Sociologist, reseacher & member @DenktankMinerva: labour relations, quality of work & FOSS data analysis 👉 @ mhermans on Mastodon & Bluesky.

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Today is the annual remembrance of the 1902 Bloody Night ("Bloednacht") of Leuven. During protest for the right to vote six workers where shot and killed, halting the 🇧🇪 democratization process for decades. My normal guided history-tours are not possible, so instead a🧵 👇 (1/n)
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Today 3 Belgian universities (UA, UGent, VUB) conferred a joint honorary doctorate on UN-rapporteur @FranceskAlbs. Strong academic statement in support of a unwavering voice for international law and against the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
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17 Sep 2025
“When governments betray the most basic human values, it is upon us to fix it. We, the people.” Tonight, @FranceskAlbs, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, gave this powerful speech at the Together for Palestine concert.
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Thanks @Disney, I just saved myself 10€/month in the category "funding for anti-democratic corporate behemoths". #JimmyKimmel @DisneyPlus
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Hamdan helped the world see the ethnic cleansing in the oPt and what life is like in Masafer Yatta, and since the Oscars, settler attacks have only gotten worse. They rely on people looking the other way. Don’t.
NOW: Settlers are invading No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal’s village again and building a new outpost inside the village directly in front of his house.
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BREAKING | Three journalists have been killed and two other journalists were injured after Israeli forces bombed a group of journalists in the courtyard of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza city this morning. The journalists killed were: Journalist Suleiman Hajjaj, correspondent for Palestine Today TV (in the picture below) Journalist Ismail Baddah, cameraman for Palestine Today TV. Journalist Sameer Al-Rifai, who works for Shams News Agency. Among the injured were: Journalist Ahmad Qalja, critically injured (cameraman for Alaraby TV). Journalist Imad Daloul, critically injured (correspondent for Palestine Today TV).
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Gunning down people you are choosing to starve as they desperately seek food for their families shocks the conscience. States should urgently act, including imposing sanctions and an arms embargo, to press Israel to stop exterminating Palestinians. nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world…
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This leaked Nov 2024 EU report provided more than enough evidence to suspend the 🇪🇺–🇮🇱 Association Agreement If ongoing review is credible, it will find Israel’s violations have only worsened since EU states must finally act. As they should've long ago: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-wo…
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1 Jun 2025
Greta has more courage than most governments👏🏼
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❗️A Palestinian mother, Reem Zeidan, mother of eight, went with some of her children to secure aid from the Israeli occupation’s military-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation death camp in Rafah and came back in a body bag. Her son Ahmad says Israeli occupation forces opened fire on the crowd, and his mother suddenly collapsed to the ground. She had gone out for the sake of her children and never returned. His brother was standing beside her when she was killed. The Israeli occupation’s attack that day left 27 dead and over 90 injured, all of them unarmed and starving. In just eight days, the occupation has killed 102 Palestinians and wounded 490 more while they were simply trying to survive on scraps of food. Source: samer.alboji (IG)
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Within the span of a single week, the Israeli army killed and injured more than 600 Palestinians near three aid distribution centres it had established in areas under its control in the #Gaza Strip. These incidents offer stark evidence that the so-called distribution sites function as killing zones, deliberately used to target and execute civilians in cold blood.
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Day 2- a beautiful sunrise as the Madleen sails to Gaza. #BreakTheSiege #sunrise #FromTheRiverToTheSea
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One of the new militarized distribution points in #Gaza has been established on the site where Israeli forces killed and buried 15 first responders in a mass grave in March; a grotesque symbol of how life, and that which sustains it, is being both erased and controlled in Gaza.
1/6 First responders should never be a target. Yet today @UNOCHA supported @PalestineRCS and Civil Defense to retrieve colleagues from a mass grave in #Rafah #Gaza that was marked with the emergency light from one of their crushed ambulances.
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There’s been another ‘aid massacre’ today, with at least 27 dead after Israeli forces fired on Palestinians seeking food for their starving families. This is what the daily grind of genocide looks like. nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world…
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RT @hzomlot: Murdered while deliberately starved. This is what genocide looks like.
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Remember the attack on a school where the photo of a burning girl went around the world last week? This is how German media reported on it. Pure propaganda
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1) It did not happen 2) Ok it happened but it wasn't us 3) Ok it happened and it was us but we didn't kill anyone 4) Ok, it happened and it was us but we only killed someone the third time in a row it happened
Earlier today, during the movement of the crowd along the designated routes toward the aid distribution site—approximately half a kilometer from the site—IDF troops identified several suspects moving toward them, deviating from the designated routes. The troops carried out warning fire, and after the suspects failed to retreat, additional shots were directed near individual suspects who advanced toward the troops. The IDF is aware of reports regarding casualties, and the details of the incident are being looked into. The IDF allows the American Civil Organization (GHF) to operate independently in order to enable the distribution of aid to the Gazan residents — and not to Hamas. IDF troops are not preventing the arrival of Gazan civilians to the humanitarian aid distribution sites. The warning shots were fired approximately half a kilometer away from the humanitarian aid distribution site toward several suspects who advanced toward the troops in such a way that posed a threat to them.
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"Israeli soldiers opened fire on Tuesday morning near crowds of Palestinians walking toward a . food distribution site in southern Gaza, the Israeli military said." "Dr. al-Farra said . most of the victims were children [10-13] many with gunshot wounds to the head or chest."
Breaking News: Israeli troops opened fire near a Gaza aid site, the military said. Gazan officials said at least 27 people were killed. nyti.ms/43O3ITv
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Greek doctor Christos Georgalas on his stint in Gaza: "I can’t say I went to war. War is a very different thing. There was no war in Treblinka, there was no war in Auschwitz. War has two armies. Here you have a population that is mainly civilians and women and children, who have no way of escaping. And bombs are systematically raining down from the sky. They hit hospitals, they hit journalists."
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