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Yair Wallach

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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

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Dec 29

Dr Husam Abu Safya, head of Kamal Adwan hospital, surrendering himself to a Israeli tank, December 2024

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 6h

- I'm concerned about the curious incident relating to Itamar Ben Gvir.
- But Ben Gvir hasn't said anything since yesterday
- That, exactly, is the curious incident

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 6h

Hey Microsoft, before you transform humanity with artificial general intelligence, can you just get the search to work on Outlook?

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 7h

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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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 10h

Make no mistake. Those who spearheaded the Gaza genocide will try to relaunch it in a more ruthless manner, at the earliest opportunity.
They will fail only if there will be an alternative vision, one of recognition, life and equality for everyone.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 10h

There's a sweet irony in the fact that Itamar Ben Gvir would have to oversee the largest release of Palestinian prisoners ever

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · Oct 7

oseh shalom bimromav hu yaaseh shalom aleinu v’al kol yisrael v’imru amein

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 20h

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Nathan Hersh @nathanhersh.bsky.social · 21h

I should know better but I’m so excited.

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 21h

Hamas says all living hostages can be freed within 72 hours. Has has agreed to release all 20 living hostages in a single phase.

www.israelhayom.com/2025/10/08/h...

Hamas says all living hostages can be freed within 72 hours

Negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh have made rapid progress, with cautious optimism on all sides. According to multiple diplomatic sources, a deal is expected to

www.israelhayom.com

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 21h

It's common sense. "This is not real Italian food" - says the person who never wrote anything about Italian food. Would you take them seriously?

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23h

I have said this before.
If you don't have a track record of writing or acting against antisemitism, you're not in a position to write about "the weaponisation of antisemitism".

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

So far they're talking about 2,000 in total, out of them 250 convicted for life sentence

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

After the anticipated and hoped for prisoners/hostage exchange, there will remain in Israeli prisons thousands more Palestinians than there had been there on 6th October 2023.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 1d

יום קשה

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

This was twenty-three months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,365 kids since.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jul 7

November 7, 2023 — Kids in Gaza host a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life.

“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”

At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2d

theoretically - but there's no information on what it would involved, beyond a small ceremony in the Har Herzl cemetery

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2d

As Israeli society is marking two years to the 7th of October attack, with public events and rallies and media coverage - the Israeli government is ignoring the anniversary.
No official statements
No personal statements from Netanyahu or ministers
No memorial services, no ceremony

Extraordinary

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2d

Only when the state of emergency comes to an end, will the Israeli public be able to come to terms with its own loss and trauma, and to begin to see the devastation it has wrought in Gaza.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2d

The Israeli government's strategy of prolonging this genocidal war for two years has aimed, among other things, to keep Israelis in deep state of of trauma of the 7th of October. That state of trauma allowed a genocidal mindset to take hold and seriously harmed mobilisations against the government.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2d

Sharon Lifschitz, whose parents were kidnapped on Oct 7 and only her mother returned alive, writes on the two year anniversary to the massacres.
"We know that hate and revenge cannot bring even a momentary relief from the pain."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz

So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

www.theguardian.com

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3d

I have an aversion to preachers who pretend to be journalists or academics

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3d

Some 15 years ago, a friend was jailed in a dictatorship. It took personal intervention from Blair and Putin to secure his release. I always wondered how does it feel, to have your freedom secured thanks to the world's biggest villains.

Well if Trump actually ends the war, I guess we'll all know.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3d

בגדול נכון, אבל בכל זאת בטאור המלטס (שזה רובע שבו יש נוכחות בנגלית מסיבית) כן יש יותר דגלים מבכל מקום אחר. או לפחות היו. בהתחלה היו דגלים על כל פנס רחוב שם, נראה לי מאז הורידו את רובם.

(לי אישית אין שום בעיה עם דגלי פלסטין)

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Taqwa khaled @taqwasuh.bsky.social · 3d

Update:
I’m Taqwa

the mother who survived under the rubble,who lost all six of her kids and her entire family💔

I lost everything in one moment

me and my baby Suhaib
We have recently been displaced with nothing at all

Please,we beg you help us get medicine,water,milk,and food🙏🏻
gofund.me/b4901a75

Donate to Please help me and my unborn child to survive this genocide, organized by Taqwa Alqoqa

Hello, I am Taqwa Khaled Al-Qouqa (Abu Said), the pregnant an… Taqwa Alqoqa needs your support for Please help me and my unborn child to survive this genocide

gofund.me

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3d

It's not surprising the protests have focussed on the hostages.
What would happen now is anyone's guess. I don't expect the indifference to change (to Palestinian lives), but resuming war would demand mobilising more troops and taking casualties, and there is already little appetite for that.

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