Dana El Kurd
@danaelkurd.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science • Author: Polarized & Demobilized, Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine • ماسكة السلم بالعرض • Profile by Molly Crabapple • Header my grandfather's publications
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Dana El Kurd
@danaelkurd.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Wow so many new people following. Maybe I need a real intro:
Hi I'm from Jerusalem & work on Palestine, authoritarianism, and US intervention in the Arab world. I'm a professor and a senior nonresident fellow at the Arab Center Washington.
I'll link a few essays, podcasts, & presentations below
Hi I'm from Jerusalem & work on Palestine, authoritarianism, and US intervention in the Arab world. I'm a professor and a senior nonresident fellow at the Arab Center Washington.
I'll link a few essays, podcasts, & presentations below
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The people demand to hear more from reasonable folks like Alan Dershowitz
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The people demand to hear more from reasonable folks like Alan Dershowitz
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tikvah’s jewish leadership conference honorees are a sight to behold
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
tikvah’s jewish leadership conference honorees are a sight to behold
Alan dershowitz 😵💫🫨😨
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Alan dershowitz 😵💫🫨😨
We dont always send our best, I have to say
In the event of an election meltdown in Honduras, it’s within the realm of possibility that the US State Department and the Republican Congressional leadership could end up backing a Palestinian guy named Nasralla
Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairwoman Maria Salazar Delivers Opening Remarks at Hearing on the Fight for Free Elections in Honduras
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairwoman Maria Salazar delivered opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing titled "Democracy in Peril: the Fight for F...
foreignaffairs.house.gov
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
We dont always send our best, I have to say
My kid is an early elementary schooler and already being made fun of for being brown with arab features.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
My kid is an early elementary schooler and already being made fun of for being brown with arab features.
I would like to understand how this happened when he was trying to take a domestic flight?
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I would like to understand how this happened when he was trying to take a domestic flight?
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they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a controversial U.S.- and Israel-backed company that provided aid to Gaza, said Monday it would shutter operations.
US-backed aid company in Gaza shutters operations
The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, has said it will shutter operations.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.
"Winning justice for Palestinians—and the enduring security that Jewish Israelis claim to want—will require reckoning with this entrenched national ethos of denial. Until we are finally willing to remember the horrors we’ve already wrought, there will surely be more to come."
"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
jewishcurrents.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"Winning justice for Palestinians—and the enduring security that Jewish Israelis claim to want—will require reckoning with this entrenched national ethos of denial. Until we are finally willing to remember the horrors we’ve already wrought, there will surely be more to come."
Oh are we doing star wars takes? Andor is the only thing that holds up
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Oh are we doing star wars takes? Andor is the only thing that holds up
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This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is.
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
What a dumbass empire
Too late. Marco Rubio already spilled the truth. The so called peace plan was Russia’s wish list, not something the US drafted. He’s trying to walk it back but the damage is done.
He’s scrambling.
He’s scrambling.
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
What a dumbass empire
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Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
My great uncle ran this theater before he passed last year. What small minded fascists
Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir ordered that a performance by children in the Palestinian National Theatre be raided and closed down just before the children were due to perform.
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
My great uncle ran this theater before he passed last year. What small minded fascists
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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War criminal says what
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
War criminal says what
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answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
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At least 1004 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since US-backed Israeli forces & settlers began escalating violence after 10/7/2023, B’Tselem reports. 217 were children. Several were US citizens.
“In the 21 cases where settlers killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted”
“In the 21 cases where settlers killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted”
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
At least 1004 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since US-backed Israeli forces & settlers began escalating violence after 10/7/2023, B’Tselem reports. 217 were children. Several were US citizens.
“In the 21 cases where settlers killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted”
“In the 21 cases where settlers killed Palestinians, not a single perpetrator has been convicted”
Who is this freak
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Who is this freak
Ukrainians getting the Palestinian treatment
Been driving for a couple hours. Just got online. Lemme see if I understand. US has been pushing a Ukraine plan for a few days. After some pushback, US Secy of State reveals that in fact it's a Russian plan that was presented to the US. Helluva a misunderstanding.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Ukrainians getting the Palestinian treatment
A pattern of genocide
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A pattern of genocide
Biden could never 😏
Also, our Mayor-Elect just called out Israel's genocide, and US support for it, by name, in the Oval Office. With little push back.
Likely a first, under any president.
Likely a first, under any president.
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Biden could never 😏