robin celikates

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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

I Once Had a Home – the Diasporist A writer visits his hometown and explores the legacy of guest workers in Germany

On the occassion of Canberk Köktürk's FASCHOLAND being published in German, we are releasing a translated excerpt today, featuring a visit to Köktürk’s hometown and a conversation with his parents on the legacy of "Gastarbeiter" in Germany. @captaincanbi.bsky.social

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Weidel auf dem Weg zum Platz in der ersten Reihe auf dem MCC Feszt

Ludwig und Weidel schütteln sich die Hand und reden

Ludwig, Tichy und Weidel lächelnd im Gespräch

Ludwig und Weidel (im MCC T-shirt) nach dem Panel, lächelnd im Gespräch

Saskia Ludwig (CDU), war am Freitag Teil eines Panels des MCC - der Orbánschen Kaderschmiede - zusammen mit Max Tichy, Sohn von Roland Tichy, der ebenfalls bei Tichys Einblick arbeitet. In der 1. Reihe im Publikum: Alice Weidel. Ludwig und Weidel schütteln sich die Hand, sprechen 2x miteinander

Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma In Gaza, where displaced children play games called “air strike” and act out death, the lack of mental-health resources has become another emergency.

I wrote for The New Yorker about Gaza’s mental health crisis, and spoke with therapists and psychologists still trying to help others through relentless trauma, while they themselves are displaced, grieving, and surviving day by day. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
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My short essay on the racialization of Mamdani - simultaneously coded too black & too white - not only demonstrates the way in which Islamophobia takes the contours of 20th C antisemitism, but also serves as a place-holder for the way socialism upends a neoliberal racial commonsense

Tobias Huch hat den 'Ruhrbaronen' gestern dann noch ein ausführliches Interview gegeben wo er sein rassistisches Geraune über angebliche Gendefekte in Gaza weiter ausbreitet. Zur Erinnerung: Dieser „Blog“ hat die Documenta-Debatte mit entfacht – und wurde sogar im Documenta-Abschlussbericht zitiert.

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

Turkey’s academics, independent media and artists are feeling the threat of the USA’s rising authoritarianism and unfair treatment of immigrants – but it is not the first time they have dealt with repression. For the Summer 2025 number of @indexoncensorship.org:
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Das Überwachungsimperium Als in Los Angeles im Juni zehntausende Menschen gegen die Massenabschiebungen der Trump-Regierung auf die Straßen gehen, patrouillieren hoch oben am Himmel MQ-9-Predator-Aufklärungsdrohnen der…

Hierzulande wird die bundesweite Einführung von Palantir-Polizeisoftware diskutiert. Dabei ist Palantir-Software »designt für Totalüberwachung« und damit »inkompatibel mit einer Demokratie«, warnte @afelia.bsky.social. Eine Analyse von @crimewatch.bsky.social: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

A post from Jaju Pierogi that says "In solidarity we will also not be serving pierogi to Dershowitz."

Pierogi makers united against fascism

How Trump Made One of the Most Controversial Post-9/11 Policies the New Normal Thousands of other people are going to get put into detention of indeterminate length with far less recourse, which could stretch years.

For @slate.com, I wrote about one dimension of the totalizing Trump/Miller immigration crackdown that's not getting enough notice, which is that they're moving to make indefinite detention — with no release dates and few options to get out — a norm

“Gaza is a turning point that lays bare the full range and cruel depths of the contemporary world’s contradictions ... It exposes what is fundamentally wrong today: a persistent inability to recognize every human being as equal and deserving of dignity and life.”

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’

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*.
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Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

looking at you, @djv.de

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weil es in D Erklärungsbedarf gibt: ‚Hungersnöte treffen zunächst die Menschen, die am anfälligsten für Unterernährung sind, zB kranke Kinder. Der Vorwurf, kranke Kinder würden instrumentalisiert, lässt sich umdrehen: Ihre Erkrankungen werden instrumentalisiert, um den Hunger in Gaza kleinzureden.‘

Over 20 Jewish and Israeli Organizations Across Europe Demand Dismissal of EU Antisemitism Coordinator for Breach of Mandate

Daher haben wir uns entschieden, die Beziehungen zu israelischen Universitäten und Institutionen, die an illegaler Besatzung, Apartheid, Völkermord und anderen Verstößen gegen das Völkerrecht beteiligt sind, auszusetzen …

Bitte teilen und unterschreiben:

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We, the undersigned academics at German universities, declare that we conscientiously refuse to cooperate with the state of Israel & Israeli institutions complicit in illegal
occupation, apartheid, genocide, & other violations of international law.

please share/sign!
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‘This is not a genocide that can still be prevented. That threshold has been crossed. What remains is a long trajectory of harm through illness too late to treat & collapsed public health. Even if the time for prevention has passed, the duty to stop this atrocity cannot be postponed any longer.’

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"(...)we urge our colleagues
and institutions in Germany to act accordingly and sever all cooperation with the state of
Israel and Israeli institutions complicit in the occupation of Palestinian territory and the
maintenance of the occupation regime."

uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

We, the undersigned academics at German universities, declare that we conscientiously refuse to cooperate with the state of Israel & Israeli institutions complicit in illegal
occupation, apartheid, genocide, & other violations of international law.

please share/sign!
uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

Daher haben wir uns entschieden, die Beziehungen zu israelischen Universitäten und Institutionen, die an illegaler Besatzung, Apartheid, Völkermord und anderen Verstößen gegen das Völkerrecht beteiligt sind, auszusetzen …

Bitte teilen und unterschreiben:

uppsaladeclaration.se/germany/

Cover des Buches "Solidaritäten transformieren" und Inhaltsverzeichnis

"Solidarität ist eine transformative Kraft und verändert sich ständig. Durch #Solidarität ändern sich soziale Infrastrukturen. Sie ist kein abstraktes Prinzip. Sie wird in alltäglichen Praktiken gelebt, in konkreten Räumen ermöglicht und politisch erkämpft"

Germany and Italy need more time to consider whether Israel should be denied *partial access* to the Horizon Europe research fund.

More time in the face of daily Palestinian deaths from bullets and starvation.

More time to mildly sanction a State accused of genocide by Israeli NGOs this week.

‘Promising to solve societal problems through repressive migration policies & more borders is a dangerous fantasy. In a world riven by war, genocide, economic disparity, climate catastrophe & growing authoritarianism, borders will never succeed in averting people’s desire & need to migrate or flee.’

I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach Symbolic gestures and empty statements are no longer enough. In Israel’s globalised economy, here’s what will shift public opinion, says says senior lecturer in Israeli studies Yair Wallach

By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements.
The time to act is now - me @theguardian.com

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