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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot

Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

An open letter titled No Honour in Complicity, signed by 4,700 academics – including 1,100 professors and 50 honorary doctorate recipients, urged Belgian universities to terminate all institutional collaborations with Israeli institutions. #BDS #academicboycot

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Noura Erakat, Amnesty International Chair 2025 at Ghent University and honorary doctor of Antwerp University, sent a message of solidarity with the new encampments of the Ghent and Antwerp students 🙏✊

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“The University of Ghent has officially ended its participation in the European research project OSTEONET due to concerns about its collaboration with a disputed Israeli partner.” #academicboycott #bds

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

"De echte controverse is deze: de aanvallen op Francesca Albanese getuigen niet van een oprechte verontwaardiging over onrecht of antisemitisme. Ze zijn een verdoken manier om het onrecht dat Albanese zelf aanklaagt, te blijven goedpraten"

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

academisch fetisjisme: waarheid en rechtsplicht lijken er niet toe te doen, zolang we maar ongestoord rond de inmiddels kokende pot kunnen blijven draaien. Zo wordt het debat losgekoppeld van de juridische realiteit, die ook voor universiteiten verplichtingen schept m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“we hebben vandaag meer nodig dan empathie. Wat we nodig hebben, is solidariteit. En er is een belangrijk verschil.” www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

"And that is the best place I've ever been. On top of an Israeli weapons' factory, shutting it down, with a hammer in my hand" recommended documentary, very interesting watch link below...

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Nieuw stuk van Gert Van Hecken en mezelf 👇 “Echte solidariteit is geen seizoensartikel, geen veilige story-post, geen morele modetrend. Het vraagt om volhouden, ook wanneer de hashtags verdwijnen. Dat betekent ook burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid…” www.knack.be/nieuws/werel...

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'Echte solidariteit met Gaza? Als er iets erger is dan te laat spreken, dan is het opnieuw zwijgen'

Na twee jaar oorverdovende stilte, lege inboxen en zorgvuldig gefilterde social media, klinken plots overal stemmen. Over Gaza. Over genocide. Over

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

De Belgische rectoren publiceerden een gezamenlijk standpunt over de genocide (“humanitaire crisis” in hun woorden). Ze konden niet langer zwijgen over de onmenselijke situatie. (www.demorgen.be/.../belgisch...) Collega Gert Van Hecken en ik lazen dit met belangstelling. Hieronder ons antwoord:

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

this is what they call #progress 🤷‍♂️

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

US students are being forced to attend political propaganda sessions in which facts are distorted and issues conflated. It looks like the kind of "re-education" imposed by dictatorships. I speak as someone fiercely opposed to antisemitism: *This does not help*. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Antisemitism training designed by pro-Israel groups is becoming compulsory at US colleges. What’s in it?

Training asks students to attribute the statement ‘every time I read Hitler, I fall in love’ to an ‘anti-Israel activist’

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

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Bernard Mazijn @goingforsd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Belgische staat = aandeelhouder in genocide. Nieuw rapport aan UN Human Rights Council: BNP Paribas wordt 2x genoemd als financier van genocidale activiteiten van #Israel in #Palestina. Via #FPIM heeft BE 5,59% aandelen in haar bezit. Jan Jambon is voogdijminister. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

De Amerikanen eisen het ontslag van VN-rapporteur Fransesca Albanese. ‘The US warned that continued failure to do so would not only discredit the UN but would also require significant actions in response to Ms. Albanese’s misconduct.’ Dit zijn maffia-praktijken.

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U.S. Mission to the United Nations Statement Opposing Francesca Albanese’s Mandate as UN Special Rapporteur

The United States once again expressed its grave concerns to UN Secretary-General António Guterres about the continued activities of Francesca Albanese, the “United Nations Special Rapporteur on the s...

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

De Britse overheid gaat onderzoeken of er strafbare feiten gepleegd zijn door muziekgroepen die hun solidariteit uiten met de Palestijnen. Dit terwijl ze consequent weigert achter de echte criminelen te gaan waartegen deze muziekgroepen ageren. (1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5qr...

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Lowkey EXPOSES Who’s REALLY Trying to DESTROY Kneecap

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

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Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Today on the podcast, we're talking about Jean-Jacques Dessalines with @juliagaffield.bsky.social The Haitian Revolution occurred at the same time as the French Revolution and after the American Revolution, and we discuss the connections between the three events. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...

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Haitian Revolution: The Complex Legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Listen to Haitian Revolution: The Complex Legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines from Vulgar History: Revolution wherever you get your podcasts!

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

De studenten plooien niet. Respect 🙏✊

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Trump post volgend bericht van Mark Rutte (huidig Navo Baas) op sociale media... Trump is een criminele president die een genocidale staat ondersteunt (net als de vorige VS-president), de Europese politici zijn een bende criminele en medeplichtige "slimeballs" (om het op zijn Rutte's te zeggen).

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Experts International Law: * 'Israel conducts illegal attack on Iran' * 'Israel cannot invoke right of self-defense' * 'Israel violates International Law' (for decades, by the way) Europe: * ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’ * 'Iran is destabilizing the region' Is this Orwellian newspeak?

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Red line yesterday in Brussels. 110.000 people on the streets demanding an end to Belgium and Europe’s complicity in supporting the genocidal and a regional warmongering regime that bombs practically all other nations in its vicinity. Sanctions now. Boycott now.

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Gideon Levy van Haaretz: “Diplomats and decision-makers, do you get this? In Israel, all of us are now Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. All of us.”

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

“Het woord ‘genocide’ gebruiken is geen activisme. Het is een poging de realiteit bij te benen, gewogen in rechtbanken, als term nu alom gebruikt door wetenschappers, bevestigd in rapporten, zichtbaar in systematisch geweld."

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/06/2025

We must pledge Anti-Genocide. We must choose Palestine wholeheartedly, in every decision, in every question, in every moment of our lives. Choose Palestine because our world and the fate of humanity entirely depends on it. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/join... #Palestine #Israel

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Join the Anti-Genocide pledge to stop the bloodshed in Gaza

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

“Het associatieverdrag dat de rectoren willen opschorten, omvat ook academische samenwerking. Eigenlijk pleiten ze dus zelf voor een academische boycot. Toch blijven onze universiteiten halsstarrig vasthouden aan die academische banden – formeel of via netwerken en consortia.” 1/2

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"Anyone with even a shred of responsibility or humanity can no longer buy into the propaganda. We must recognize that war crimes and crimes against humanity are openly being committed in Gaza. We're in the midst of a moral collapse."

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

One of the highlights of this year was co-hosting a keynote lecture by the magnificent Sherene Seikaly, titled "Palestine as Paradigm." I am so honoured to be able to share it with you all. Take some time with it. Her message has never been more urgent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq0A...

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Palestine as Paradigm: A Keynote Lecture by Sherene Seikaly | Long Arc of Fascism Conference

YouTube video by CCMS SFU

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 23/05/2025

Israel's plan to handle the distribution of aid in Gaza via a U.S. private contractor is a key part of its plan to ethnically cleanse its population. Here's how. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...

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Israel’s aid plan for Gaza is a key part of its strategy to expel Palestinians

Israel’s plan to handle the distribution of aid in Gaza via a U.S. private contractor is a key part of its plan to ethnically cleanse its population. Here’s how.

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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“The criticism we are seeing now is simply … ass-covering. Performative opposition, so that (…), when the true scale of the slaughter in Gaza is clear, the politicians and media figures responsible for enabling and justifying this horror … can say: “Look! I said something! I didn’t just stand by!””

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

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Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...

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