Leire Urricelqui
@hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social
Social and Political Philosophy at @unisg.ch
Working on political violence, dehumanization, and errancy.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/8/1/170/400617/Can-the-Terrorist-Be-Grieved
Working on political violence, dehumanization, and errancy.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/8/1/170/400617/Can-the-Terrorist-Be-Grieved
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"No state can credibly claim adherence to international law while arming,supporting or shielding a genocidal regime.All military and political support must be suspended;diplomacy should serve to prevent crimes rather than to justify them.Complicity in genocide must end"
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
A/80/492: "Gaza Genocide: a collective crime" – Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. - Advance unedited version
SummaryThe ongoing genocide in Gaza is a collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have enabled longstanding systemic violations of international law by Israel. Fr...
www.ohchr.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"No state can credibly claim adherence to international law while arming,supporting or shielding a genocidal regime.All military and political support must be suspended;diplomacy should serve to prevent crimes rather than to justify them.Complicity in genocide must end"
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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Weltweit verankern Staaten autoritäre Praktiken in den Infrastrukturen, die das tägliche Leben organisieren. Von Grenzregimen und Überwachungssystemen bis hin zu ausgrenzender Stadtplanung machen diese „feindlichen Umgebungen“ das Leben einiger... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30101
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Weltweit verankern Staaten autoritäre Praktiken in den Infrastrukturen, die das tägliche Leben organisieren. Von Grenzregimen und Überwachungssystemen bis hin zu ausgrenzender Stadtplanung machen diese „feindlichen Umgebungen“ das Leben einiger... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30101
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"Genocides don’t just happen overnight; dehumanization is normally a crucial preparatory step. (...) There can be no real path to peace until the dehumanization of Palestinians stops."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are told the ‘war’ against Gaza is finally ‘over’. Is it? | Arwa Mahdawi
I am not celebrating the end of the ‘war’ because this was not a war – and it’s not over, either
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Genocides don’t just happen overnight; dehumanization is normally a crucial preparatory step. (...) There can be no real path to peace until the dehumanization of Palestinians stops."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Vorlesungsreihe im WiSe 2025/26:
„Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien“
Alle Vorträge finden öffentlich, hybrid auf Zoom und vor Ort, in deutscher Sprache statt.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/
„Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien“
Alle Vorträge finden öffentlich, hybrid auf Zoom und vor Ort, in deutscher Sprache statt.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/
krisol-wissenschaft.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Vorlesungsreihe im WiSe 2025/26:
„Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien“
Alle Vorträge finden öffentlich, hybrid auf Zoom und vor Ort, in deutscher Sprache statt.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/
„Faschisierung – analytische Perspektiven, Schauplätze, Gegenstrategien“
Alle Vorträge finden öffentlich, hybrid auf Zoom und vor Ort, in deutscher Sprache statt.
krisol-wissenschaft.org/fascisation/
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Madrid: Thousands demostrating against the Israeli team’s participation in Spain’s cycling ride
They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended
The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish
The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it
They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended
The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish
The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it
September 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Madrid: Thousands demostrating against the Israeli team’s participation in Spain’s cycling ride
They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended
The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish
The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it
They have torn down the barriers and the stage has been suspended
The Genocide Convention obligates to prevent and punish
The states are not doing it, the people are demanding it
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Looking forward to this conference on "Resistance, Refusal, Survival: Contesting Hostile Environments” in St Gallen with a really cool line-up
www.unisg.ch/de/universit...
www.unisg.ch/de/universit...
September 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Looking forward to this conference on "Resistance, Refusal, Survival: Contesting Hostile Environments” in St Gallen with a really cool line-up
www.unisg.ch/de/universit...
www.unisg.ch/de/universit...
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Israel has normalised killing journalists, like it normalised killing medical workers, like it normalised destroying hospitals and schools, like it normalised killing the equivalent of a classroom of children per day.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Israel has normalised killing journalists, like it normalised killing medical workers, like it normalised destroying hospitals and schools, like it normalised killing the equivalent of a classroom of children per day.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Rashid Khalidi is a brilliant critical theorist and historian, and an exceptional colleague and friend at Columbia. His course this summer @nssrnews.bsky.social at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry was so important to our students. This is a great loss: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Rashid Khalidi is a brilliant critical theorist and historian, and an exceptional colleague and friend at Columbia. His course this summer @nssrnews.bsky.social at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry was so important to our students. This is a great loss: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘We urge all states to fulfill their responsibilities under international law: demand & enforce a permanent ceasefire, an arms embargo, the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops, unimpeded distribution of humanitarian aid, equality & self-determination for all Palestinians. End the genocide now.’
Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.
As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter
Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
‘We urge all states to fulfill their responsibilities under international law: demand & enforce a permanent ceasefire, an arms embargo, the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops, unimpeded distribution of humanitarian aid, equality & self-determination for all Palestinians. End the genocide now.’
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“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses”: a colleague in #Gaza told me this morning.
Meanwhile, according to UNRWA latest findings: one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day.
—Philippe Lazzarini
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Meanwhile, according to UNRWA latest findings: one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day.
—Philippe Lazzarini
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
July 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses”: a colleague in #Gaza told me this morning.
Meanwhile, according to UNRWA latest findings: one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day.
—Philippe Lazzarini
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
Meanwhile, according to UNRWA latest findings: one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day.
—Philippe Lazzarini
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
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"[D]ehumanizing the enemy ... as the embodiment of absolute evil poses a direct threat to the fundamental values of democratic states."
From the latest issue of Critical Times, @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
July 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"[D]ehumanizing the enemy ... as the embodiment of absolute evil poses a direct threat to the fundamental values of democratic states."
From the latest issue of Critical Times, @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
From the latest issue of Critical Times, @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social on grievability and the figure of the terrorist: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
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Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.
July 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.
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The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza.
Among them are 1 million children.
Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
Among them are 1 million children.
Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
July 20, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza.
Among them are 1 million children.
Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
Among them are 1 million children.
Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
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Gideon Levy: The Jewish state is building a ghetto
#Gaza #Genocide #Germancomplicity
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
#Gaza #Genocide #Germancomplicity
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
The Jewish state is building a ghetto | Opinion
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July 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Gideon Levy: The Jewish state is building a ghetto
#Gaza #Genocide #Germancomplicity
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
#Gaza #Genocide #Germancomplicity
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
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Wie in Berlin so in Bern:
„Es ist nicht neu, dass Debatten über Palästina unterdrückt werden. Schockierend ist, dass dies mitten im gewalttätigsten Krieg geschieht, den Israel je gegen die Palästinenser geführt hat.“
www.republik.ch/2025/07/03/c...
„Es ist nicht neu, dass Debatten über Palästina unterdrückt werden. Schockierend ist, dass dies mitten im gewalttätigsten Krieg geschieht, den Israel je gegen die Palästinenser geführt hat.“
www.republik.ch/2025/07/03/c...
Agnès Callamard und Francesca Albanese: «Die Schweiz spuckt auf ihre Geschichte»
Die Amnesty-Generalsekretärin und die Uno-Sonderberichterstatterin zur Situation in Gaza.
www.republik.ch
July 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Wie in Berlin so in Bern:
„Es ist nicht neu, dass Debatten über Palästina unterdrückt werden. Schockierend ist, dass dies mitten im gewalttätigsten Krieg geschieht, den Israel je gegen die Palästinenser geführt hat.“
www.republik.ch/2025/07/03/c...
„Es ist nicht neu, dass Debatten über Palästina unterdrückt werden. Schockierend ist, dass dies mitten im gewalttätigsten Krieg geschieht, den Israel je gegen die Palästinenser geführt hat.“
www.republik.ch/2025/07/03/c...
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"Statelessness is not abstract. It is a condition that touches every part of daily life. [..] It means growing up knowing that systems are not built for you. And that no one is coming to fix it."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
slate.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Statelessness is not abstract. It is a condition that touches every part of daily life. [..] It means growing up knowing that systems are not built for you. And that no one is coming to fix it."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The normalization of killing Palestinians has been ongoing but this murderous “humanitarianism” is something new. I can’t recall a situation where people seeking aid risk getting shot en masse daily from the people —the Israelis— providing the “aid.”
June 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The normalization of killing Palestinians has been ongoing but this murderous “humanitarianism” is something new. I can’t recall a situation where people seeking aid risk getting shot en masse daily from the people —the Israelis— providing the “aid.”
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An important message and appeal from Rashid Khalidi, IPS-USA President and Board Chairman. For over 60 years, IPS has been the leading institution for independent Palestinian research and publishing. Our essential work needs your support.
palestine-studies.networkforgood.com/projects/254...
palestine-studies.networkforgood.com/projects/254...
Help Sustain the Institute for Palestine Studies—A Vital Pillar of Palestinian Knowledge Production
An Urgent Appeal from Rashid Khalidi Dear friends, Since October 2023, the dozens of scholars, editors, and researchers of the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) in Beirut , Ramallah , and Was...
palestine-studies.networkforgood.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
An important message and appeal from Rashid Khalidi, IPS-USA President and Board Chairman. For over 60 years, IPS has been the leading institution for independent Palestinian research and publishing. Our essential work needs your support.
palestine-studies.networkforgood.com/projects/254...
palestine-studies.networkforgood.com/projects/254...
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Issue 8:1 of Critical Times is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!
Featuring @makdisi.bsky.social, Ajay Skaria, Hengameh Ziai, Zamansele Nsele, Senzeni Marasela, Adil Hasan Khan, and @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social
All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
Featuring @makdisi.bsky.social, Ajay Skaria, Hengameh Ziai, Zamansele Nsele, Senzeni Marasela, Adil Hasan Khan, and @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social
All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
June 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Issue 8:1 of Critical Times is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!
Featuring @makdisi.bsky.social, Ajay Skaria, Hengameh Ziai, Zamansele Nsele, Senzeni Marasela, Adil Hasan Khan, and @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social
All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
Featuring @makdisi.bsky.social, Ajay Skaria, Hengameh Ziai, Zamansele Nsele, Senzeni Marasela, Adil Hasan Khan, and @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social
All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
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New issue of @criticaltimes1.bsky.social !
including:
@makdisi.bsky.social:
Beyond the Palestine Exception
Ajay Skaria:
Gaza and the Unsettling Equality of Academic Freedom
@hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social:
Can the Terrorist Be Grieved?
and more, open access at:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
including:
@makdisi.bsky.social:
Beyond the Palestine Exception
Ajay Skaria:
Gaza and the Unsettling Equality of Academic Freedom
@hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social:
Can the Terrorist Be Grieved?
and more, open access at:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
Volume 8 Issue 1 | Critical Times | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
June 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New issue of @criticaltimes1.bsky.social !
including:
@makdisi.bsky.social:
Beyond the Palestine Exception
Ajay Skaria:
Gaza and the Unsettling Equality of Academic Freedom
@hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social:
Can the Terrorist Be Grieved?
and more, open access at:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
including:
@makdisi.bsky.social:
Beyond the Palestine Exception
Ajay Skaria:
Gaza and the Unsettling Equality of Academic Freedom
@hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social:
Can the Terrorist Be Grieved?
and more, open access at:
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
🧵In the wake of the ongoing genocide in Gaza we have seen multiple examples of politicians and the media using the label of terrorism to justify the mass starvation,
🧵In the wake of the ongoing genocide in Gaza we have seen multiple examples of politicians and the media using the label of terrorism to justify the mass starvation,
Can the Terrorist Be Grieved? | Critical Times | Duke University Press
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June 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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🧵In the wake of the ongoing genocide in Gaza we have seen multiple examples of politicians and the media using the label of terrorism to justify the mass starvation,
🧵In the wake of the ongoing genocide in Gaza we have seen multiple examples of politicians and the media using the label of terrorism to justify the mass starvation,
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One day, everyone will acknowledge the Gaza genocide, and it will be regarded as justified.
We are in the age of justified genocide.
Our governments will, in the best case,mourn the "suffering" of Palestinians while insisting it is necessary.
This is much worse than what Omar El Akkad describes...
We are in the age of justified genocide.
Our governments will, in the best case,mourn the "suffering" of Palestinians while insisting it is necessary.
This is much worse than what Omar El Akkad describes...
June 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
One day, everyone will acknowledge the Gaza genocide, and it will be regarded as justified.
We are in the age of justified genocide.
Our governments will, in the best case,mourn the "suffering" of Palestinians while insisting it is necessary.
This is much worse than what Omar El Akkad describes...
We are in the age of justified genocide.
Our governments will, in the best case,mourn the "suffering" of Palestinians while insisting it is necessary.
This is much worse than what Omar El Akkad describes...
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Join us tonight for a public lecture at the New School with Rashid Khalidi, titled "Britain, Ireland, and Palestine," this evening at 5pm at the auditorium at the New School at 66 West 12th Street in NYC. Event and RSVP here:
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June 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Join us tonight for a public lecture at the New School with Rashid Khalidi, titled "Britain, Ireland, and Palestine," this evening at 5pm at the auditorium at the New School at 66 West 12th Street in NYC. Event and RSVP here:
event.newschool.edu/rashidkhalid...
event.newschool.edu/rashidkhalid...
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“Palestinians are not abstract victims of an abstract war. Too often, words have been used to justify the unjustifiable, deny the undeniable, defend the indefensible. Too often, the right words have been eradicated, along with those who might have written them.“
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“Palestinians are not abstract victims of an abstract war. Too often, words have been used to justify the unjustifiable, deny the undeniable, defend the indefensible. Too often, the right words have been eradicated, along with those who might have written them.“
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...