Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today. @campolis.bsky.social Link to the full piece below:
Jan Daniel
@horalistani.bsky.social
Researcher @IIR_Prague; fellow @prcprague; Lebanon, Syria, critical peace and security studies, security narratives, social theory
This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon
Ezra Klein now agrees with the One State Reality thesis: “that might have been a controversial claim when it was made. But what has happened since Oct. 7 has made it an undeniable reality.” Enjoy our podcast. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-lynch-telhami.html
Opinion | Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’
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‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas
Lebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areas
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.
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Military GPS jamming in the Gulf is forcing delivery drivers to abandon their maps and navigate by memory as signals across the UAE and surrounding countries are spoofed or blocked https://restofworld.org/2026/gps-disruption-gulf-gig-workers/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky
In the Gulf, GPS jamming leaves delivery drivers navigating blind
The war has led to mass GPS-jamming, forcing drivers to rely on memory, landmarks, and phone calls.
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I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /
This is Apartheid. It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide. To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo agoIsrael’s death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners moves to final vote
The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to announce POMEPS Studies 58: IR Theory and the Middle East at War. Download the full PDF here: pomeps.org/pomeps-studi...
POMEPS Studies 58: IR Theory and the Middle East at War - Project on Middle East Political Science
In December 2025, POMEPS convened a workshop at Aarhus University in Denmark, bringing together scholars to collectively interrogate these questions: what core concepts, theories, or hypotheses in Mid...
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Impossible Conditions of Life: Famine, Humanitarian Management, and Genocide in Gaza muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Steffen Mau@steffenmau.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...
How do small states navigate the current turbulent geopolitical environment? How do they cope with external shocks from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to Trump's erratic management of the US foreign policy? If you have answers, contribute to the CJIR special issue! cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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@theguardian.com's @willchristou.bsky.social reports from Lebanese communities under Israeli bombs: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies
Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon
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Heavy rain in Lebanon today. There are still thousands sleeping outside, in tents or out in the open.
"The conflict in the Middle East has diverted Washington’s attention from a peace deal... At the same time, the diplomats said, it was benefiting Russia through higher oil prices, a suspension of US sanctions and the rapid depletion of American munitions Kyiv needed." www.ft.com/content/c4fa...
Ukraine peace talks fizzle out as Trump’s focus shifts to Iran
US president no longer focused on pressuring Vladimir Putin, European officials say
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100, innocent, children whose only crime was to be born Lebanese. 100 children among nearly 800 killed by Israeli strikes on Lebanon www.channel4.com/news/over-10...
Over 100 children among nearly 800 killed by Israeli strikes on Lebanon
Lebanese officials said over 100 children are among the 773 people who have been killed so far by Israeli airstrikes.
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Well this isn't great. Clever of them to announce it on March 14 btw (Lebanese folks, you know what I'm talking about, and everyone else—no explanation will ever make sense)
“Reliance on AI among faculty is also on the rise, with observers pointing to the dystopian possibility that the college experience may soon be reduced to AI systems grading AI-generated homework – “a conversation between two robots”.” www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large
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A must read article by Narges Bajoghli on Iran and the Iranian diaspora. nymag.com/intelligence...
Hard Feelings
The Iranian diaspora is fracturing in real time, across dinner tables, on WhatsApp, and in the silence of blocked numbers.
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📢 We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Middle East Politics. Come and work with us in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. Details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... Closing date: 7 April 2026
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Novým duchovním vůdcem Íránu zvolilo Shromáždění znalců syna ajatolláha Modžtabu Chameneího. Volba není překvapivá, je to reprezentant bojovnější části režimu, hodnotí vedoucí Centra pro studium globálních regionů na Ústavu mezinárodních vztahů Jan Daniel. irozhl.as/ABF
Expert: Nový ajatolláh Íránu je konzervativní. Bez útoku by možná přišla přirozená generační obměna
Zabitého ajatolláha střídá syn Modžtaba. Írán s jeho vedením zůstává ve stejných kolejích tvrdého režimu. Podle experta Jana Daniela je zhroucení systému zatím v nedohlednu.
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Human Rights Watch: The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus
The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor.
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"Looking at the collective record, the unavoidable truth is that there was not one axis of evil but two, and innumerable people... have been crushed in between." @ericreidy.bsky.social writes about the American-Israeli war in Iran: ⬇️
Iran war: America’s shame and the continuing ruination of a region
There’s not one axis of evil but two, and countless people – and their hopes, dreams, and aspirations for better lives – have been crushed in between.
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Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor (Grade 9) in political theory, to be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. The post will be
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"israeli bombings in southern, eastern, western and nothern Lebanon. once again. just like the sound of a broken record, the needle is stuck on Lebanon" checkpoint303.free.fr/trackinfo_30... www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_s...
Checkpoint 303 - Needle Stuck On Lebanon
YouTube video by Codruta Oprean
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Israel closes all Gaza crossings, tightens siege following Iran war - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-closes-all-gaza-crossings-tightens-siege-following-iran-war
Israel closes all Gaza crossings, tightens siege following Iran war
<article data-history-node-id="434501" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-closes-all-gaza-crossings-tightens-siege-following-iran-war" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-closes-all-gaza-crossings-tightens-siege-following-iran-war" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel closes all Gaza crossings, tightens siege following Iran war</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="70" data-start="0">All crossings into the Gaza Strip have been closed until further notice, Israel’s military agency overseeing the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Cogat, said on Sunday, following start of the Israeli-US war on Iran.</p> <p data-end="606" data-start="291">In a post on X, the agency said that following the outbreak of the war, “several necessary security adjustments have been implemented, including the closure of the crossings into the Gaza Strip, among them the Rafah Crossing, until further notice. The rotation of humanitarian personnel is postponed at this stage.”</p> <p data-end="717" data-start="608">The decision effectively tightens Israel’s siege on Gaza, further restricting the movement of people and aid.</p> <p data-end="987" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="719">The move is expected to have severe consequences for Palestinians in the enclave, who rely heavily on humanitarian assistance after three years of a genocidal war, mass displacement and policies of deliberate starvation in the besieged territory.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Quite a major political choice by the UK. There are precedents for the UK refusing to let the US use its bases for military operations, but not many.
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 6mo ago🔺 BREAKING: UK blocking Trump from using RAF bases for strikes on Iran