Erik Skare

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Photograph by Heidi Levine / the Washington Post

Yesterday, @washingtonpost.com Washington Post published an image of Gaza City which looked like Hiroshima.
It seems that this is one of the *least damaged* areas in the Gaza Strip. Short thread:

@leloveluck.bsky.social

Ett eksempel: Da VMWare Horizon ble til Omnissa Horizon eksploderte prisen for lisensen. UiO hadde ingen exit-strategi som betød at man bare måtte finne seg i å betale blodpris med penger som kunne gått til å utvikle egne løsninger eller gå over til en annen og billigere løsning.

Og hvis vi må knytte oss til Big Tech, så *må* vi ha en exit-strategi som kan implementeres umiddelbart om det blir økonomisk, politisk eller etisk uholdbart.

For all del, å gå over til Ubuntu (som det nå er brukerstøtte for hos UiO) er ikke gratis i den forstand at IT-avdelingene må omskoleres, og vi må ansette flere, for å løse de problemene som skulle oppstå, men det er fortsatt bedre enn Microsoft og Big Tech.

Spørsmålene Lindgren tar opp er i aller høyeste grad relevante for norsk akademia generelt og UiO spesielt. Hvorfor låser vi oss fortsatt til Microsoft og deres elendige løsninger? Hva ville vi spart av penger på å gå over til andre løsninger som er åpen kilde og gratis?

(+) En tung sky over Norges digitale sikkerhet Hvordan vil digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung gi Norge kontroll over egen infrastruktur? Mange spørsmål kan stilles om Norges digitale suverenitet.

Anbefaler på det varmeste Lena Lindgrens suverene essay i @morgenbladet.no! Jeg skulle bare ønske at avisa ikke lot Karianne Tung - et av regjeringens absolutt svakeste ledd - slippe så billig unna i påfølgende intervju: www.morgenbladet.no/samfunn/en-t...

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

“a simple description of the discriminatory nature of Israel’s 2018 Nation State Law..or of the apartheid nature of its control over millions of Palestinians…would be impossible in a ME history course under IHRA.”
Powerful Rashid Khalidi open letter to Columbia

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thank you, I appreciate it!

If I may ask, do you think this is a response to growing calls for academic boycott and EU sanctions or is it too cynical?

Look what finally arrived!! By one of the absolute best in the field:

Really excited to see the Turkish translation of Road to October 7! @versobooks.bsky.social

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

This is the Washington Post (yes, that one): names in Arabic and English, and ages, of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, plus portraits and stories where available: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach Symbolic gestures and empty statements are no longer enough. In Israel’s globalised economy, here’s what will shift public opinion, says says senior lecturer in Israeli studies Yair Wallach

By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements.
The time to act is now - me @theguardian.com

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The IPC's deliberation of the emergence of widespread famine conditions in Gaza nails Netanyahu's lie that there is no famine. IPC assessments are data driven, technical and reviewed by expert committee. Meanwhile Israel is still cynically trying to plant stories and comment pieces.

The humanitarian crisis facing 42,000 forcibly displaced Palestinians in the West Bank Six months since Israel’s expanded military assault on the refugee camps of Jenin and Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, over 42,000 Palestinian refugees remain forcibly displaced and have no stable ...

🚨 42,000 Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the West Bank — expelled at gunpoint, living in buses, mosques, and rubble.

Israel is carrying out mass displacement in Jenin and Tulkarem.📍Read the full report on @mondoweiss.net.
mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...

Israeli says it has begun aid airdrops into Gaza The IDF says seven packages with flour, sugar, and canned food were delivered to Gaza, amid a growing hunger crisis there.

So the power that controls all land and sea access to Gaza, and that directly occupies much of the territory where starvation is worst, can’t do better than an airdrop? Grotesque comedy.

Israeli says it has begun aid airdrops into Gaza
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well deserved, but the review does not heap enough superlatives on this book (which explains why 7th of October happened through a deep historical exposé). I'm halfway through, and it's probably one of the most impressive works of history or social science I've read in a long time

Really happy to see the Spanish translation of my article “Controlling the State in the Political Theory of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad” in Asiática. Miscelánea de Orientes:

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

Omer Bartov: “My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people … I can recognize one when I see one.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back

Huge kudos to @data.ft.com for putting together this forensic mapping of the utter vileness of the Israel-US "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation"

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ www.ft.com/content/6c74... via @data.ft.com

I remember reading this one 15 years ago, and it was such a good read!

"The dogs have learned to run toward areas where there’s shooting or explosions — they understand it probably means there’s a body there."

Just finished the Dinah Project report on sexual violence conducted on October 7. Anyone aware of any solid secondary analyses of the report or threads by forensic experts assessing its methodology?

In Gaza, ‘They’re Prepared to Die for a Bagful of Rice’

““We’re in that point where people have been reduced to such a level of deprivation that they’re prepared to die for a bagful of rice and a bit of pasta.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Israeli soldier describes arbitrary killing of civilians in Gaza Speaking in a rare on-camera interview with Sky News, the soldier said the criteria of opening fire on civilians shifted depending on the commander.

He said the criteria of opening fire on civilians shifted depending on the commander.

"They might be shot, they might be captured," he said. "It really depends on the day, the mood of the commander."

Defense minister: Israel to concentrate all Gaza population in Rafah 'humanitarian' zone ***

This essentially proposes a concentration camp in Rafah: “Defense minister: Israel to concentrate all Gaza population in Rafah 'humanitarian' zone” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Qobuz er fantastisk! Langt bedre businessmodell enn Spotify, bedre lyd enn Tidal og, ikke minst, europeisk istedenfor amerikansk.