An American professor, Jodi Dean, calls Oct 7 'exhilarating,' claims Hamas is supported by 'the entirety of the Palestinian left' & applies Leila Khaled's defense of 'the justness of hijacking.'

I don't imagine any Verso editors will resign à la Guernica.
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Just a reminder, IS did not claim the attack in Russia under its Khurasan Province, but just as “Russia”. That doesn’t mean ISKP networks weren’t involved, but the way IS does its external operations claims are a bit more nuanced than its regional attack claims.

Centre Co-Director Ashley Jackson writes for POLITICO on ISKP, the Moscow attack, and the confusion over who they are and what they want politico.eu/article/islami…

Oft werde ich gefragt: Warum haben sich die Attentäter von Moskau nicht in die Luft gesprengt? Ist das nicht komisch und/oder Hinweis darauf, dass es vielleicht doch nicht der IS war? Nein, ist es nicht. 1/ pic.twitter.com/Lf8U69ORK5

For those curious about the state of the Islamic State today to better understand where the organization is now, I actually came out with an article looking at the global network 3 days ago. While the group is less is the news, it's still quite active. washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…

Important update: detailed report by Islamic State's Amaq News on Moscow attacks, incl. picture of the 4 operatives who carried out attacks. 3 of them focused on murdering the crowd with guns and knives, while fourth set fire to the hall w/incendiary bombs aymennaltamimi.com/p/islamic-stat…

“From the humanitarian crisis, to the refugee crisis, to ISIS, to captagon, it's become fairly clear that things in #Syria can always get worse,” explains CSIS’s Natasha Hall.

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This intervention by Radek Sikorski 🇵🇱 in the 🇺🇳 Security Council today will be a classic. Not much left of 🇷🇺 after that.

A new UN ISIL report available: Perhaps the best official report on the status of the jihadist movements: daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get…

Thread: I want to share a few w pieces I have written on the #Houthis since the beginning of the war. My arguments were not always popular. But the events unfolding in the RedSea confirm what I and many #Yemen -is have been warning the international community about since 2014.

🚨(open access) publication alert🚨

My article “Texts or Praxes: How Do We Best Understand Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad After October 7?” has finally been published by CTC Sentinel! ctc.westpoint.edu/texts-or-praxe…

A short 🧵🧵

As suspected, IS officially claims the attack in Iran, which was conducted by two operatives 'Umar al-Muwahid and Sayf Allah al-Mujahid.

Excellent case for more analytical description, less hypothesis-driven causal analysis in political science. Authors claim it's 10%/90% now. 4 vital contributions to the field: 1) conceptualization (or what I would call theoretical frameworks); 2) policy relevance; 3) management

The latest PCPSR poll of Palestinian public opinion is out and I am going to share some of the highlights from this poll looking at Palestinian attitudes in this historic moment...

A long thread on #Israel ’s war on #Gaza , and #Egypt ’s position that many see as confusing.
First of all, let’s all agree that Israel was and remains comfortable that Egypt’s regime won’t take any major steps to confront its military action and carnage in Gaza, or break the siege.

Like many people across the Middle East, I've sadly been privy to other horrific conflicts. This one I find particularly difficult and disturbing in ways that go beyond the obvious. (By obvious, I mean the levels of violence, falsehoods, and double standards) 🧵