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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis)

@avishaybsg.bsky.social
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Normative Theory of Civ-Mil | Senior Lecturer (AP) Tel Aviv University PoliSci | Head of U.S. Research at the INSS | Napper extraordinaire | Kartofellophile

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Israeli Supreme Court unanimously reinstates both Arab parties disqualified from running by the politically controlled central election commission. Also reinstates radical left MK Ofer Cassif. Yesterday SC told Abu Shadeh to retire himself to avoid ruling against him.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A selection of head coverings in Jerusalem’s Old City’s Christian quarter market.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
tbf, he's a good choice if lethality is what you're going after. He's responsible for more foreign national deaths over the last year than the US military is able to achieve in years. :(
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watch and learn kids. This is how you don’t react to the news that someone tried to down a plane full of people.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The co-pilot seems to have tried to crash it into the ground with a full cabin of (mostly Israeli) civilians. Was stopped by his pilot that got stabbed in the process passengers interfered and another crew on the flight landed it in Saudi Arabia. Israel’s treating it as a terror attack for now.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Are y’all on top of the fly-Dubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv that got hijacked by one of its pilots this morning and may yet (re)start a Middle East war? You should be
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every movie theater is a 4D theater if you really think about it
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If anything, I’m surprised the move to ratchet up sanctions on settlements took so long. My theory is that it took Trump losing political capital on Iran, and the impending midterm do to unleash this wave
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is not good and doesn’t attest to good things about her or about her seriousness www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
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UN's Francesca Albanese claims Jews in Nazi camps were called ‘Muslims' | The Jerusalem Post
“In fact, when they were being taken to the gas chambers, there are some accounts of life in the concentration camps saying that Jews were called ‘the Muslims,’” Albanese said.
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Shai Agmon @shaiagmon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exciting news! UCL’s Institute of Law, Politics & Philosophy is partnering with Law and Philosophy to launch the annual Ronald Dworkin Lecture. We’re delighted that Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) will deliver the first Inaugural Dworkin lecture in May 2027. More info: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/ucl-ins...
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This, like the rest of this poorly attended speech, is aimed at his domestic audience.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Quick update, the entire Arab party slate has been disqualified. They will mostly be reinstated by the Supreme Court. One candidate who wrote a supposedly bad article post Oct 7 is possibly going to remain out, as even Labor supported disqualifying him.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Israeli central election committee which is a political body headed by a Supreme Court justice disqualified from participating in the elections two Arab candidates and the entire Raam list. This is a regular ceremony based on election law and the Supreme Court will reverse most of it. Still bad.
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Avi Zollman @avi.zollman.com · 22/09/2026
**However, under any government, rebuilding support for the U.S.-Israel alliance within the Democratic party will necessitate changes in Israeli policy.** This is especially true on the Israeli-Palestinian issue where there is an expectation, even among Israel’s supporters, that an incoming Israeli government will act to stop settler violence and settlement expansion, and halt attacks in Gaza while moving forward toward a political resolution of the conflict. Such policy changes may or may not move Democratic public opinion on Israel, though they are likely to elicit a positive response from lawmakers. Words alone may have some effect, while action is likely to be received positively.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Btw, this should be useful to American politics folks
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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Kol nidre means there's no bread for a day. Kol dichfin means there's no bread for a week. Kolkhoz means there's no bread for the entire year.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If media coverage of the Democratic Party is to be believed, the entire party has become pro-Palestinian and anti Israel. We decided to actually check if that’s true (it’s not) and think about how Israel could respond to the changing landscape. I’ll try sharing some findings later.
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Three Camps, One Party: Democrats And The Future Of U.S.-Israel Policy | INSS
Much attention in the global media has focused on the wave of victories of left-wing critics of Israel in the U.S. Democratic primaries. The victory of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan primary for a...
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Something I wrote on X a while back about why sanctions on settlement entities matter so much, back in February of 2024. Trump averted the immediacy of it but ensured it’ll come back with a vengeance as even pro-Israel orgs like FDD are now warning.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Something I wrote on X a while back about why sanctions on settlement entities matter so much, back in February of 2024. Trump averted the immediacy of it but ensured it’ll come back with a vengeance as even pro-Israel orgs like FDD are now warning.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Netanyahu cuts US trip to hours in New York after Musk meeting canceled, no Trump meeting set share.google/tznHbf8qAzZk...
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Netanyahu cuts US trip to hours in New York after Musk meeting canceled, no Trump meeting set
An Israeli advance team had already traveled to Texas to prepare for a meeting with Elon Musk, but Netanyahu canceled the stop; despite efforts by his aides, no meeting with Trump is currently schedul...
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
May the gates of heaven open to our prayers. Meaningful Yom Kippur to all who mark it
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Taking 7yo to her first pro basketball game. Wish us luck.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I walked a colleague through using an LLM for a highly mechanical job they couldn’t perform otherwise. We got into talking about what LLMs are and why reactionary men like them. The colleague was shocked to realize we built the slaves which is why if you tell it to be critical it will do that.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No Agricultural Farms — A Mechanism of Takeover and Expulsion “This is not agricultural settlement. It is an organized mechanism of dispossession, expulsion, and de facto annexation.” Read Shaul Arieli, in full, here: x.com/shaulari/sta...
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
לא קראתי שום דבר ממה שאומרים על זה ולא ראיתי את הסרט אבל השיח בנושא ממש מגעיל אותי
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It certainly doesn't help that this same collection of characters shredded the entire administrative state here in the U.S. (Amodei wasn't a Trump/DOGE stooge. But many of his peers were.) They spent the past couple years burning a house down, and now are saying "what we really need is a roof."
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy new year to everyone who celebrates here! Let this year and its curses end and let a new year and its blessings begin.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
About five years ago, my wife took a community center pottery class and fell in love. Since then she’s gotten really serious about the craft and now has her own wheel and kiln. I love what she makes so much. Take a look:
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
About five years ago, my wife started a community center pottery class and fell in love. Since then she’s gotten really serious about the craft and now has her own wheel and kiln. I love what she makes so much. Take a look:
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I really really hate the "what they took from us" meme. Generally speaking, no one owed you anything (and it's not like you're hurting for sexualized representations of other humans)
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm stressing out over not having time to handle it or a clear idea how to mid-life crisis
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We already knew Egyptian intelligence warned Israel ahead of Oct. 7 and the Netanyahu govt dismissed it. Now we learn UAE leader MBZ warned Bibi directly that Hamas was about to try something big. He dismissed that too. One of the worst security failures in history. And followed by so much awful.
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Steve B. Holt @stevebholt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Turns out it didn't matter if the party submission form required a signature at the top.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today is the day in which parties in Israel get listed with the central elections committee. Dan Arieli, yes, that Dan Arieli, is there (on the left) to list the Pirate Party. Which is certainly a choice.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The ghouls are ghouling
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And/or: If you believe in the “folk” version of democracy, then the 2024 election must have meant that people waned this crap - or else democracy was broken. (What’s actually broken is that theory of democracy, of course.)
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Rachel Navarre @rnavarre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Boston is ridiculous safe, but we are in Back Bay, so #APSA, watch out for groups of roving men in fleece vests that want to talk to you about crypto.
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Bobby Hill: I Don't Know You
Alt: Bobby Hill: I Don't Know You
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
16,000 steps and counting
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The Strategy Bridge @thestrategybridge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Lots of compelling writing from Dr. Pauline Shanks-Kaurin on The Bridge. @queenofthinair.bsky.social’s work on military ethics is foundational reading for military professionals. thestrategybridge.org/search?q=Kau...
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The Strategy Bridge
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Let’s go watch the ball of bases
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
International travel is such a bizarre and immediate manifestation of material class divisions. And the best part about it is that no matter how high up you are there is always someone above you.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think Hegseth genuinely believed the top brass was just waiting for someone to release them from the shackles of Washington liberals, and had no sense of what sort of officers and defense professionals modern Western defense establishments produce
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think Hegseth genuinely believed the top brass was just waiting for someone to release them from the shackles of Washington liberals, and had no sense of what sort of officers and defense professionals modern Western defense establishments produce
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is basically what Israeli discussions about Gaza looked like in 2015. How did that work out for us?
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
How it started How it’s going
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Aristotle ftw
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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
unpolarized groups and, crucially, that the two differ on our various outcomes. Spoiler alert: we find that no group is consistently “better” for democracy (ie more trusting, democratic, participating). It seems that different groups contribute different elements to our democratic dinner. 🧵9/10
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This should not be a hard thing to note if you’re at all a liberal, and not enchanted by the Romantic allure of fascism and the extremes of violence for violence’s sake, as Schmitt was. I understand the libidinous thrill of sacrificing morality on the altar of “necessity”, but it’s false and wrong.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
fair
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m putting it out there so I can eat my hat later if it doesn’t happen, but I think Piker is either done as a major(ish) figure in dem politics, or he massively cleans up his act (and is still done at which point you go Russell Brand).
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