@awraffoul.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University I Power-sharing, ethnic conflict, climate crisis.
I know I am listed here for instance. We do it anyways, we don't have a choice. But it's deeply troubling to find scholars (who shine by their passivity during a genocide enabled by their government and university) fall for the security threat narrative. israel-academia-monitor.com/2025/06/11/s...
29.10.2025 11:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anti-genocide protesters in Sweden are recurrently (of course, falsely) accused of being a security threat. The reality: We are the ones afraid: to lose our jobs, to be targeted by the extreme right, to be publicly profiled by Israel. www.flamman.se/svenska-akti...
29.10.2025 11:46 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
My article on regenerative research was included in this Frontiers ebook on Activating Academia for an Era of Colliding Crises. It's all open access:
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
It is clear that with this ceasefire Western governments and media want us all to let bygones be bygones.
Never. Israel committed a genocide, we all witnessed the most obscene violence it is possible to imagine, and we need to see the perpetrators locked up in The Hague.
Article also demonstrates how far Sweden's gov is willing to go to cover up a crime against its most famous citizen in the world.
15.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 238 🔁 87 💬 2 📌 0"Then the guards came and said, ‘We’re going to gas you.’ It was standard for them to say that. They held up a gas cylinder and threatened to press it against us."
How is this even possible?
Aftonbladet
Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”
• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked
Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.
tinyurl.se/crR
This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world.
Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free.
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
04.10.2025 18:21 — 👍 6438 🔁 3894 💬 217 📌 530“They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” says Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik
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Orly Noy: Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy.
www.972mag.com/israel-holoc...
Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Those who remain in Gaza City will be terrorists and terror supporters."
In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south.
That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.
Peaceful activists are dragged off boats at gunpoint for trying to feed Gaza. But the war criminals committing the genocide get applause in parliaments, billions in funding, and handshakes from presidents.
We are watching pure evil live streamed.
Israeli soldiers were filmed detaining two Palestinian children in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, while demanding to know their father’s whereabouts.
When a passerby intervened and urged their release because of their young age, a soldier replied, “I don’t care”.
122 experts in the peace and security sector: Sweden does not live up to its international obligation to prevent genocide in Gaza. www.dagensarena.se/opinion/sver...
24.09.2025 08:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In his recent article, just attributed to the latest issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, PhD candidate Alexandre Raffoul explores conceptual issues in the typology of ethnic power-sharing – and proposes ways to "reassemble" the framework more productively: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
22.08.2025 12:54 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Since the lough is back in the (national) news, here's the blog version of my co-authored @politicalquarterly.bsky.social article from earlier in the year. #LoughNeagh
26.08.2025 15:00 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
My article "Unstable Concepts, Unresolved Controversies" was attributed to an issue. It explores how conceptual issues emerged as consociationalism and centripetalism were brought together under the label power-sharing – and proposes ways to address these issues.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Early in my legal career I was marginally involved in rendering an ancient Nazi concentration camp guard to justice.
People have long memories when it comes to the subject of concentration camps.
"Akademisk frihet försvinner bara om forskare slutar försvara och utöva den. När den är hotad har vi ett individuellt ansvar att försvara den tillsammans."
11.06.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Syre, we write about the recent motion by the Swedish Association and Anthropologists (SANT) supporting an academic boycott of Israel. We urge colleagues to use professional associations and unions to ask for ethical universities during a genocide. tidningensyre.se/2025/11-juni...
11.06.2025 10:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Academics for Palestine Uppsala: "Thinking, Hanna Arendt contended, requires making oneself receptive to others' existence and suffering. Our main concern with Ylva Söderfeldt's opinion piece is that it erases the most affected: the Palestinians"
www.tidningencurie.se/debatt/vi-ma...
