Fausto Scarinzi

I am pleased to share that my book "Counterinsurgency, Military Occupations, and Civilian Targeting: Explaining Indiscriminate Violence in Expeditionary Campaigns" will be published by @routledgebooks (Cass Military Studies) in early April 2026.

Massie: I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv

Le immagini del ministro israeliano Ben Gvir sono inaccettabili. È inammissibile che questi manifestanti, fra cui molti cittadini italiani, vengano sottoposti a questo trattamento lesivo della dignità della persona. Il Governo italiano sta immediatamente compiendo, ai più alti livelli istituzionali, tutti i passi necessari per ottenere la liberazione immediata dei cittadini italiani coinvolti. L’Italia pretende inoltre le scuse per il trattamento riservato a questi manifestanti e per il totale disprezzo dimostrato nei confronti delle esplicite richieste del Governo italiano. Per questi motivi, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale convocherà immediatamente l’ambasciatore israeliano per chiedere chiarimenti formali su quanto accaduto.

@dangdaide @Avvenire_Nei Solita banalità sull'odio antigiudaico?

@FaustoScarinzi @Avvenire_Nei Idiozia da odio antigiudaico?

Gli sputi sui sacerdoti e le aggressioni: nella Città Santa i cristiani vivono da perseguitati buff.ly/tGHFDUj

Israeli ultranationalist minister claims ICC is seeking his arrest ft.trib.al/v8ieUv1

Death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon passes 3,000, officials say bbc.in/3RgXfxE

“As long as Israel's political discourse continues to see separation and supremacy as the solution, we will continue in the same direction: more violence, more destruction and more moral and physical ruin.” writes Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s executive director in response to an article published by Yair Golan. Read the full @haaretzcom article >> haaretz.com/opinion/2026-0…

Is Russia East, West—or both? Michael Khodarkovsky traces its roots to the Eurasian steppe, revealing a hybrid empire shaped as much by Asia as Europe but also by fluid frontiers, diverse societies, and steppe-born power. STEPPE AND ITS EMPIRES available now.

@dangdaide @Avvenire_Nei Benaltrismo?

@Avvenire_Nei Ma fatela finita e pensate a dove davvero i cristiani non vivono ma muoiono perché perseguitati.

One of the worst predicaments of being a professional historian today is that you are expected to engage with this mediocrity. The Print has a habit of publishing pieces that no respectable scholar in the field will even read. Not surprised they carried this to create some noise!

For those looking for a good piece of writing -- sound scholarship, factually accurate, and nice prose -- on the Mughals and Hindu nationalists' problems with this long-gone Indian empire. engelsbergideas.com/essays/indias-…

One of the most historically illiterate attacks on Mamdani’s Nakba post is outrage that he shared a Palestinian of Bosnian origin. Inea Bushnaq’s family came to Palestine in the Ottoman-era muhacir migrations and became part of Palestinian society. See thread:

🚨🚨BREAKING -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) is pursuing five new arrest warrants for Israeli officials including finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli media reports. Smotrich's ministry of finance owns an arms factory in Britain named Pearson Engineering, which was recently awarded a £10m contract by the Ministry of Defence. "A diplomatic source said the other senior officials are settlement minister Orit Struck and two military personnel", according to Haaretz. It remains unclear who the military personnel are. The UK government allowed the IDF's former chief of staff Herzi Halevi and its air force commander Tomer Bar to secretly visit Britain amid the Gaza genocide, with the Foreign Office giving them with "special mission" immunity to protect them from prosecution for war crimes.

West Bengal will lose its historic status as a state with an independent political administration. A state which was ruled by stalwarts such as B.C.Roy, syndicate boss Atulya Ghosh and Marxist stalwart Jyoti Basu will now be ruled from Delhi. P. Raman✍️ thewire.in/politics/modis…

@adam_louis52328 @juliamacfarlane nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

Think I’ve reached the limit to seeing footage of horrific settler violence in the West Bank. Pregnant women attacked, children shot, beaten with clubs, a chained up dog belonging to a Palestinian family being horrifically clubbed to death by an Israeli settler. When does it end?

🚨🇳🇱 "We will get to their court, we will get to their homes.." Sergeant Shmuel Assouline, posted this from inside Gaza's Palace of Justice before destroying it. He's now walking free in Amsterdam. The #HindRajabFoundation has filed for his arrest. More ⬇️ hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/inside-t…

U.S. suspends sanctions against UN investigator Francesca Albanese haaretz.com/us-news/2026-0…

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

"The moment I realised Israeli society was fully fascist" Journalist and filmmaker @AbbyMartin shares her experience speaking to everyday Israeli citizens in 2017, and explains how genocidal rhetoric has now gone mainstream in the country.

IDF soldier filmed pointing weapon at chest of Palestinian who posed no threat haaretz.com/israel-news/is…