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Koen Bogaert
@koenbogaert.bsky.social
Associate professor Ghent University. Teaches on colonial and anti-colonial history, researches social movements, racial capitalism, urbanization, violence and revolution. The struggle for emancipation is also an emancipation in struggle. Free Palestine!
academisch fetisjisme: waarheid en rechtsplicht lijken er niet toe te doen, zolang we maar ongestoord rond de inmiddels kokende pot kunnen blijven draaien. Zo wordt het debat losgekoppeld van de juridische realiteit, die ook voor universiteiten verplichtingen schept

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September 20, 2025 at 8:14 AM
“we hebben vandaag meer nodig dan empathie. Wat we nodig hebben, is solidariteit. En er is een belangrijk verschil.”

www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikel/2025...
September 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"And that is the best place I've ever been. On top of an Israeli weapons' factory, shutting it down, with a hammer in my hand"

recommended documentary, very interesting watch

link below...
August 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Nieuw stuk van Gert Van Hecken en mezelf 👇

“Echte solidariteit is geen seizoensartikel, geen veilige story-post, geen morele modetrend. Het vraagt om volhouden, ook wanneer de hashtags verdwijnen. Dat betekent ook burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid…”

www.knack.be/nieuws/werel...
'Echte solidariteit met Gaza? Als er iets erger is dan te laat spreken, dan is het opnieuw zwijgen'
Na twee jaar oorverdovende stilte, lege inboxen en zorgvuldig gefilterde social media, klinken plots overal stemmen. Over Gaza. Over genocide. Over
www.knack.be
August 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
De Belgische rectoren publiceerden een gezamenlijk standpunt over de genocide (“humanitaire crisis” in hun woorden). Ze konden niet langer zwijgen over de onmenselijke situatie. (www.demorgen.be/.../belgisch...)

Collega Gert Van Hecken en ik lazen dit met belangstelling. Hieronder ons antwoord:
August 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
this is what they call #progress 🤷‍♂️
August 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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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*.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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’
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
July 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Belgische staat = aandeelhouder in genocide.

Nieuw rapport aan UN Human Rights Council: BNP Paribas wordt 2x genoemd als financier van genocidale activiteiten van #Israel in #Palestina. Via #FPIM heeft BE 5,59% aandelen in haar bezit. Jan Jambon is voogdijminister.

www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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July 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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De Amerikanen eisen het ontslag van VN-rapporteur Fransesca Albanese.

‘The US warned that continued failure to do so would not only discredit the UN but would also require significant actions in response to Ms. Albanese’s misconduct.’

Dit zijn maffia-praktijken.
U.S. Mission to the United Nations Statement Opposing Francesca Albanese’s Mandate as UN Special Rapporteur
The United States once again expressed its grave concerns to UN Secretary-General António Guterres about the continued activities of Francesca Albanese, the “United Nations Special Rapporteur on the s...
usun.usmission.gov
July 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
July 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
June 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
De Britse overheid gaat onderzoeken of er strafbare feiten gepleegd zijn door muziekgroepen die hun solidariteit uiten met de Palestijnen. Dit terwijl ze consequent weigert achter de echte criminelen te gaan waartegen deze muziekgroepen ageren. (1)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5qr...
Lowkey EXPOSES Who’s REALLY Trying to DESTROY Kneecap
YouTube video by Double Down News
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June 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
June 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Today on the podcast, we're talking about Jean-Jacques Dessalines with @juliagaffield.bsky.social
The Haitian Revolution occurred at the same time as the French Revolution and after the American Revolution, and we discuss the connections between the three events. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...
Haitian Revolution: The Complex Legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Listen to Haitian Revolution: The Complex Legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines from Vulgar History: Revolution wherever you get your podcasts!
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June 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
De studenten plooien niet. Respect 🙏✊
June 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Trump post volgend bericht van Mark Rutte (huidig Navo Baas) op sociale media...

Trump is een criminele president die een genocidale staat ondersteunt (net als de vorige VS-president), de Europese politici zijn een bende criminele en medeplichtige "slimeballs" (om het op zijn Rutte's te zeggen).
June 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Tien om te zien
June 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
June 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
June 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Experts International Law:
* 'Israel conducts illegal attack on Iran'
* 'Israel cannot invoke right of self-defense'
* 'Israel violates International Law' (for decades, by the way)

Europe:
* ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’
* 'Iran is destabilizing the region'

Is this Orwellian newspeak?
June 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Red line yesterday in Brussels. 110.000 people on the streets demanding an end to Belgium and Europe’s complicity in supporting the genocidal and a regional warmongering regime that bombs practically all other nations in its vicinity. Sanctions now. Boycott now.
June 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM