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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺

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Balkan historian. Associate Professor, SSST. Author of five books on modern Bosnian and Serbian history. Tweet mostly about current affairs. Anti-fascist conservative. Low tolerance for pro-Putin or woke politics.

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Marko Attila Hoare is a British historian of the former Yugoslavia who also writes about current affairs, especially Southeast Europe, including Turkey and the Caucasus. Hoare is Associate Professor of History at the University Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, in Sarajevo. .. more

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · Nov 15

My book 'Serbia: A Modern History', is now out ! The product of 17.5 years of research and writing. Explains in just under 600 pages Serbia's path from Karađorđe's First Serbian Uprising, though independence, the Balkan Wars, World War I and Yugoslav unification up to conquest by Nazi Germany.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 4d

He - and everyone else - should think twice about having sex with someone they don't know very well.

Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 4d

My sympathy in this case is with the trans woman. What she did was fundamentally no different from lying about her age, wealth or ethnicity. If the 'victim' fancied her enough to have consensual sex, he really has no grounds for complaint. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 4d

Graffiti exhibition makes Canterbury cathedral 'look like a car park' mol.im/a/15181045

Graffiti exhibition makes Canterbury cathedral 'look like a car park'

The art installation at Canterbury Cathedral allows people to pose questions to God, and they are then plastered on pillars around the ancient building in Kent.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 5d

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Head of UK Muslim charity ‘deeply worried’ as anti-Muslim hate crimes up by a fifth

Shaista Gohir says latest government figures are probably an ‘underestimation’ as many incidents go unreported

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 7d

Testimony like this reminds me of the Bosnian war... The Gaza I Knew Is Gone www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | The Gaza I Once Knew Is Gone (Gift Article)

After two years of war, one Gazan tells of what was lost.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 7d

The Women of 7 October quillette.com/2024/10/07/t...

The Women of 7 October

In that moment, time stood still. There was no context, no history, no argument, no discourse. There was only pain.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 8d

I found that Ukraine has turned the tables not only on Russia but also on the Western world. Militarily, the Ukrainians think they have virtually stopped the Russian summer offensive, with Moscow’s forces gaining minimal territory at tremendous cost. www.kyivpost.com/opinion/61306

Opinion: A New Perspective on Ukraine

On a recent visit to attend the Yalta European Strategy conference, the author found Ukrainian attendees surprisingly upbeat even after three and a half years of war.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 8d

Minister Chikli also thinks Keir Starmer is Palestinian. The lunatics have taken over the asylum.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 8d

Tommy Robinson retweets a tweet calling Keir Starmer a 'Palestinian'. Jews who oppose his ministerial invitation to visit Israel are being called 'capos'.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 9d

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Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 10d

It's a very good article, but it isn't really appealing for a 'turning point'; its conclusions are rather more sombre. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In a time of hate and rancour, two Jews sought to pray – and were killed. Let Manchester be a turning point | Jonathan Freedland

This was a horror but with so much intolerance and antisemitism, no one can say it was a surprise. There are lessons to learn, and that must start now, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 11d

Incitement to antisemitic violence in Britain today

Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 11d

Israel's Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli is hosting British fascist leader Tommy Robinson. They are working together to undermine multiethnic coexistence in Britain.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 11d

If British Jews are attacked, respect our dignity – and keep your agendas to yourself www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If British Jews are attacked, respect our dignity – and keep your agendas to yourself | Keith Kahn-Harris

I dread the cacophony from right and left on how we should react to antisemitism. What’s important is supporting our survival as a community in the UK

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 11d

'Armed police officers appear to have killed one of the victims of the Manchester synagogue terrorist attack and injured another after opening fire on the suspect.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Manchester synagogue attack: one victim apparently shot dead by police

Suspect Jihad al-Shamie did not have firearm and only shots fired were by police officers at scene

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 11d

Manchester attacker’s father praised Oct 7 Hamas terrorists www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 12d

Today is truly a day of horrors
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At least 53 Palestinians killed in fresh wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza

Military offensive stepped up as Hamas leaders consider Trump’s 20-point peace plan

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 12d

Blame lies solely with the terrorist and the actual promoters of antisemitism and antisemitic violence. Do not exploit this monstrous attack for your own political ends.

Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 12d

Please everyone do NOT blame the Manchester antisemitic terrorist attack EITHER on Jews for supporting Israel's policy in Gaza, whether they do or not, OR on people for condemning Israel's policy and supporting Palestinians.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 12d

The far right is already exploiting the terrorist attack at the Manchester synagogue to stoke more hatred and division.

Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 12d

Solidarity with our Jewish sisters and brothers in the face of this monstrous attack.

Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 12d

Live Updates: 2 Killed in Car Ramming and Stabbing Outside U.K. Synagogue, Police Say www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: 2 Killed in Car Ramming and Stabbing Outside U.K. Synagogue, Police Say

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 13d

How may polemics against Emma Watson do we actually need ?

Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 14d

Growth, Expansion and Boom in German Defense Industry
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Growth, Expansion and Boom in German Defense Industry

Germany is set to experience the well-known multiplication effect of growth in one sector spreading to other branches and the economy in general. Manufacturers eager for new opportunities are alert.

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Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 14d

...von der Leyen said on Tuesday during a joint news briefing with Rutte ahead of a discussion on defence and security issues... She noted that she put forward the idea of a reparations loan that is based on the immobilised Russian assets as a "structural solution" for military support to Ukraine.'

Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social · 14d

The leader of the free world seems to be proposing the seizing of Russian assets cloaked as a 'loan' offset against future Russian reparations payments to Ukraine: '"There is no seizing of the assets. Ukraine has to repay the loan if Russia is paying reparations"... www.trtworld.com/article/6a71...