We were just finishing Yom Kippur morning service when our rabbi announced this had just happened. We’d been reflecting on the atrocities in Gaza & praying for peace. Our tiny community is horrified & heartbroken www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Anfang August stoppte der Kanzler Genehmigungen für Rüstungsgüter, die in #Gaza eingesetzt werden könnte. Letzte/vorletzte Woche wurden nun wieder Güter im Wert von 2,4Mio€ genehmigt. Das weiß man über die geplanten Lieferungen: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Der Papst, die Genfer Konventionen, what's next?

Wie sehr soll sich der ÖR denn noch anbiedern bis diese Leute a Ruh geben

⚠️Heute 13:30 Uhr in der Bundespressekonferenz: "Jenseits der Staatsräson – Ansätze und Handlungsempfehlungen für eine neue deutsche Nahostpolitik" share.google/0ZYJvPpHIBZt...

Protest at Berlin Central Station right now against Israel's interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi is a writer and poet living in Gaza. Words are everything to her. But the relentless trauma of the genocide is robbing her of her ability to say those words out loud—and she's not alone. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

UPDATE: Live feeds from several Global Sumud Flotilla ships are now *dropping* as several sources indicate Israeli ships are approaching the flotilla The flotilla is carrying 500 volunteers from 45+ countries trying to break Israel's siege of Gaza & aid starving Palestinians

Brb, just planning a course based on this paragraph. Part 1: “They want to like chop my head off, right?”: The ‘Other’ in the American Imagination Part 2: “They got a fucking Chili’s over here!”: Capitalism & Civilisation in American Culture We’ll be reading a lot of Edward Said

From the preface of Tareq Baconi's excellent "Hamas Contained" (2018). Just another reminder that history didn't begin in 2023.

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws & institutions emerged. How Commerce Became Legal by @omarcheta.bsky.social considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance www.sup.org/books/middle...

Also wir haben mit einem 20-köpfigen wissenschaftlichen Team vom @protestinstitut.bsky.social ja sehr genau hingesehen. Und wir haben definitiv was ganz anderes gesehen! K.a. auf welcher Demo die JAZ war, aber offensichtlich nicht auf den Grossdemos in Mitte und am Grossen Stern..

LIVE: Humanitarian-aid flotilla sails to Gaza youtube.com/live/mM05zPz...

👉 Youtube-Video mit Ralph Hertwig über das Diskussionspapier: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l5Q...

Two people in my extended circle are on the Global Sumud Flotilla, aiming to break the siege on Gaza. They are asking us all for increased vigilance as the flotilla enters the high risk zone. You can follow the progress of the flotilla at www.globalsumudflotilla.org/live

"Bridge Partners, a firm working for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, sent a series of invoices for its “Influencer Campaign” to Havas Media Group Germany. The invoices detailed a sum of $900,000, starting in June and slated to end in November, for a cohort of 14-18 influencers to create content."

out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

The Geneva Convention is now "woke" Hegseth for "politically incorrect rules of engagement" war finally freed from the woke mind virus

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

Fascinated by this list of readings that Fathi al-Shiqaqi, the founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, described as formative for him, during the 1970s. (From Erik Skare's excellent book.) And, again, amazed by the legacy of Albert Hourani.

Chile is home to the largest Palestinian diaspora outside the MidEast, & Palestinians are present on both the right and the left I talk to Pablu Abufom, activist with the Coordinadora por Palestina, on what that teaches us about the limits of a national project fromtheperiphery.com/2025/09/29/2...

They were ready, apparently. In the worst way possible. This is from 9 months ago.

I've just uploaded a preprint of our forthcoming study: Hierarchies in Death: Coverage of Palestinian and Israeli Victims in the Context of October 7 and the War on Gaza (co-authored by me, @mariamsalehi.bsky.social and Justus Könneker) Check it out! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

1/ Nach den rein vibesbasierten (meines Erachtens oft interessengeleitet verzerrenden) Framings der letzten Tage finde ich es wohltuend, dass Befragungen wie die von @teraqerat.bsky.social et al. allmählich auch ein evidenzbasiertes Urteil zur Gaza-Demo am Wochenende ermöglichen. Kurzer Thread. ⬇️

Thorsten Alsleben ist ein Paradebeispiel für antiintellektuellen Biblizismus: Er ignoriert nicht nur das „will“, sondern auch den endzeitlichen Kontext des Paulus-Zitats. Der Apostel kritisiert an dieser Stelle Menschen, die nichts Gutes mehr tun wollen, weil des Reich Gottes bereits da sei.

Politiker wie Uwe Becker fordern mittlerweile tatsächlich, das Tragen der Kufiya in der Öffentlichkeit zu verbieten. Darüber berichtet Alexander Jürgs in der FAZ. Dabei gibt sein gegenüber der Kufiya kritischer Artikel Hoffnung, dass zumindest die Verbreitung irreführender Legenden...(1/2)

Diese Globalgeschichte ist übrigens der Grund, warum Mathieu Bock-Coté (btw der Nachfolger von Éric Zemmour auf dem Moderationsstuhl von Faca à l'Info) im "Postkolonialismus"-Dossier der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Boucheron beschuldigt, er wolle "den roman national" untergraben.

So glad this finally happened. It took us too long and I hope this is only the beginning. 100.000 in the streets of Berlin to end Germany's complicity in the Gaza genocide. Thank you to the wonderful and courageous organizers, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and all the others!

Der israelische Philosoph Shaul Setter hat Illouz' Positionen übrigens schon gründlich zerlegt... www.galerie-der-abseitigen-kuenste.de/publikation/...

Noch so ne perle: legitimer als welche anderen staaten denn genau?

NPR interviews @dovwaxman.bsky.social, Professor of Israel Studies at UCLA, on why he changed his position on the question of whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. (www.npr.org/2025/09/25/g...)

Eva Illouz, 2025.

Drohnen haben über Stunden die Flughäfen in Kopenhagen und Oslo lahmgelegt. Dänemarks Premierministerin Mette Frederiksen spricht von einem Angriff. Welche Erkenntnisse gibt es, was sagen Ermittler? Der Überblick.

every single photo makes your heart burst www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen now calls yesterday's drone incident at Copenhagen airport "the most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure to date." www.dr.dk/nyheder/sene...

It is an oft-told story, but it bears retelling.

On this day important day, I recommend (again) for everyone to listen to this reading of Alaa's text "half an hour with Khaled." I can't think of a more timely text for Egypt, the Middle East, and, indeed, the world. youtu.be/RVueOXAX5kk?...

Alaa will be free. Finally, some very good news.

In addition to comparing all Palestinians (not Hamas, but all Palestinians) to Nazis, the Israeli ambassador to the US is spreading the "great replacement" conspiracy. And while he may hope it remains focused on Muslims, lots of people on the right will hear "great replacement" and think "Jews."

More than two million people are ordered to concentrate in an area of 65 sq km. That's three times the population density of NYC - in what is largely a wasteland with no adequate infrastructure and supplies. www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...

Einmal so viel Aufnerksamkeit bekommen für die Bedrohung der Presse, anderer Gruppen und Freiheiten durch die extreme Rechte wie der Fall Klar & Julia Ruhs. *Gesendet aus einem BL, in dem die AfD bei Wahlen 30 - 40 % holt - die AfD, die die "Mainstreampresse" seit langem zum Feindbild erklärt hat.

And the winner is: Maryam Aras. So happy our jury statement is now live here: tucholsky-gesellschaft.de/kurt-tuchols...

Evidence number 829 of how radical right-wing politics, the attack on free speech (and academic freedom), as well as genocide denial are linked. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/a...

Seit dem Hamas-Angriff auf Israel hat sich die Diskussionskultur an deutschen Hochschulen massiv verändert. In einer Umfrage berichten Forschende nun von Selbstzensur, Anfeindung und einer bedrohten Wissenschaftsfreiheit. Im Tagesspiegel und Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/09...

Israel had already occupied Gaza City and forced its population out - in late 2023. The difference this time is that Israel pledges loud and clear to destroy the city in its entirety, and not to allow the population back. This is what it makes this occupation into a crime against humanity.

Wenn Freiheit der Kunst und Wissenschaft nach Ansicht des BK nur vermeintlich besteht, sagt er, dass es sie nicht gibt. Damit hätte er aber Boden GG verlassen. Das ist bedenklich, gerade wenn man bedenkt, was andernorts geschieht. Das kann gerade keine Lehre aus Geschichte sein

The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded, after studying the evidence exhaustively, that the Israeli government and military are committing genocide in Gaza: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

next week at FU: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context w/ @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Urs Lindner, Magali Bessone, Murad Idris, Lee Medovoi & many others info and program: tinyurl.com/4udeeae7