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JapanProf

@JapanProf@mastodon.social

Political scientist--Comparative Politics (Europe & East Asia). Spent half the 2010s in Turin, Italy. My research covers welfare states, varieties of capitalism, demographic aging and gender issues. A bi-cultural product of Japan & Galicia (Spain). The photo is my beloved Wheaten Terrier. Just migrated from Twitter. I mostly post in English & Japanese (and follow Spanish- and Italian-language accounts too).

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JapanProf, to random
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A very persuasive take on why Biden is trailing behind Trump. #uspol

https://www.vox.com/politics/351563/one-explanation-for-the-2024-elections-biggest-mystery

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Unlearning what we were taught during 9/11 takes more than 23 years, apparently. Muslims are gentle people.

JapanProf,
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@LALegault There are gentle Christians, Hindus, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhists and there are horrible Christians, Hingis, Jewish, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. Generally, fanatic fundamentalists are evil no matter what their religion is and we know that there are lots of Christian, Jewish and Hindu versions of Talibans out there.

JapanProf, to random
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Is Israel the only liberal democracy in the Middle East? Or is it a special violent kind of “ liberal democracy” like the US that has always acted as it were above the law? Europeans should think hard whether this is the route they want to follow. It will mean Europe led by far-right leaders and the whole of Europe will end up becoming like Hungary or much worse. #icc #warcrimes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry

JapanProf, to random
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Abundance.

Infoseepage, to random
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Watching Israel horrifically kill 45 people in a nothing-but-tents "safe zone" refugee camp and then say "well, there were these Hamas guys" and the US response is "Israel said there were some Hamas guys" is just breaking me today. This was a flat out war crime. There is a principal in international law that requires the least minimal action to achieve an objective. Dropping a giant bomb to kill a soldier while killing or injuring hundreds is not justified under international law.

#gaza

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@Infoseepage The US has done the same thing in so many parts of the world. Two possibilities. One, by defending Israel, it's probably defending its past actions. Two, the US policy makers really believe that people with European blood are the only valuable lives.

JapanProf, to Palestine
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Rashida Tlaib’s powerful and emotional speech. #gaza #palestine

https://youtu.be/T6M8rO4Gzt4?si=s4rkojNUZQ0NhbL-

JapanProf, to random
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Why is Biden risking American democracy in support of a far-right foreign government that includes ministers whom the State of Israel considered dangerous and a minister who takes part in an alliance of European far-right parties—known for their antisemitism and racism?

JapanProf, to random
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Words cannot describe the barbaric brutality & cruelty of the 8 month-long torture of Gazans. The US is actively supporting this real hell on earth. #rafah #gaza

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/27/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-rafah/charred-bodies-and-screams-witnesses-describe-scenes-of-horror-at-a-camp?unlocked_article_code=1.vE0.NZBV.psCOZHFzCZFp&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

JapanProf, to Palestine
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The daily life in West Bank. Israeli settlements in West Bank are illegal by both international and domestic laws. #westbank #palestine

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRKkg82M/

JapanProf, to palestine
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A Palestinian lady watching Israelis demolish her house. @palestine

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRKke3WE/

burningbird, to random
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These Israeli settlers are disgusting human beings. Absolutely miserable pieces of shit.

Paywall removed

https://wapo.st/3R0uT7W

JapanProf,
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@Tooden @burningbird the New York Times published an excellent (very long) article on people like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich to show how far-right groups—some of them considered “terrorist” by the state of Israel—ended up taking over the government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.Du-U.mb8DzQIOOdBk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

JapanProf, to animals
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#dogsofmastodon "why do I always eat the same food but you eat more interesting dishes? Where's my glass of wine, if I may ask?"

JapanProf, to random
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Hamas should stop fighting back. Why launch a counter-attack from Rafah? It only prolongs the war, helps the far right groups in Israel and leads to more deaths and injuries of innocent people. #gaza

JapanProf, to Europe
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Voted! 🗳️

b9AcE, to random
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"Upwards 80000 people held a demo yesterday evening in Tel Aviv, at these demos regularly held every Saturday against the government and for the hostages' freedom, and one of the speakers was a mother whose son sits in Gaza as hostage and she said 'Matan, when you come home I will tell you that our government has abandoned you', then she turned to Netanyahu and said 'while YOUR son is encouraging mutiny, my son is hostage in Gaza' and what she was referring to then was a video which Netanyahu's son Yair shared on Friday where a masked soldier, saying he's a reservist in Gaza, threatened mutiny if Israel gives order to leave Gaza before Hamas has been crushed."
Cecilia Uddén,
Middle East correspondent,
Public Service radio of Sweden,
~35 minutes ago.
(my translation)

JapanProf,
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@b9AcE Here's an article from an Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. "PM Netanyahu's Son Shares Video of Apparent IDF Reservist Threatening Military Coup in Gaza” https://archive.is/HywRr

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JapanProf, to random
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What an amazing commencement speech by Maria Ressa, a Nobel Prize winner. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRKM3E5j/

JapanProf, to random
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Thinking of all those people whose joy of life has been robbed by illness, accidents and conflicts. May compassion prevail.

JapanProf, to israel
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“PM Netanyahu's Son Shares Video of Apparent IDF Reservist Threatening Military Coup in Gaza” (Haaretz)

https://archive.is/HywRr

For a full transcript in. It’s Hebrew & English, see a thread by https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112501418169716336

@palestine @israel

JapanProf, to random
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Michael Schill, President of Northwestern, defends his treatment of student protesters. Finally, someone pushes back against Elise Stefanik and her likes. Gender, race, ethnicity and expertise are not irrelevant factors. It helps that the president is male, white, Jewish and a legal scholar of free speech.

https://www.jta.org/2024/05/23/united-states/under-fire-from-congress-northwesterns-jewish-president-forcefully-defends-encampment-deal

JapanProf, to israel
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From Haaretz “It's Not 'pro-Israel' for Congress to Host Netanyahu, Despised by More Than Half His Country”

Democrats in the US should read Haaretz. Their friends in Israel are those who oppose the religious far-right groups now in the Israeli government.

@israel
https://archive.is/L2aYW

18+ b9AcE, to random
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One woman was killed and 5 other civilians were injured in Turkey's latest bombardment of Manbij.

Manbij is an Arab-majority area where many of those forcibly displaced to there as part of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and fellow proto-Fascists remain, now part of the self-liberated autonomous North and East Syria most widely known as Rojava, for which reason Erdoğan wants to continue the Armenian Genocide there.
There are similar attacks against Manbij almost every day for many years, almost exclusively directly targeting the civilian populace.

Manbij was self-liberated by primarily its own Manbij Military Council (MMC), which is one of the many organizations in the Syrian Democratic Forces, alongside the more widely known YPG and others.
Manbij being majority Arab with large Armenian, Syriac/Assyrian components was the reason why Rojava decided to officially change its name to "Autonomous North and East Syria", to reflect the desired core value and existing diversity by no longer having a Kurdish language word being the shared area's name when the Rojava Revolution had expanded through the Women's Revolution to areas no longer majority Kurdish populated.

CW for the video: mutilated child, war injured, suffering

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JapanProf,
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@b9AcE we are probably heading for another record hot summer.
I worry about worsening food insecurity due to climate change and wars—in the Middle East and Africa. Meanwhile, the far-right parties in Europe are challenging Europe’s Green Deal. The second Trump administration will ensure that any attempt to contain further temperature increase will be tossed out of the window.

JapanProf, to palestine
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Different viewpoints. @palestine #gaza #westbank
https://youtu.be/L3NJYeDhJJQ?si=esUgCucjebiMl4Ah

JapanProf, to climate
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Military and #climatechange

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/military-emissions-climate-cop28/677151/

JapanProf, to climate
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Stop killing people and our planet. It's well past the time to realize what our real existential crisis is: Climate change. #climatechange Dropping bombs, flying fighter jets & making weapons are extremely high greenhouse gas emission activities.

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