Allison Kaplan Sommer is a journalist at Haaretz, host of Haaretz Weekly podcast and co-host of The Promised Podcast.
Feb 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If you want to dismantle Israel, I can deal with that. But why not just say it out loud - and concisely? “Dismantle the Zionist project, dismantle the settler colonialist project” is so long and awkward ....
I more or less understood the psychology behind the desire of Palestinians and surrounding Arab countries to try to ignore the fact that Israel existed in the first place and so they avoided saying its name for decades.
Nov 5, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A trend in Tel Aviv workplace cafeterias - photos of a judgemental Greta Thunberg next to disposable utensils. Here is #1:
And another (Haaretz, actually- I know, shocking)
Feb 24, 2019 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
You really had to experience the worshipful relationship between Bibi and American Jews in the 1990s to understand it. He was a revelation and a rock star. /1
Finally, an Israeli leader who could dramatically and articulately make the Jewish state’s case in accent-free English on podiums and on television. They kvelled and swooned /2
Apr 22, 2018 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Some people have never heard of the Genesis Prize, which Natalie Portman declined to receive and so don't understand how it is linked to Netanyahu. It was created in 2012 with a $52 million endowment by the trio of Russian oligarchs that control Alfa Bank.
2/ Its creation was announced BY NETANYAHU HIMSELF during a visit by President Vladmir Putin to Israel. Not a cooincidence. The trio are tight with Putin, so much so that they were namechecked in the infamous Steele Dossier, claiming they have paid off Putin in the past
Dec 6, 2017 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1/Both Trump and Netanyahu have everything to gain and little to lose by the upcoming "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and we plan to move the embassy but not right now" declaration. Both score major points with a rightist/religious base ...
2/ Both need that base to stay solid as they and their cronies face ongoing police/FBI/congressional investigations. And Jerusalem story keeps the media's attention, at least for a while, off of scandals and forces them to talk about them as leaders, however flawed ...
