@nphellstrom.bsky.social
historical entanglements of science, empire, culture /// research fellow at Uppsala University /// incoming associate professor at Dalarna University
Lack of media interest makes genocide cover-up unnecessary
Nothing to see here!
05.02.2026 09:21 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anklagelserna mot Zita är inte ett försvar mot antisemitismen. De är antisemitismens spegelbild.
Jag har skrivit om drevet mot biografen Zita i @flamman.se
www.flamman.se/drevet-mot-z...
”Men jag börjar tro att många debattörer på högerkanten faktiskt inte förstår skillnaden mellan judar och staten Israel.”
Läs @nphellstrom.bsky.social:
Drevet mot biografen Zita visar att många högerdebattörer inte kan skilja på judar och staten Israel.
Resultatet är en förvirrad debatt som i praktiken förstärker antisemitismen, skriver @nphellstrom.bsky.social.
Vintage black and white portrait of a young boy with short dark hair. He is wearing a dark jacket and turns his head towards the camera.
27 January 1933 | A German Jewish boy, Lutz Ludwig Grünstein, was born in Berlin.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstad ghetto on 9 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
„Der Tod der menschlichen Empathie ist eines der frühesten und deutlichsten Zeichen dafür, dass eine Kultur gerade in Barbarei verfällt.“
26.01.2026 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0good
trumps evil
pretti
trumps foul
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." – Hannah Arendt
26.01.2026 11:32 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.”
Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini:
www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
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Hur kan detta inte vara en större nyhet idag? Ja, det händer väldigt mycket och väldigt stora saker just nu. Det är svårt att hänga med själv.
Men det ÄR en stor nyhet att en stat attackerar FN på det här sättet.
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
18.01.2026 19:43 — 👍 4603 🔁 1760 💬 59 📌 181
‘During the Cold War, US-sponsored regime change was most often carried out at arm’s length. The kidnapping of Maduro seems to follow an older model, closer to the gunboat diplomacy which saw US troops occupy Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua between 1900 and 1934.’
Tony Wood:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hehe
17.01.2026 18:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's a fine piece you wrote!
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Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
A new European Citizens' Initiative demands the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. EU citizens and residents can sign at eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/
15.01.2026 09:58 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Europe is no utopia. But at least it should take control of its own destiny.
15.01.2026 09:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Alla visioner blir inte verklighet!
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EU citizens' initiative demanding the suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement in view Israel’s violations of human rights. We need 1 million signatures across 7 member states, the EU has >450 million ppl.
Let's do this! 👉 eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/
#JusticeForPalestine
While you're at it, why not read @iamhurst.bsky.social in yesterday's @theguardian.com, too!
15.01.2026 09:04 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1"Maps anticipate empire", wrote historian of cartography Brian Harley. This 1940 map shows the imperial vision of the "Technocracy" movement, produced at the height of WW2 and incorporating all lands from Greenland to Venezuela. Read @historydafydd.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com (3/2025)
15.01.2026 09:02 — 👍 17 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 0I know this is hijacking a fun post with a serious point, but: the Feast of the Flight into Egypt is a commemoration of the fact that Jesus and his parents fled to Egypt as refugees, which should be more often remembered, particularly by those who say they want to defend the West’s Christian values.
14.01.2026 10:30 — 👍 203 🔁 69 💬 6 📌 1
Ayla kom som 15-åring till Sverige tillsammans med sina föräldrar. Nu ska hon - ensam - utvisas till Iran. "– Jag är rädd. Jag har ju hela min familj och mitt liv här, säger hon." Svensk migrationspolitik är omänsklig och behöver förändras.
13.01.2026 10:23 — 👍 60 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 5Samtidigt ska Sverige utvisa journalister till Iran. Journalister som just nu rapporterar om de stora protesterna och det dödliga våldet mot oppositionella i Iran, från vad de trodde var tryggheten i Sverige:
12.01.2026 10:27 — 👍 126 🔁 105 💬 2 📌 4Since we are again having this discussion, and now in the UK with draconic legal powers: my thread on Intifada and "globalise the Intifada"
20.12.2025 11:17 — 👍 64 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1
UN report details the asphyxiating impact of Israel’s laws, policies and practices on life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, warning that Israel is violating international law requiring States to prohibit and eradicate racial segregation and apartheid www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
08.01.2026 09:26 — 👍 6 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0After destroying every university in Gaza, Israeli occupation forces yesterday attacked Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live rounds at students and faculty. On the other side of the Wall, Israeli universities remain major recipients of EU research funding through Horizon Europe.
07.01.2026 20:30 — 👍 31 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 1
Front cover of the book Archiving Gaza in the Present.
Table of contents from the book Archiving Gaza in the Present.
A spread from the book Archiving Gaza in the Present.
A quote from Daniel Gorman, Director, English PEN: 'Allows us a glimpse at the devastating impact on the cultural landscape of Gaza during Israel's genocidal war, and the crucial need to do all we can to support and champion Palestinian voices.'
We are honoured to share Archiving Gaza in the Present, edited by Dina Matar & Venetia Porter. The book reveals how conflict erases lives and memory, even as archiving, art-making and testimony endure.
Learn more or order your own copy on our website.
Is the crackdown on “antisemitism” really about protecting Jews — or silencing dissent? Prof. Joshua Schreier (Vassar College) breaks down how pro-Israel groups and conservative politicians have increasingly targeted Jewish scholars and students who criticize Israel.
youtube.com/shorts/hlABu...
