Dr Gina van Raphael
@aliagvr.bsky.social
Political Anthropologist｜IR: Diplomacy, Authoritarian Rule｜Arab/Saudi Studies — Historiography, Ethnography, Tribe)｜US Policy Intersection | Non Exec Dir UKG | NRS
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Dr Gina van Raphael
@aliagvr.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Western pundits wasting time and words on Trump/Netanyahu's Gaza Plan might do well to understand:
Arabs states haven't deviated from the same message—2 states, Israeli withdrawal, Gaza contiguous w/W Bank, and ceasefire.
IOW, they don't support; they're reviewing. This is diplomatic politeness.
Arabs states haven't deviated from the same message—2 states, Israeli withdrawal, Gaza contiguous w/W Bank, and ceasefire.
IOW, they don't support; they're reviewing. This is diplomatic politeness.
Reposted by Dr Gina van Raphael
Not handing it to the news outlet here, but this about Palestinian artists is nice www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | To Love, to Honor, to Exist: Palestinian Artists on War and Loss (Gift Article)
Times Opinion asked eight working Palestinian artists about the role of art in the war in Gaza.
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Not handing it to the news outlet here, but this about Palestinian artists is nice www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Dr Gina van Raphael
A woman’s gender-swap experiment is sparking questions about how bias — in humans or machines — dictates who must work harder to be heard in professional spaces, online and otherwise.
Why women on LinkedIn are masquerading as men
One woman’s gender-swap experiment quadrupled her reach on the career platform, underscoring concerns about gender stereotypes and algorithmic bias.
wapo.st
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A woman’s gender-swap experiment is sparking questions about how bias — in humans or machines — dictates who must work harder to be heard in professional spaces, online and otherwise.
Bloody hate the new version. Have to keep searching online for how to put things back to reasonable likenesses to the last iOS version.
Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled. www.wired.com/story/phone-...
Phone Updates Used to Be Annoying. The Latest iOS Is Awful
Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Bloody hate the new version. Have to keep searching online for how to put things back to reasonable likenesses to the last iOS version.
Reposted by Dr Gina van Raphael
holy f*ckb*alls
Quite an announcement video from @crockett.house.gov www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
Jasmine for Texas
YouTube video by Jasmine Crockett
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
holy f*ckb*alls
Well, Business Insider's going to promote the fiction of Karp being neurodivergent. Can't lose the access to the techbros so doing the damage control for them, of course.
Problem. Minus the coke and whatever else he was on, Karp was just normal in 2009: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSM...
Problem. Minus the coke and whatever else he was on, Karp was just normal in 2009: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSM...
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Well, Business Insider's going to promote the fiction of Karp being neurodivergent. Can't lose the access to the techbros so doing the damage control for them, of course.
Problem. Minus the coke and whatever else he was on, Karp was just normal in 2009: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSM...
Problem. Minus the coke and whatever else he was on, Karp was just normal in 2009: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSM...
Reposted by Dr Gina van Raphael
Seventy percent of Britons say UK should boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/70-percent-britons-say-uk-should-boycott-eurovision-over-israels-involvement
Seventy percent of Britons say UK should boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation
Eighty-two percent of British people believe Israel should be excluded from competition in 2026, after the European Broadcasting Union gave Israel the green light to compete
www.middleeasteye.net
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Seventy percent of Britons say UK should boycott Eurovision over Israel's participation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/70-percent-britons-say-uk-should-boycott-eurovision-over-israels-involvement
WTF is wrong with him? Being fined $140 million is 0.028% of his ~fortune. That's like someone earning $75,000 paying a fine of $21.
SIMPLY for not being transparent about who get the blue ✔️ mark per EU privacy protection rules.
The equivalent of $21. Just take that in.
SIMPLY for not being transparent about who get the blue ✔️ mark per EU privacy protection rules.
The equivalent of $21. Just take that in.
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
WTF is wrong with him? Being fined $140 million is 0.028% of his ~fortune. That's like someone earning $75,000 paying a fine of $21.
SIMPLY for not being transparent about who get the blue ✔️ mark per EU privacy protection rules.
The equivalent of $21. Just take that in.
SIMPLY for not being transparent about who get the blue ✔️ mark per EU privacy protection rules.
The equivalent of $21. Just take that in.
@kristianulrichsen.bsky.social — did you see today's FIFA sycophancy on steroids for Trump?
Friend of mine worked at FIFA headquarters in Zürich for a few years and told me once that as bad as people think the corruption is in the highest levels of the organization, the reality is even worse than they can imagine. It is a pure grift operation posing as a sports organization.
December 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
@kristianulrichsen.bsky.social — did you see today's FIFA sycophancy on steroids for Trump?
What are the odds Elon Musk will be there to present?
The New York Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat. Why, you may ask? Well, because they’re fucking Nazis themselves.
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chair, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
What are the odds Elon Musk will be there to present?
Figured.
Elon Musk's alter ego — sorry, not-Musk-just-sounds-exactly-like-him — is from N America.
Elon Musk's alter ego — sorry, not-Musk-just-sounds-exactly-like-him — is from N America.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Figured.
Elon Musk's alter ego — sorry, not-Musk-just-sounds-exactly-like-him — is from N America.
Elon Musk's alter ego — sorry, not-Musk-just-sounds-exactly-like-him — is from N America.
1. Apparently no one commenting read the article.
2. Where was the same outcry when Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims/pro-Palestinians were being harassed and doxxed, expelled or suspended, merely for a protest?
2. Where was the same outcry when Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims/pro-Palestinians were being harassed and doxxed, expelled or suspended, merely for a protest?
Trump Administration bizarrely demands the University of Pennsylvania hand over "names, phone numbers and physical addresses" for anyone who "belongs to Jewish clubs or groups on campus, and anyone who works in the university’s Jewish studies program"...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
1. Apparently no one commenting read the article.
2. Where was the same outcry when Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims/pro-Palestinians were being harassed and doxxed, expelled or suspended, merely for a protest?
2. Where was the same outcry when Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims/pro-Palestinians were being harassed and doxxed, expelled or suspended, merely for a protest?
This is a stunning film. One of grace, quietude, incredible beauty, and a film that needs no effects, CGI, action, or intellectually-insulting simplicity.
It just *is*.
(And Joel Edgerton is, as ever, exceptional.)
It just *is*.
(And Joel Edgerton is, as ever, exceptional.)
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This is a stunning film. One of grace, quietude, incredible beauty, and a film that needs no effects, CGI, action, or intellectually-insulting simplicity.
It just *is*.
(And Joel Edgerton is, as ever, exceptional.)
It just *is*.
(And Joel Edgerton is, as ever, exceptional.)
As someone in political education, I have seen so many minds change from 'inside the walls' once they learn and understand the facts, history, and human failures (never underestimate the latter).
For that reason, if someone changes their minds, facts are working. Don't insult them for learning.
For that reason, if someone changes their minds, facts are working. Don't insult them for learning.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As someone in political education, I have seen so many minds change from 'inside the walls' once they learn and understand the facts, history, and human failures (never underestimate the latter).
For that reason, if someone changes their minds, facts are working. Don't insult them for learning.
For that reason, if someone changes their minds, facts are working. Don't insult them for learning.
Imagine Putin spraying strange stuff on someone at random. Hint: Sergei Skripol.
President Ahmed al-Sharaa needs to be seen by a physician ASAP.
President Ahmed al-Sharaa needs to be seen by a physician ASAP.
Some bizarre stuff going down in the Oval these days. After spraying the Syrian president with his Trump Fragrance he then asks him how many wives he has.
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Imagine Putin spraying strange stuff on someone at random. Hint: Sergei Skripol.
President Ahmed al-Sharaa needs to be seen by a physician ASAP.
President Ahmed al-Sharaa needs to be seen by a physician ASAP.
Why are Americans such overshares? Sorry but this awful mother is sharing her toddler's report card (absurd on its face) on social media ... which is forever.
If he escapes decades of therapy I'll be amazed.
If he escapes decades of therapy I'll be amazed.
Tech brains broken part 1000000000 (this lady is a partner at Andreessen apparently)
November 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Why are Americans such overshares? Sorry but this awful mother is sharing her toddler's report card (absurd on its face) on social media ... which is forever.
If he escapes decades of therapy I'll be amazed.
If he escapes decades of therapy I'll be amazed.
FDR — well known Marxist/Socialist/Communist president of the USA.
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
FDR — well known Marxist/Socialist/Communist president of the USA.
Right. @mrjamesob.bsky.social + @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social + whoever is here from BBC Question Time (Fiona?), note the below. 'Tis quite important. 👇
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Right. @mrjamesob.bsky.social + @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social + whoever is here from BBC Question Time (Fiona?), note the below. 'Tis quite important. 👇
Reposted by Dr Gina van Raphael
Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Trump's White House & fawning hacks here don't really care about the 0.001% that the BBC gets wrong. They care about all the stuff it gets right.
Well @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com. Your entire hour post-Mamdani win and you didn't utter his name One Single Time.
If you think the audience can't see how you tried to conceal your disdain for him last night, it's plain today. Similar to your contempt for Pete Buttigieg. Wonder why? @msnbc.com
If you think the audience can't see how you tried to conceal your disdain for him last night, it's plain today. Similar to your contempt for Pete Buttigieg. Wonder why? @msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Well @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com. Your entire hour post-Mamdani win and you didn't utter his name One Single Time.
If you think the audience can't see how you tried to conceal your disdain for him last night, it's plain today. Similar to your contempt for Pete Buttigieg. Wonder why? @msnbc.com
If you think the audience can't see how you tried to conceal your disdain for him last night, it's plain today. Similar to your contempt for Pete Buttigieg. Wonder why? @msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Musk is a cancer to society.
"MP wants Elon Musk's chatbot shut down over claim he enabled grooming gangs"
(To those outside the UK, the SNP = the UK's Scottish Nationalist Party.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"MP wants Elon Musk's chatbot shut down over claim he enabled grooming gangs"
(To those outside the UK, the SNP = the UK's Scottish Nationalist Party.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MP wants Musk's Grok chatbot shut down over claim he enabled grooming gangs
SNP MP Pete Wishart says he is seeking legal advice over the
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Musk is a cancer to society.
"MP wants Elon Musk's chatbot shut down over claim he enabled grooming gangs"
(To those outside the UK, the SNP = the UK's Scottish Nationalist Party.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"MP wants Elon Musk's chatbot shut down over claim he enabled grooming gangs"
(To those outside the UK, the SNP = the UK's Scottish Nationalist Party.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And this 👇 is why Zohran Mamdani is going to win in NYC tonight. These non-tax paying bloodsuckers have destroyed the US.
Mamdani is the canary in the coal mine.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mamdani is the canary in the coal mine.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tesla says Musk should be paid $1tn - will shareholders agree?
The car-maker is lobbying fiercely for the pay package, which is being voted on ahead of its AGM on Thursday.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
And this 👇 is why Zohran Mamdani is going to win in NYC tonight. These non-tax paying bloodsuckers have destroyed the US.
Mamdani is the canary in the coal mine.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mamdani is the canary in the coal mine.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If anyone believes Rachel Reeves 'didn't know' about the licence required to rent her house out AND now a sudden email from the estate agents claims it's *their* oversight ...
I have an awfully big bridge I can sell you.
I have an awfully big bridge I can sell you.
The government is having a second think about whether the Rachel Reeves rental license scandal is case closed, after making clear the initial investigation was not all that thorough.
London Playbook has more 👇
London Playbook has more 👇
London Playbook PM: Rental Reeves
Presented by Intuit By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser Good afternoon. This is Emilio Casalicchio. …
www.politico.eu
October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If anyone believes Rachel Reeves 'didn't know' about the licence required to rent her house out AND now a sudden email from the estate agents claims it's *their* oversight ...
I have an awfully big bridge I can sell you.
I have an awfully big bridge I can sell you.
Trump lost. Oops.
'Talks lasted just 1hr 40mins before the US president returned to Air Force One and boarded the plane without speaking to the waiting press.'
🎁 link: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7ce5786...
'Talks lasted just 1hr 40mins before the US president returned to Air Force One and boarded the plane without speaking to the waiting press.'
🎁 link: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7ce5786...
Trump and Xi meeting in South Korea ends after one hour and 40 minutes
Crucial summit on trade war finishes with US president returning to Air Force One without speaking to the press
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Trump lost. Oops.
'Talks lasted just 1hr 40mins before the US president returned to Air Force One and boarded the plane without speaking to the waiting press.'
🎁 link: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7ce5786...
'Talks lasted just 1hr 40mins before the US president returned to Air Force One and boarded the plane without speaking to the waiting press.'
🎁 link: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7ce5786...