We commonly hear EU leaders talk about the need to ‘defend democracy’. Yet, as Omran Shroufi shows, their discourse is often more about identifying and naming geopolitical threats than it is about tackling pervasive, home-grown structural problems of democratic disconnect and disillusionment
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Member of the VUB Centre for Democratic Futures (DFUTURE)
Omran completed his PhD in Politics at the University of York, where he examined the emergence of pro-Israeli far-right parties in West Europe.
His research focuses on far-right politics, discourses about the far right, the intersections between far-right and mainstream politics as well as the ways political actors across the political spectrum claim to defend democracy.
His publications include ‘What the far right is(n’t)’, published in the 2024 edited volume The Ethics of Researching the Far Right (Manchester University Press, 2024) and ‘A critical discourse analysis of Geert Wilders’ pro-Israelism’, published in the journal Critical Discourse Studies in 2025.
He also has a forthcoming book on the pro-Israel far right in Europe.
Omran has published comment pieces and op-eds on EU politics as well as the far right for blogs and websites including the LSE blogs and Jacobin.
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