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The Tsardom and the Jews: Antisemitism and Official Policy in the Russian Empire

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 April 2026

This entry was posted in History, Russia and tagged Alexander II, Alexander III, Andrei Yushchinsky, Antisemitism, assassination, autocracy, Beilis trial, Black Hundreds, blood libel, Boevye Druzhiny, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Bolsheviks, Christianity, Christians, collectivisation, Combat Groups, Communism, concentration camps, Constituent Assembly, Cossacks, Count Dmitry Tolstoy, Count Sergei Witte, Czechoslovak Coup, dekulakisation, Dmitriy Gotovtsev, Dmitry Bogrov, Dmitry Gotovtsev, Dreyfus Case, East German uprising, Easter, Emperor, Enlightenment, Fighting Squads, Gendarme, Gomel pogrom, Great Terror, GULAG, historiography, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holodomor, humanism, Hungarian Revolution, Hungarian uprising, Israel, Jewish Question, Jews, Kadets, Katyn massacre, Kishinev pogrom, Kolyma, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Kronstadt rebellion, liberalism, liberals, Lithuania, May Laws, Menahem Mendel Beilis, monarchy, Narodnaya Volya, Nazi-Soviet Pact, Nicholas II, Nikolai Ignatiev, October Manifesto, Okhrana, Okhranka, Orthodox Christianity, Pale of Settlement, People’s Will, pogroms, pogromshchiki, Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, political police, Prague Spring, propaganda, Pyotr Stolypin, Reds, Roman Catholicism, Russia, Russian Empire, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, secret police, sectarianism, serfdom, serfs, socialism, socialists, Solovki Prison Camp, Soviet Union, terror-famine, terrorism, Theodor Herzl, Third Section, Third Section of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery, Tsar, Tsar-Liberator, Tsardom, Tsarist Government, Uganda Project, Ukraine, Volksaufstand, Volunteer Army, Vyacheslav von Plehve, White Movement, Whites, Yezhovshchina, Zionism, Zionist movement on April 29, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

“Religion” is Not a Human Universal

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Antisemitism, Arab world, Arabs, Augustine, Bernard Lewis, Bible, Christendom, Christianity, Christians, church, clergy, Communism, deen, democracy, din, Enlightenment, ethnos, French Revolution, Fuqaha, Gaza War, God, Gospels, Hagarenes, Halakhah, HAMAS, infidels, Ioudaismos, Iranian Revolution, Ishmaelites, ISIS, Islam, Islamdom, Islamic Government, Islamic Revolution, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamists, jahiliyya, James George Frazer, Jews, jihadists, Judaism, laik, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Mustafa Kemal, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, nationalism, Ottoman Empire, pagan, paganism, Papal Revolution, particularism, Persia, Prophet Muhammad, Reformation, religio, religion, Roman Empire, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, saecularia, saeculum, Safavids, secular, secularism, Shah, sharia, Shia, slavery, State, Sunni, Tanakh, ulema, umma, universalism, Westernisation, world religions on April 26, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Academic Consensus and the Armenian Genocide

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 April 2026

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This entry was posted in History, Turkey and tagged 5-HTTLPR, academia, active measures, activism, Adolf Hitler, Allies, Alzheimer’s disease, ANCA, Andonian Documents, Ani Kalayjian, Antisemitism, antizionism, ARA, Aram Andonian, archives, ARF, Armenian Church, Armenian Massacres, Armenian National Committee of America, Armenian Revolutionary Army, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Armenians, Arnold Toynbee, ASALA, Beirut, Bernard Lewis, Bosnia, Bosporus, Britain, Cambodia, Caucasus Campaign, clairvoyance, Cold War, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, counter-insurgency, CUP, Dardanelles, Dashnaks, deportation, diaspora, Donald Bloxham, E. K. Sarkissian, East Timor, Entente, Esat Uras, Fascifists, fedayeen, First Armenian Republic, First World War, genetics, genocide, Genocide Convention, George Green, George Orwell, Gerard Libaridian, Germany, Guatemala, Guenter Lewy, guerrillas, Harry Elmer Barnes, Henry Morgenthau, Herero and Namaqua, historians, historiography, History, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Holocaust deniers, Holodomor, IAGS, ideological capture, ideology, Indonesia, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, Islamic Revolution, Israel Charny, JCAG, Jerusalem, Jews, Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, Kampuchea, KGB, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Korean War, Kosovo, Kurdistan Workers' Party, lobby organisations, medicine, Michael M. Gunter, missionaries, Moscow Centre, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Naim Bey, Naim-Andonian Documents, Narodniks, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nazism, negationism, nerkaght, Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Tribunal, Ottoman Empire, pacifism, pacifists, Palestine Liberation Organisation, parapsychology, Paul Rassinier, Peter Balakian, PKK, PLO, political warfare, precognition, propaganda, psi, psychiatry, psychokinesis, psychology, R. G. Sahakian, Raphael Lemkin, relocation, replication crisis, Richard G. Hovannisian, Richard Hovannisian, Robert Melson, Roger W. Smith, Russia, Rwanda, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Science, Sean McMeekin, Second World War, secularism, Shoah, Simon Vratsian, socialism, Soviet Revolution, Soviet Union, Stanford J. Shaw, Stanford Shaw, Sublime Porte, Talat Pasha, Taner Akçam, telepathy, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Blue Book, The Great Repatriation, The Memoirs of Naim Bey, The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, theology, transgenderism, Turkey, Turkish Straits, Ukraine, United States, Vahakn Dadrian, Vahakn N. Dadrian, Young Turks, Yves Ternon, Zionism, Zoryan Institute on April 9, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

Course-Correcting Britain’s Middle East Strategy

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 April 2026

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This entry was posted in British Politics, Foreign Policy and tagged Armilla Patrol, Bahrain, ballistic missiles, Britain, Carrier Strike Group, Cyprus, diplomacy, Donald Trump, Ed Miliband, Europe, F-35s, foreign policy, GCC, Gulf Cooperation Council, Gulf States, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HMS Dragon, HMS Lancaster, HMS Middleton, Iran, Iran War, IRGC, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Labour Party, LNG, Masoud Pezeshkian, Middle East, NATO, oil, Oman, Operation HIGHMAST, Qatar, RAF Akrotiri, Royal Navy, Saudi Arabia, Sir Keir Starmer, Strait of Hormuz, Strategic Defence Review, strategy, Syria, Turkey, Typhoons, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States on April 2, 2026 by KyleWOrton.

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