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Associate professor of law and humanities, Amsterdam

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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dam square now, against militarization
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'BREAKING: IDF soldiers are outside of Columbia University gates, despite a lawsuit filed by Palestinian students stating that Columbia created a racist, hostile environment. The soldiers are part of “Front Line Advocates”, a new @IsraelMFA program.'
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wahnsinn, dass sich Leute mehr über Ben-Gvirs Sprache empören als über DIE REALITÄT, die sie beschreibt – und die Deutschland seit drei Jahren aktiv mit unterstützt
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Petra Verdonk she/her @petraverdonk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Holy MF @politie.bsky.social, jullie hebben je chatbot interessant getraind?! 😱
Ingetypte tekst voor aangifte bij politie
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Protesting IDF cantor in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam now
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Petitie gestart door Erev Rav, om het concertgebouw te steunen c.org/G7yp69nFFd
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We Can Make an Impact.
Petition in support of the Concertgebouw
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
UPDATE: Our ad has been pulled. While the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun talk about freedom of speech all the time, they've decided that they won't be proceeding with our ad tomorrow. We still hope they will run our ad at a later date, because we need to broadcast the message, end the genocide!
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Amsterdam now
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 24/07/2025
Wait wait wait wait so Columbia MUST create a DEI office for Jewish folks but MAY NOT create a DEI office for anyone else? Am I reading this right?
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Amsterdam Central Station now
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Amsterdam Central now
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Jan Keulen @jankeulen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Een derde van de totale buitenlandse handel van Israël drijft het met de EU. Het gaat om 42,9 miljard euro in 2024, veel meer dan de handel tussen de VS en Israël (31,6 miljard euro). Het is nu tijd het Associatieverdrag tussen de EU en Israël op te schorten. rightsforum.org/geen-land-in...
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Geen land investeert meer in Israël dan Nederland - The Rights Forum
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Graduates from the University of Edinburgh's school of Political and Social Sciences disrupted their commencement and held a mass walkout to expose the complicity of their university in the Israeli genocide.
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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
BE universiteiten vragen om opschorting EU-verdrag met ISR. "Belgische universiteiten hebben al verschillende keren aan de Europese Commissie gevraagd hoe de deelname van Israëlische ploegen nog te rijmen valt met de verwijzing naar mensenrechten." Wanneer volgt NL? @universiteitennl.bsky.social
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Belgische universiteiten vragen opschorting EU-verdrag met Israël: "Stopzetting zou sterk politiek signaal zijn" | VRT NWS: nieuws
De 10 Belgische universiteiten vragen aan minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Maxime Prévot (Les Engagés) om bij de Europese Raad aan te dringen op een onmiddellijke opschorting van het Associatieverdrag ...
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lieke marsman @liekemarsman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Dit (in dit geval in @nrc.nl) blijf ik zo ontzettend vreemd en kwalijk vinden. Wanneer verandert "Mensenrechtenorganisaties zeggen dat Israël genocide pleegt" in "Israël pleegt genocide"? Maar echt, wanneer?
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Eva de Bakker @evadb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Heftig om te zien hoe deze mevrouw de mond grof wordt gesnoerd deze beelden van het Journaal. Het gebeurde ná de minuten stilte en ze staat hier niet in een menigte waar ze de orde verstoord, dus ik snap niet waarom het nodig is. Geldt de vrijheid van meningsuiting dan niet? #dodenherdenking #deDam
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Alternatieve Dodenherdenking in Den Haag nu
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Trump’s EEOC Is “Investigating” Barnard & Texted A Survey to Barnard Professors’ Personal Cell Phones To Ask If They’re Jewish flip.it/xQj6ZP The 2nd question reads: “Please select all that apply”: “I am Jewish” “I am Israeli” “I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry” “I practice Judaism” & “Other”
Most professors at Barnard College received text messages on Monday notifying them that a federal agency was reviewing the college’s employment practices, according to copies of the messages reviewed by The Intercept.

The messages, sent to most Barnard professors’ personal cellphones, asked them to complete a voluntary survey about their employment.

“Please select all that apply,” said the second question in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, survey. 

“The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister.”
The choices followed: “I am Jewish”; “I am Israeli”; “I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry”; “I practice Judaism”; and “Other.”

Other questions asked respondents whether they had been subjected to antisemitism, as well as whether they were subject to “unwelcome discussions,” graffiti or signs depicting antisemitic messages or images, antisemitic or anti-Israeli protests, “unwelcome comments, jokes or discussions,” or “pressure to abandon, change or adopt a practice or religious belief.”

“The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,” said Barnard associate professor Debbie Becher, who is Jewish and received the text. “They are clearly targeting what most of the United States, I hope and I think, defines as freedom of speech, but only in the case of anti-Israeli speech.”
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Sarah Bracke @antigonesdream.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Yes! Both risks & stakes are higher: this is the moral question that faces this generation - the question of Palestine is a question of refusing a world order of settler colonialism, genocide & erosion of intn'l law - and the students are not turning away. May they change the course of history.
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
‘Free Palestine’ on police van, University of Amsterdam headquarters occupation now
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Occupation of University of Amsterdam headquarters now
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/04/2025
🧵 While Gaza is being destroyed, Israel’s parliament is quietly advancing apartheid laws against Palestinians — both inside Israel and across occupied Palestine. Here’s what they just did:
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
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Paul van Buuren 🍉‬ 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @paulvanbuuren.nl · 24/03/2025
Hoe ziet het eruit als de politie je in de gaten houdt? Hier een filmpje van een politiebezoek aan een demonstrant. Ik zag dit via @amoorahnl.bsky.social en zij kent de activist. Dit filmpje is legit. Zie ook insta: www.instagram.com/linksinhetni...
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Khalil reports from detention “Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old…
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Amsterdam Central Station now
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Thrilled to see this. Thanks to all who took the risk to be there
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13/03/2025
The fight to free Mahmoud Khalil is not merely about preserving First Amendment rights, it is about whether we will allow our government to criminalize resistance to its complicity in human rights abuses and genocide.
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When speaking up for Palestine becomes a crime
The fight to free Mahmoud Khalil is not merely about preserving First Amendment rights, it is about whether we will allow our government to criminalize resistance to its complicity in human rights abuses...
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My chapter, "Legislating the Historical Resonance of Boycott in Germany: Memory and Staatsräson in the Bundestag’s 2019 Resolution against BDS" just got published in the new volume Memory and the Language of Contention (open access). brill.com/display/book...
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Tilburg University should uphold its own values and suspend ties with Israeli universities
'The Executive Board’s response to the recommendation to suspend ties with Israeli partner universities is infuriating,' writes alumnus Omer Omer. 'The lack o
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Crowdfunding for the Educational Bookshop after the raid and the arrests of Mahmoud Muna and his cousin: www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...
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Donate to Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop Emergency Appeal, organized by Saqi Books
Bookselling is not a crime: fundraiser to support the Educational Booksh… Saqi Books needs your support for Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop Emergency Appeal
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Life expectancy dropped by more than 30 years during the first 12 months of the genocide in Gaza. These are conservative numbers. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Life expectancy losses in the Gaza Strip during the period October, 2023, to September, 2024
Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ong...
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
'Onder het mom van praten met Israëlische universiteiten wordt het gesprek in Tilburg gefrustreerd': www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
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Over het belang van (en gebrek aan) een goed gesprek over Gaza op de universiteit - Joop - BNNVARA
Opinie Gijs van Maanen en Lisanne Stone.
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
On 29 October 1948, al-Dawayima was one of several Palestinian villages targeted as part of a military campaign initiated by the newly established State of Israel aimed at the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. forensic-architecture.org/investigatio...
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Forensic Architecture
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
'Tilburg University schort banden met Israël nog niet op: is dit wereldvreemdheid, karakterloosheid of onnozelheid? Of is schijterigheid ook een wetenschappelijke term?' www.bd.nl/opinie/tilbu...
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Very informative long-read on the origins of Germany's fascist philosemitism: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
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Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Currently still waiting for Tilburg University rector Wim van der Donk to talk to us about his refusal to follow the advise of the Advisory Committee that he instituted himself. The Committee confirmed the need to suspend ties with Israeli universities immediately: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Palestine Solidarity Tilburg Occupies Corridor Leading to Cobbenhagen Building
Palestine Solidarity Tilburg is demonstrating on campus. The activist group is dissatisfied with the decisions made by the Executive Board and intends to hand o
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
dekanttekening.nl/nieuws/prote...
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Protest aan Universiteit Tilburg over uitstel breuk met Israëlische instellingen - de Kanttekening
Docenten en studenten van de Universiteit Tilburg demonstreren vanmiddag tegen het besluit om voorlopig de banden met Israëlische partnerinstellingen niet te verbreken. Dit besluit druist in tegen het...
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Call for a junior legal officer for the Netherlands to fight for Palestinian rights and against censorship of solidarity activists at the European Legal Support Center in Amsterdam: elsc.support/news/call-fo...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This is a beautiful and searching essay by @itaqt.bsky.social. It asks: as we fight "them" how do we more honestly look at "us" - including our failings? This "can be humbling. Yet it might also allow us to not only say we are on the right side of history, but to collectively shape our future."
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Lumumba was murdered on this day in 1961. A good time to watch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtr...
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat - Wikipedia
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
bdsmovement.net/After-Ceasef...
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
@hahauenstein.bsky.social: "As Europe’s largest newspaper under its most powerful publishing house, Bild perpetuates a distorted understanding of the political realities on the ground, silencing debate about Israel’s documented war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank." www.972mag.com/bild-german-...
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Bild published pro-Netanyahu disinformation. Where is the outcry?
The role of Germany’s largest newspaper in the ‘Bibileaks’ scandal highlights the need for a reckoning on Israel-Palestine in German media.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 02/01/2025
Israeli airstrikes have unleashed devastating attacks across Gaza, with 34 bombings in the past 24 hours alone, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. At least 71 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed so far in 2025.
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
May the genocide in Gaza end in 2025.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
We all take states for granted, so much so that even though we saw the 54 yo Assadist state collapse in 10 days it is still inconceivable for most to imagine the 76 yo Zionist state collapsing. Even when we see the inconceivable happening we don’t conclude that the same is true elsewhere. 🧵
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Michiel Bot @michielbot.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The Israeli army built a resort in Gaza where its soldiers can have a massage and a barbecue. Gidion Levy on this "Zone of Interest": www.democracynow.org/2024/12/27/l...
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Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Workers, Reporters
In northern Gaza, the director of the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital says five medical workers were among 50 people killed in Israeli strikes near the hospital. Israeli forces then stormed the hospital...
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