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Ryan Swan ريان سوان

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PhD candidate @StAndrewsIR and صايع سابق. Geopolitics (WANA); migration; postcolonialism and decoloniality; translation Eng-Ar; Scottish news in Arabic: https://scotlandinarabic.home.blog/

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Film showings this Sunday by @dundee-nablus.bsky.social and @dcadundee.bsky.social

Details below 👇

06.03.2026 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Probably why the Israeli state is happy to accept the MoH death toll now.

04.03.2026 11:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The US & Israel have the technology to track down, identify and kill individuals (e.g. the assassinations of Ismail Haniyeh and Saeed Azadi).

Today they chose to bomb a school in Iran and killed at least 40 schoolgirls. The murder of children is a decision they took, just like in Gaza.

28.02.2026 12:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Make sure Angus Robertson is the last one to meet any Israeli state representative.

We don't want the Scottish Government to be friends – "critical" or otherwise – with the genocidal state.

25.02.2026 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bizarre that a Daily Mail columnist of all people should say “I always wondered to myself how Hitler managed to persuade the German people to turn against the Jews.”

All she needed to do is check her paper’s archives – they documented it well enough.

24.02.2026 12:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Carrier Strike Group in Arctic Deployment Sir Keir Starmer made the announcement at the Munich Security Conference. The UK's carrier strike group will operate alongside the US, Canada and other Nato allies.

Nothing distracts from scandals like beating the drums of war.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

15.02.2026 10:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full

🚨 This evening, a notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news wire, to all media across the UK

We believe it is strongly in the public interest to publish this memo. This is it in full 👇

06.02.2026 19:02 👍 514 🔁 258 💬 57 📌 142

Very standard behaviour from the foreigners of Dahab.

06.02.2026 11:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A reminder of our event tonight, open to all!

05.02.2026 11:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Glorious.

31.01.2026 13:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Scylla and Charybdis — Sidecar On the protests in Iran.

An excellent explainer, analysing Iran’s political trajectory and possible future scenarios: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

by @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social

28.01.2026 11:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Old City of Nablus was recently invaded by IOF soldiers who shot and assaulted Palestinians in the vicinity.
1 man was beaten
4 were shot
15 (including journalists) suffered injuries from tear-gas inhalation

20.01.2026 14:39 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Controversial ex-UK PM Blair back in limelight with Gaza role Blair’s appointment as part of the Gaza ’Board of Peace’ has been met with criticism from Palestinians due to his controversial actions in the region.

Blair confirmed to join the Board of Peace, ensuring Netanyahu isn't the only one there with blood on his hands.

www.newarab.com/news/controv...

21.01.2026 13:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Mark Carney's speech boils down to "we always knew but we never said it out loud because it served us well too, until it doesn't"
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

21.01.2026 10:37 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

The New Reich.

13.01.2026 09:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Israeli Forces Abduct Entire Family Near Bethlehem Israeli forces abducted an entire Palestinian family on Saturday evening after invading the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. ...

The Israeli state has accelerated its abductions of Palestinians across the WB since attention has turned to Venezuela.

Last week the IOF abducted:
2 from Jenin & Nablus
5 from Tulkarem
2 from Ramallah
And from Kisan, an entire family:
imemc.org/article/isra...

(& more reports since then.)

13.01.2026 09:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is very important. The group of racists - Perth’s Peaceful [sic] Protest - has recently upped its disinformation about ‘illegal undocumented immigrants’, gaining more traction. Fascist groups from out of Perth will likely be turning up to join Perth-based racists.

09.01.2026 21:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've already seen 2 articles today that use Putin’s foreign policy as a measure of Trump’s, or strongly imply that Trump has been inspired by Putin.

The attack on Venezuela for natural resources is entirely consistent with the long-established US imperial agenda, and not simply due to bad leaders.

04.01.2026 14:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Abd el-Fattah's historic tweets are leading to calls for his UK citizenship to be revoked, and a UK Government review of his case, while Nigel Farage's history of racism and Nazi goose-stepping has led to a few Guardian front pages.

30.12.2025 12:56 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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How humanitarianism in Gaza entrenches Palestinian oppression Behind humanitarianism in Gaza lies a system that manages survival while denying Palestinian sovereignty, write Yipeng Ge & Layth Malhis.

Humanitarian and development actors have "consistently propped up the occupation, undermined Palestinian resistance, and weakened Palestinian agency and sovereignty"

Excellent polemic by Dr. Yipeng Ge and Layth Malhis for @thenewarab.bsky.social

www.newarab.com/opinion/how-...

24.12.2025 14:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Nablus: Israeli Colonizers Injure Palestinian in Car-Ramming Attack Illegal Israeli colonizers rammed a Palestinian young man with their vehicle, on Thursday night, after storming the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Media ...

On Thursday, Israeli colonists drove 2 cars in a raid on the East side of Nablus. They ran over a Palestinian, fracturing his legs. They then crashed one of the cars and left the city.

imemc.org/article/nabl...

22.12.2025 17:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Briefing: the implications of the “earned settlement” proposals and what they might mean in practice - Free Movement We’ve now had a few weeks to digest the “earned settlement” policy document, which outlines the proposed changes to the settlement system ahead of the public

The UK will be implementing its vague, obscure & oppressive 'earned settlement' proposals in 2026.

Anyone hoping to settle in the UK – & anyone working with migrants – would benefit from this in-depth reading of the proposals: freemovement.org.uk/briefing-the...

From @freemovement.bsky.social

22.12.2025 19:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MPs laugh after minister rejects meeting Palestine Action hunger strikers' families MPs laughed as a minister rejected a request to meet with the families of imprisoned Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers.

Depraved. Just as Palestinian lives are worth nothing to those politicians, so are the lives of those who hunger for justice in Palestine.

www.thenational.scot/news/2570167...

17.12.2025 13:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Danish Intelligence Warns U.S. “Hemispheric Approach” Raises Arctic Security Uncertainty A sharper U.S. focus on its “immediate region” and the hemispheric approach of Washington’s new National Security Strategy has created doubts in Copenhagen about America’s long-term role in the Arctic...

While the Danish government isn't considering the US threat to the Global South (intensifying by the day), this discourse is important. A European state has now publicly presented the US as an imperial power in all but name.

www.highnorthnews.com/en/danish-in...

13.12.2025 12:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The NSS is like a version of the Eisenhower Doctrine written by the KKK. A commitment to intervene aggressively abroad (especially in Europe) to uphold white supremacy and foreclose the emergence of multi-ethnic democracy. Its a declaration of political race war from a gang of white supremacists.

10.12.2025 11:48 👍 32 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 0

On Thursday, Israeli colonisers attacked a man and his daughter on the Ramallah–Nablus road, south of Nablus. Both were injured & the colonisers set their car on fire.

On Friday, IOF shot worshippers near a mosque in Odala, near Nablus. One man was killed, Baha Rashed.

Source: IMEMC News

08.12.2025 19:35 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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UNESCO Adds Koshari to Global Heritage List for 2025 Egypt’s go-to comfort dish has made its way onto UNESCO’s heritage list for 2025, spotlighting the everyday food traditions carried by families, vendors and neighbourhoods across the country.

Very smart move. Israel's annexing of cuisine from the Arab World won't stop at "Israeli Couscous" or "Israeli Falafel"
cairoscene.com/Eats/UNESCO-...

10.12.2025 13:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is just another iteration of IOF soldiers wearing their “one shot, two kills” t-shirt that has an image of a pregnant woman in a crosshair.

08.12.2025 13:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Syria's coastal protests come with a critical message What they reveal is far more consequential than their modest turnout suggests

A good article, centring Alawites not only as victims but also now political actors through their recent protests in Tartus, Latakia, Homs and Hama.

by @haidhaid22.bsky.social

en.majalla.com/node/328524/...

05.12.2025 16:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our 45th anniversary event saw a full house on Thursday 🎉

Thank you to all those who came & more thanks to the excellent speakers Nadia el Nakla (Dundee City Council), Nehad Khanfar (Association of Palestinian Community UK) & Mike Arnott (Dundee TUC)

Here's to another 45 years of solidarity!

30.11.2025 13:52 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0