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Ich hatte diesen Offenen Brief gegen #Antisemitismus und Israelboykott als Holocaustforscher am IfZ auch unterzeichnen wollen. Aber offenkundig ist den Initiatoren um Stefan Liebig 🇩🇪🇮🇱 ihr Standesdünkel wichtiger als das Anliegen: Es werden tatsächlich nur „Profs“ akzeptiert🤷🏻‍♂️

Mehdi Karami is not at the Olympics because he was executed by the Islamic Republic.💔 The Olympics have just begun, but without Mehdi Karami. Karami was a 21-year-old Kurdish-Iranian young man, selected to participate in the Olympics in karate this year. My heart reaches for

Today, Belarusian Raman Bandarenka should be celebrating his 35th birthday. Tragically, on November 11, 2020, he was brutally beaten to death in Minsk's Square of Changes by the regime's thugs. His courageous spirit lives on in our hearts and inspires our actions. 🤍❤️🤍

.Vladimir Kara-Murza: “Putin can’t be allowed to win this war. Ukraine must win, and there should be more support from Western countries so that happens.” Vladimir’s first interview with BBC News (UK) after his release from Siberian prison: bbc.com/news/articles/…

"Alex Dancyg hat sich zeit seines Lebens mit dem Massenmord an Juden während des Holocaust befasst. Am Ende starb er selbst einen gewaltsamen Tod, nachdem er am 7. Oktober von der Hamas aus dem Kibbuz Nir Oz in den Gazastreifen entführt wurde. 1/3 taz.de/Hamas-Geisel/!…

As of today, I am Professor of Modern History at CEU, Vienna. This is in conjunction with my job at the ZZF in Potsdam. So a Hohenzollern-Habsburg commute beckons. Much looking forward to my new colleagues and students.

In Ukraine, air raid sirens start around midnight, every day. A Russian lullaby. Kids had a two-hour sleep. Sirens don’t wake them up, but explosions do. Somebody will not wake up tomorrow. A Russian “mafia” game. Happiness becomes simple. A capacity to wake up in the morning

Each day, we’re posting the story of a political prisoner in Russia. Today, we’re telling you about our friend and colleague Yuri Dmitriev, a 68-year-old historian from Petrozavodsk, in the Republic of Karelia (northwestern Russia), who is a renowned researcher on mass graves

Heute vor zwei Jahren starb Jina Mahsa Amini an den Folgen von Schlägen und Misshandlungen der „Sittenpolizei“ der Islamischen Republik Iran. Ihr Name ist ein Symbol für den Widerstand der Menschen im Iran, für Frauenrechte und Gleichberechtigung. Sie wird nie vergessen sein.

Exactly 25 years ago, Belarusian politician Viktar Hanchar and businessman Anatol Krasouski were kidnapped and murdered by the dictator's death squads. Their bodies were never recovered. The regime must be held accountable for all its crimes during three decades of dictatorship.

Today Russia killed two children in Ukraine: 12-year-old Maksym and his grandmother in Kryvyi Rih, and a 12-year-old girl in drone strike on a car in Nikopol. Another 4-year-old girl injured. But no, this is not 'escalation'

My father, Alexey Soldatov, is dying in prison. Terminally ill, he has been in jail since July 22. -- a thread. 1/7

The second problem is the European collective psyche, which still hasn't processed the fact that Europe doesn't end at Berlin and Vienna. Europe hasn't only dropped its responsibility to effectively defend itself, it hasn't completely defined itself.

Juliane Fürst on the shadow of Yurchak on Soviet historiography, and the problem of Sovietness v. nation schism in scholarship. muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/article…

This Yazidi child was taken into captivity by ISIS in 2014. After the collapse of the caliphate in Iraq and Syria, ISIS transferred her to captivity in Gaza. She is not the only one being held in Gaza by ISIS. For the past ten years, the Iraqi authorities and the international

Über 500 renommierte Wissenschaftler*innen haben diesen Brief an Joe Biden unterzeichnet. Kernaussage: Es ist entscheidend, die Ukraine konsequenter zu unterstützen. U.a. Andreas Umland Martin Aust Anna Vero Wendland Franziska Davies Juliane Fürst John Vsetecka kyivindependent.com/open-letter-pr…

Every single day is a struggle to work against dehumanization, to resist the pull of incendiary language and rhetoric, to keep to my ethos and beliefs, and to push back against those who are constantly flooding me with their insults, attacks, threats, hatred, and ignorance. I am

Zum Jahrestag des 7. Oktober hat das Portal Zeitgeschichte Online so eben ein Dossier veröffentlicht, das verschiedenste Perspektiven der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart zu diesem Tag behandelt. Auch ich und Jasmin Spiegel sind mit einem Beitrag vertreten. zeitgeschichte-online.de/node/75034

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On Oct. 7, 2006, Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment building in Moscow. 18 years ago today. The newspaper and the independent reporting it represented are gone in Russia now, too. Also today, Putin turns 72.