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Economic historian at @camhistory.bsky.social. Doing research on historical political economy
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Israeli soldiers killed 45 Palestinians who had gathered in the hope of receiving aid, according to the local health ministry www.ft.com/content/6969...

What an astonishing thing for the President of the European Commission to say in the present context in a long readout of her call with Netanyahu published on socials.

9 Palestinians were just killed seeking aid, a number that would make international news if they were not Palestinians

This is a wellbeing room in my university.

Som en del av den svensk-iranska diasporan blir jag arg och förbannad att en högljudd och resursstark minoritet har fått styra vilka som får vara en del av debatten om Iran. Parsis röst har varit viktig. Tragiskt och fegt att UI tvingar honom att sluta och hur media aktivt deltog i häxjakten

Such utter madness that a genocidal rogue state is allowed to put the lives of millions of people at existential risk. I wonder if there's anything Israel can do that would result in reactions in the West. And while our eyes turn to Iran, the genocide in Gaza continues

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

The Freedom Flotilla sailing toward Gaza is not just carrying life-saving aid. It is carrying solidarity, hope and our shared humanity.

Israel beväpnar IS-terrorister för att mörda palestinier på nya sätt — Netanyahu: Israel fighting Hamas 'in various ways' amid claims it armed ISIS-tied militia www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

After months of writing, now the real work begins: somehow cutting 3000 words from the paper

#uppsaladeclaration now has more than 1,300 signatories. We refuse to collaborate with Israeli state institutions complicit in human rights violations including illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se

After pressure from Swedish academics, Uppsala University has now issued a statement condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza. Unfortunately, it stops short of cutting ties with complicit Israeli academic institutions

The Uppsala Declaration is a beacon of hope. Join and emulate it we must uppsaladeclaration.se

Nästan 100 människor mördade av israeliska attacker på samma dag i Gaza. Samtidigt i Qatar: ’U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday in Doha that he'd like the United States to own Gaza and "make it a freedom zone,"’ www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Frustrated with the lack of academic leadership, faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research are committing to break ties with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide. uppsaladeclaration.se

We're live. We have more than 700 signatories, including more than 100 professors. uppsaladeclaration.se

🚨BREAKING: Israel Threatens Strikes on Gaza City, Including Al-Shifa Hospital Fear of mass civilian casualties is rising after Israel issued forced evacuation orders for several crowded areas of Gaza City—including blocks that include:

Israel Bombed a School/Shelter in Northern Gaza, Killing 17 People—7 of Them Children

Minns ni det första sjukhuset som bombades? Vilken grej alla gjorde av att det var "desinformation" att Israel skulle bomba sjukhus? Nu finns det inga intakta sjukhus kvar. Försvararna har tystnat. För detta går inte att försvara. De kan bara hoppas att vi andra låtit oss kuvas av deras anklagelser.

Ondska

Ledande israeliska politiker har återkommande sagt att de eftersträvar etnisk rensning och vid (ofrånkomligt) behov massmord på palestinierna i Gaza. Nu blir det officiell israelisk regeringspolitik. Men bland västerländska regeringar och tyckonomer funderar man fortfarande på hur detta ska tolkas.

Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza for a ‘gender reveal’, having rigged it with explosives that give off blue smoke to indicate a fetus is male.

*Puts on reviews editor hat* Would you like to write a review article for the Journal of Contemporary History? Three books, about 4000 words, on history after 1930? Let me know! You'll find my contact details at mau.se/en/persons/e...

Skepp med humanitära förnödenheter till Gaza angripet på internationellt vatten utanför Malta – med bestyckade drönare!!

BREAKING: A Freedom Flotilla ship was reportedly targeted in a drone attack. The front of the vessel was struck twice, causing a fire and a breach in the hull. The ship was stranded in international waters near Malta. An SOS distress signal has been issued. Video: Freedom Flotilla Coalition

Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/winter-landscape-with-skaters-and-a-bird-trap-1565

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

Det här pågår medan vår utrikesminister åker och myser med regimen. Folkmord kan inte att separeras från inrikespolitik, från hets mot att svarta män syns i glassreklam, urholkning av rättsstatens principer eller förakt mot sjuka. Vilket samhälle vi vill ha hänger ihop med vilken värld vi vill ha.

Just read the piece, and it is a wonderful read on the evolution of Marxist economic thought and its future, along with some lovely autobiographical anecdotes

Palestinier måste filma sin egen avrättning för att bli trodda, men inte fan ens då är det någon som ställs till svars.

Att partier som avskyr statliga subventioner till bostadsbyggande är fullkomligt besatta av statliga subventioner till lyxrenoveringar?

Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state. She was 25.

Nearly 10,000 Palestinians are in Israeli custody, including 3,500 administrative detainees held without charge or trial. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/i17lad

Acclaimed Palestinian photographer and photojournalist Fatma Hassona was killed this morning, along with several relatives, when an Israeli airstrike struck their home in Gaza City.

Som för att ursäkta att Israel ännu en gång attackerat flyktingläger, som för att ursäkta att Israel dödat ytterligare 20 personer, som för att ursäkta att ännu en gång är de flesta som dödats kvinnor och barn.

The Swedish gov't claim to welcome foreign academics. But their actual policy is Trump-inspired: a poorly justified war on "woke," bizarre attacks on specific curricula, capricious cancellations of research funding, attacks on the independence of the universities, and regressive migration rules.

NEWS: Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian woman near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, claiming she had thrown stones and “intended” to carry out a stabbing attack. The allegation remains unverified, with no independent evidence provided.

Peasant Wedding https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/peasant-wedding-1568

Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

“casting doubt”

The genocidaires are saying that the humanitarian workers they handcuffed and personally executed one by one with shots to the head and then hid in a mass grave “were Hamas”. But you know what? This is a war crime and part of a genocide even if they were - and you should never believe the IDF anyway

New horrific footage shows that Israel lied through its teeth about its massacre of paramedics and rescue workers. But still Western media outlets will keep treating Israeli lies as credible. Accessories to genocide 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-lie...

New horrific footage shows that Israel lied through its teeth about its massacre of paramedics and rescue workers. But still Western media outlets will keep treating Israeli lies as credible. Accessories to genocide 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-lie...

Nya filmbevis visar hur 15 hjälparbetare i Gaza kom körande i ambulanser med blåljus på, när Israeliska militären öppnar eld. Hjälparbetarna försöker ta sig ur de beskjutna ambulanserna, men mejas ner av israelernas kulsprutor och slängs i en massgrav news.sky.com/story/video-...

Israel försökte gömma bevisen i en massgrav. En död ambulanssjukvårdare ville annat. På hans video syns hur 15 räddningsarbetare skjuts ihjäl med varselljusen påslagna. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/pP...