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Bilal Barakat 🍉

bifouba@kolektiva.social

<p>Mathematician/computer scientist/statistician turned social scientist with a focus on international educational development and demography. Critical realist epistemology: facts are constructed, but not out of nothing. </p><p>Stale-ish (pulling off the grey melange, and in better cardio shape than at 20) pale-ish (Euro-Arab, “gelernter Österreicher”) male | late-dx ND</p><p>Interested in almost everything. Serial monotropist (not always in a good way). </p><p>I do not suffer fools. This is not a challenge.</p>

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  • Post #4374777

    https://theconversation.com/even-if-hamas-disarms-the-challenge-in-gaza-will-be-accountability-288821

  • Post #4301449

    RE: https://mastodon.trueten.de/@jungewelt/117015796646989565 &quot;Alle drei Gutachten kamen zu dem Ergebnis, dass das Bekenntnis zur IHRA-Definition als Bedingung für staatliche Förderung einen unzulässigen Eingriff in die Meinungsfreiheit darstelle, der derzeit einer gesetzlichen Grundlage entbehre.&quot;

  • Post #4244344

    ❝ One measure of why the standard framework of “rape culture” fails: Much of this violence is nowadays carried out by women. Testifying in Geneva in 2025, the Palestinian feminist organizer Kifaya Khraim stated that “rape was mainly done by Israeli female officers inserting objects inside genitals.” A patriarchy-only account of sexual violence cannot metabolize this fact. An account of sexual violence as a technology of colonial rule absorbs it easily – which by no means precludes us from unders...

  • Post #4139645

    Potentielle Selbstmordattentäter mit &quot;härteren Strafen&quot; abschrecken zu wollen ist ein deutliches Signal, allerdings wohl eher für das Denkniveau des Sprechers...

  • Post #3853995

    ❞ The best demonstration I have seen of the internal mechanics of this displaced guilt, well before its public hardening, came at a meeting I attended years ago in Germany. Long before the book fair cancellations and the protest bans – when the underlying architecture of displacement was still veiled by the pregenocidal status quo – its psychic foundations were already set. This meeting involved politicians, journalists and think-tank representatives. Nothing that we presented to them was incen...

  • Post #3812185

    Zum hundertsten mal zum mitschreiben für journalistische Versager: Einfuhrverbote für Produkte aus illegalen Siedlungen sind KEINE “SANKTIONEN”, sondern schlicht die gebotene Unterlassung, sich aktiv an einem Verbrechen zu beteiligen. https://climatejustice.social/@mago/116917784472825299

  • Post #3650709

    Israel&#39;s defence: “No, Sir, we absolutely did NOT attack indiscriminately! All our attacks are targeted! It&#39;s just so happens that everyone is a target…” https://bird.makeup/users/assalrad/statuses/2074181663941443780

  • Post #3626274

    https://www.telepolis.de/article/Meinungsfreiheit-im-Fokus-Der-Fall-des-Lehrers-Julian-Hundt-11348183.html

  • Post #3552040

    RE: https://mastox.eu/@AssalRad/116854307082359136 The absolutely •only• way to avoid an explicitly racist definition of Zionism is to ignore the existence of Palestinians altogether — which of course is racist af in its own way.

  • Post #3509115

    RE: https://mastox.eu/@haaretzcom/116843969589338281 Israeli Apartheid settlements are not inherently &quot;irreversible&quot;. As the ICJ explicitly emphasized, zero claims follow from their establishment and there is no legal or moral problem with kicking the settlers out, whether they moved in 30 years or 3 days ago. The only thing preventing their evacuation and repossession (or symbolic bulldozing, if they prefer) by Palestinians is the lack of political will of Israel&#39;s racist Wester...

  • Post #3469451

    Nach dem Standard gehören auch in D zahllose “Journalisten&quot; juristisch belangt. &quot;The incidents cited in the complaint took place between 2024 and 2025. In one of them, Rahola publicly questioned the number of children killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza; in another she replied on X to a post by the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, denying claims that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and accusing her of being a propagandist for hatred. She also wrote in an...

  • Post #3334348

    Es gibt kein: “Ich lehne sowohl Ben Gvir ab als auch Sanktionen gegen ihn.&amp;quot; Wer Sanktionen gegen Ben Gvir ablehnt, ist eins mit Ben Gvir und allem, wofür er steht.

  • Post #1875859

    If you somehow manage to convince yourself that BOTH “Equal rights for all, from the river to the sea&amp;quot; AND “Israel is practising Apartheid&amp;quot; are supposedly antisemitic, then your definition of &amp;quot;antisemitism&amp;quot; is obviously worthless garbage and you are not very good at logic.

  • Post #1778367

    TIL that the original, as in first and oldest, western university, namely Bologna, was student-run. According to Wikipedia, students “hired and paid for the teachers [and] ran everything—a fact that often put teachers under great pressure and disadvantage&quot;. Not sure about the right balance between students and faculty running the show, but completely student-run would certainly beat today’s ⋅administrator-run⋅ shit show, so let&#39;s just go back to the roots and take it from there?

  • Post #1634028

    Deutschland hat sich in diesem Punkt übrigens 2018 freiwillig dem Rom-Statut unterworfen. https://www.infosperber.ch/politik/welt/deutschland-beteiligt-sich-am-angriffskrieg-gegen-iran/

  • Post #1547378

    Don&amp;#39;t forget, the real question is: do you respect Palantir&amp;#39;s right to exist?

  • Post #1378450

    A couple of months ago, I read an rticle that was linked to by someone here on the Fediverse that explained the technical reasons why colonizing #Mars is not going to happen, in a very accessible and amusing style. Online search brought up similar stuff, but not the one I remember. Can anyone help?

  • Post #1258419

    Also im Prinzip genau so wie auf internationaler Ebene. https://norden.social/@stephie_hamburg/116419324926240878

  • Post #1099677

    If you&amp;#39;re shocked by the title, note that this is a self-reflection by two Jewish authors. https://jewishcurrents.org/when-jewishness-means-genocide

  • Post #1092050

    If you know so, so little that you think Israel wants to occupy southern Lebanon to &amp;quot;defend&amp;quot; itself from Hezbollah, here&amp;#39;s a reminder that Israel occupied southern Lebanon before Hezbollah even existed, and Hezbollah emerged ⋅because⋅ Israel occupied southern Lebanon.

  • Post #1050593

    UK Grüne, Australiens Grüne... Die deutschen Grünen landen mit ihrer enthusiastischen Völkermordunterstützung mehr und mehr in der totalen Isolation. Aber wahrscheinlich sehen wir eher Sanktionen der internationalen Grünen gegen die Deutschen als Unterstützung Letzterer für Sanktionen gegen bekennende Kriegsverbrecher. https://mastodon.social/@Jinjirrie/116378137766387643

  • Post #935509

    Was tatsächlich vorgeht im Hirn von Leuten, die in Bezug auf Gaza sagen: “Das kann man nicht so schwarz-weiß sehen, man muss die Graustufen erkennen, um ein richtiges Bild zu bekommen.&amp;quot;, Symbolbild.

  • Post #828384

    If you&amp;#39;re looking for a laugh: &amp;quot;Both the EU and the US voiced concerns that the resolution could imply a hierarchy among crimes against humanity, ⁠treating some as more serious than others.” https://mas.to/@aljazeera_gotgrip/116291450272651629

  • Post #697553

    A detailed look at profiteering around the Gaza famine. https://www.madamasr.com/en/2025/12/11/feature/politics/kings-of-famine/ #Gaza

  • Post #666356

    RE: https://troet.cafe/@Sui/116218395841628260 Kennt ihr den Spruch &amp;quot;hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue&amp;quot;? Ja, die &amp;quot;realpolitische&amp;quot; Haltung &amp;quot;Der Angriff auf den Iran ist zwar eindeutig formal völkerrechtswidrig, aber ist das wirklich schlimm?&amp;quot; ist sogar EINDEUTIGER ein Abschaffen des Völkerrechts als ein heuchlerisches Theater aufzuführen, dass er doch, doch sehr wohl irgendwie schon völkerrechtskonform sei, weil Selbstverteidi...

  • Post #657024

    Is there even a single person who doubts that if Israel attacked Turkey, and Turkey tried to invoke collective defence under Article 5, the governments of Germany, the U.S., and the U.K. at a minimum would not only refuse to honour their treaty obligation but would actively provide material, logistic, and intelligence support to the attacker?

  • Post #613193

    Human shields for me but not for thee. https://bird.makeup/users/adamjohnsonchi/statuses/2031179868679901218

  • Post #577415

    «It is no accident that what for many years was regarded as the only Israeli work of fiction to confront the Nakba was written in May 1949, when the graves were still fresh, most of the churches and mosques still standing. In their first years of statehood, Israelis were well aware of the ethnic cleansing they had perpetrated, the swift reduction of a Palestinian majority into a minority. They had seen the columns of haggard refugees. They had looted the furniture and valuables left behind. They...

  • Post #572134

    Israeli society is not alright. «Once reports began to emerge of civilian casualties — especially from the girls’ elementary school in Minab, where some 150 children were killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike — the supposed concern for the Iranian people revealed itself to be paper-thin. Shocked, I shared the videos from the school on my Facebook page. I confess I did not expect the torrent of hatred that followed. I already know that, aside from a very narrow fringe, one cannot expect emp...

  • Post #524053

    Is it possible to use polymarket or whatever it&amp;#39;s called to bet on literal biblical armageddon happening? 🤔