In pre-Gaza days, an unimaginable war crime that would have led to endless investigations and analysis and potential invocation of international law. In post-Gaza days, should be the same.

Help me find a brightspot to go into Shabbat with. Skyrocketing oil prices mean Trump is going to back dow soon? How much economic blowback can he absorb?

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The predictable regional fallout has begun from America's reckless war of choice against Iran. New roundtable from @tcambanis.bsky.social @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social @sajadjiyad.bsky.social @yaelmiz.bsky.social @abujamajem.com tcf.org/content/comm...

Israel has shifted from managed containment to comprehensive destruction writes @yaelmiz.bsky.social. Long-term consequences will be devastating.

I wrote about how Democratic voters are forcing their party into resolving cognitive dissonance on Israel and what it means for American Jewish voters for @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8103...

Honored to be included amongst such a dedicated and smart group of people.

Already just a few days into the conflict, the law of unintended consequences has kicked in. New @centuryintl.bsky.social roundtable features frontline analysis to spotlight the most clear and present dangers. tcf.org/content/comm...

I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

Post doctoral fellowship at Oxford - Israel Studies - to work with Professor Yaacov Yadgar. Please see below my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I just saw All That's Left of You. I knew it would be devastatingly intense, but the narrative shines so beautifully it almost makes it bearable. Go see it! www.rogerebert.com/reviews/all-...

Important and insightful work by my colleague in History-HJS at NYU, @yaelmiz.bsky.social, a historian of the settlement movement. "Any effective opposition to settlements must start by targeting Israeli state support."

@centuryintl.bsky.social colleague @yaelmiz.bsky.social on the band-aid solution of Western sanctions on extremist settlers, when the settlement enterprise is in fact a decades-long Israeli state project: tcf.org/content/comm...

My first piece with @centuryintl.bsky.social. The settlement enterprise is deeply embedded in the Israeli state. Sanctioning a few individuals is not enough to obstruct the state mechanisms facilitating increasing levels of violence and dispossession in the West Bank. tcf.org/content/comm...

For @forward.com, I wrote about Anne Frank, ICE, and what we risk in making - and in refusing to ever make - comparisons forward.com/opinion/8009...

After two years of BS propaganda The IDF: about 70,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza

I think that the International, regional and internal-Israeli dynamics will not allow the Israeli government to return to hostilities. But at the moment that's all we can count on - the "dynamics". There seem to be no clear mechanism to prevent that.

"I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."

My comments in @warontherocks.bsky.social in their October 7 brief on what it will take to end the war. We're all breathing a sigh of relief, but I don't think we're there yet. The plan still has a main weakness of having no enforcement mechanisms or timelines. warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...

الحمد لله رب العالمين שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה

"no matter the costs, principled integrity is a priority, taking a stand means standing fast, and contesting the predations of the powerful gives meaning to the lives we lead." An inspiring essay by the preeminent feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Elizabeth Tsurkov, for me, is an example of a rare Jewish Israeli who decided to embrace the Middle East as her home, immersed itself in Arabic language and culture, struggled and put herself at risk for justice and liberty for people in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. She's a model of how things can be.

A non-insignificant part of the Witkoff success is his recent appearance on the scene. Dems have four more years of soul searching, and a huge part of that should be on revamping their foreign policy priorities. It's embarrassing that our hopes for a more peaceful future rest on his shoulders.

On the day that Israel enacted a complete blockade on aid and commercial goods entering Gaza, COGAT released a report on OCHA's "biases and methodological inconsistencies." As if we could trust COGAT to begin with, they have since stopped producing any statistics for what entered in March.

The scale and intensity of atrocities committed by Israel during the last 18 months dwarfs anything in the previous 78 years. Torture, mass detention, executions, massacres, destruction, ethnic cleansing. None of it is new, but the scale and intensity is.

A weird time to be on a Fulbright in Israel/Palestine. My funding is fine, and it's the last cohort of Hays for the foreseeable future. I take this responsibility & my PhD very seriously, yet I can't help but feel it's a futile endeavor in this environment both at home and what's happening here.

“‘No Other Land,’ an audacious and devastating film, was 2024’s most decorated documentary“ and just won the Oscar for Documentary Feature but still doesn’t have a US distributor. Gift link for context: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/m...

SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies has the pleasure of hosting next week two excellent scholars - Professor Zvi Ben Dor Benite and Dr Eirik Kvindesland - talking on the Jews of the Indian Ocean www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jews-of-th...

Spent the last week selling the ceasefire deal to friends and family, to assuage my own despair. There are too many ways it could fail. The idea that Israel will ever withdraw from Gaza is likely the culprit. The deal will thus fall apart after phase 1 and Trump's interest in Gaza only goes so far.

So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’. Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e

I trust people who: - acknowledge when they get things wrong - change the mind and explain why - acknowledge the things they're unsure about - engage seriously with counter arguments - show consistency even when it's uncomfortable - are not afraid to say things their followers won't like

Fort Greene park, Christmas eve. I come to this park regularly. It holds the remains of 11,500 men and women who died in British prisons on ships off the coast. Imagine a similar outcome 250 years later in Palestine.

I get a small, daily reminder of the depths of loss the genocide has wrought on Gaza and its people. Three years ago, a falafel shop opened on my corner of Nostrand Ave in Brooklyn. Cafe Tamam was run by a man from Gaza. I spent many memorable moments with him, some watching World Cup games.

Jerusalem tonight

This hits better on X but there’s a strong irony that while Arab states across the region are abandoning Assad, the tankies tweeting from comfortable homes in coastal U.S. cities will be the last pillar of the “axis of resistance.”

No sigh of relief that the war is over as a bloody night awaits Lebanon. It's been 1 year since the temporary ceasefire & hostage deal with Hamas. Only SEVEN hostages have since returned alive. Israel has pursued only death and destruction, for its enemies and citizens alike.

7 Oct 2023 was most likely the deadliest day in the history of Palestine/Israel (ever). With over 800 civilians killed by Hamas. 2023 was most likely the deadliest year in the history of the country, with over 20,000 civilians killed by Israel. 2024 better make this stop.

I am hesitant, yet need to believe that all those in the center/left who preferred to bracket the issue of the occupation from the public discourse during the judicial overhaul protests won't make the same mistake during this terrifying moment of crisis. We cannot afford it.

The Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social learned about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin. For New Lines, she describes the whiplash of absorbing atrocities across multiple decades and reflects on worlds overturned.

Why is it important to spread videos and photos of protests?

Hi, I am trying to migrate away from twitter but obviously the current situation is diverting our time and energy. I look forward to joining these conversations soon.