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Live updates: Israel confirms attack on Iran with US help as explosions are heard in Tehran Israel launched a daylight attack Saturday on Iran's capital, with a cloud of smoke rising from the city's downtown near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

BREAKING: President Trump says Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead, calls it "greatest chance" for Iranians to take back the country.

I can’t emphasise leading w/ empathy for civilians *everywhere* on a day like today enough.

The first casualty here in the UAE, where I live, is an Asian civilian at a residential building.

Many Ukrainians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Syrians, Sudanese & other war-traumatised people live here.

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Excited to share “Commanders of the Mujahideen: Introducing the Jihadist Leaders Dataset” at JPR! Analyzing Arabic, French, German, Turkish, and Urdu sources, we gathered information on the backgrounds and experiences of 237 leaders across multiple regions academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

Congratulations Mark and everyone. This is really cool 🎊

Fall in UK net migration threatens to carve deep hole in public finances Issue is expected to come under the spotlight in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement

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It was the last realisation of the defeat, injustice, trauma and absurdity! Yes the current regime is not handling anything related to the MB in a just way! That is a given. But they were also in power at a very critical time and they did not play by any democratic rule! So please… please!

Police forces were standing observing without interfering! It was a shit show! Also please do not take this out of context as there is nothing to justify how MB supporters were massacred in Rabaa in August 2013, which was basically the end of any dream of a revolution to everyone involved!

And every time, they used the same violent tactics of Mubarak. November 2012 was a horrible month where we spent more time in morgues and burials than anything else! In December 2012, MB supporters and revolutionaries clashed in a long violent confrontation, where MB supporters had access to weapons

They we simply not! Granted as revolutionaries in Egypt, we have all made mistakes, but the Muslim Brotherhood were elected into power and they were responsible of moving us forward and not regressing. We protested against Mohamed Morsi only 100 days after he became president..

Ranting 🧵
Every time I read a Western analysis on jihadist groups, or IS or AQ that suggests that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt were accepting democracy and pluralism, and we should have seized the chance, and how this could have saved us from potential jihadist threats, I want to cry and scream.

The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.

Serenity now! Serenity now!

Palestine Action wins High Court challenge over group's ban as terrorist organisation Palestine Action’s co-founder has won a legal challenge over the group's ban as a terrorist organisation on two grounds.

Palestine Action wins High Court challenge over group's ban as terrorist organisation

On the left is the cover of The Journal of Global Security Studies. Along the bottom, the journal’s homepage (https://academic.oup.com/jogss) and Bluesky handle (@journalofgss.bsky.social) appear in white text on a navy-blue background. The main image depicts a close-up photograph of the Brown Map, overlaid with the article title and the author’s name: “Fractured Brotherhoods: Ethnic Identity in Multi-Ethnic Violent Political Groups”, by Makena N. Micheni.

When - and why - does ethnicity matter more than unity inside armed groups? 🤔

Read the new #JOGSS article by Makena Micheni to unpack how ethnic identity becomes foregrounded in multi-ethnic militant organisations

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Gaza and the Conduct of Urban War: Civilian Harm, Risk, and Responsibility Urban warfare is often invoked as an alibi: dense terrain, an embedded enemy, human shields, imperfect intelligence. These conditions are real but they do

warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...

قضاة الغد تختارهم الأكاديمية العسكرية بموجب التوجيهات الجديدة فإن آلية التعيين ستتغير جذريًا

Presidential directives to transfer the powers of examining and selecting new appointees in the judiciary to the military academy in Egypt www.madamasr.com/2026/01/21/f...

Fiften years after the #jan25 revolution, the need for the slogan: “Bread, Freedom, Social Justice, Human Dignity” increased and spanned across borders! Tougher times, tougher world! May we live to remember all those who gave/are giving their lives for bread, freedom, justice and dignity!

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RE Gaza, there is every reason to be pessimistic. Millions will continue to live in tent cities, not just this winter (3rd winter) but also for the next five years - who knows?
As far as Israel is concerned, Gaza will be kept in perpetual limbo, in hope for its complete destruction and depopulation.

BEST NEWS EVER!! 🤍

After years of prison, probation, and travel ban, Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah was able to get on a plane today, travel to London, and reunite with his family!!!!

Greta Thunberg arrested at a protest supporting Palestine Action hunger strikers Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been arrested in central London at a demonstration in support of Palestine Action hunger strikers.

Greta Thunberg arrested at a protest supporting Palestine Action hunger strikers

Abstract for the publication "Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States"

📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social !

💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020.

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An infant froze to death in Gaza last night, starved and cold.

I would go further and say that if you have ever used "Zionism" to mean "aspirational call for Jewish self-determination" and gotten frustrated when people see Zionism as racist dispossession, you should understand why a Palestinian might feel the same about "Intifada." And vice versa.

רָעוֹת שָׂבְעָה נַפְשִׁי / בְּיָגוֹן כֹּחִי כָּלָה 😢
My spirit is fed up with misery /my strength is spent with grief 💔

As millions of Jews are getting ready to light the first Chanukah candle, we are crying with our Jewish community in Sydney.

At least 11 murdered and 29 injured at a Hanukkah Celebration 😭

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Save the higher education sector in 🇬🇧

All actors, from universities management to government, need to realise that they are on a path of eliminating opportunities of future generations. Yes, we can argue as Starmer said that it is not the only way to success, sure, but it is a path that cannot be substituted for or replaced! (3/n)

The current higher education sector situation in the UK is depressing. To think that students from all over the world who aspire to UK education, could not in the future have the same opportunities to study what they want, pursue their passions and reinforce their identities is depressing (2/n)

Pre-Holidays Blues

Postgraduate education literally saved me. Studying abroad allowed me to leave a country where dreams are crushed and to change my career path. Focusing on conflict studies was my way to deal with traumas. It was and still is - with all the challenges - a healing journey (1/n)

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.