@yairwallach
Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
I think there is a vg case for the Alternative Vote (pluralist majoritarianism) UK's evolving party system - not least as of balanced use for voters on different sides of political spectrum. It allows sincere voting by every voter + strategic choices by those who care
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"Epic Fury" is a title for a film you have to scroll two minutes down the netflix screen to get to, and you know it's terrible before even clicking
On de Vera's tragic death, see Haaretz story www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
There's enough well documented atrocities happening right now. I don't see why people have to invent ones.
This lady from the Philippines died because she was left outside of a shelter by the family she was worked for as a caregiver.
I see a lot of these stories about migrant workers being denied entry to shelters in Israel. Often without detail, and almost always false. In the case of Marie Anne De Vera, it's a blatant and horrible lie
He's always sounded genuine, throughout his many ideological phases. He always sounds passionate and angry and fully committed. That never changes, and that's his thing. Being angry and indignant is more important than the cause
Thank you!
The internet is good!
Dr Moshe Neuman as an Ottoman officer
OMG this is amazing.
I wrote an article on Jewish doctors who studied in the American University of Beirut, so came across his story. I'm now writing a chapter on Jewish soldiers officers serving in the Ottoman military, so he's appearing again.
in fact Tidhar is not totally reliable, to be honest
Moshe Neuman playing the saw
I am relying on Tidhar's Encyclopaedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel
Dr. Moshe Neuman (1885-1964). A Jerusalem Yeshiva-student, a chemist assistant, a medical student (Beirut), an Ottoman medical officer, a British spy - and above all, a musical saw player and composer.
Highly recommended listen.
Delighted to have Emile on. Nobody better to discuss all the implications of this war.
Arnon Degani wrote a version of this some years ago that got many people angry archive.is/NnyoZ
join me!!!!!!
But this does not imply a specific vision for the future. And that conversation is not for now, when the risk of mass ethnic cleansing and the resumption of Gaza's destruction are very real, unlike the fantasies/nightmare of the "Algerian option" of driving Israelis out.
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For me, the urgency is to get Israel to end its "settlement phase" - the decades-long phase of active expansionism and dispossession within and without - Israel has not even defined its borders!
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You need a political vision, a political movement to pursue it, and a strategy to get there - and "settler colonialism" doesn't give you these things.
That's Bishara - paraphrased, not quoted verbatim.
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Considering that there are dozens of countries around the world established through settler colonialism, the idea that acknowledgment of that history leads to the dissolution of the "settler state" is patently unconvincing.
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Let me quote Palestinian intellectual Azmi Bishara, General Director of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Qatar. He said in his latest lecture on Palestine that settler colonialism is a good way to analyse Zionism, but that it doesn't say anything on the way forward.
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One problem with "settler colonialism" in regards to Zionism is that many supporters and opponents of the terminology believe it points to radical solutions and visions for the future - that "decolonisation" here necessarily means one-state solution or maybe even the "Algerian scenario".
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He’s literally trying to use this war to *checks notes*...
Make us forget about the Epstein files, bait us into funding DHS without any guardrails on ICE’s lawless behavior...and now let Netanyahu off the hook.
No, no, and no.
His court testimony is an unmitigated disaster. If this ever get to a verdict - he will be convicted
He may do it!
This is what this war is really about. A way for Netanyahu to stop his trial and to survive the next election.
Idit Silman: 7:28 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · Mr. President @realDonaldTrump , Your pressure regarding a pardon in the fake cases that were stitched up against Prime Minister Netanyahu is welcome. But it is important to understand who is blocking even a discussion of that request. Israel’s Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara, is preventing any discussion of the pardon, while Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit is backing her and preventing her dismissal, while also striking down laws passed by Israel’s elected legislature. Since the United States stands for democracy in Israel, it is time to impose serious personal sanctions against both of them. Thank you, Mr. President, for standing with the State of Israel and the free world. https://x.com/iditsilman/status/2029640283277734066
Israeli minister and a Netanyahu bootlicker calls on Trump to impose personal sanctions agains Israeli's Attorney General and the chief justice of the Supreme court, as they are the stumbling blocks preventing the a pardon for Netanyahu in his corruption trial.
It must be really hard working in a professional kitchen what with all the spies and secret agents in hot pursuit of bad guys constantly running through smashing up all your shit.
Michael Koplow warns that Bibi's cultivation of Trump might ultimately alienate the American public, and lose Israel its "greatest security asset", the relationship with the US.
Netanyahu has always been a master tactician, but mediocre strategist. israelpolicyforum.org/2026/03/04/t...