Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

The National Security Minister of Israel tweets "All of Lebanon must burn. [...] All of Lebanon must burn. [...] For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. [...] You need to obliterate. To crush the terror." Germany and the Czech Republic oppose sanctioning him.

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. Titled 'What the Wounds Tell Us' and in it, the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza.

The extensive use of white phosphorus by the Israeli occupation army in Lebanon is widely and deeply documented and it barely evokes a peep out of Europe, which claims to be a bastion and defender of Lebanese sovereignty.

A reminder that Israel claims it wants the Lebanese army to replace Hezbollah. I’ve said this 50 times and I’ll say it again: the goal is the complete destruction of Lebanon as a state. Not Hezbollah. Lebanon.

"The village we were operating in belonged to wealthy people, full of villas with pools, luxury cars, jewelry. Almost every house had valuables... Once we realized that the area was clear, the real mission would begin – to find valuable stuff." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Take note of how almost nobody in Europe or Israeli society said a word about how Ben Gvir treats Palestinians who are illegally detained in his fascist prisons. As soon as he records himself doing a tenth of this kind of torture to Europeans, everyone is uproar. Good, but maybe expand the outrage.

Israeli officers 'threaten Gaza flotilla activists with death' during interrogations - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-flotilla-activists-receive-death-threats-while-israeli-custody

Remember when Joe Biden personally vetoed sanctioning Ben Gvir even though Blinken recommended it? Also remember when the EU refused to sanction him because of Germany and Hungary? Also remember how people on here told me that this guy isn't that important, he's just the national security minister?

Israel’s National Security Minister Ben Gvir received a birthday cake decorated with a giant gold noose from his wife. The Hebrew text reads in part “sometimes dreams come true”—referring to Ben Gvir’s now-achieved dream of legalizing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

Thousands of kilometres away from Gaza, off the coast of Greece, Israeli forces intercepted boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Trump has destroyed federal guardrails meant to ensure secure and fair elections. Some fear his actions are aimed at making sure the upcoming midterms go his way.

Den här frågan är viktig för mig – skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/uu...

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students… Firm, has been paid at least 440,000 pounds ($594,000) by universities since 2022. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

In Gaza, the effects of war do not end when the bombing stops. A silent health crisis is emerging among pregnant women and their children. Since the start of Israel’s assault, maternity wards have reported alarming increases in miscarriages, premature births, and rare congenital disabilities.

These images are deely shocking. Israel erases the roots and memories of countless families who have already been fragmented and dispersed by decades of violence. My village has not been detonated, but life has flown out of it. It's sad to a point no westerner understands. Entire worlds obliterated.

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our panels at @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #PSA26 earlier this week!

Wonderful panel on Ethnic Diversity and Conflict Management at #PSA26 organised by @psaethnopolitics.bsky.social Thanks to all the speakers and fabulous audience! @bizunehyimenu.bsky.social @muzafferkutlay.bsky.social

Second @psaethnopolitics.bsky.social panel of the day on Rethinking the Dynamics of Power-sharing in Deeply Divided Societies #PSA26. Fabulous discussion with @lpcooley.bsky.social @awraffoul.bsky.social @altingjeta.bsky.social and others!

Statements of "concern" or "condemnation" of Israel's war on Lebanon are utterly meaningless. The only meaningful action is to sanction Israel. We need economic boycotts.

As long as we don't acknowledge Israeli expansionism, we won't understand the logic of its wars in the Middle East. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

🎙️ In a new episode for our pod Researching Peace, we discuss power-sharing as a tool for ethnic conflict management with @awraffoul.bsky.social, who recently defended his thesis on the subject. His data reveal some striking findings. 🎧 Podbean: researchingpeace.podbean.com/e/45-a-new-l...

Haunting footage of an Israeli aistrike taking down an entire building in Bashoura, Central Beirut.

As a reminder, 23 years ago Israel proved already that they will murder anyone opposing their ability to freely murder, rape, and maim Palestinians. They literally crushed Rachel Corrie (USA) with a bulldozer, and then IDF members made pancakes to mock her death. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_...

Israeli forces shot all four members of the Bani Odeh family in the head, including their 5yo and 7yo. The 7yo, Othman, was blind and had special needs. This comes a day after Israeli settlers shot 28yo Amir Moatasem Odeh and stabbed his father.

So @asanews.bsky.social emailed its membership its refusal to put a petition to Boycott, Divest, & Sanction Israel up to a vote, one that already had 438 signatures. This undemocratic decision, they wrote, is because they're worried about membership dropping. Well do I have news for you.

My latest for @972mag.com on how Israel’s war is against Lebanon. Not Hezbollah. Lebanon. www.972mag.com/israels-rene... Quoted @justinsalhani.bsky.social

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Here comes a short overview of my dissertation, with links to the comprehensive summary and the published articles. Possibly the first work on power-sharing citing Stengers! www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

How to Prevent Civil War Recurrence: Learning from Failure is finally available for pre-order at academic.oup.com/book/62306?s...

I've been a bit quieter than usual these past months because @astra.bsky.social and I have been going deep into what we are calling End Times Fascism. The research has been bleak, I won't lie, but it's also been inspiring.

My article on regenerative research was included in this Frontiers ebook on Activating Academia for an Era of Colliding Crises. It's all open access: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

122 experts in the peace and security sector: Sweden does not live up to its international obligation to prevent genocide in Gaza. www.dagensarena.se/opinion/sver...

In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Since the lough is back in the (national) news, here's the blog version of my co-authored @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article from earlier in the year. #LoughNeagh

My article "Unstable Concepts, Unresolved Controversies" was attributed to an issue. It explores how conceptual issues emerged as consociationalism and centripetalism were brought together under the label power-sharing – and proposes ways to address these issues. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In Syre, we write about the recent motion by the Swedish Association and Anthropologists (SANT) supporting an academic boycott of Israel. We urge colleagues to use professional associations and unions to ask for ethical universities during a genocide. tidningensyre.se/2025/11-juni...

Academics for Palestine Uppsala: "Thinking, Hanna Arendt contended, requires making oneself receptive to others' existence and suffering. Our main concern with Ylva Söderfeldt's opinion piece is that it erases the most affected: the Palestinians" www.tidningencurie.se/debatt/vi-ma...

My study of conceptual issues in the literature on power-sharing, consociationalism, and centripetalism (with recommandations on how to enhance conceptual clarity) was published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To understand how power-sharing performs, we have to understand how it is performed - or at least that's what I argue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Uppsala University promoted research stays in Israel at the exact moment Israel was intensifying its genocide in Gaza. Scandalous, but not surprising - write 90 staff members and students: www.unt.se/debatt/artik...

To understand how power-sharing performs, we have to understand how it is performed - or at least that's what I argue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....