Some very good insights on the situation in Northern Syria. www.prio.org/comments/185...

Played too much SimCity have we?

This is what ceasefire looks like: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It was a pleasure hosting @abuaardvark.bsky.social in Oslo! First, a book panel with @jjensehaugen.bsky.social and Tine Gade at @nupinytt.bsky.social discussing his newest book America’s Middle East (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) and then a solo lecture by Marc at @uio.no:

Today - 15 December - is your last chance to apply for our amazing course Advanced Qualitative Methods in Conflict Studies. I can strongly recommend it! www.peaceconflictresearch.org/courses/77?f...

Today - 15 December - is your last chance to apply for our amazing course Advanced Qualitative Methods in Conflict Studies. I can strongly recommend it! www.peaceconflictresearch.org/courses/77?f...

Slagordet "hjelp dem der de er" har en meget hul klang når UNHCR er 91% underfinansiert i Libanon. Min nyeste kronikk i Panorama: www.panoramanyheter.no/jorgen-jense...

Kan Israel fortsatt kalles et demokrati? "Svaret er nei, og paradoksalt nok vil verken et valgnederlag for Netanyahu eller stans i Gaza-krigen endre det. En langt mer grunnleggende endring må til" sier @jjensehaugen.bsky.social i @panoramanyheter.bsky.social ⤵️ www.panoramanyheter.no/israel-israe...

Denne spalten i Panorama handler om noe som har plaget meg lenge, men ikke helt klart å få ut i klartekst. Jeg mistenker at mange lesere vil mene at jeg sparker inn åpne dører, mens andre vil mene jeg er fullstendig på villspor. C'est la vie. www.panoramanyheter.no/israel-israe...

Together with @kgberg.bsky.social I try to explain how we got to the famine in Gaza. www.prio.org/comments/1801

Utsultingen av Gaza er en villet politikk Kronikk med @jjensehaugen.bsky.social www.forskersonen.no/gaza-israel-...

Situasjonen på Gaza er ubeskrivelig jævlig. Sammen med Kjersti Berg gjør jeg likevel et forsøk på å forklare hvordan det ble sånn. www.forskersonen.no/gaza-israel-...

Famine. A status so serious that by the time its called by that name it is too late.

Just in case the memo was unclear: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that "the Palestinian state is being erased – not with slogans, but with actions."

For the international community E1 has symbolized the red-line. If it is constructed Israel has killed the 2state solution. Unless states react now - and not just with empty statements - then Israel has once again called the bluff.

Godt å se at stadig flere medier følger opp med dekning av norske investeringer i de okkuperte områdene. www.nrk.no/urix/yara-kj...

Even if you think genocide is not the right word, you should be able to see why people use it: the scale of devastation, death, blockade. If you can't, and you are offended, then either 1. You've kept yourself ignorant 2. You don't care if it's true or not 3. You think Palestinians deserve it

“The Israeli military used a [230kg] bomb – a powerful and indiscriminate weapon that generates a massive blast wave and scatters shrapnel over a wide area – when it attacked a target in a crowded beachfront cafe in Gaza on Monday” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Is a Gaza ceasefire around the corner? The question exhausts me because the answer is that I don't know, and it is far too late. The offical Palestinian deathtoll stands at over 57.000, with research points to 40% underreporting. And this, this is the food situation in Gaza.

Nytt Babylon ute! I artikkelen Skyggekrigen mot UNRWA etter 7. oktober 2023 viser @kgberg.bsky.social & jeg hvordan Israel undergravde UNRWAs legitimitet. Det beredte grunnen for den katastrofen som er Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. journals.uio.no/babylon/arti...

I found it difficult to not reach this conclusion.

This is very serious! www.reuters.com/world/middle...

What is Gazas real deathtoll? New study confirms previous findings that official figures are almost 40% too low. Already on 5 January 2025 the real number of deaths was probably 75.200. The study confirms that 56.2% of killed are women, children&elderly

B'Tselem reminds us of what Israel is doing in Gaza while attention is on the war with Iran:

This is the food situation in Gaza. Source OCHA-OPT

This is the grim reality - in Israel, support for ethnic cleansing is the norm. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The OCHA brief for Gaza should be read daily. 54.000 killed, with credible estimates suggesting that this is 40% below real number. 470.000 facing catastrophic food insecurity.

Forced displacement is now official Israel policy, and the refugees will not be allowed to return after the fighting. And all the while Israel is enforcing a policy of starvation against Gaza. My latest PRIO blogpost.

Status Gaza blir stadig verre. Utenfor står nødhjelpen, men den slipper ikke inn. Det er villet politikk. Min spalte i Panorama Nyheter

Status Gaza blir stadig verre. Utenfor står nødhjelpen, men den slipper ikke inn. Det er villet politikk. Min spalte i Panorama Nyheter

Press freedom continues to decline internationally. In the Middle East Gaza is the most dangerous place to be a journalist, and Israel falls 11 places - to 112th in the world. Also Jordan and Tunisia drop significantly.

@heissenstat.bsky.social these works on UNRWA, as you asked, are core:

It's a bit unreal to be on the Journal of Palestine Studies' list of most read articles "of all time", but there I am! www.tandfonline.com/action/showM...

"Capa...depicted Israel as a heroic nation of Holocaust survivors and victors of war, while the Palestinians and the Nakba were hidden from view. Capa’s vision was important because he was an internationally renowned photographer who was not an official Israeli propagandist..."

Portraying Palestine in a way that obscures Palestinian presence has a long history. Robert Capa, the greatest war photographer of his age, was a trendsetter in that regard.

Having been fortunate enough to read @erikskare.no's new book on Palestinian Islamism, I can clearly state that it is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the multiple Palestinian Islamist groups and the developments within and between them.

Check out our newest policy brief on mediation in regionalized conflicts. Lots of interesting insights from multiple case-studies.

While the implementation of Israel's UNRWA ban has been slower than we feared, the current Israeli policies are very much in line with what we predicted.

Les denne! Trude Strand med et dystert eksempel på hvordan historiefaget kan brukes for å sette samtiden i perspektiv.

My new Research Professor title will take some time getting used to! While the title is personal, it has been a team effort. So big thanks to supervisors, co-authors, editors, peer-reviewers (even the # 2s), archivists and funders.

Syria lacks the money to buy foreign goods and thus has a trade defecit with the US. They are therefore hit by a 41% tariff!

Want to learn more about how to defend democracy? Check out @idarudolfsen.bsky.social and mine course this fall at @prioresearch.bsky.social

This fall PRIO will be hosting a brand new PhD-level course on Mass mobilization and democratization with @mariannedahl.bsky.social & @idarudolfsen.bsky.social Apply by 4. May!

As Israel once again pounds Gaza the UNRWA ban looms in the background as something that can be implemented at any time, with disastrous consequences. Our latest in The Cairo Review

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

As Israel once again pounds Gaza the UNRWA ban looms in the background as something that can be implemented at any time, with disastrous consequences. Our latest in The Cairo Review

Re: Ben Gvir return, and what he’s hoping that’ll achieve: org he’s closely linked to, Nachala, issued this statement: “From here on, the path to decisive victory is clear and unambiguous — occupation, expulsion, settlement. The time has come for a full Jewish return to the Gaza Strip.”

Landmines in Syria kill hundreds of civilians returning home after fall of Assad

Utterly unnecessary torching of US soft power. Foreign policy malpractice of the first order. Making America Weaker Again.