the west cannot comprehend martyrdom because their civilisation is organized around comfort and consumption. to them dying for liberation seems irrational because they have never loved anything more than individual survival.
At this point, you either side with a small group of military lawyers with uncommonly narrow views of humanitarian law, or you side with the vast majority of academic, advocacy, civil society and international experts who have concluded that Israel’s actions amount to genocide
Zeit, sich den realen Bedrohungen für die liberale Ordnung zu widmen. Hier: wohlstandsverwahrloste, peinliche Gröler:innen, die sich als Apologet:innen des Faschismus gerieren (aka einer der rechten "Ränder"). Ja, reiche Nazis anzugehen erfordert echten Mut. Auf geht's!
Accusing the students participating in the encampment of both potential violence and antisemitism in advance, without any reason to do so, seems a bit..
ah yes
racially motivated
The Namibia delegation at the ICJ on Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians (23 Feb 2024). They nicely exhibited the Palestinianisation of global resistance and solidarity, while reminding Germany of its genocide against their ancestors.
The protest sit-ins and tents must have reminded the Egyptian-born Minouche Shafik of Tahrir square, and she thought to herself, “I’m the Hosni Mubarak in this drama”
As my employer - @Columbia University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:
Aus gegebenem Anlass darf ich nochmal fragen, was hier mit Islamismus gemeint ist, und daran erinnern, wie gefährlich Gleichsetzungen und Verallgemeinerungen unter diesem Begriff sind. Siehe z.B. hier (3J alt, immer noch valide): https://t.co/BTxIBpxm1J
Nancy Fraser: "Das Ganze sendet auch ein sehr starkes Signal an Wissenschaftler:innen in der ganzen Welt: Wenn du es wagst, bestimmte Ansichten zu bestimmten politischen Themen zu äußern, wirst du hier (in Deutschland) nicht willkommen sein".