MENA specialist, Research Associate @ISDglobal, multilingual
Joined February 2019
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
🏳️🌈 Anti-LGBTQIA disinformation is rising — join EDMO's next training module for an overview of current narratives, tactics and networks, case studies from Hungary, Czechia & Slovakia, and insights from GLAAD's 2026 Social Media Safety Index.
Learn from:
👉@fiennes_guy, @ISDglobal
👉@bulcsuhunyadi, @HdmoHub, @Pol_Cap
👉Ivan Ruta Cuker, @CEDMOhub
👉Jenni Olson & Leanna Garfield, @glaad
🔗Register by 15 June: tinyurl.com/27sk5jce
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My overview of 5 years in the online and offline anti-LGBTQ landscape; most media focussed on the rise in reported hate crimes but most striking for me was… isdglobal.org/digital-dispat…
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The erasure of queer voices and spaces in AI models and by automated content moderation, book bans and the targeting of non-trans women with anti-trans hate and transvestigation
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Neglected X but have briefly returned because a Redditor suggested I may not be a real alleged expert 👀
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
14 Aug 2025
11/ Rushing to conclusions and amplifying unverified claims is the opposite of justice. It puts victims and communities at greater risk. In one example, a media agency quoted a telegram channel that was spreading violence saying it is an official channel. The UN report after careful digging showed that telegram channel was an imposter account.
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15 Aug 2025
The ‘No Innocents’ (in Gaza) discourse, like ‘the Myth of the Israeli Civilian’, seeks to broaden the definition of legitimate military targets to non-combatants and children. Recent efforts to similarly brand Gazan journalists follow this pattern isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…
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15 Aug 2025
Pinning my overview of the main actors in the Israeli far-right ecosystem in light of their accelerated — and devastating —activities in Gaza, Israel and the West Bank isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
27 Mar 2025
This Insight sees @fiennes_guy investigate how Western extremists, including neo-Nazis, white supremacists and participants in Saints Culture, capitalised on the migration to XiaoHongShu following the announcement that TikTok would be banned in the US.
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30 Jan 2025
Going to admit here that I’m thrilled to see people read (and appreciate) the endnotes
30 Jan 2025
Mentioned in the footnotes of this excellent overview of the Israeli far-right: x.com/fiennes_guy/status/188…
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19 Jan 2025
Who is Itamar Ben Gvir, the far right minister who resigned in protest at the hostage deal today, and Bezalel Smotrich, the far right minister who didn’t? A refresher in my overview for ISD here: isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
13 Jan 2025
A great overview of key ideologies, groups and figures in contemporary Israeli far-right extremism by my colleague @fiennes_guy at @ISDglobal.
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
13 Jan 2025
Insightful overview on Israel's extremism from @fiennes_guy - MENA specialist @ISDglobal
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
9 Jan 2025
Far-Right Extremism in Israel - by @fiennes_guy
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
20 Dec 2024
Rebels from an aligned uprising in the south reached Damascus & toppled dictator Assad’s regime on 8 Dec. This Explainer provides an overview of the group’s origins, history of governance, & its subsequent actions & messaging. - by @fiennes_guy and me
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
9 Dec 2024
In a few hours, as part of the same show, Syrian rebels turned from being labelled on Russian TV as "militants from a terror group that was part of AlQaeda" to "armed opposition." After a decade of describing all opposition to Assad as ISIS, Russia is quickly shifting gears.
9 Dec 2024
Киселев переобулся между часовыми поясами) превратив сириийских «боевиков из террористической группировки, входившей в Аль-Каиду» в «вооруженную оппозицию) Посмотрите, что мы нашли)
Многие заметили, как пропаганда вчера по ходу переобувалась и подбирала слова, чтоб перейти от «сволочи, свергли нашего Асада!» до «ааа, не так уж нам эта Сирия дурацкая и нужна»
Ну и, видимо, поэтому по ходу дня всё либеральнее говорили про силы, взявшие Дамаск. Утром их звали «джихадисты-террористы», к вечеру те же люди — превратились в «повстанцев» и «оппозицию». Что ж, а с такими товарищами — уже можно иметь дело!
И вот, что мы с коллегами по Зомбоящику нашли: Киселев в одной и той же передаче, в один и тот же день успел коренным образом поменять представление о противниках Асада))
В первой части ролика — кусок его выпуска на Дальний Восток, вещался вчера в мск:
«Сегодня и сам Дамаск под ударами боевиков из террористической группировки Хайят Тахрир аш-Шам, ранее — ячейки Аль-Каиды, пал!»
А вот уже выпуск на Москву через 7 часов, мск:
«Сегодня и сам Дамаск под ударами вооруженной оппозиции, пал!»
Ну слава богу, разобрались к вечеру!
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
9 Dec 2024
Five years ago, a conversation transformed my understanding of Syria's prison sector—and the Syrian regime itself.
As Syrians excavate survivors from Sednaya, I’m sharing an edited transcript of that discussion. The speaker is an Arab researcher who spent decades in Damascus 🧵
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
8 Dec 2024
I’ve been out of the country for 12 years. During every call with my family, there’s always a silent pause at the end. That silence is our inability to ask: “When will we meet?” Today, there’s no more silence. We will meet again in #Syria.
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
8 Dec 2024
The Iranian embassy getting raided after its brutal client dictator makes an ignominious exit from the country is a real "history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme" moment
8 Dec 2024
Iran's MFA spokesman says diplomats in the Iranian embassy in Syria left the mission "minutes before" it was raided.
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Guy Fiennes retweeted
7 Dec 2024
Wonder how much paper shredding is going on in Damascus right now
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