Consultant, writer, editor, speaker. Israel-Palestine + some US politics. Pro-conversation & nuance. If you're here for snark, simplism, slogans - don't follow.
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I find the “Zionism/Anti-Zionism” debate to be not only aimless drudgery, but a framing that primarily serves the most extreme viewpoints on either side of the Israel-Palestine question. My latest rant is out.
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Netanyahu, who once boasted that he knows how to 'move America very easily', now acknowledges the loss of US support, under his watch. Sad. Sadder yet that he insists that 'Israel hasn't changed' during his years and years of control. Vote him out.
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Final pre-election polls being published. So it's the last time this election season we'll see Israeli outlets excluding Arab-led parties (14 seats total) from 'the Opposition' - even if Eisenkot, Bennett, et al exclude them from coalition consideration. jpost.com/israel-election-20…
"I realized at the end of the day that Israel really didn't want peace, but they wanted dominance. And I walked away from it." Intense interview with Netanyahu's former friend/confidant. Hopefully this manages to impact those who are far from being left. haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…
Question is: Was this really a Netanyahu gov't own goal? As the Reform movement is considered more a threat than secular Jews to Israel's ultraorthodox domination, so might Netanyahu & co. perceive progressive Zionism to be a bigger threat than antiZionism.haaretz.com/israel-news/haar…
The ADL's numbers "deserve to be parsed". Valuable research by @NexusProjectUS, the results of which will likely disappoint both the pro- and anti-ADL extremes. ncar.us/papers/counting-anti…
January 2019. "Rabbi Yoḥanan said: From the day that the Temple was destroyed, prophecy was taken from the prophets and given to fools and children." haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…
I was happy to organize, and hope folks can tune in to, this webinar that will look not only at the voting options next week, but also at what it means to be 'left' in Israel today and how the left might reorient/reorganize itself in future election cycles. Registration link 👇.
TOMORROW - Tuesday, October 20, at 12:30pm ET. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Our discussion will explore the profound changes reshaping Israel’s political left and pose the question - what's a leftwing voter to do next week at the ballot box? Join us!
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 12:30pm ET
HaDemocratim? Joint List? Ra’am? With Meretz no longer on the ballot, left-of-center voters have fewer choices than in years past.
Dr. Gayil Talshir will break down the options + explore the changes reshaping Israel’s left. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
There's been a rather significant drop in support for Likud over the last couple of months (but this ≠ size of his bloc), from a general range of 21-25 seats to more recently 18-20. This has generally been attributed to Ofer Winter's party. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…
That's reinforced by a HaMadad simulation (based on a "2nd preference" survey Q). If Hendel/Zalica party withdraws or goes under the threshold, nothing really changes. But if Ofer Winter's party does so, it'd boost the Jewish-led segment of the opposition. themadad.com/md15-10-26/
Therein lies the important work of the @placeforusall campaign to "raise Arab community turnout from 53% to 70%". If this happens, the threshold, in absolute numbers, would rise and could push Winter's party below it. xitter.cf/placeforusall/status/2…
The stiff title belies how dramatic this piece is by reserve Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman, exec director of the INSS thinktank: The implied change in Israel's security concept following Oct. 7 signals a "fundamental transformation in Israeli national identity".
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This strengthens Hayman's analysis, but with a more political framing: "The vision: Peace is not a goal ... Israel should prepare for conflict with Egypt, Jordan; military should be ready to deploy divisions hundreds of kilometers from [Israel's] borders."haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
With Meretz gone, subsumed into a HaDemocratim party with a largely Laborish flavor, a bunch of folks have been asking, privately + on social media: Who should I vote for now? And what options might there be next time around?
Deepest thanks to Dr. Talshir! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Tuesday, 10/20, 12:30pm ET us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Dr. Gayil Talshir will examine left-of-center voting options (HaDemocratim, Joint List, Ra’am) plus the structural and ideological changes reshaping Israel’s political left, giving rise to new efforts such as A Place for Us All.
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This is just amazing. "We need to wipe out Gaza. Not a genocide, God forbid. But Gaza as a terrorist entity with 1.8m Nazis [entirety of Gaza's population - DR] should stop existing."
So: Wipe out a city of 1.8 people, because every one of them is an enemy.
But - not a genocide.
Netanyahu didn't create antisemitism, writes @AmiKaufman, but in claiming that he represents the Jewish people and that Israel is acting on behalf of the Jewish people, he's "handed [antisemites] an alibi, and Jews in the UK and around the world are paying for it."
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Late to this. Gadi Eisenkot said this was "the embodiment of anti-Zionism". But Naftali Bennett took it a step further, saying the statements were "antisemitic"; that can be true only in a conceptual world in which Judaism can't exist outside Zionism.
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לקראת מפגש הפעילים בסחנין, צמתים מרכזיים בעיר נצבעו בסגול. הפעם מפשילים שרוולים ודואגים שכולם יוצאים להצביע כדי להוריד את וינטר, הנדל וסמוטריץ' מתחת לאחוז החסימה, ולהפיל את שלטון הימין. 💪🟣 תרמו לחזק את המאמץ לעידוד הצבעה: cause.lundadonate.org/place4…
While it's good that 60 Minutes broadcast this story, it's also flawed - with its failure to clarify the apartheid-like reality, it's reference to biblical stories but not int'l law, and its tendency not to put Israeli gov't responsibility front & center.
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One can only conjecture what the report would've looked like in the olden/golden days, before Bari Weiss was hired by the Ellisons, with their Trump and Netanyahu connections.
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Apparently, one need not only conjecture. This reporting makes a lot of sense. xitter.cf/NatalieKorach/status/2…
Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes report on extremist Israeli settlers underwent a contentious screening process at the Bari Weiss-led CBS News, leading the veteran correspondent to privately express the possibility of quitting the show
Scoop from @oliverdarcy
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The American Jewish establishment, writes Ben Lefkowitz-Katzir, needs to work with, not against, pro-Palestine figures - like Mamdani - who, despite being severe critics of Israel, are not antisemites. Its current approach actually promotes the latter.
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