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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2h

Support for two-state solution among Israeli Jews June 2019: 39% Sep 2023: 34% July 2026: 24%

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 5h

I could write a long thread on why and how Zionism was by many seen as an emancipatory movement in the early 20th century (and the contradictions involved) or on (marginalised) versions of Zionism that pursued Jewish national expression from an egalitarian position. But this seems esoteric to me.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 6h

What people fail to understand is also that Zionism was not just a plan/ideology for Jews in Palestine, it was also a vision for Jewish *diasporic* identity. Much of Zionist activity has always taken place outside Palestine/Israel and was about communal identity and politics. Hence the attachment.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 7h

Saying that Zionism is racism is like saying Communism is totalitarianism. Both are 19th century ideologies that generated wide sympathy and were seen as progressive, and when put to practice to create and reshape states, created enormous injustice. 1/

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 8h

It is now official Green Party policy that international law counts to nothing. A bold proposition

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 8h

The Green Party deserves thanks on two fronts. Firstly, for helping to bring down Kier Starmer's government. And secondly, for reminding us how toxic and useless some parts of the British left are.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

among 18-25 Jewish voters, I expect Ben Gvir to have at least a fifth of the votes. Whatever the result is, Israeli society has gone so far right that any real political shift (in policy, not just in government makeup) would require pulling the emergency break

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My current prediction for Israeli election, could change in next three weeks: -Clear advantage for the opposition -Significant result for "Arab parties" -And for hard right parties (at expense of Likud) Election day and weeks after are going to be dicey

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Update: interest and concern in sanctions is increasing, on X and in the news. It's still a minor story, but is slowly entering Israeli consciousness

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My biggest public service is not commenting on things on social media, I do this dozens of times every day.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

26 days, and Israeli elections remain highly unpredictable. The main cause is not the undecided, but the following factors: - several parties, primarily in the Netanyahu bloc, are hovering just above the electoral threshold of 3.25%. - Turnout is going to be everything

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Andy Burnham has such a secondary school teacher vibe. And I say it in the best way possible

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

STOP calling Israel The world's ONLY Jewish state It's a nation state therefore there's only one like every other nation state Unless you don't actually think Jews are a nation In which case what are you talking about

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yesterday's pogrom in Jaloud proves that, even in the rare case that the IDF is sent to protect Palestinians from settler violence in the West Bank , it is unwilling/unable to do so. As @nirhasson.bsky.social says, it is time for international peace keepers. www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-bl...

timesofisrael.com

PM blames ‘small number’ of West Bank rioters as mass settler attack draws wide condemnation

Some right-wing politicians echo Netanyahu's rare rebuke of settler violence, after over 100 extremists attack Jalud; top settlement leader calls for police crackdown on attacks

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In most likelihood, the election that will ultimately decide whether Israel continues its expansionary campaigns of destruction in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria is not the Knesset elections, but the November mid-term US congress election.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How long do we have to wait for a Holywood film that portrays Brett McGurk as the monster he is?

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Smotrich's plan is to push the entire West Bank population to the yellow areas, and annex the remaining 82%.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Any future for the Jewish North American diaspora and Israel demands a divorce between these two centres of the Jewish world. Or in the words of a great Jew, "conscious uncoupling"

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

88 year old Yocheved Liphshitz who was held hostage in Gaza (and her husband died there as a hostage): "The Israeli government did nothing to bring us back. It was Miriam Adelson who bought our freedom with the $100 million she gave Trump"

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Expect significant acceleration in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank after the Israeli election (27 Oct), especially if it looks like Netanyahu will be forced out of office.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gaza is suffering the world's worst economic crisis ever recorded, with nine in 10 businesses destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, a top UN development agency warned on Thursday. www.rfi.fr/en/middle-ea...

rfi.fr

Gaza suffers world's worst ever economic crisis: UN

Gaza is suffering the world's worst economic crisis ever recorded, with nine in 10 businesses destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, a top UN development agency warned on Thursday.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

while the British Academy is using partial randomisation on its small grants -- and awarding more women/and POC researchers than ever before -- UKRI is feeding your painstakingly-developed proposal into an AI. But it's okay because they then get *two* AIs to debate whether you get the money.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"This is not my Zionism" writes the president of the UK Jewish Board of Deputies today. Good for you, but this is the Zionism that exists. Is it about time to start treating Israel as a real state and not as a fairy tale?

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is functionally what it means to proclaim the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Don't waste time on engaging with toxic people on social media

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyone who talks with sadness, alarm and concern about what is happening in Israel and Palestine, but opposes any sanctions on the Kahanist government, is doing "hopes and prayers"

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

אפרופו כנראה גרסת הכיסוי הכי טובה שהם אי פעם עשו www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7gr...

youtube.com

ארץ נהדרת 14 | סיכום פרשת אזריה

YouTube video by ארץ נהדרת

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A much better thread than @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social's original article

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison. Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record. A clear message of 100% impunity.

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This might be the culmination, the final boss, of every article Freedland has ever written abt Israel: putting his sad face on to state how awfully & unacceptable the situation is while hand wringing & limply, lamely arguing that no, there's simply nothing that can be done abt it

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In the October Knesset election, there are four parties running on an explicit platform of ethnic cleansing of Gaza Likud Jewish Power (Ben Gvir) "People of Israel" (Winter) Religious Zionism (Smotrich) They are likely to achieve around 30% of the vote

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How can MS outlook be such a terrible software. Where is this super intelligence that you're promising

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The answer is Regulation 119, Defense (Emergency) Regulations (1945) “Forfeiture and demolition of property, etc.”, enacted by the Government of Palestine, Sir John Valentine Wistar Shaw on behalf of the High Commissioner of Palestine. Main target: Jewish insurgency groups (Irgun, Stern Gang etc).

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Three courses in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, are among the 90 programmes to be axed as Edinburgh University seeks to save £140m at the cost of as many as 1800 jobs. Edinburgh UCU has announced a five week programme of strike action in protest. #BonfireOfTheHumanities

scotsman.com

Edinburgh University to mothball 90 courses as five weeks of strikes to start

The university said mothballing 90 courses will not detract from the institutions standing on the world stage

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There is a very high chance that there would be no transition of power in Gaza and no reconstruction before 2029.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From the "Zionism is Racism" Green Party motion: "the Green Party supports the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine" This runs directly counter to the entire body of international law in regarding to Palestine

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I see people keep peddling the "sanctions would only help Netanyahu in the election" line UK sanctions on settlements featured in the Israeli news cycle for about 20 minutes when they were announced. I doubt anyone remembers them. For better or for worse - it's not having election impact either way

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A question from the NYT poll. Who do you like more, Israel or the Pah-luh-stin-ians?

In the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians [pah-luh-stin-ians], which do you sympathize with more: Israel or the Palestinians [pah-luh-stin-ians]?

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Tealin @twirlynoodle.com · 16/09/2026

And now, the sport.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Things are going to break this year. El nino, oil and fertiliser shortages, high energy prices. Major chaos and upheavals are on the way

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Roee Bar-On Rotman @theostrich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

לפני כחצי שנה נעצרתי מעצר שווא בהפגנה נגד המלחמה באיראן. בשעות הספורות במעצר הבנתי כמה דק המעטה שמגן עלינו משרירות שלטונית וכמה כוח יכול השלטון להפעיל, כמעט ללא בקרה, על האזרח (וזה עוד במדינה שמתחזה לדמוקרטית). הפעילות של @azturimhafganot.bsky.social חיונית לחיזוקו של המעטה הדק הזה >>>

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Eisenkot as PM is still the most likely scenario imo, however there's a non-zero chance of a right wing non-Netanyahu government headed by Avigdor Lieberman.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have a pretty apocalyptic feeling about the next few months. I hope it's just start-of-term anxiety

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