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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud

@yaelmiz.bsky.social
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| Century International Fellow | PhD Candidate | Israel and Palestine politics & history | perennial weltschmerzer

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My conversation with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @abuaardvark.bsky.social: Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...
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Opinion | Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I know this will sound trite, but seeing the incredible photos of earth from space juxtaposed against the Middle East going up in flames, with the prospect of further unfathomable levels of destruction, is so hard to swallow. What sort of inspiration/hope should we entertain for humanity's future?
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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.
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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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P.S. @workforpeace.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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If the Iranian regime indeed collapses — or undergoes
"Venezuelization," meaning it remains formally intact while bending to American dictates —
Israel will claim a prominent seat at the table shaping a new
Middle Eastern order.
Such an order, based on the unchecked use of force, could grant Israel wider latitude not only to "restrain" Iran but to accelerate annexation in the West Bank and crush the Gaza Strip. It is very possible, too, that Netanyahu's timing is tied to his desire to forestall any transition to a second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza.
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Order from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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...
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Order from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Israel has shifted from managed containment to comprehensive destruction writes @yaelmiz.bsky.social. Long-term consequences will be devastating.
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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...
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Gavin Newsom just confirmed the demise of the Democratic party's support for Israel
American Jewish voters, who overwhelmingly trend liberal, are about to face some difficult choices
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Honored to be included amongst such a dedicated and smart group of people.
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Thanassis Cambanis @tcambanis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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...
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Roundtable: War on Iran Was Easy to Start. It Won’t Be Easy to End.
President Donald Trump decided to join Israel and attack Iran early on Saturday, February 28—a reckless move that positions the United States as a rogue
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Post doctoral fellowship at Oxford - Israel Studies - to work with Professor Yaacov Yadgar. Please see below my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Job Details
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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-...
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All That's Left of You Review: West Bank Drama Has Impeccable Craft
Beyond the film’s narrative qualities is its near-pristine craft.
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 06/02/2026
@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...
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Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem
Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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...
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Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem
Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has
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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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...
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What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank hiding from ICE
Is it ok to invoke Anne Frank in discussing kids hiding from ICE? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum disagree.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
After two years of BS propaganda The IDF: about 70,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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.
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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-...
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The Ripple Effects of the Oct. 7 Attack on Israel
This is a special edition of our members-only newsletter, In Brief, where each week, experts will dig deep into a single issue happening in the world to
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
الحمد لله رب العالمين שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה
Barak Ravid: Hugs in Egypt as negotiators wait Trump's truth social post announcing the end of the Gaza war
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"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...
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A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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.
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If jewish currents isn't one of the best outlets we have, I don't know what is jewishcurrents.org/on-the-squee...
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On the Squeezing
The Parable of the Lemons
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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.
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“‘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...
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‘No Other Land’: An Eye-Opener About the West Bank and the Movies (Gift Article)
A team of Palestinian and Israeli directors take a daring approach to the subject. But the Oscar-nominated film could not find a U.S. distributor.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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...
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Jews of the Indian Ocean
A panel of two lectures by Professor Ben-Dor Benite and Dr. Kvindesland
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/01/2025
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
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
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
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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.
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Jerusalem tonight
Protest in Jerusalem. 
Sign: End the Fucking War
photo credit: Orna Kupferman
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
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.”
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
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.
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
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.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
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.
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Memory Voids and Role Reversals
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
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عمو حسام @barracks.substack.com · 02/11/2023
Why is it important to spread videos and photos of protests?
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In search of the domino effect
Why is it important to spread videos and photos of protests?
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Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud @yaelmiz.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
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.
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