Mohamed Salhi, PhD
@uselesssimo.bsky.social
Assalamualaykum Comrades! Lecturer in PolSci / Goethe Uni (Research: CDA/Far Right/Visual Populism/Hate Speech/Memes) FirstGen academia/diaspora; OPEN FOR RESEARCH/TEACHING POSITIONS Mosalhi.com
🟥Red Lines🟥 'Today, in the context of European migration governance and the externalisation of borders, Harga continues'. Moving beyond prevailing Eurocentric explanations, @uselesssimo.bsky.social discusses the social and psychological roots of the Ceuta-crossing. reacpol.net/ceuta-harga/
Red Lines: Ceuta and the Psychology of the “Harga” (Mohamed Salhi) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi explores the deeper meaning of the Ceuta crossing.
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It has been almost exactly a year since this article was published, and it was in the top 5 most read articles every month for nearly a year until last month. It is a small thing but I am pretty proud of it :)
Journal of Language and Politics@jlanpol.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 | NEW OA ARTICLE 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 Symbolic politics in AfD’s European elections campaign by @uselesssimo.bsky.social 👉https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24202.sal
This is a must read by @uselesssimo.bsky.social and @cburchett.bsky.social Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...
Red Lines: Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right (Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett discusses the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz.
reacpol.net
🟥Red Lines🟥 'How is this cordon sanitaire supposed to survive if it is undermined from within?' @uselesssimo.bsky.social and @cburchett.bsky.social examine the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz. reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...
Red Lines: Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right (Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett discusses the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz.
reacpol.net
Great to work with @uselesssimo.bsky.social on this Red Lines piece on the mainstreaming of far-right discourse by German chancellor Friedrich Merz, and how this was foreseeable from Merz's early days as a politician reacpol.net/merz-farrigh...
Red Lines: Sch-Merz-haft! Friedrich Merz’s Culturalist, Reactionary Perspectives and the Mainstreaming of the Far Right (Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This article by Mohamed Salhi and Claire Burchett discusses the mainstreaming of the far right in Germany under Friedrich Merz.
reacpol.net
One down, one to go! Last punches to see if academia blesses or rejects me 🫣
My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.
"The Trump administration view of “western civilisation” is based on race, Christianity and nationalism. The European version is a liberal view founded on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, including international law." That might be what EUrope says, but not what EUrope does!
Trump’s America and a clash of civilisations with Europe
The White House sees mass immigration as a bigger threat than Russia — and it is pressuring Europe to agree
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Amazing how blind centrists are to the foundational nativism of European politics. There is more outcry over the U.S. Southern border than over the European Mediterranean border. How about the actual treatment of non-white citizens and non-EU immigrants or LGBTQIA+ community in many EU states?
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 far right; mainstream parties; political communication; agenda setting; automated text analysis @dasalgon.bsky.social · @tevoelker.bsky.social @ejprjournal.bsky.social
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream
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Will be speaking at this a week today along with the brilliant @minakshidahal.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/periods-ar...
Periods around the world: How can we deliver menstrual justice?
Eventbrite - University of Bath presents Periods around the world: How can we deliver menstrual justice? - Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at The Mission Theatre, Bath, England. Find event and ticket inform...
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New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
Doing critical research in academia can be lonely and alienating, particularly when it's about an already grim topic like reactionary politics The engagement with the network so far shows how spaces for solidarity are needed
Reactionary Politics Research Network@reacpolrn.bsky.social · 12mo agoThat's a wrap! The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over! Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️ More info about the RPSS below 1/ reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
As ever so incredibly proud to be working with the RPRN team ❤️
Reactionary Politics Research Network@reacpolrn.bsky.social · 12mo agoThat's a wrap! The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over! Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️ More info about the RPSS below 1/ reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
That's a wrap! The second edition of the Reactionary Politics Summer School is over! Once again, it was incredibly energizing to share this space with critical, committed researchers from all over the world ❤️ More info about the RPSS below 1/ reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
My chapter, Zwischen Unsichtbarkeit und Externalisierung, explores pedagogical perspectives on Jewish life and antisemitism in kindergartens. BOOK OPEN ACCESS: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
Antisemitismus in der Kindheit
Gegen Antisemitismus in der Kindheit – Empfehlungen für die pädagogische Praxis in der (früh)kindlichen Bildung.
transcript-verlag.de
✨Thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume Antisemitismus in der Kindheit. The book concludes the research project RelcoDiff (Religiös codierte Differenzkonstruktionen), initiated by Prof. Dr. Isabell Diehm (✝). @sabanurcheema.bsky.social
"Das extremistisch-arabische 'Nakba'-Vokabular" - die deutsche Verzerrung palästinensischer Geschichte findet kein Ende.
Hanno Hauenstein@hahauenstein.bsky.social · last yr.In diesem Absatz steckt das komplette Set Dummheit mancher „Linker“ zu dem Thema: 1. Geschichtsrevisionismus (Nakba in Anführungszeichen). 2. Denken nur in Nullsummen. 3. israelische Geschichte als invertierter Spiegel deutscher Geschichte verklärt („Araber = Nazis“). 4. wie immer: Ausländer.
NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess
NEW - How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD "we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians" - @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess
Most read three months in a row in JLP journal; 9th most read on JB. Last few months were full of professional disappointments so Ill take this as a little win 🙆
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly * Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars Mohammed’s skeletal arms stick out of a romper with a grinning emoji-face and the slogan “smiley boy”, which in a Gaza hospital reads as a cruel joke. He spends much of the day crying from hunger, or gnawing at his own emaciated fingers. At seven months old, he weighs barely 4kg (9lbs) and this is the second time he has been admitted for treatment. His face is gaunt, his limbs little more than bones covered in baggy skin and his ribs protrude painfully from his chest. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
You can find Mohamed's research article, which this interview is based on, here: brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
📣New interview📣 @uselesssimo.bsky.social discusses reactionary digital cultures in Morocco and their links to the global far right. Check it out below! reacpol.net/right-morocco/
Interview: Reinventing the Right in Morocco (Mohamed Salhi) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Mohamed Salhi's article 'Reinventing the Right in Morocco: Right-Wing Populist Discourses and Sentiments in Moroccan Online Spaces ' (2025)
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While the threat of the far right gets euphemised (populism, left behind etc) and their politics legitimised, any alternative left of centre gets exaggerated and ridiculed so that we are left with the bad and the worse as alternatives
Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access! doi.org/10.1177/1354...
