Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

So many of the post 1960s waves of racism and segregation against South Asian or Afro-Caribbean migrants in UK cities map on to many of the same neighbourhoods that experienced waves of pre-1960s racism and segregation against Irish and Jewish migrants.

Après l'investiture de Chikirou et de Gaccio, le bal des militants insoumis qui sont mécontents de leurs positions poutiniste / antivax / antisémite / homophobe / pro-Chine / pro-Assad, mais qui vous expliquent qu'il faut quand même voter pour "la gauche de rupture"...

I think this thread just explained my life to me.

Vous passez à Marseille et avez envie de venir discuter la race et l’histoire de l’antiracisme demain ? Je serai à l’Iméra à 17h30. Venez nombreux ! Je ferai de mon mieux de ne pas être trop chiant

Der Herr ist Sprecher für Antisemitismusbekämpfung in seiner Fraktion. Die Vereinnahmung jüdischer Anliegen für rassistische Hetze gegen andere Opfer des Nationalsozialismus ist selbst einer nach rechts entgleisten CDU unwürdig.

Think the marriage of convenience between the historically antisemitic far-right and the Israeli right has been bad for Diaspora Jews? Wait until you see the divorce.

I want the world to stop. Now. (I mean, I call my great aunt/cousin, who is the daughter of my grandfather’s cousin, my aunt. In my case it’s not a “big family” but a family where everything is between kinda got murdered, but that’s not important. WHY IS THIS EVEN A TALKING POINT?!)

What is absolutely striking about the current political conversation is that what defines much of the lurch to the (far) right is the logic of embracing nastiness and abandoning goodwill for the sake of political positioning. A type of “après moi le déluge” that gives supporters utter freedom. 1/4

Si jamais vous étiez à Marseille le 13 novembre et aviez envie de venir parler d’antiracisme et le tournant de 2005, venez me voir à l’Iméra à 17h30 !

The sense of quick unraveling and complete loss of any backbone and coordinates is the oddest thing about waking up to how British political establishment is talking about cleansing and deportation as if it were just normal? And even if I see how we got here, it doesn’t make it any less depressing.

I’m glad senior Labour figures are feeling like this, but they need to translate their feelings into action. Real action, not just complaining to journalists on background. Get your damn house in order.

« Pourquoi il y a débat ? Parce que nous n’étions que huit journalistes à suivre le procès. Pas une seule télé », rappelle @fabricearfi.bsky.social. Remettre sans relâche la brutalité des faits au cœur de la conversation publique sur la condamnation et l’incarcération de Nicolas Sarkozy 👇

if all my group chats were leaked tomorrow I don't know that I could say for certain that my career would necessarily retain the trajectory it's currently on, but I will say I'm pretty sure I've never mentioned Hitler in any of them, so at least that's something

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Seit Tagen geht es mir genauso wie Sasha Marianna Salzmann. Ich weiß ja, dass Merz mich wohl meint. Als aschkenasischer Jude habe ich gerade in Deutschland gelernt, was es bedeutet, als nicht ganz „weiß“ gelesen zu werden: Haare zu dunkel, Gesichtszüge zu „südländisch.“ Irgendetwas stimmte nie. 1/2

"Für Jüdinnen und Juden kann es aus der Geschichte nur eine Lehre geben: Die Einteilung in jene, die aus dem #Stadtbild entfernt gehören, und in jene, die in das Stadtbild passen und deshalb verschont bleiben, ist nicht hinnehmbar" ~ Sasha Marianna Salzmann @taz.de

This is a welcome post about expertise, but even more so about the dangers of total suspicion and the nihilism it encourages. Thinking of societies fueled by total suspicion always gets me back to experiences in Russia recently, but also to close post-Soviet contacts. One story always returns 1/4

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New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about. doi.org/10.1017/jbr....

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

Encore 7 Lecornu et on a le droit à un Lecornu gratuit

It’s that moment when you wish you were GenZ enough to create a meme that shows the sheer ridiculousness of someone (let’s call him Macron) convinced that repeating the same mistake would eventually yield a different result? Is there a reason to think the laws of gravity do not apply to French PMs?

As much as I appreciate AI’s ability to help very supervised streamlining of certain technical tasks (code! Correspondence with German bureaucrats!), this is the correct answer to anyone asking me why I don’t use ChatGPT to write more books (and believe me, I’ve been asked many a time).

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues. Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

As someone from Small Heath, I’m allowed to talk shit about Handsworth. But it won’t be anything about “feeling uncomfortable,” because Handsworth also represents the best of Britain, big warts and all.

One reflection talking to other Jews today is how unshocking this is. Numbing, upsetting, scary but not shocking. We all knew it was coming. Given the enormous rise in antisemitic incidents in recent years, it's a surprise it hasn't happened more often.

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry. Or sociology. It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

Do you know of interesting research that I'm missing? Check out the bibliography at https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography, DM @kai_arzheimer

I actually don’t get the point of waffles. Don’t @ me. I don’t make the rules. Waffles are pointless.

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

Let me get this straight. So a day before what could be a large wave of French protest due to widespread anger at presidential arrogance, Macron decides the PM should be the one person who really seems like raising the middle finger to basically everyone because… he’s a smooth operator?

Lecornu? Huh? Ils sont fous, ces macronistes.

Ugh NO? Because public transport obviously. BUT 2 things: 1) Sustaining high-level public transportation services requires continuous investment and governments looking to save money can be inspired by this bollocks. So this is dangerous.

That might be true, but I am too old for the endless tedium of short videos.

So over the next few days I want to tell you a little bit about my new @oxfordacademic.bsky.social book about looted art. The book is about art so there are many great pictures! A very short, mini-thread 👇

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Nothing to see here folks, just a radicalised far-right charlatan (who is still seen as a serious scholar by chunks of the media), now going full racial purity. I’m trying not to make it about me, but still looking at it and thinking: “oh yeah, he means me, right? I’m the Mischling.”

Dear German historians and German Studies friends, the Tucholsky Museum in Rheinsberg is threatened by far-right politicians. It's the only museum in Germany dedicated to the life and work of Kurt Tucholsky. Please sign this petition to help save it – Tucho dankt's: weact.campact.de/petitions/re...

I am glad to say that my new book 'Nationalism as A Way of Life' will be published in December with the Cambridge University Press. More information about the book: www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

Deutlicher kann Mensch es nicht ausdrücken: Das #BSW ist eine Vorfeldorganisation der blau maskierten Faschist:innen. share.google/aGxjiPuPnLO3...

Might be me being petty, but one thing I hate with lots of humanities research is when someone both pretends to challenge categories of The Nation and simultaneously uses sentences like “France published” as if France were… a person with individual agency? so actually reifying national categories?

It's a mark of what's gone wrong with British politics that it's regarded as some kind of career-ending humiliation when a govt has to make concessions to Members of Parliament. We'd be much better governed if MPs found their backbones more often, & govts routinely had to respond to their concerns.

Think the lesson here globally is very simple: don’t run candidates who are regarded as unfit for the office they are seeking.

Ok. What’s all the “we have to learn from NYC” bollocks? Mamdani is as radical as Andy Burnham and is light years behind just about every European city in terms of transformative programme. Can it be that we’re just unable to let go of thinking the US (let alone NY) always “leads” in any way?

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I am old enough to remember the days when Matt Goodwin was still doing real scholarship rather than just spewing racist awfulness. Still, I never thought he’d sink to the depth of the instant coffee rabbit hole?

An unpopular but important analytical truth: A war can achieve its military objectives regardless of how much one might oppose it and the people who made the decision to wage it. That doesn't mean it is worth the human, material and political cost. But not everything is Iraq 2003 or Ukraine 2022.

Could everyone stop with the Iraq War analogies? This is a different kind of crisis with distinct risks and strategic blunders from the US and its Iranian adversaries. Remaining analytically stuck in the world of 2003 is a sign of intellectual laziness.