Jonas Suchanek

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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"Nowhere is this selective application of values more glaring than in the EU’s response to Gaza."

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

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🚨 New research! 🚨

Check out this recent article by @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social and Wouter van der Brug on place-based resentment and populist voting in the Netherlands.

Free to read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Expert Charvát: Nenávist se často rodí z frustrace. Židé jsou obětními beránky dlouhodobě Antisemitismus, nenávist vůči Židům. Bolest, kterou si lidstvo nese po staletí. Kde se antisemitismus vzal?

Druhá série podcastu Extrém začíná. Dnes mluvíme o antisemitismu. O středověkém antijudiasmu a kořenech konspiračních teorí, sociálním antisemitismu 19. století, rasových teoriích a holocasutu, vzniku státu Izrael a také o antisionismu a krajní pravici i levici.
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80 years after Liberation Day, far-right parties are the strongest parties in the polls in the UK, France, and Germany. For every politician the most pressing question should be how to save liberal democracy. Yet, small minded partisan tactics prevail. The far right gets normalized and empowered.

While the radical right populist governing parties of Hungary and Poland abused culture as a vehicle for transmitting their nationalist narratives, their technocratic Czech and Slovak counterparts took a more pragmatic approach to cultural policy.
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🆕📝🚨 Glad to see this one out in International Journal of Cultural Policy. With data from @authlibeu.bsky.social, we review cultural policies of 🇭🇺Orbán, 🇵🇱Kaczyński, 🇨🇿Babiš, and 🇸🇰Fico. A short thread👇 1/4

Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@schaferd.bsky.social @jsuchanek.bsky.social

Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza medics Israel says soldiers fired on ‘terrorists’ in ‘suspicious vehicles’ but footage shows clearly marked ambulances

It's impossible to put into words how vile this is. Murdering paramedics in cold blood. And then the lies.

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Dare to dream and imagine that instead of cars we would protect people in need, like abused women or homeless people.. crazy right?

Just like centrist parties in Western Europe, the Democratic Party is more concerned about the voters of the far right than with its own voters.

Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest comes as Trump vows to deport foreign students involved in protests against Israel’s war

And so it’s starting…

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

Jiří Dolejš: STAČILO! není levicové uskupení. Slouží jako výtah nacionalistům Jiří Dolejš byl po více než třiceti pěti letech vyloučen z KSČM. Oficiálně pro porušení stanov. S dlouhodobým kritikem konzervativního křídla KSČM jsme hovořili o splývání strany s krajní pravicí i o ...

Poměrně otevřený rozhovor o poměrech v KSČM, respektive Stačilo! Tento pohled v zásadě odpovídá mému názoru, že se současná KSČM ve skutečnosti posouvá na kulturní/politické ose doprava (a neplatí tak teorie podkovy).
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The axis of evil is not what it used to be

A commonly held notion is that Germany's far-right party AfD is especially successful in the country's more rural areas. However, a look at the party's election results in over 10,000 municipalities suggests that the link between rurality and AfD support is rather diffuse. A simple thread. 🧵👇

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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Trump Proposes the U.S. Take Over Gaza: Live Updates

This would be an unlawful seizure of territory in violation of the United Nations Charter, and the forcible transfer of the population of Gaza would constitute crimes against humanity.

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Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German CDU, just claimed in parliament that gang rapes are committed on a daily basis by asylum seekers in Germany. It is pure far right propaganda. The mainstreaming of the far right is happening on steroids in Germany right now.

Why Did the US Block a Canadian Professor From His Own Book Event? Nathan Kalman-Lamb was barred entry into the US. This is a harbinger of the dark political future that Trump is ushering in.

A crazy story that should be a warning to many colleagues (and others) who want to travel to the U.S. (or Germany). There is a (secret) blacklist -- most likely related to critique of Israel (and its war crimes in Gaza).

Slovak PM Fico accuses opposition of trying to topple him Ukraine-style The opposition accuses Fico of using the intelligence service to torpedo a vote of no-confidence.

In my long-term research on the language of illiberalism, "Maidan" (now used by the Slovak PM), when applied to events outside Ukraine, was one of the surest indicators of active Russian influence.
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4/4 While we cannot definitively answer what causes this, something is happening that goes well beyond the scope of conventional measures of the socioeconomic and demographic factors of the places where voters live – and it is systematically and heavily clustering across space.

3/4 Also the share of catholics is kind of confusing. However, the main added value of this spatial analysis lies in uncovering a sort of "hidden" effect of geography. The elections were overwhelmingly(!) influenced by the local contexts of municipalities and their neighboring and nearby units.

2/4 To reveal what geography can tell us, we used a spatial error regression. The strongest contextual predictors appear to be education, previous voter turnout, and unemployment. Although the effect of unemployment is not as strong, it’s pretty standard stuff.

1/4🧵 Electoral maps like these are quite common in the Czech context – both outer and inner peripheries were notably visible in the latest presidential elections. But what factors led to the populist candidate Andrej Babiš's defeat, and what role does geography play?

"It’s far more straightforward to blame an abstract “wokeness” than to reckon with the fact that Harris ran a broadly right-of-centre campaign and still lost. It also conjures up a convenient voter, one who is more offended by language than by the promise of mass deportations."

Moralism without populism? The salience of corruption in the electoral manifestos and legislature speeches of Czech and Slovak parties Abstract. Corruption remains a significant political issue in Central Europe. This article examines its salience in political discourse in Czechia and Slov

As we all seem to be moving here, let me post the first solo article by my PhD student Ales Michal, published today in the Parliamentary Affairs:
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The most openly extreme right campaign of my lifetime is the most popular Republican presidential campaign of this century.