Tim Goedemé

Poverty & social policy; inequality & climate change. Head of research at Centre of Expertise on Budget and Financial Well-Being, Thomas More | Personal views

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

Now out, a paper with Benoît Decerf and Karel Van den Bosch in @JournalESP with a proposal for a new income-based poverty measure for the EU: the EHC.
https://t.co/MTBchE6LSH. (open access)

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Bezalel Smotrich: "Come live in the West Bank. I hope this incentive will help us bring one million settlers and kill the idea of a Palestinian state."

There are no two sides. There is only the boot and the face. Stop pretending otherwise

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

Waw, nothing to see here 👇

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

AI presents an incredible opportunity for Jews because "instead of trying to control the whole world" and "manage" social media, "we can go directly to the companies" with "advocacy solutions," Dr. Maya Ackerman tells the American Jewish Committee.

"For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world!" Ackerman says.

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

AI presents an incredible opportunity for Jews because "instead of trying to control the whole world" and "manage" social media, "we can go directly to the companies" with "advocacy solutions," Dr. Maya Ackerman tells the American Jewish Committee.

"For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world!" Ackerman says.

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

Sanction Israel Now @bundeskanzler @EmmanuelMacron @Bart_DeWever @prevotmaxime At the very least apply EU law and suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement @vonderleyen @kajakallas

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

When will you wake up and realise Germany is again complicit in ethnic cleansing and genocide @bundeskanzler ?

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: Israeli settlers attacked the village of Baytin in the West Bank, setting tens of olive trees on fire.

The Israeli army is blocking fire trucks from reaching the site.

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

@prevotmaxime

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

URGENT UPDATE: Illegally detained Sumud volunteers are now on their 4th day of a dry hunger strike (no food, no water) and their condition is critical.

Since Monday, ten people detained in Benghazi have been refusing food, with many also refusing water, in protest of prolonged illegal detention, mistreatment, and being denied legal counsel. Some have been forced to break the strike, but many continue as their health deteriorates.

Their lives are at risk. They’ve received no medical care and are being held in “black sites" (unknown areas).
We demand their immediate release and we need you to act now.

Call. Post. Pressure the authorities. Share this update widely.

Email the foreign ministries of those detained at https://t.co/jixZ6iF35U

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel is weaponizing mountains of garbage in Gaza against the population. The Israeli army is blocking access to Gaza's landfill & banning the entry of trucks or other heavy equipment to the enclave

This created a giant overpopulation of rodents, insects, scorpions & snakes, & rapid spread of diseases

UN says it'd take 180 days to clear out those piles if 50 trucks are used each day

Israeli general (res.) Giora Eiland has called for the deliberate weaponization of disease & starvation in the genocide

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

Suspend the EU-Israel Agreement. Sanction and boycott Israel. Stop the EU's complicity @vonderleyen @kajakallas @prevotmaxime

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

That great Israeli journalist Gideon Levy @gideonle with a scorcher on the genocide in Gaza. And the Israeli ‘solution.’

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[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Israel is now threatening to bomb the Christian Quarter in the city of Tyre, South Lebanon.

There are no military targets.

This is one of the oldest continuously inhabited Christian areas in southern Lebanon — over 2,000 years old.

Not a peep from Western governments

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

Sanction. Israel. Now. Suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement @kajakallas @vonderleyen @EmmanuelMacron @bundeskanzler @Bart_DeWever @prevotmaxime

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.

Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. It’s not 1944. Read that again.

The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon.

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

We must protect vulnerable people, the underdog,truthtellers,those who fight for #Peace,#Truth,#Justice. We must protect @FranceskAlbs. If you haven't signed @couragefound's petition for @FranceskAlbs, pls do it now!

https://t.co/a7XDmJ0CjO

[Paul De Grauwe @pdegrauwe]

Mijn nieuw Leuvens Economisch Standpunt: "Help, de belastingopbrengsten krimpen". Veel mensen met hoge inkomens genieten van wettelijke belastingprivilegies. Belastingopbrengsten kunnen opgekrikt worden zonder de belastingtarieven te verhogen. https://t.co/Li7tqcygMu

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

@EUpalestinians Please push for meaningful sanctions against Israel

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[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Yet more Israeli war crimes
"Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian migration from Gaza will go ahead. Human rights groups and lawyers say policy amounts to ethnic cleansing"
https://t.co/eY5RTO4y33

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

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[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The UN adds Israel and Russia to a blacklist of countries engaged in sexual violence, after documenting “patterns of sexual violence” by Israelis against Palestinians, citing assaults on 14 men, seven women, nine boys and one girl from Gaza and the West Bank. Israel said it would cut off ties with the UN Secretary General; seems to me it would make more sense to investigate and allow Red Cross visits. https://t.co/9wSkaVsvfx

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

End the impunity now. Suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement @vonderleyen @kajakallas @EmmanuelMacron @bundeskanzler @Bart_DeWever @prevotmaxime

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

❗Research from Save the Children: Palestinian children are being physically, emotionally and sexually abused, humiliated and starved in Israeli military detention.

The torture, and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of children, is getting worse.

🔴 More than half of the formerly-detained children we surveyed reported witnessing or experiencing sexual violence
🔴 99% reported physical assault
🔴 82% reported being forcibly stripped naked
🔴 94% reported being denied medical care
🔴 100% reported being denied contact with their families

Read more: https://t.co/AXFwMLiCAA

@YvetteCooperMP, @HFalconerMP: the UK Government should publicly call for the release of all Palestinian children arbitrarily detained and call for an end to Israeli military authorities arresting, detaining and prosecuting children.

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

https://t.co/v3gKm7WjPu @vonderleyen @kajakallas @EmmanuelMacron @bundeskanzler @Bart_DeWever

[Amnesty MENA @AmnestyMENA]

The Israeli military is once again escalating its unlawful use of mass “evacuation” orders despite the so-called ceasefire, displacing civilians across southern Lebanon.

On 26-27 May 2026, the Israeli military ordered all residents of the densely populated southern cities of Nabatieh - home to around 90,000 people - and Sour city and surrounding areas - home to more than 200,000 people - to leave. This was followed by a video ordering all residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate north of the Zahrani river, stating that the Israeli military considers all areas south of the river “combat zones”.

The sweeping orders - issued during Eid al-Adha - spread fear and panic, forcing people to flee their homes instead of celebrating with loved ones.

Israel’s mass "evacuation" orders have already uprooted hundreds of thousands. People in Lebanon must be able to live their lives without fearing they will be displaced yet again at a moment’s notice.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Sky News completely destroys the Zionist regime's primary excuse for bombing Lebanon. The reporter confirms there is absolutely zero evidence of military activity in the civilian homes Israel is obliterating.

Washington is funding pure state terrorism!

[Tim Goedemé @TimGoedeme]

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[Sunniva Rose @Sunniva_Rose]

Luxembourg’s @Xavier_Bettel: I must reiterate that Germany and Austria saying they have an eternal debt to Israel doesn’t excuse what’s happening today. Are we going to accept a 2nd Gaza? Do we want southern Lebanon to be a field of ruins and turn a blind eye? It’s not right.

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

Today, the @EUCouncil imposed asset freezes and travel bans on Regavim, Amana and Nachala, measures that prohibit, inter alia, the making available of funds or economic resources, directly or indirectly, to those designated.

These organizations form the institutional backbone of Israel’s entrenchment of its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory: colonization, annexation, dispossession of Palestinian property, obstruction of humanitarian and development assistance, and the coercive environment driving forcible transfer of protected persons. The Council itself links these entities to violent outposts, demolition campaigns, displacement, and systematic interference with Palestinian civilian life.

The organizations designated today are deeply interwoven with Israeli State structures, ministries, and settlements local government. Their activities are enabled, financed, protected and, in many instances, operationally coordinated with organs of the State.

That raises an unavoidable legal question. Under the law of State responsibility, where conduct attributable to, directed by, or acknowledged and adopted by State authorities gives rise to gross and systemic breaches of international law, responsibility does not end with quasi-private implementing actors. It extends to the State organs, ministries, officials and public authorities implicated in the commission, facilitation or maintenance of those wrongful acts.

If the EU Council now accepts that these organisations materially contribute to forcible transfer, settlement expansion, settler violence and unlawful appropriation of property, the logical consequence is difficult to avoid: scrutiny must move further upstream, toward the governmental and ministerial structures that sustain, coordinate and politically authorize the system itself.