Yazan Badran

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Postdoc, media, journalism, culture and Syria/MENA at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ECHO/SCOM/FWO
I call Latakia, Nagoya and Brussels home.
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/yazan-badran

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For communication/media scholars: see this open letter to the #ECREA (European Comm Research and Edu Association) Executive Board regarding their deafening silence on the genocide in #Gaza and the annihilation of academic life there. Consider adding your name. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open Letter to the ECREA Executive Board and Public Statement Committeedocs.google.com

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Meta has increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook. www.hrw.org/news/2023/12...

Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Contentwww.hrw.org Meta’s content moderation policies and systems have increasingly silenced voices in support of Palestine on Instagram and Facebook in the wake of the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestini...

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"Missteps in Gaza coverage spur push for a global code of media ethics" www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/miss...

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Anyone interested in populism, nationalism and media should read this piece by @reecepeck.bsky.social

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If there is one piece of mine I would like you to read it is this. My interview with Mohammed Halalo, an IT contractor for the European Commission whose mother, siblings, nieces, and nephews were killed in their home in Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Death of a Gazan family: ‘Everyone in this video has been killed’www.irishtimes.com Thirty members of Mohammed Halalo’s family lie beneath the ruins of his childhood home in Gaza that neighbours say took a direct hit during an Israeli bombardment

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‘I came to visit the graves of my brother and uncle and I couldn’t find them’: Israeli forces have destroyed several burial grounds in northern Gaza, amid a continuing onslaught that has killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians.

'Left nothing in its place': Palestinians appalled by Israeli razing of Gaza cemeterieswww.middleeasteye.net Satellite imagery and video footage show the Israeli military turning gravesites into ruins

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My column. "Defining Away Palestinians’ Right to Resist: What does it mean to say that rising up against injustice is impermissible?" foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/14/h...

Worth reading in full. @hahauenstein.bsky.social interview w/ masha gessen: “Comparing things that happened during or before the Holocaust with things that happen today is our best chance to prevent the Holocaust from repeating itself. [...] I think we have a moral obligation to make comparisons."

Masha Gessen: „In Deutschland würde Hannah Arendt den Preis heute nicht erhalten“www.fr.de Eklat um die Verleihung des Hannah-Arendt-Preises an Masha Gessen: Die Journalistin sieht darin ein unterschiedliches Verständnis von „Nie wieder“.

Maddening. Israel’s war cabinet has blocked a planned visit to Qatar by the head of the country’s foreign intelligence service that was aimed at kickstarting negotiations over a new hostage release deal.

Israeli ministers block Mossad head’s effort to restart Gaza hostage talks

Israeli ministers block Mossad head’s effort to restart Gaza hostage talkswww.theguardian.com Relatives of the abductees say they are shocked, as reports say David Barnea was stopped from visiting Qatar

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Doubtful that Hannah Arendt herself would be considered suitable for a prize that carries her name in this country in these days.

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There are people in my field who carry on as if 60+ Palestinian journalists have not been murdered, as if American mainstream media has not become a spokesperson for IDF. I could go on and on. And these are the same people who write about media and democracy, who push for dewesternizing our

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The names of journalists killed by Israel over the past 23 years. In red, those murdered since October 7.

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“82% of all U.S.-based respondents, including almost all assistant professors (98%), said they self-censor when they speak professionally about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. 81% of those said they primarily held back their criticism of Israel.” abuaardvark.substack.com/p/gaza-and-a...

Gaza and Academic Self-Censorshipabuaardvark.substack.com Our new Chronicle essay reveals eye-opening results from the new Middle East Scholars Barometer survey.

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Archives of/as resistance: On the justice potential of eyewitness image records documenting the Syrian conflict - Kari Andén-Papadopoulos, Media, Culture & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... menasky

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18 digital rights groups urge Meta to stop silencing Palestine eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Digital Rights Groups Urge Meta to Stop Silencing Palestineeff.org Legal intern Muhammad Essa Fasih contributed to this post.In the wake of the October 7 attack on Israel and the ensuing backlash on Palestine, Meta has engaged in unjustified content and account

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Destroying the main courthouse is a move to destroy all governance for any post-war entity in Gaza, not just targeting Hamas. Like most of the war's indicators, it aligns w/ calls to flatten & depopulate Gaza; inconsistent w/ any plan for Gaza's future. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

"Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them" Turns out journalists are capable of writing simple informative headlines. No need for the linguistic gymnastics and crimes against language a la "four fragile lives found ended ..." in today's @washingtonpost.com

Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them | Reuterswww.reuters.com Israel ordered Palestinians to leave parts of the main southern city in the Gaza Strip on Monday even as its bombs rained down on areas where it had told them to go.

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And that is literally the goal.

Israel orders mass evacuations as it widens offensive; Palestinians are running out of places to go

Israel orders mass evacuations as it widens offensive; Palestinians are running out of places to goapnews.com Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge in the southern town of Khan Younis in recent weeks.

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Look at what’s going on today off Yemen’s coast, in Iraq, on the Lebanese-Israeli border – is the Biden administration really willing to let this continue (and escalate, steadily) for months? Press for a ceasefire already: tcf.org/content/comm...

Neri Zilber for @financialtimes.com on how Israel plans to keep this going in Gaza for months and months: www.ft.com/content/c0ba... How long is the Biden administration willing to countenance this? Shut it down already: tcf.org/content/comm...

It’s Time for a Ceasefire in Gaza—and Then a New Push for Peacetcf.org A growing number of people in the United States and around the world are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, including an expanding bloc in the U.S.

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Palestinian journalist says he is done showing the world "We are not content to be shared"

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Reading. www.newyorker.com/news/our-loc...

Columbia Suspended Pro-Palestine Student Groups. The Faculty Revoltedwww.newyorker.com Like other universities, the school has cracked down on activism among students, citing fears of antisemitism. Some professors think it’s gone too far.

Reliving war at a distance: Survivors of Genocide in Darfur 20 years later. On their struggle and resistance in Jordan. by Mubarak Adam and Dina Baslan for UntoldMag.

Reliving it at a distance - Untolduntoldmag.org Survivors of Genocide in Darfur 20 years later. Their struggle and resistance in Jordan

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Paraguayan official inadvertently puts finger on sore spot, namely that all countries involve fictionalisation.

Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional countrywww.theguardian.com Arnaldo Chamorro replaced after he signed ‘proclamation’ with representatives of fugitive Indian guru’s fake country

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Horrific. www.hrw.org/news/2023/12...

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People are focusing (understandably) on the Israeli military AI targeting system highlighted in this article: www.972mag.com/mass-assassi... But don't miss: • That AI system is apparently being used to auto-generate targeting recommendations for *junior militants' family homes.* 1/2

Must-read: +972 Magazine's Yuval Abraham on the wide-open targeting procedures that have led the Israeli military to kill thousands and thousands of civilians in Gaza: www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gazawww.972mag.com Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation...

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No respite. People in Gaza waking up this morning to the sound of senseless bombing. With every bomb taking and shattering lives as much as prospects for coexistence and peace. (image by Jana Traboulsi, Beirut)

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New working paper with Werner Krause & Samer Massoud on the effects of targeting hospitals on violence dynamics in Northwest Syria hicn.org/working-pape... conflictsky polisky menasky

The bombing of hospitals and local violence dynamics in civil wars: Evidence from Syria – HiCNhicn.org Can coercive airpower quell a rebellion? Existing literature on the effects of counterinsurgent violence focuses predominantly on casualties resulting from atta

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Nathan Thrall talks to the New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner about the real prospects for some lasting resolution in Israel/Palestine: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

What Would a Lasting Peace Between Israel and Palestine Really Look Like?www.newyorker.com The need for a new paradigm after October 7th.