I am deeply alarmed by reports of mass graves in Gaza.
 
Independent investigators must be allowed immediate access.
 
The families of the dead have a right to know what happened.

The world has a right to accountability for any violations of int’l law that may have taken place.

📢 In their farewell Editorial (of our #NewIssue ), Susannah Verney and Anna Bosco, look back over more than a quarter-century of publication, 99 issues, 679 articles... and many other achievements

THANK YOU ANNA AND SUSANNAH!

🆓 Read it HERE #FreeAccess tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

israil ile ticaret yapan MÜSİAD üyesi bu firmayı ticaret sicil gazetesinde sorguladım. Sahibi 🇹🇷 F4tih M. Büyükkılıç 🇹🇷 Ensar Vakfı (@EnsarVakfi) Başakşehir temsilcisi çıktı.

Huge symposium convened by Nermin Allam Diana B. Greenwald Noora Lori asks: what misconceptions cloud mainstream coverage of Gaza? What does everyone get wrong? SO MANY answers in >12 essays, not possible to hotlink their DOIs! But each clickable via our TOC: zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/ze…

Hot off the press! My latest piece on Turkey’s local elections for the Wilson Center’s Middle East Program:

The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) cordially invites you to a Zoom Webinar on:

Human Rights & Political Prisoners in Tunisia

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
12 noon to 1:30 pm EST
5 pm to 6:30 pm, Tunis Time

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Police brutality has never been effective in demobilization of protesters. It almost always has had the opposite effect, and for good reason…

New EU standards?

India has a long history of elites acting undemocratically. But the current government’s attacks on the media, arrests of opposition, and discriminatory laws are deeper and more alarming.

Read 'Why India’s Political Elites Are to Blame': muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Murathan Mungan, Şairin Romanı

💥This girl was arrested after shouting 'Ben Gvir is a criminal!' by the police now run by the criminal (convicted 13 times of hates crimes & terror.)

Besieged Gazans find more solidarity in the Ivy League than in the Arab League

A new article by me and Nanna Mik-Meyer shows how successful male academics use strategic networking with co-authors, reviewers and editors to better their publication chances in top journals – and how others lose out in the publication race #WESjnl
doi.org/10.1177/095001…

NEW ISSUE from @ps_poliSci -

Special Issue on Democratic Backsliding - PS: Political Science & Politics - Volume 57 - Issue 2 - April 2024 - cup.org/49SUFl5

APSA

In APSA MENA Spring 2024 newsletter, Diana B. Greenwald Noora Lori and I turned to our colleagues to help us understand this fraught time. We asked : What is one prevalent misconception about the conflict, and how can political science effectively respond?
zenodo.org/records/110676…

Our second symposium address the important issue of electoral processes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Thanks to the wonderful editors Daniel L. Tavana Luciano Zaccara for putting such an impressive lineup of contributors
zenodo.org/records/110676…

Today: Israeli police arrested 7 protesters as Rabbis from the US and Israel marched towards Erez crossing, carrying aid for Gaza and calling to end the war

Berlin'de parlamento binası önünde Gazze için toplanan insanlara polis müdahale etti. Gözaltıların video ve fotoğraflarını çekiyordum, beni de gözaltına aldılar. (Şimdi serbestim)

There are many organizations doing great work for peace and human rights in Israel/Palestine. If you'd like to support that work, here are three I can vouch for:

hamoked.org, breakingthesilence.org.il, & alandforall.org/english/?d=ltr

Please share this widely. Thank you!

'The BJP has attacked civil society, muzzled India’s historically feisty press, and harassed and marginalized minorities...Given the BJP’s toxic brew of authoritarianism and Hindu majoritarianism, things will likely get worse.'

journalofdemocracy.org/elections/why-…