Victor Asal

Netanyahu ousts top Likud MK to push mass Haredi IDF draft evasion at rabbis' behest haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Hamas has issued a message to journalists and Gazans, not to share any images of aid trucks in Gaza. Why do you think Hamas doesn’t want any images of the thousands of aid trucks in Gaza to be released?

How the world’s nuclear watchdog monitors facilities around the world – and what it means that Iran kicked it out @ConversationUS @aericksonGT theconversation.com/how-the-worlds…

Please read this important thread by @AlexanderM44630 On Gaza Education 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Ahead of the return flight from Paris, the Jewish children who were taken off a plane after singing in Hebrew were asked by leaders to remove their kippahs and tzitzit; 'We will not give those anti-Semites the opportunity to throw us off the plane' ynetnews.com/jewish-world/a…

As part of “law enforcement,” Jolani’s Islamists desecrate a Druze house of worship. Notice how the Islamists are dressed in PRESS vests. In Gaza, Islamist Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Press people also doubled as Hamas fighters.

Absolutely horrifying. Idiocracy will destroy the civilized world. #Hitler

America contributes a significant share of the world’s foreign aid, including 40% of humanitarian aid. Reducing that will lead to the closure of some programmes and destabilise international organisations that administer the money economist.com/graphic-detail…

Methodological hegemony is bad. We always learn more when we use multiple methods.

I was recently interviewed by @profilonline for this great feature on the PKK’s disarmament, and the similarities with the peace settlement with FARC 👇🏼 @MonashPolsIR

Turkish drones coming to Syria soon? Meeting as part of Syrian MoD visit to the Turkish "IDEF 2025" defense industry exhibition.

Pro-IS voices hint at Suweida role after US Syria envoy comments monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/b0004a…

BREAKING: *Prime Minister's Office:*: In light of the response that Hamas gave this morning, it was decided to return the negotiating team for further consultations in Israel. We appreciate the efforts of mediators Qatar and Egypt and the efforts of envoy Witkoff to bring about…

#Hamas doesn’t care about feeding Gazans, it cares about controlling food distribution & the power & money it can accumulate through that control. Food Aid Becomes Main Sticking Point in Gaza Cease-Fire Talks wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Israel studies #Hamas reply to Gaza ceasefire plan as fighting continues. A previous Hamas reply, submitted late on Tuesday, was rejected by mediators as insufficient and was not even passed to Israel reuters.com/business/energ…

Israel-Ukraine engage in strategic dialogue on Iranian threat timesofisrael.com/in-kyiv-saar-a…

Hate crime investigated for antisemitic, racist content during Baltimore School Board meeting cbsnews.com/baltimore/news…

It’s not that oil sanctions don’t work, it’s that they don’t work when they’re not fully enforced … Oil Sanctions Are the Wrong Tool When Dealing With Iran, Russia, China foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/23/oil…

Important to address that many #Kurdish scholars, including myself, face severe #repression and #racism from certain privileged #Turkish, #Arab, and #Western scholars exploiting the #Gaza tragedy to silence, punish, and erase us for our differing views. More on this soon.

It's deeply alarming to see how antisemitism has become increasingly normalized. At the same time, jihadist groups, despite committing atrocities and acts of genocide against ethnic and religious minorities, are often empowered or legitimized in certain narratives in Europe.