From the bad place, but keeping it classy.

Hamas continues to violate the #gazaceasefire while playing cruel games with bodies of murdered hostages. Yesterday they returned body parts of a hostage Israel already received & buried Today an IDF drone filmed them removing a body from an apartment, burying it, then staging a "recovery" photo op.

A message from the family of Bipin Joshi, the Nepalese worker who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October 2023 and then murdered by them in captivity.

A model for democratic activism for political scientists, by my colleague at #barilanuniversity, Liron Lavi and distinguished coauthors. #polisky #contentiousky

1 of 4 bodies returned by Hamas this AM was a Palestinian man they dressed in an IDF uniform. Already a violation of ceasefire for not returning all bodies. 1/3

The last 13 living Israeli hostages have reportedly been transferred to the ICRC. Meanwhile, videos of Hamas beating & executions of Gazan "collaborators" keep pouring out of the Strip. Unless Hamas is permenantly defanged as req by the ceasefire agreement, this will remain the norm.

Hamas has transferred 7 hostages to the ICRC, who are now finally on their way home to Israel. 13 more living hostages, who have spent 2 years in hell, still awaiting release.🎗

Want to know more about how the overlap of religious, ethnic, geographic, and economic identities contribute to religious discrimination? This piece I wrote with Nikola Mirilovic and Jonathan Fox now has been assigned to a "print" issue. #polisky #polrel

@avishaybsg.bsky.social hits it out of the park.

Following France's proposal for a multinational force for Gaza (see my last post), I want to share something I wrote on Facebook following @sfrantzman.bsky.social l commentary on the ineptitude of Israel's repeated declarations that it has mostly defeated, destroyed, etc Hamas. Here it goes. 1/n

Those of us actually interested in a sustainable end to this conflict have been calling for at least some version of this since at least November 2023. The time to implement this was 23 months ago, a year ago, a month ago, yesterday, and today. No more excuses. The path is clear. End this war.

Happy to announce the first publication from Round 4 data collection for the Religion and State project #RAS4, from Jonathan Fox, Jeffrey Haynes, and me. Here we summarize general findings so far for Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-2023. More regional data coming down the pipeline soon! #polisky #polrel

Super important new and interesting work by Babak RezaeeDaryakenari, Özgür Özdamar, and Yasemin Akbaba on secular and religious role conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia #polisky #polrel

Every word of this. And yes, this applies quadruple for us academics.

Every single word of this.

Using Hamas's publicly and proudly broadcasted GoPro footage to offer proof of Hamas atrocities is copyright infringement!

Anas Al-Sharif, Journalist, October 7, 2023 9 hours and the heroes are still roaming the country killing and capturing... God, God, how great you are. web.archive.org/web/20231127...

Important work #polisky

Creative pragmatic proposals > social media rage/shitposting, every time

#polrel an important outlet!

Netanyahu: Israel aims to take control of Gaza, then hand it over to Arab forces Bibi, you're about 18 months late and blew through whatever little credibility you had not long since.

Here's something I wrote back in November 2023 about the #Gaza war, demands for a ceasefire, and looming Israeli plans to fully reoccupy the territory, when I still thought anyone might be listening. Unfortunately it is as relevant now as it was then. Read or ignore at your leisure.

Where are all the headlines today showing Evyatar David’s starved body, forced to dig his own grave in Hamas’s tunnels? Where are all the Instagram stories from celebrities who “can’t stay silent anymore”? Why doesn’t Evyatar deserve your outrage?

Sage words from Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, as always. Hamas is Hitler in his bunker. Flood Gaza with aid, force Hamas out, and move forward.

Another eminently pragmatic and appropriate proposal that since the outset of this disastrous war, innumerable "experts" denounced as unworkable, subcontracting occupation, giving Israel a free pass, etc. Is the body count high enough yet to try something different?

Pragmatic solutions still very much exist.

#polisky 🚨🚨🚨Call for Applicants🚨🚨🚨 Department of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar Ilan University Seeking to recruit full-time faculty members for tenure-track positions beginning October 1, 2026. We invite applications in the following subfields of political science: 1/n

Cut through the bullshit and flood Gaza with humanitarian aid.