📢📢Call for Papers! This year's CTS Annual Conference will take place online on 9 September. ➡️Submit an abstract by 30 July

Honoured to have received this award along with my co-conspirators @amnakaleem.bsky.social and @rmkhan.bsky.social !

BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · last yr.

Our 2025 Working Group Prize was awarded to @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social 🎉 After they were ''instrumental” in putting forward ISA sponsored panels & made significant contributions to advancing the field of security studies' 🌟 Read more 👉 buff.ly/OTk1esS @aliceellafinden.bsky.social

🚨Become a co-convenor for @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social🚨 2025's WG of the year winners is looking for a new co-convenor! Post starts September for a three-year term 🎉 Deadline to apply 20 July 2025 🌟 Apply - buff.ly/SsW597x @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @amnakaleem.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

Join the Critical Studies on Terrorism convener team!- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) | BISA

- Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) Working Group

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📚 📢 Two new entries in the Virtual Encyclopaedia "Rewriting Peace and Conflict" @rmkhan.bsky.social discusses the concept of #terrorism, Gabriel Garroum Pla explores the topic of #urbicide. These and more entries are available on the Virtual Encyclopaedia website! 👇 rewritingpeaceandconflict.net

REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 📝 Editor Priya Dixit has curated our latest @risjnl.bsky.social 'Editor's collection: "The Politics of knowledge production" 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Articles by @rmkhan.bsky.social @danaelkurd.bsky.social +more @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social #ISA2025

It's critical to read about this & oppose it. The "terrorism" label is a political weapon for oppressing Palestinians, Muslims, and/or people of color. That's what it was designed for within US legal regimes. There is no way to reform or expand the label that undoes its fundamental colonial nature.

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 2y ago

🧵 BREAKING: The U.S. House has just passed HR 9495, a bill that dramatically expands the Treasury’s power to revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits it deems to be “supporting terrorism.” Here’s what this means for Palestinian rights organizations and free speech in the U.S.

I’ve created a starter pack for those working on terrorism, counterterrorism, etc. let me know if you’d like to be added ! go.bsky.app/XNdPyw

Our virtual Encyclopaedia is online! 📣📣📣 On our website rewritingpeaceandconflict.net you can discover our texts and podcasts. @postcolh.bsky.social @fabriciorodriguez.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @anikaoettler.bsky.social @teraqerat.bsky.social @sidtrip.bsky.social @manuelaboatca.bsky.social

If you care about abolishing and critiquing idea of the war on terror as a political project , you should give my colleague @rmkhan.bsky.social a hearty follow. She and @sarahgharib.bsky.social just published an amazing special issue, me and several others are part of : doi.org/10.1080/1753...

Editors’ Introduction: Decoloniality, criticality, and abolition - can Critical Terrorism Studies remain “critical”?

Published in Critical Studies on Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2024)

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""Militarist-nationalism is the perennial mechanism through which the state enacts division and blame, and through which fundamental freedoms are curtailed." My blogpost on the increased suppression of dissent & scapegoating of racialised communities in the UK

The shifting goalposts of extremism and the right to protest

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's emergency press conference on Friday 1st March warned against the 'rise of extremism' in Britain. He was not referring to the extremism of the UK's militarism; nor the ...

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Our second Teach-in on Gaza, next Tuesday @ St Andrews 👇

Dear all, I have now posted the English and German versions of the Der Spiegel article on my site. I restored some of the content in the English version that was removed in the German edition. amroali.com/2024/01/the-...

The Moral Imagination Crisis in Germany’s Approach to Palestine

There has always been a strange unspoken pact between Germany and the Arab world. The Arabs were less outraged by German support for Israel than by that of the US and UK. This was in part due to the w...

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"The ICJ faces a stark choice: find in favour of South Africa and indicate provisional measures or damn international law into oblivion." At World’s End: Palestine, the ICJ, and a New Dawn in International Law - Mohsen Alattar @opiniojuris.bsky.social

At World’s End: Palestine, the ICJ, and a New Dawn in International Law

What can I do? Many of us have repeatedly asked this question in the past months. We predicted the revolution would not be televised; we did not anticipate the genocide would. Scholars of anti-colo…

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I’ll be speaking on this panel next Friday on framings of terrorism that permeate national and international discussion on Palestine and Israel Online, open to all, but registration required

Terrorism, counter-terrorism, and the permissibility of violence

A roundtable event from the Critical Studies in Terrorism Working Group and BRISMES.

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This Wednesday, St Andrews - Readings of the Gaza Monologues, first-hand testimonies of Palestinian children in Gaza 👇

Special relationship forged in the pyre of international law "The US administration has irreversibly staked its reputation on one of the most extreme Israeli governments in the state’s 75-year history"

Special Relationship Forged in the Pyre of International Law

The US administration has irreversibly staked its reputation on one of the most extreme Israeli governments in the state's 75 year history (though fellow scholars of Israel-Palestine might argue the d...

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A key piece of German remembrance culture is the erasure of longer histories of imperialism & white supremacy in Germany and Europe at large. On this, I'd recommend: Johnny Pitts' "Afropean": www.penguin.co.uk/books/300186... Hans Kundnani's "Eurowhiteness": www.hurstpublishers.com/book/eurowhi...

Anna Meier@annameier.bsky.social · 3y ago

I've had a lot of convos w/ folks confused about the crackdown in Germany against the most basic support for Palestinians. This is deeply tied to Germany's Holocaust remembrance culture, which happens to be something I study. Here's a thread of resources in English for those who want to learn. 1/

Open letter calling on UKRI to assert its independence from government interference. UKHE academics can add signatures here👇 docs.google.com/document/d/e...

A Palestinian telecommunications provider says there is now a complete blackout of connectivity in the besieged Gaza Strip: ‘The intense bombing in the last hour caused the destruction of all remaining international routes linking Gaza to the outside world.’

Israel-Palestine live: Communications blackout as heaviest strikes hit Gaza

Journalists and activists report widespread cellular and internet outages across besieged enclave

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This, by @rmkhan.bsky.social, is so so good. "in the vast majority of cases absolutely no attempt at defining religious terrorism is made at all; instead, its meaning is ... assumed to be common sense, as it is based on an essentialist, & as I argue colonial & racial, understanding of religion..."

If in the UK, please sign this petition. At 100,000 signatures it will be debated in the Parliament: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/64...

Petition: Seek a ceasefire and to end Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip

We want the Government to seek a ceasefire and also seek to address the root cause of the current conflict by promoting dialogue and advocating for the end of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and G...

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Interesting and topical article by @rmkhan.bsky.social: "The coloniality of the religious terrorism thesis" published in Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social Polisky

Since the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group has not officially migrated to BlueSky yet, I am sharing our statement on Gaza here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work... @aliceellafinden.bsky.social @rmkhan.bsky.social

Join us next week for this ISA panel on State Violence. I'll be discussing racial militarism & state violence as features of the (post)colonial state. Register here: isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... w/@tsolomon.bsky.social, Alexandria Innes, Leonie Fleischmann, Sasikumar Sandaram #Polisky