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Nina Paulovicova

@ninjak.bsky.social

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Associate Prof. History at Athabasca University, (she/her), research: history, politics & memory, genocide studies, far-right mobilization, heritage language activism, co-founder https://jseries.ca/, artist in the making: https://www.instagram.com/ninart96

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Nina Paulovicova @ninjak.bsky.social · Dec 31

Our much-awaited Special issue on The Post-Communist Far Right has been published! I would like to express sincerest gratitude to my co-editor George Soroka and our colleagues for their hard work, perseverance, resilience and thought-provoking contributions!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Nationalities Papers: Volume 52 - Special Issue on The Post-Communist Far Right | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Nationalities Papers - Volume 52 - Special Issue on The Post-Communist Far Right

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 3d

“The same people who did the killing and financed the killing and justified the killing and turned away from the killing will congratulate themselves on doing the right thing.”

- Omar El Akkad

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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canadaboatgaza.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social · 8d

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11d

READ: Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn't accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/hama...

Hamas just accepted Trump’s ‘peace’ plan. Here’s what it didn’t accept.

Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn’t accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 13d

Speaking of bubbles, @ualberta.bsky.social External Affairs sure is working overtime to keep its SDG bubble intact. Well sorry, guys, but it's "symbiosis" like the UAlberta-Cenovus partnership that is obstructing climate action on the part of universities. 1/
www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

Thinking outside the bubble

A mutually beneficial partnership between Cenovus Energy and the U of A has been ahead of its time for nearly two decades, helping the university and the company think differently about how to solve t...

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Nina Paulovicova @ninjak.bsky.social · 13d

This book arrived to my mailbox today 💔 💔 💔

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 14d

'Free Mandela once again': South Africans demand release of flotilla detainees - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/free-mandela-once-again-south-african-urge-release-flotilla-abductees

'Free Mandela once again': South Africans demand release of flotilla detainees

South Africa's president says Israel has violated an ICJ ruling that humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow unimpeded

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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 17d

Bereits vor einigen Tagen erschienen, scheint es mir aktueller denn je; als Beitrag zur Debatte in & über Deutschland.
Freue mich sehr, in so guter Gesellschaft zu sein.
H. Kundnani, @adamtooze.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social @hahauenstein.bsky.social @marwecki.bsky.social, E. Özyürek, N. Samour

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 16d

I have been a little bit under a rock and missed this *horrifying* action at U Alberta. The speed with which these kinds of attacks on freedom of expression are picking up in Canada is incredible - like movement that has finally hit the top of a hill and is racing down now.

Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 17d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

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Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social · 18d

300 Northwestern students were blocked from enrolling in classes because they refused to complete a training that compares critics of Israel to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 18d

This is totally kabonkers

Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training

Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen No Kings Cobb @scobb.net · 18d

If you read just one paper about AI and existential risk this weekend, let it be this pioneering analysis from @atoosakz.bsky.social. Comes closer to addressing the inherent vulnerability of AI technology than anything I've found so far. Brilliant work! #AI #AIRisk #TechRisk #AIEthics #XRisk

Two Types of AI Existential Risk: Decisive and Accumulative

The conventional discourse on existential risks (x-risks) from AI typically focuses on abrupt, dire events caused by advanced AI systems, particularly those that might achieve or surpass human-level i...

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 20d

Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece.
open.substack.com/pub/journalg...

Israel’s Displacement/Immobility Nexus in Palestine

This post is authored by Dr. Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies at UCL and the author of 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'.

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Nina Paulovicova @ninjak.bsky.social · 20d

I grew up in a homophobic Slovakia which just institutionalized homophobia and discrimination of LGBTQ+ communities. Shame on all who made this happen.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 20d

Slovakia’s parliament amended its constitution today to state that all citizens are either male or female, limit adoption to married heterosexual couples and ban surrogacy.

Slovakia enshrines 2 genders in constitution

Fico government’s controversial move sets up clash with EU law.

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Steve Salaita @stevesalaita.bsky.social · 22d

Please read this amazing essay by my dear friend Saher Safi, who discusses his childhood in Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza, and the pain of now witnessing genocide. Saher worked for months on this essay, which was a difficult process for him. He ended up producing some exceptionally powerful writing.

I came to UK from Gaza seeking hope. Instead, I found complicity

After a lifetime under Israeli siege and shelling in Gaza, Saher Safi built a life of his own. He expected Israel’s cruelty, but not the UK’s indifference.

www.newarab.com

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Nina Paulovicova @ninjak.bsky.social · 24d

A must read recent article by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
"Five Pillars of Zionist Genocidal Apparatus: A Palestinian Problematization of Genocide Studies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 27d

We have published discussions from our roundtable: ’Gaza and Genocide Studies.’ The reports were written prior to the United Nation’s Independent International Commission found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. The majority of publications open access: tinyurl.com/3ce3cazz

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 28d

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 29d

A blocklist of vessels complicit in regularly supplying Israel’s regime of illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians is now available: noharbourforgenocide.com

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · Sep 15

We have published open access reflection paper: “Which Lessons are to be Learned from the Holocaust? A Personal Account of the History of the IHRA 2000–2025 from the Viewpoint of a Memory Scholar” by Aleida Assmann. tinyurl.com/y739ybdd

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · Sep 2

An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · Sep 14

Every administrator involved in this should be fired and barred from academia for life.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · Sep 14

Pleased Wasafiri shared an extract from
No is Not a Lonely Utterance! Whole book is out Sept 18th. Gulp. www.wasafiri.org/content/excl...

Exclusive Extract: No Is Not a Lonely Utterance by Sara Ahmed

Read an extract from Sara Ahmed's forthcoming book, No is Not a Lonely Utterance:

www.wasafiri.org

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Sep 13

The sound of an Israeli bomb interrupted Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud during a live broadcast as he explained that Israeli jets have been attacking buildings in Gaza City every 10–15 minutes since dawn.

Israel says its forces are “increasing the pace of attacks” on the city.

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Sep 10

Tonight! Join co-editors Dania Majid, Martin Lukacs, and @cjpme.org's Jason Toney for a conversation about ‘When Genocide Wasn’t News,’ an anthology on Canadian media’s cover-up of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · Sep 2

As the new semester starts, I want to keep the focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza (and US complicity in it).

Honored to have the chance to co-write this with another parent whose child was suspended from Barnard/Columbia for protest activity.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Columbia punished our kids for protesting against the genocide in Gaza. We condemn the university’s cowardice

We are the parents of students who faced disciplinary actions for pro-Palestine activism. The struggle for liberation will not end with suspensions and expulsions

www.theguardian.com

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