Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦🇪🇺
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Balkan historian. Associate Professor, SSST. Author of five books on modern Bosnian and Serbian history. Tweet mostly about current affairs. Anti-fascist conservative. Low tolerance for pro-Putin or woke politics.
Marko Attila Hoare is a British historian of the former Yugoslavia who also writes about current affairs, especially Southeast Europe, including Turkey and the Caucasus. Hoare is Associate Professor of History at the University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, in Sarajevo. .. more
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My book 'Serbia: A Modern History', is now out ! The product of 17.5 years of research and writing. Explains in just under 600 pages Serbia's path from Karađorđe's First Serbian Uprising, though independence, the Balkan Wars, World War I and Yugoslav unification up to conquest by Nazi Germany.
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war
Groups from Italy and elsewhere alleged to have paid Serb soldiers to shoot Sarajevo residents during siege
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Milan prosecutors investigate alleged ‘sniper tourism’ during Bosnian war www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
UK university axes researcher for teaching students anti-Jewish blood libel
University College London summons police after lecturer tells anti-Israel student group that Jews mix gentile blood into matzah
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UK university axes researcher for teaching students anti-Jewish blood libel www.timesofisrael.com/uk-universit...
Starmer backs ‘independent BBC’ but declines to tell Trump to drop $1bn lawsuit threat – as it happened
Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, says US president is ‘trying to destroy’ broadcaster
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If Keir Starmer doesn't have the balls to stand up for our great BBC against a foreign aggressor, he is truly unfit to be prime minister.
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Trump says he has 'obligation' to sue BBC over speech edit
The US president indicates he will go ahead with a lawsuit against the BBC over how his speech was presented by Panorama.
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Bring it on, Trump, you vacillating fascist scoundrel.
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...unbiased, their hypocrisy is too much to stomach. Any Brit supporting Trump and his international fascist movement against the BBC might want to reconsider whether one's political preferences should really take precedence over loyalty to one's country.
Tim Davie tells BBC staff he sees ‘weaponisation’ as Trump threatens $1bn lawsuit – UK politics live
Outgoing director general says freedom of press under pressure: ‘We have to fight for our journalism’
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The BBC is far from perfect. But it is obvious that it is now under sustained assault by the far right, for far-right reasons. Every single person accusing the BBC of 'bias' is themselves extremely biased, and while they may have no comparable obligation to be... www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Fury as Indonesia declares late authoritarian ruler Suharto a national hero
Suharto presided over a period marked by rampant corruption, nepotism, censorship and allegations of mass human rights abuses
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A genocidal dictator. He murdered hundreds of thousands of people and conquered East Timor.
Monica Marks on X: "Despicable behaviour. If you care about rape & sexual violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict, few stories illustrate state impunity better than this." / X
Despicable behaviour. If you care about rape & sexual violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict, few stories illustrate state impunity better than this.
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And as with the Serbian conquest of Vukovar, if Russia does conquer Pokrovsk, it still will not have won the war. Nowhere near.
Ukraine’s valiant defence of Pokrovsk is nearing its end
Russia suffers huge casualties, but its new drone-powered assault is working
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As with the siege of Vukovar in 1991, the West's shame is that we stood by and watched Russia conquer Pokrovsk, when we could so easily have stopped it. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
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UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’
Goli Kouhkan, 25, on death row for seven years for killing her abusive husband, has until December to settle with the victim’s family
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'Iran executes the highest number of women globally, according to available data.' www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Yusuf on X: "This female RSF militia commander makes it clear that following the massacres in El Fasher that the militia should extend its terror to other parts of Sudan. She encourages the militiamen to head to North State to rape and impregnate the women in order to “cleanse their lineage” https://t.co/1O68KP3kBT" / X
This female RSF militia commander makes it clear that following the massacres in El Fasher that the militia should extend its terror to other parts of Sudan. She encourages the militiamen to head to North State to rape and impregnate the women in order to “cleanse their lineage” https://t.co/1O68KP3kBT
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The international community should intervene to halt the genocide in Sudan.
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... without real independence or democracy under a colonial governor, place all their hopes in the international community and just whine a bit when it doesn't support them, they are consigning themselves to defeat in the long run.
Sarajevo Has Only Itself to Blame for America’s Shift on Dodik
This article is available in Bosnian Sarajevo is aghast. The Trump administration appears to be moving towards lifting all US sanctions against the secessionist authorities in Banja Luka, including Mi...
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Yes. Whatever you think of Dodik, he has a national strategy to get what he wants for Republika Srpska, which he pursues relentlessly, and he isn't afraid to displease the international community. So long as pro-Bosnian leaders accept their country living perpetually... www.odgovor.ba/article/3138/
US Suddenly Lifts Sanctions on Bosnian Serb Leader Dodik
Washington has ended sanctions imposed on the former Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik, his associates, family members and companies connected to them.
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US Suddenly Lifts Sanctions on Bosnian Serb Leader Dodik balkaninsight.com/2025/10/29/u...
'By many accounts, a wave of panic and desperation seized El Fasher in the final days of the siege. The R.S.F. had warned that it considered its remaining quarter-million residents to be enemy supporters.'
A Dramatic Shift in Sudan’s Brutal Civil War
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'The R.S.F. began to lay siege to El Fasher in April 2024, a brutal assault that set off a famine in the city, cleared out a camp filled with about 500,000 displaced civilians and launched numerous drone and artillery strikes on hospitals and homes.' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/w...
I watched Star Trek a bit in the old days, but if it weren't for Facebook I'd never have known that the crew of starship Enterprise spend literally all their time telling dad jokes.
That book shows it wasn't as simple as 'Germany defeated Russia militarily, so its resistance collapsed'. The Germans won some battles and Russian territory, but less than the French in 1812. Germany won in 1917-18 because Russia's war effort created social tensions that brought about its collapse.
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Roshan Salih of 5 Pillars says he prefers Jayda Fransen to Jeremy Corbyn in this video. He explains that he prefers far Right activists that submit to God over godless Palestine activists. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=803...
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Due to Putin’s war with Ukraine, Russia has officially be pushed out of its Central Asia ‘backyard’ by China
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Due to Putin’s war with Ukraine, Russia has officially been pushed out of its Central Asian ‘backyard’ by China substack.com/@pyotrskurzi...
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Share our nuclear weapons with Germany, say British military chiefs www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
History will remember Zelensky as a brave and effective war leader on a par with Churchill and the Ukrainians as a heroic nation for how they fought this war. It will not remember the West and its leaders so kindly.
LIVE: Starmer, Rutte, Zelenskiy after meeting in London
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The tough talk from Starmer and Rutte is all well and good, but it can't hide the fact that the Western alliance is allowing the Ukrainians to fight and die alone in defence of the free world, because its leaders lack the stomach to fight the Russians themselves.
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'Islamophobia is not racism because Islam is not a race' is the usual deflection. Yet here is Britain's top Islamophobe complaining again that 'Birmingham is one of a number of British cities in which people who identify on the census as "white British" are in a minority.' archive.ph/e6UFh#select...
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A similar deflection to 'Islamophobia isn't racism because Muslims aren't a race' is 'I can't be anti-Semitic because Palestinians are Semites too'.
A similar deflection is 'I can't be anti-Semitic because Palestinians are Semites too'.
He's saying that Brits who have skin colours like Kemi Badenoch or Rishi Sunak are part of the problem. The border between Islamophobia and racism has always been blurred or non-existent, and Islamophobia acts as a gateway drug to a more general racist ideology.