Research
Title of Research:
The European Far Right and the Question of Israel/Palestine
Brief overview of research topic:
It is acknowledged that the rise of the far right represents a key development in West European party politics. However, while the drivers of voter support and domestic strategies have received significant scholarly attention, little analysis has focused on the international outlook of the contemporary far right. Through my study of the West European far right's position towards the question of Israel/Palestine, I aim to address this blind spot.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
BA Sociology (University of Strathclyde)
MA Political Science (Freie Universität Berlin)
MA in Social Research (University of York)
Research Fellow, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Januray-April 2020
Publications / Conferences
Publications
March 2020: (Book Review) Chantal Mouffe: For a Left Populism, e-Extreme, Newsletter of the ECPR Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy; https://standinggroups.ecpr.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/e-extreme/2020-21-01-eExtreme-Newsletter.pdf
January 2017 - Fatah’s Seventh Party Congress: A Masterstroke By Abbas?; Open Democracy; https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/omran-shroufi/fatah-s-seventh-party-congress-masterstroke-by-abbas
February 2016 - Political Paralysis in Palestine; Your Middle East; http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/opinion/political-paralysis-in-palestine_38841
October 2015 - The Gates of Jerusalem: European Revisionism and The Populist Radical Right; Race & Class, Vol. 57: 2; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306396815595799
March 2014 - Time to Move Over? The Future of Political Parties in Palestinian Politics; Publication of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; http://fespal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Newsletter-FES-Jerusalem-03.2014.pdf
Conferences / Workshops
March 2021: PSA 2021 Annual International Conference (Belfast, Virtual). Paper Presented: ‘The European Far Right and Israel – New Page but Same Old Story?’
March 2021: PSA 2021 Annual International Conference (Belfast, Virtual). Joint Paper Presented (with Benjamin De Cleen, VUB, Brussels): ‘German New Right Discourse about Populism’
April 2019: Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris PhD Workshop, Qualitative Research on the Far Right (Paris). Paper Presented: ‘Radical Right discourse on Israel/Palestine: The case of Geert Wilders’.
June 2018: 1st Summer School Of The ECPR Standing Group On Extremism & Democracy, Concepts And Methods For Research On Far-Right Politics (Florence). Paper Presented: ‘The European Radical Right and Trump’s Jerusalem Decision’.
February 2015 - The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and The Populist Radical Right: Redefining Local Contexts; Presentation at the Conference ‘Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Racisms and the Question of Palestine/Israel’ School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 9 February 2015
Other media appearances
January 2021: Interview with Window on the World: ‘Germany: Are the Merkel years really over?’; https://anchor.fm/jack-parker7/episodes/04--Germany-Are-the-Merkel-years-really-over-epdi9h