Wendy Orent
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Wendy Orent
@wendyorent.bsky.social
Science writer, anthropologist, Ph.D. (fieldwork in Israel), member of plague lovers' society, disease evolution nerd, author of Plague, co-author of Biowarrior, I.V. Domaradskij's memoir. Former science writing instructor at Emory.
Most? Did she say anything that wasn’t?
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Funny how that goes together.
December 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Netanyahu should be jailed for life.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I'm so sorry for your horrible loss. I lost a family member and a friend to glioblastoma within two years of each other. Such a horrible, horrible disease.
Elon and RFK literally do not care how many people die of this dread disease, or any other.
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Oh, there's no doubt about it. Netanyahu has underwritten (indirectly, of course) Hamas for many years.
And I never forget that he urged his supporters to murder Rabin, not in words, but in sponsoring a mock funeral for him.
So Rabin was killed by one of his supporters - along with chances for peace
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"Peaceful, secular democracy everywhere."

Yep.

In our fondest dreams.
December 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As do I. I personally would want nothing to do with either pro-Hamas or pro-Netanyahu supporters. A plague on both their houses.
December 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I love this so much. And it's so important.
December 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We should be able to be FOR all the peaceful people in the area. Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Israeli. Everyone who wants to live in peace.
December 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
You also don't like him, I suspect, because he's openly pro-Israel.
And you are very rude.
Like I said, have a nice evening.
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Yeah I looked at your timeline and I can see why.
Have a nice evening.
December 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
OMG this is so tragic. This woman believed the mindless Free Birth claptrap or some similar ideology, and she paid for it with her life. I am so sad for her and for her family.
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Reposted by Wendy Orent
3) it is striking that it refuses to recognize Hamas’s genocide, which far more straightforwardly meets the Convention’s criteria: both in terms of mens rea (the intent to annihilate Israeli Jews and kill as many as possible) and actus reus (the mass slaughter undertaken to carry out that intent).
December 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Reposted by Wendy Orent
5) But that is not what happened after October 7th. Instead, Hamas’s doctrine of mass martyrdom deliberately exposed Palestinian civilians to maximum harm and then weaponized their suffering as propaganda against Israel—manufacturing the appearance of genocidal intent in order to spread the
December 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM