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Françoïs Guesnet

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Based in London and Berlin. Modern Jewish history @ University College London, focus Poland/Eastern Central Europe. Co-chair Board of Editors of 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry', Secretary European Association for Jewish Studies. Stand with Ukraine!

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Where‘s the red beetroot? Scandal!

05.03.2026 18:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside the Trump administration’s scramble to support its own war One State Department official said too few people were read in on war plans.

U.S. Central Command is now saying internally that this war against Iran is likely to last through September, according to information obtained by @politico.com.

This would easily cost over $100 billion, and that number could go much higher.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

05.03.2026 14:41 — 👍 422    🔁 221    💬 46    📌 64

Consider applying to the Conference Grant Programme of the European Association of Jewish Studies - details below.

Deadline 26 March 2026

05.03.2026 10:19 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

What a despicable waste of space

04.03.2026 18:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent assessment
@juedischeonline.bsky.social

04.03.2026 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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❗️A massive strike on Novorossiysk port on the night of March 1-2 using at least 200 drones damaged five Russian warships, Dosye Shpiona reported. Minesweeper Valentin Pikul sustained the heaviest damage, with vessels Yeysk and Kasimov also hit. Three servicemen were killed and 16 wounded. #Ukraine

04.03.2026 08:12 — 👍 385    🔁 65    💬 3    📌 6

Analysts from the channel "Crimean Wind" suggest that it may refer to an Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate - a carrier of "Kalibr" cruise missiles. It was identified from satellite images after the attack on the port of Novorossiysk.

03.03.2026 09:24 — 👍 262    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - US military says Kuwait 'mistakenly shot down' 3 American F-15E Strike Eagles aircraft during combat.

@apnews.com

02.03.2026 11:45 — 👍 976    🔁 340    💬 128    📌 145
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Saudi Aramco's refinery in Ras Tanura has halted operations following a drone attack, Sky News Arabia reported. Iran has been cited as responsible for the strike. #Iran

02.03.2026 08:02 — 👍 210    🔁 56    💬 8    📌 13

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01.03.2026 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He does not really seem to get Trump

01.03.2026 10:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NEW: Bahrain skyscrapers and Dubai hotels are now being hit by Iranian drones.

This is insane. Trump has unleashed chaos and carnage.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

28.02.2026 17:22 — 👍 1385    🔁 703    💬 72    📌 118
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This should be used as part of the evidence for treason.

27.02.2026 14:24 — 👍 2828    🔁 1106    💬 70    📌 0
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Missile debris of an intercepted Iranian missile fell near people in a residential neighborhood in Qatar. #Iran

28.02.2026 12:20 — 👍 243    🔁 66    💬 6    📌 7
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Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X "Footage of an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain earlier today."
x.com/Osinttechnic...

28.02.2026 09:39 — 👍 756    🔁 426    💬 56    📌 76

... and some are still posting cats and dogs

28.02.2026 09:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A ballistic missile hit was reported in Tel Aviv after launches toward the Israeli capital. Preliminary data indicate at least one Iranian missile penetrated air defenses. Iran is reported to be continuing another wave of strikes against Israel. #Iran

28.02.2026 09:04 — 👍 178    🔁 56    💬 10    📌 0

The moment of Iran's attack on Bahrain, where the US military base is located.

28.02.2026 09:15 — 👍 177    🔁 27    💬 4    📌 2

this is a ‘must read’

27.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A really good development

27.02.2026 09:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

According to Farage and Goodwin, Islamists en masse voted for the LGBT+ friendly white woman who represents a party run by a gay Jewish man.

27.02.2026 08:34 — 👍 164    🔁 48    💬 7    📌 3
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Covilian infrastructure, shopping areas and apartment buildings were Russia's primary targrts in last night's missile and drone attack across Ukraine.

26.02.2026 08:39 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Russia unleashed a missile and drone barrage against Ukraine overnight.

Officials say 14 were injured in Kharkiv, including a 7-year-old boy, nine in Zaporizhzhia, with more wounded in the Dnipro region.

🧵 1/5

26.02.2026 07:38 — 👍 102    🔁 59    💬 7    📌 1
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Select tickets – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Translating Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union – UCL In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Translating Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union – UCL, Thu 26 Feb 2026 - An in-person event at UCL The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust, trans...

Join us for Sasha Senderovich's talk about Soviet literary narratives about the Holocaust

Thursday, 26 February, 6 pm - in person, at University College London!

www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...

Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, UCL Institute for Jewish Studies

24.02.2026 07:55 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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The moment the Ukrainian FP-5 “Flamingo” missile struck the Russian missile factory in Votkinsk, Russia.

Nobody would have anticipated few years ago that Ukrainian-made missiles strike targets deep inside Russia.

25.02.2026 11:22 — 👍 652    🔁 99    💬 25    📌 10
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Four years since the attempted wholescale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The invasion fails, but Ukrainians pay the price.

You can support the Ukrainian defense effort by donating to Back&Alive, as I have done on this momentous day: 'For our freedom and yours'

savelife.in.ua/en/

24.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Select tickets – In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Translating Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union – UCL In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Translating Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union – UCL, Thu 26 Feb 2026 - An in-person event at UCL The short fiction collected in In the Shadow of the Holocaust, trans...

Join us for Sasha Senderovich's talk about Soviet literary narratives about the Holocaust

Thursday, 26 February, 6 pm - in person, at University College London!

www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...

Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, UCL Institute for Jewish Studies

24.02.2026 07:55 — 👍 8    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Ukrainians today pay the price of past lies and manipulations. Including those by Trump puppet Blair.

23.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

Why was British and American intelligence not taken seriously ahead of Russian attack on Ukraine in 2022?

‘The reluctance to trust us was definitely a legacy of Iraq [2003]‘

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

23.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0