rule of law; the curtailment of democratic participation, incl protest rights etc.

There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵

Césaire’s *Discours* began as an essay titled ‘L’impossible contact’, commissioned by a right-wing journal. Written in 1948, it is an incisive account of white supremacy; nazism as eurocolonial boomerang. He wrote it on French Assemblée Nationale letterhead; a prime example of malicious compliance .

Our latest report “Erasing anything Palestinian: Israel's ethnic cleansing of West Bank Bedouin and herding communities” exposes the scale of Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing & unlawful annexation in the occupied West Bank. This is what state-led ethnic cleansing look like. Read for yourself:

While scholars around the world debated Israel's destruction of Gaza, Germany's political science establishment largely refused to engage. Latest on my Substack, by @anavelasco.bsky.social & @roykaradag.bsky.social hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/why-german...

‘They are disturbing the dead’: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century – my latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

More than 100 distinguished scholars of Middle East Studies, Antisemitism Studies, and Holocaust Studies criticize the “Draft Act on the Criminalization of the Denial of the State of Israel’s Right to Exist,” submitted by the State of Hesse to the Bundesrat. krisol-wissenschaft.org/wp-content/u...

The sad thing about the mess we're in is that it's actually that simple Understanding the resurgence of the far right is really not complicated. You just need to look at who made/let it happen But it's more convenient to blame it on "the people", the "left behind", "the left" etc

A. lived in Germany since he was two months and last year gained German citizenship. Now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation. My latest @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/05/germ...

I Watched a Pilot Refuse a Deportation. German Media Turned It Into a Story About a “Rampaging” Immigrant. Full Story on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

What I found in editing this essay by Eva Menasse about German moral panic is that no matter how many stories you've read about the absurd abuses of German memory culture, there are always more examples you haven't heard yet: www.equator.org/articles/ger...

Rising antisemitism is the UK is real, but mainstream commentary on its meaning and causes has been worse than useless. We spoke to Barnaby Raine about the moral panic deployed by those who claim to be "protecting Jews". www.equator.org/articles/goo...

Now that everyone is praising the New York Times for finally reporting on the sexual abuse of detained Palestinians - after spending months manufacturing consent for genocide - it’s worth remembering which outlets and journalists stayed consistent throughout

Die deutsche Politikwissenschaft hat ein Problem im Umgang mit Israel-Palästina, kritisieren @roykaradag.bsky.social & @anavelasco.bsky.social. In Journals & Fachkonferenzen komme das Thema kaum vor. Das Ergebnis: Die PoWi sei zu Israels Kriegen hierzulande analytisch schlicht nicht urteilsfähig.

"What remains unaddressed is the moral and political imperative of accountability for historical and structural injustices inflicted on Palestinians by the Zionist settler‑colonial regime since its inception." Discussion of Omer Bartov's latest book by Sonia Boulos and Raz Segal

This line: "One does not enter genocide studies in order to stand on the moral sideline, and I had to write about Gaza as I saw it."

I wrote for the Berlin Review about the long shadow of genocide in Europe's crisis. Drawing on the experience of when Europeans confronted US power in the 1980s, I argue that we need movements from below to challenge our complicit elites. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

A big thank you to Julia Gurol-Haller and William Figueroa for sharing their analyses and thoughts on the role and objectives of China in the US-Israeli wars on Iran in 2025 and 2026 for this new InIIS InSIGHTS episode: open.spotify.com/episode/43ky...

"Our students are not wilting flowers. They can handle controversy. They do not need sentimental, cloying nostalgia. They need encouragement to face a flawed and unjust world head on, using the tools we've given them: critical reasoning, careful research, sympathy for the oppressed."

Public Lecture: “The Responsibility of the Intellectual in a Time of Fascist Genocide” by Dr. Rinaldo Walcott us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The award-winning Palestinian poet and writer Mosab Abu Toha was castigated by the president of Le Moyne College for using the word "genocide" to describe the situation in Gaza. The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network responded with a letter on Mosab's behalf. www.ghscn.org/letters-and-...

“Damaging & destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace … for the government, the waging of peace is terrorism. Resisting the destruction of human life and the perpetuation of a genocide against the Palestinian people is not wrong. It is the law, and this government, that is wrong.”

This fall, a workshop on the global history of Palestine, featuring Professor Sherene Seikaly, will be taking place at the University of Basel. Applications are due June 5. To learn more: nahoststudien.philhist.unibas.ch/fileadmin/us...

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...