Some transnational Arab military force will rule Gaza on behalf of Israel and abuse the Palestinians on behalf of Israel and rebuild Gaza on behalf of Israel. In exchange there'll be some cursory statement in support of some future, non-defined peace settlement that will never come.

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....

Early in my legal career I was marginally involved in rendering an ancient Nazi concentration camp guard to justice. People have long memories when it comes to the subject of concentration camps.

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...

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

Military intervention must be used to stop the genocide in Gaza | Ahmed Ibsais

www.tidningencurie.se/debatt/vi-ma... En sanningsenlig text av Matylda Jonas-Kowalik vid Uppsala universitet. Läs också gärna de sista styckena om hennes upplevelser, som går emot den bild av antisemitism vid svenska lärosäten som spritts det senaste året.

"The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes." www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...

The Israeli state openly discloses its intentions to ethnic cleanse Gaza, starving 2 mio people. Intl courts, the UN, MSF, HRW, MSF, and even the ICRC (!) publish heavily worded condemnations of the violence. How can the peace research community stay silent? www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Swedish embassy in Washington DC should demand from all hired companies to: 1) Provide 480 days of payed parental leave / child 2) Have a fair collective agreement for all employees 3) Compensate employees for absence while caring of a sick child 4) Arrange dance around a phallic pole at midsummer

“The UN said it identified 3,700 children suffering from acute malnutrition in March, up 80% from February.”

“No fresh fruit has entered Gaza in over a month. Our last protein ingredients have already been cooked.”

It's been 51 days since ANY humanitarian aid has entered Gaza. Israeli Minister of Defense Katz has said: "Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza."   This is a war crime.   We must end our complicity. NO more military aid for Netanyahu's war machine.

Ten years ago, Pope Francis published “Laudato Si.’” This is a good day to reread it and hear his call to save our planet. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/w...

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky

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....

The ICRC normally only speaks confidentially to warring parties when it thinks violations are taking place. But Ms Spoljaric has now said publicly that what is happening in Gaza is an "extreme hollowing out" of international law. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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...

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

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....

@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.

Israeli forces are using artificial intelligence and cloud computing systems sold by U.S. tech titans such as OpenAI, Google, Amazon and Microsoft for the mass surveillance and killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

"Like the abolitionists of the 19th century arrayed against the planter class, today we need to break the economic, ideological and political foundations of billionaire rule." @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/labo...

The transatlantic alliance may not survive this. Vance’s speech much more threatening to Europe. A direct assault on the EU. US tech companies don’t want EU regulations because they will cost them money. Vance wants to kill EU tech regulations to support the far-right in Europe.

like every religious system, Christianity has regularly been mobilized and interpreted in the service of unconscionable ends but to my mind what we are seeing on the right in the United States is something else -- the emergence of an almost Nietzschean, if not outright nihilist, ... 1/

Something we have to understand is that *the constitution is all of us*. Checks on absolute power are not only limited to courts and elections - it's also public opinion, protesters, media, universities, businesses, churches, artists, etc. At moments like this, the whole society has to mobilize.

UNICEF “deeply alarmed” about the rising number of killed and injured Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, says Edouard Beigbeder, the NGO's Middle East and North Africa regional director. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/abglxx

“It’s open war against the whole existence of the Palestinian people in the West Bank.” Israel's army issues forced evacuation threat for Nur Shams refugee camp as it continues its deadly assault across the occupied West Bank aje.io/ahgod2

Two studies published yesterday in Nature Climate Change find that Earth has effectively already warmed 1.5°C. Yes, this seems to be happening silently, but to be clear: over 1.5C of heating some places become uninhabitable and the risk of tipping points rises enormously. 1/n

Today is the day 198 governments were supposed to have submitted a strong 2035 #climate target. How many have done so? Of the countries we analyse: six. The UK is the only country to have submitted a 1.5˚C compatible target. Read our press release here bit.ly/CAT_Feb10

Polisen och politikerna insisterar på att se masskjutningen i Örebro som en ensam galnings verk. Men även om inget manifest ännu hittats så har attacken har samma isande effekt som annan terror, skriver @guldfiske.bsky.social

Most of Gaza’s olive trees, citrus trees and greenhouses have been destroyed.

🧵THREAD: Israel's ban on UNRWA, the main humanitarian agency for Palestinian refugees, goes into effect today. This is a disaster for millions who rely on it for food, medical care, and education. Here’s why this is so dangerous. 👇

It's very simple : humankind needs to stop eating meat.

At least 83 were wounded in Lebanon as Israel opened fire on people returning home. Here's the situation in southern Lebanon on the ceasefire's final day. 🔗: aje.io/h0z3l0

“We just clean out that whole thing,” Trump said, suggesting ethnically cleansing Palestinians from the besieged strip.

Time is ticking for UNRWA. The ban, starting 28 January, will have seriously detrimental effects on the humanitarian operations in Gaza, as well as the health and educational sector in the OPT. Read our policy brief.

Genocide is not only the killing of a people, it's also often involves making its land inhabitable so that return is impossible. This is an example of that.

Now is the time to organize and FIGHT BACK. Make time. Educate yourself. Dare to feel uncomfortable. Focus on action—not words. Show the flexibility required for coalition building. Rediscover the joy of doing things together. Amplify the voiceless. Empower those around you. Connect. Care. Love.

Elon did a nazi salute at the inauguration. Twice.