Author of TABLETS SHATTERED @DuttonBooks. Writing also @nybooks, @guardian, @972Mag & elsewhere. Editorial board @DissentMag. My better half @ShaindOrtLeifer.
Oct 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Turned on my phone after the holiday and was overwhelmed by the images of death and horror. My partner and I frantically text friends and loved ones to make sure they're okay. Everyone seems to have lost someone or knows someone who has. The loss, the tragedy—incomprehensible. 1/
There's also a deep sense that the left abroad has lost the values it was supposed to stand for. I thought we were leftists because we wanted a world without war, torture, the killing of families & children in their beds 2/
Mar 6, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A few thoughts on the protests in Israel as they appear poised on the cusp of a new stage:
The mobilizations are impressive, almost certainly the largest since 2011 social protests. Those drew from frustrated young middle-class people; these protests have brought in their parents, so to speak.
Oct 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Talking with an activist friend in Jerusalem, they said they had never seen, in their years of activism, such numbers of far-right youth, some of them armed, storming the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah tonight. 1/
Jerusalem, of course, has always been a “flashpoint,” but over the last several years the street politics have changed for the worst in perceptible ways. An example…2/
