Dr Andrew Thomas @athomas_ir
Melbourne-based international relations academic at Deakin University. Middle East studies and Critical non-Western IR theory. New 📚 out now Melbourne, Victoria Joined March 2019-
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The IDF demolished a unit of the Palestinian National Seed Bank in Hebron, destroying equipment, research and crops that supported hundreds of farmers working to preserve heirloom seeds central to Palestinian farming heritage haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
IDF officers and soldiers tell Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
New piece on the perils of regime change in Iran
New piece on the perils of regime change in Iran
Several nations are contemplating recognising a Palestinian state to revamp the two-state solution. However, major obstacles remain. @athomas_ir @Deakin theconversation.com/a-two-state-so…
New article in the conversation today
New article in the conversation today
The project of bringing non-Western IR aproaches to the centre of analysis in the field is an important one. My book Iran and the West attempts to do this in the context of foreign policy and identity. tinyurl.com/5bpwkuj3
The project of bringing non-Western IR aproaches to the centre of analysis in the field is an important one. My book Iran and the West attempts to do this in the context of foreign policy and identity. tinyurl.com/5bpwkuj3
Enough is enough. Israel is committing war crimes | Opinion | Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…
Israel recently committed the largest child massacre in its history. The numbers are not reported in the Israeli media, and if they are – it's always minimized | Opinion | Hanin Majadli haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…
This statement is shameful, @JGreenblattADL. If someone commits a crime, we charge them with a crime. We don't capriciously revoke first amendment rights. We don't revoke immigration status as punishment for protests we hate. This doesn't make Jewish Americans safer. A…
Proud to be one of 500+ Jews to sign this full page newspaper ad in SMH / the Age calling on Australia to reject calls for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. 1/4
It is nonsensical, and hypocritical, to arrest or accuse Palestinians of promoting the ideology of "From the river to the sea," while in Israel, school maps don't show the Green Line and the government is advancing full annexation / @dahliasc haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
The Sykes-Picot agreement is one of many colonial projects that we are still feeling the ripples of today. @athomas_ir @Deakin theconversation.com/what-was-the-s…
The professor: “please, please, please complete the course readings” The students:
Excited to announce that I have joined @DeakinArtsEd as a continuing lecturer in International Relations and Middle East studies. It's been 7 years at Deakin as a sessional/fixed term employee, so here's to many more!
They literally won the battle at Minas Tirith because of highly skilled temporary workers
They literally won the battle at Minas Tirith because of highly skilled temporary workers https://t.co/SmvY8ZLBRB
Trump is on track for a smaller popular vote victory than Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Democrats have work to do. They need to build a coalition that’s not always 2 points from losing to MAGA. But I don’t see Republicans internalizing that this was a narrow victory in a…
Trump is on track for a smaller popular vote victory than Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Democrats have work to do. They need to build a coalition that’s not always 2 points from losing to MAGA. But I don’t see Republicans internalizing that this was a narrow victory in a…
If Kamala had won, it would have been a huge exception to a significant global trend
More of this please - In all political contexts around the world. Less soul- searching, more fact-finding.
More of this please - In all political contexts around the world. Less soul- searching, more fact-finding.
If it looks like ethnic cleansing, it probably is | Haaretz Editorial haaretz.com/opinion/editor…

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