Richard McNeil-Willson
@mcneilwillson.bsky.social
Lecturer in Global Muslim Studies, University of Edinburgh. Formerly Leiden, Cambridge and European University Institute. Scottish Greens member. Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
e: richard@mcneilwillson.eu
Denmark’s approach to migration has been beholden to far-right parties for decades.
This is the country that confiscated Syrian refugees’ jewellery when they arrived in Denmark - just as they did to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
This is the model wanted by the UK Labour Party.
This is the country that confiscated Syrian refugees’ jewellery when they arrived in Denmark - just as they did to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
This is the model wanted by the UK Labour Party.
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Denmark’s approach to migration has been beholden to far-right parties for decades.
This is the country that confiscated Syrian refugees’ jewellery when they arrived in Denmark - just as they did to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
This is the model wanted by the UK Labour Party.
This is the country that confiscated Syrian refugees’ jewellery when they arrived in Denmark - just as they did to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
This is the model wanted by the UK Labour Party.
Absolutely jaw-dropping figures of UK Terrorism-related arrests.
Scholars have been warning for years that counterterrorism law is dangerous, racist, poorly conceived, largely unnecessary, and ripe for abuse.
Here is the result - its systematic use against protestors campaigning against genocide.
Scholars have been warning for years that counterterrorism law is dangerous, racist, poorly conceived, largely unnecessary, and ripe for abuse.
Here is the result - its systematic use against protestors campaigning against genocide.
September 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Absolutely jaw-dropping figures of UK Terrorism-related arrests.
Scholars have been warning for years that counterterrorism law is dangerous, racist, poorly conceived, largely unnecessary, and ripe for abuse.
Here is the result - its systematic use against protestors campaigning against genocide.
Scholars have been warning for years that counterterrorism law is dangerous, racist, poorly conceived, largely unnecessary, and ripe for abuse.
Here is the result - its systematic use against protestors campaigning against genocide.
England. It's England.
June 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
England. It's England.
The entire discussion around 'grooming gangs' is nothing but a far-right dog whistle for implementing fascist policies.
June 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The entire discussion around 'grooming gangs' is nothing but a far-right dog whistle for implementing fascist policies.
No concern though for the thousands upon thousands of civilians murdered by Israel in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.
June 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
No concern though for the thousands upon thousands of civilians murdered by Israel in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.
Fantastic to be back at the beautiful European University Institute for the EUI Max Weber Programme conference:
🌍 'Knowledge and Power: Truth, Trust, Legitimacy and Resistance.'
Great to catch up with the Max Weber network, and share my research on colonialism, race and counterterror proscription.
🌍 'Knowledge and Power: Truth, Trust, Legitimacy and Resistance.'
Great to catch up with the Max Weber network, and share my research on colonialism, race and counterterror proscription.
June 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Fantastic to be back at the beautiful European University Institute for the EUI Max Weber Programme conference:
🌍 'Knowledge and Power: Truth, Trust, Legitimacy and Resistance.'
Great to catch up with the Max Weber network, and share my research on colonialism, race and counterterror proscription.
🌍 'Knowledge and Power: Truth, Trust, Legitimacy and Resistance.'
Great to catch up with the Max Weber network, and share my research on colonialism, race and counterterror proscription.
Sharing this insightful commentary by Dr @saeedbg.bsky.social on international law and Israel's attack on Iran.
Yet, the West only talk of protecting and enabling Israel against the violence it is creating.
Yet, the West only talk of protecting and enabling Israel against the violence it is creating.
June 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Sharing this insightful commentary by Dr @saeedbg.bsky.social on international law and Israel's attack on Iran.
Yet, the West only talk of protecting and enabling Israel against the violence it is creating.
Yet, the West only talk of protecting and enabling Israel against the violence it is creating.
📣 Call for Papers: We have a panel at the Annual Conference of La Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP).
Disrupting, Disassembling and Disestablishing European Security Paradigms: Counterterrorism at the ‘end of Globalisation’.
🏓Napoli
📆4-6 Sept 2024
Apply here: www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
Disrupting, Disassembling and Disestablishing European Security Paradigms: Counterterrorism at the ‘end of Globalisation’.
🏓Napoli
📆4-6 Sept 2024
Apply here: www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
April 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
📣 Call for Papers: We have a panel at the Annual Conference of La Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP).
Disrupting, Disassembling and Disestablishing European Security Paradigms: Counterterrorism at the ‘end of Globalisation’.
🏓Napoli
📆4-6 Sept 2024
Apply here: www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
Disrupting, Disassembling and Disestablishing European Security Paradigms: Counterterrorism at the ‘end of Globalisation’.
🏓Napoli
📆4-6 Sept 2024
Apply here: www.sisp.it/en/conferenc...
“There is a genocide taking place in Gaza, there are Palestinians being forcibly removed from Palestine or pushed into concentrated camps as an attempt to suffocate Gaza, and I think now what has come from that is a much clearer global awareness that we have to do something.”
April 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“There is a genocide taking place in Gaza, there are Palestinians being forcibly removed from Palestine or pushed into concentrated camps as an attempt to suffocate Gaza, and I think now what has come from that is a much clearer global awareness that we have to do something.”
“Israel kills a child in Gaza every 45 minutes.
That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days.
Since 7th October 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children (…) Many more remain buried under the rubble, most presumed dead."
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days.
Since 7th October 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children (…) Many more remain buried under the rubble, most presumed dead."
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
April 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“Israel kills a child in Gaza every 45 minutes.
That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days.
Since 7th October 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children (…) Many more remain buried under the rubble, most presumed dead."
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days.
Since 7th October 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children (…) Many more remain buried under the rubble, most presumed dead."
www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...
So cool listening to the brilliant Dr @saraababneh.bsky.social, Visiting Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre, Uni of Edinburgh, and Lecturer at @sheffielduni.bsky.social.
‘Reclaiming Watani Work: Young Activists’ Challenge to Hegemonic Identity Logic in Jordan’
Super inspiring ethnographic work!
‘Reclaiming Watani Work: Young Activists’ Challenge to Hegemonic Identity Logic in Jordan’
Super inspiring ethnographic work!
March 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
So cool listening to the brilliant Dr @saraababneh.bsky.social, Visiting Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre, Uni of Edinburgh, and Lecturer at @sheffielduni.bsky.social.
‘Reclaiming Watani Work: Young Activists’ Challenge to Hegemonic Identity Logic in Jordan’
Super inspiring ethnographic work!
‘Reclaiming Watani Work: Young Activists’ Challenge to Hegemonic Identity Logic in Jordan’
Super inspiring ethnographic work!
“We need to understand the way in which international law intentionally embeds racism, and how this ensures its unequal application worldwide”
Great to be listening to Dr Robert Knox at Edinburgh University Law School, organised by @norajaber.bsky.social.
Great to be listening to Dr Robert Knox at Edinburgh University Law School, organised by @norajaber.bsky.social.
February 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“We need to understand the way in which international law intentionally embeds racism, and how this ensures its unequal application worldwide”
Great to be listening to Dr Robert Knox at Edinburgh University Law School, organised by @norajaber.bsky.social.
Great to be listening to Dr Robert Knox at Edinburgh University Law School, organised by @norajaber.bsky.social.
#stormeowyn update from Edinburgh:
5 out of 6 garden chairs down; bin still clinging on; one football shirt that was left on the washing line, lost.
It is, indeed, very blowy.
5 out of 6 garden chairs down; bin still clinging on; one football shirt that was left on the washing line, lost.
It is, indeed, very blowy.
January 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
#stormeowyn update from Edinburgh:
5 out of 6 garden chairs down; bin still clinging on; one football shirt that was left on the washing line, lost.
It is, indeed, very blowy.
5 out of 6 garden chairs down; bin still clinging on; one football shirt that was left on the washing line, lost.
It is, indeed, very blowy.
"This is the destruction of the Syrian military, navy, air force, to degrade it and leave it defenceless. This is an illegal act and an illegal invasion."
Full article below, with comments - with thanks to @scotnational.bsky.social.
Full article below, with comments - with thanks to @scotnational.bsky.social.
December 13, 2024 at 11:11 AM
"This is the destruction of the Syrian military, navy, air force, to degrade it and leave it defenceless. This is an illegal act and an illegal invasion."
Full article below, with comments - with thanks to @scotnational.bsky.social.
Full article below, with comments - with thanks to @scotnational.bsky.social.
Great to attend the launch of the Community Policy Forum's latest report:
📖 Young Muslims in Scotland: politics, racism and media.
by Joel White, Robert Finlay and Peter Hopkins
Read their important findings on Islamophobia in Scotland, here: communitypolicyforum.com/portfolio-it...
📖 Young Muslims in Scotland: politics, racism and media.
by Joel White, Robert Finlay and Peter Hopkins
Read their important findings on Islamophobia in Scotland, here: communitypolicyforum.com/portfolio-it...
November 28, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Great to attend the launch of the Community Policy Forum's latest report:
📖 Young Muslims in Scotland: politics, racism and media.
by Joel White, Robert Finlay and Peter Hopkins
Read their important findings on Islamophobia in Scotland, here: communitypolicyforum.com/portfolio-it...
📖 Young Muslims in Scotland: politics, racism and media.
by Joel White, Robert Finlay and Peter Hopkins
Read their important findings on Islamophobia in Scotland, here: communitypolicyforum.com/portfolio-it...
Snowy Edinburgh Castle this afternoon.
November 23, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Snowy Edinburgh Castle this afternoon.
Under the Rome Statute, arms sales where the state has knowledge that the arms would be used to commit an international crime is prohibited.
The selling of arms to such a country 'could also render the state responsible under customary international law'
Starmer must stop all arms sales to Israel.
The selling of arms to such a country 'could also render the state responsible under customary international law'
Starmer must stop all arms sales to Israel.
November 21, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Under the Rome Statute, arms sales where the state has knowledge that the arms would be used to commit an international crime is prohibited.
The selling of arms to such a country 'could also render the state responsible under customary international law'
Starmer must stop all arms sales to Israel.
The selling of arms to such a country 'could also render the state responsible under customary international law'
Starmer must stop all arms sales to Israel.
"there are reasonable grounds to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity"
November 21, 2024 at 12:33 PM
"there are reasonable grounds to believe that both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity"
Great to be discussant for the screening of ‘Due Regard’ at Edinburgh University this evening.
The film explores the impact of counter-terrorism and Prevent on families.
Congrats to Shahnaz Akhter for her brilliant work, and thanks to İdil Akıncı Perez for arranging!
The film explores the impact of counter-terrorism and Prevent on families.
Congrats to Shahnaz Akhter for her brilliant work, and thanks to İdil Akıncı Perez for arranging!
November 20, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Great to be discussant for the screening of ‘Due Regard’ at Edinburgh University this evening.
The film explores the impact of counter-terrorism and Prevent on families.
Congrats to Shahnaz Akhter for her brilliant work, and thanks to İdil Akıncı Perez for arranging!
The film explores the impact of counter-terrorism and Prevent on families.
Congrats to Shahnaz Akhter for her brilliant work, and thanks to İdil Akıncı Perez for arranging!
'That Starmer is unwilling to extend even a fraction of the condemnation shown to Vukova in 2014, to Gaza in 2024... is representative of the moral descent of the Labour Party into genocide complicity.'
Good to speak further with @scotnational.bsky.social
www.thenational.scot/news/2473158...
Good to speak further with @scotnational.bsky.social
www.thenational.scot/news/2473158...
November 19, 2024 at 6:25 AM
'That Starmer is unwilling to extend even a fraction of the condemnation shown to Vukova in 2014, to Gaza in 2024... is representative of the moral descent of the Labour Party into genocide complicity.'
Good to speak further with @scotnational.bsky.social
www.thenational.scot/news/2473158...
Good to speak further with @scotnational.bsky.social
www.thenational.scot/news/2473158...
Starmer’s position on Gaza is politically untenable following a UN special committee report detailing practices by Israel consistent with genocide.
Labour are engaging in an incredibly dangerous approach in not only denying genocide but attempting to “redefine the nature of what genocide is”.
Labour are engaging in an incredibly dangerous approach in not only denying genocide but attempting to “redefine the nature of what genocide is”.
November 16, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Starmer’s position on Gaza is politically untenable following a UN special committee report detailing practices by Israel consistent with genocide.
Labour are engaging in an incredibly dangerous approach in not only denying genocide but attempting to “redefine the nature of what genocide is”.
Labour are engaging in an incredibly dangerous approach in not only denying genocide but attempting to “redefine the nature of what genocide is”.
Keir Starmer and David Lammy are engaging in genocide denialism by refusing to recognise the genocide in Gaza, and genocide revisionism by attempting to undermine its legal definition.
Great to talk with Steph Brawn and be featured on the front page of @scotnational.bsky.social to discuss this.
Great to talk with Steph Brawn and be featured on the front page of @scotnational.bsky.social to discuss this.
November 16, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Keir Starmer and David Lammy are engaging in genocide denialism by refusing to recognise the genocide in Gaza, and genocide revisionism by attempting to undermine its legal definition.
Great to talk with Steph Brawn and be featured on the front page of @scotnational.bsky.social to discuss this.
Great to talk with Steph Brawn and be featured on the front page of @scotnational.bsky.social to discuss this.
Beautiful views this morning out over Edinburgh to the Firth of Forth, for my ‘Race, Power and Social Policy’ class.
Spending the day with students discussing the UK’s Prevent counterterrorism programme and its Islamophobia and racialisation of Muslims.
Spending the day with students discussing the UK’s Prevent counterterrorism programme and its Islamophobia and racialisation of Muslims.
November 14, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Beautiful views this morning out over Edinburgh to the Firth of Forth, for my ‘Race, Power and Social Policy’ class.
Spending the day with students discussing the UK’s Prevent counterterrorism programme and its Islamophobia and racialisation of Muslims.
Spending the day with students discussing the UK’s Prevent counterterrorism programme and its Islamophobia and racialisation of Muslims.
📣 Call for Papers: "Constructing the 'European Muslim Crisis'"
Tahir Abbas, Lianne Vostermans and I, are accepting article submissions for a special issue with 'Religions' journal.
If you work on any aspect of Islam or Muslims in Europe, please get in touch or apply:
www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...
Tahir Abbas, Lianne Vostermans and I, are accepting article submissions for a special issue with 'Religions' journal.
If you work on any aspect of Islam or Muslims in Europe, please get in touch or apply:
www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...
November 13, 2024 at 4:55 PM
📣 Call for Papers: "Constructing the 'European Muslim Crisis'"
Tahir Abbas, Lianne Vostermans and I, are accepting article submissions for a special issue with 'Religions' journal.
If you work on any aspect of Islam or Muslims in Europe, please get in touch or apply:
www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...
Tahir Abbas, Lianne Vostermans and I, are accepting article submissions for a special issue with 'Religions' journal.
If you work on any aspect of Islam or Muslims in Europe, please get in touch or apply:
www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...
Very cool to see many more people coming over to this platform.
Hello to all new folks from my sunny autumnal office at Edinburgh University 💙
Hello to all new folks from my sunny autumnal office at Edinburgh University 💙
November 12, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Very cool to see many more people coming over to this platform.
Hello to all new folks from my sunny autumnal office at Edinburgh University 💙
Hello to all new folks from my sunny autumnal office at Edinburgh University 💙