Excerpt from my remarks at the No Kings rally in Palo Alto.
For the full remarks: youtu.be/mDC7O2TO7s4
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Excerpt from my remarks at the No Kings rally in Palo Alto.
For the full remarks: youtu.be/mDC7O2TO7s4
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Guests includeย @liccardo.house.govย @wazirelkif.bsky.socialย + more!ย www.indivisiblepeninsulabayarea.org/nokings/
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There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
Democracy colleagues,
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But it was too late. To understand what happened, you *must* read @kimlanelaw.bsky.social's @jodemocracy.bsky.social article โผโผ
In fact, just drop what you're doing and read it now.
Iโm very excited to share that my paper โCleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agendaโ with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in โช@wepsocial.bsky.socialโฌ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.socialโฌ!)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations!! โค๏ธ๐
01.08.2025 14:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0ู ุชุดูุฑ ุฌุฏุง ูุง ุตุฏูู. ูุง ุฑุจ ุชููู ุจุฎูุฑ ๐
19.07.2025 13:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There's a lot more to this rich discussion, which featured
Sinaa Toossi, Negar Razavi, Naveed Mansoori, Mouin Rabbani, and Bassam Haddad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu-L...
But their course of action is limited by their dependence on the US-Israeli axisโan axis that has become much more โrevisionistโ and less accommodating of these statesโ pro-stability and risk-averse orientations.
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 06) The conservative Arab statesโSaudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, and othersโare left in a vulnerable position. A regional war (and a militarily aggressive Iran) would threaten their stability and economic and domestic interests in significant ways...
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 05) The White House will inevitably contend with an isolationist faction within the presidentโs own โMAGA coalitionโ -- a faction that is strongly opposed to fighting a war in the Middle East or sponsoring yet another Israeli war.
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 04) So far, the Trump administration, aside from its political and military support for Israel, has exercised numerous contortions to avoid getting involved directly in a military conflict with Iran.
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Within that context, Iran (& the 'resistance axis' more generally) is seen as a critical obstacle to the realization of the said vision.
Equally importantly, many analyses have glossed over civilian causalities and Israelโs attacks against heavily populated areas.
..one involving the annexation of the West Bank, the forced expulsion of large swaths of Palestinians from Gaza, and the institutionalization of an Apartheid regime in all the territories controlled by Israel...
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 03) U.S. mediaโs portrayal of Israelโs strikes as โpreemptiveโ is inaccurate for many reasons. Among them is the idea that the attack is linked to a broader effort to lay the groundwork for an expansionist project that Israelโs right-wing government has long been trying to pursueโ
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 02) The discussion suggests that Israelโs actions are not directly geared toward dismantling Iranโs nuclear program, but rather undermining the regimeโs credibility in the hope that it would encourage an uprising that could bring about regime change in the country.
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Trump and his team likely assumed (possibly miscalculated) that the attacks would force Iran into accepting a โbetter deal,โ not realizing that Netanyahuโs end game was drawing the US into direct war with Iran.
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Instead, they paint a picture wherein Netanyahu employed military action to undermine US-Iran talks and foreclose the possibility of a negotiated deal...
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 01) The discussion casts doubt on the theory that the Trump administration was purposely using negotiations to โdupeโ Tehran and distract it from an imminent Israeli attack. That theory, speakers argued, gives Trump too much credit...
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The recording is worth watching in full. But here some of the takeaways I found particularly useful:
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My colleagues at @jadaliyya.bsky.social just organized an incredibly enlightening and eye-opening discussion on Israelโs strikes against Iran and the exchange of hostilities that ensued shortly after. ๐งต
15.06.2025 00:44 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0New analysis from @wazirelkif.bsky.social contextualizes Egypt's contemporary culture wars in a longer history of intellectual conflict between Islamist and leftist intellectual advocates that stretches back decades.
๐ช๐ฌ READ MORE: ow.ly/nzuC50Vh2Jo
Read it in full here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/S5RP5...
10.03.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This history and its trajectory, the article explains, were largely the product of internal debates within leftist movements on how to project an authentic Egyptian identity in the face of attacks (sometimes intellectual, other times physical) by Islamist groups.
10.03.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The article explains how the fateful political clashes between Islamist and leftist currents in post-Mubarak Egypt were shaped by a decades-long history of contention over questions of authenticity and national loyalty.
10.03.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My article "Authenticity and national loyalty: the intellectual roots of Islamist-leftist affective polarisation in post-2013 Egypt" was just published in the Journal of North African Studies
10.03.2025 18:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1My Monday op-ed in @indianexpress.com about Trumpโs โGaza-a-Lagoโ proposal indianexpress.com/article/opin...
12.02.2025 16:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0