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@Gilad_Halpern

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Co-host of @TelAvivReview podcast, founding co-editor, @TAReviewOfBooks , PhD @haifauniversity . Ex @haaretzcom @ynetnews . Scrambled egghead.

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This is precisely why Israel nurtured Hamas for 15 years.
@EliLake
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As long as Hamas exists, there will be no Palestinian state. It’s really that simple.
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Terrorist propaganda at the Tel Aviv University cafetria
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A Jewish student (in America!) shouldn't care about a protest calling to liberate Palestine. Unless they support the occupation, in which case they deserve to feel intimidated, and hopefully ashamed too.
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Yoni Michanie
1 year
Imagine being a Jewish student on this campus and watching this terror-supporting parade make its way through the University. How can Jewish students feel safe in this environment?
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Israel appoints a third-rate 90s soap opera actress as special antisemitism envoy (in the same week that the US appoints Debora Lipstadt, a world-renowned scholar). Is there a better indication that for Israel combating AS is no more than a hasbara stunt?
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It's so ironic that Netanyahu, who always thought of himself as a modern-day Churchill, emerged not as a Chamberlain - that would be too flattering - but as an Édouard Daladier.
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I know it may not seem like it, but this is Israel's finest hour. Rarely have I felt proud to be Israeli. Now I certainly am.
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Gilad Halpern
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I usually function well under pressure. I'd be a good soldier if I wasn't a bleeding-heart lefty. But I broke down when I 1st read about 8yo Ela, who her mum said loves 'animals &dancing'. That's exactly what I'd say about my daughter. I can't imagine what it must be like for her
@ZinMaayan1007
Maayan Zin
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I've been informed that Dafna and Ela are not on the list of the 13 hostages to be released tomorrow. This is incredibly difficult for me; I long for their return. I'm relieved for the other families and hopeful for the release of all the hostages.
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The videos showing Hamas and the hostages being chummy are mirror images of videos showing IDF soldiers helping old Palestinians cross the street. The fact that they are not monsters does not detract from the monstrosity of the broader scheme of things.
@GoomiesDii
Goomiesødîî
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@taraxrh OH MY GOD! 🫡🫡 THE VIDEO has just destroyed the entire #IsraeliNewNazism propaganda narrative. Hamas resistants💯 are fighters with honor, courage and humanity — no one can say the opposite. #Free_Palestine #FreePalestineFromIsraeINOW
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4 years
I think the baby boom everyone predicts for next autumn will be limited to first-time parents
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
Happy birthday to us - the Tel Aviv Review podcast turns seven this week. Thanks to our listeners, patrons, sponsors and partners. Many happy returns!
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
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Shout out to new MK @gaby_lasky , who was my lawyer briefly when I was jailed for refusing the draft in 2014. She was pleasant and professional, happily available at 10pm to read the military penal code, and generous: she ended up refusing to charge me.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
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We knew Gaza would blow up - but not like this. We knew Netanyahu is a terrible PM - but not like that. We knew military might does not guarantee security - but not like that. What a tragedy; what a travesty
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Yonatan Touval
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For 🇮🇱, Oct 7 marks many ends: - To military hubris - To the idea that 🇮🇱 can manage its conflict w/ the Pal's - To the lie that regional peace can bypass the Pal's - To the idea that a democ state can be gov'd by an indicted leader - To the lie and travesty that was Netanyahu
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It's simple: this election was decided exactly a year ago, when the centre-left preferred Netanyahu to the Joint List, thereby sending Arab citizens a clear message: don't bother voting, your votes don't count. So they didn't.
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If Caroline Glick can have a career in journalism and a fan base, so can I
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Aquinas Akunis
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Israel shouldn't make sense to Seth Rogen or to anyone, except Israelis. Countries don't "make sense", except to the people for whom they are home
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
2 years
Many Israelis freak out over the J'lem Day flag march not just for the risk of violence. It's primarily because it's a glimpse into our imminent future: proud, unabashed, violent Apartheid, condoned by the authorities, in the heart of a major city (rather than a remote hilltop).
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Matan Kahana has come under a lot of fire, and I'm not sure why. 1. He simply said out loud what 80% of Israeli Jews think quietly. 2. He apologized profusely and unabashedly. 3. His bottom line is that he can't ship the Arabs to Switzerland.
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Gilad Halpern
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For years, foreign journalists have been using the cliché that Israelis "drink espresso on the edge of a volcano." Now the volcano has erupted.
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The Zionist left in Israel has a major blind spot about their privileges, and that's sometimes infuriating. But at least they don't think of themselves as second-class citizens, as the settlers - another elite group - do. It's beyond infuriating; just absurd.
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Due to popular demand @elongilad
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TLV1 Podcasts
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Prof. Lewis Glinert discusses his new book "The Story of Hebrew" on #TAReview with @Gilad_Halpern
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Where is this country going? Exactly where it's been heading.
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Dov Alfon
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יש גם את האנשים הטובים שמצקצקים בלשונם ואומרים בהפתעה, לאן הגענו. מה פירוש ״לאן הגענו״? הגענו בדיוק לאן שהלכנו
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@Gilad_Halpern
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The same guy who was barred from running for the Knesset again BY AN ISRAELI JUDICIAL PANEL because he was too racist? When I grow up I want to be Ben Shapiro and talk out of my ass at a 1.5x speed.
@benshapiro
Ben Shapiro
5 years
Remember that time the Obama administration barred a member of Israeli Knesset from entering the United States in 2012? Because you were vice president at the time.
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Gilad Halpern
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This cannot be retweeted enough
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Gilad Halpern
4 years
Turns out the only people who took Netanyahu's annexation plans seriously were the Emiratis
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
3 years
I'm old enough to remember the dreadful feeling of an irreparable rupture between Jews and Arabs in October 2000 (Jeez I am old, it was 20 years ago). Yet we are at a much better place today, in terms of inter-communal relations, than we were then. It looks dire but I'm hopeful
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Gilad Halpern
3 years
On 29 May 1996, Benjamin Netanyahu was first elected Prime Minister of Israel. A quarter of a century (!) on, he might (!) Be finally (!) Stepping down.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
5 years
Breaking: Israel braces for swap of UK Jews set to leave if Corbyn is elected with Israelis who leave if Netanyahu is elected.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
Just heard the Hebrew equivalent of OK Boomer: sababa saba. Genius :-D
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
3 years
I see many people saying that a leftist foreign policy is irrelevant, because prospects for a peace process with the Palestinians are nil. At the moment they might be, but it's the role of a leftist leadership to create the conditions for one. For example, by facilitating >
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Gilad Halpern
3 years
Looks like a fifth general election was called tonight. What Yair Lapid needs to do, from the start of the campaign, is normalize the Arab vote. Say loud and clear that they are potential coalition partners and hopefully return to the results of last year's elex.
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Gilad Halpern
4 years
And in a broader perspective: The Palestinian Arabs fiercely opposed Zionism from a very early stage because they felt - and were ultimately proved right - that the endgame would be their dispossession.
@YairWallach
Yair Wallach
4 years
In the early twentieth century Arab intellectuals viewed Ashkenazi Jews as semitic people with ancient roots in Palestine. This view was gradually abandoned when it became evident that these roots were used as an argument to deny Palestinian rights and take their land.
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Gilad Halpern
2 years
Tomorrow I'm going to realize the dream of millions of Jews throughout the centuries, and move to America. (Albeit temporarily)
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Gilad Halpern
3 years
I can't wait to finish my PhD, be it only to be able to say "just call me Gilad"
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
3 years
Have been doing some reading on American Zionism in the 1930s, and what can I tell you, it's no coincidence that Tel Aviv's Weizmann and Brandeis streets don't intersect
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Gilad Halpern
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This is wonderful. Way back in the 90s or early 2000s, talk show host finishes an interview with Netanyahu, telling him: Let me show you out.
@efenigson
Efrat Fenigson
3 years
בוא אני אלווה אותך
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
Joint List posters in Yiddish in Bnei Brak. Wonderful stuff
@waseemhosary
וסים חוסרי | وسيم حُصَري
4 years
גוט מאָרגן בני ברק. שלטים של המשותפת (ביידיש) היום בבני ברק.
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Gilad Halpern
2 years
We're back! Well, not all of us. After a six-month hiatus, the @TelAvivReview has resumed its regular programming this week. This is by all means a cause for celebration, barring one thing >
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I know we're all blasé by now but the fact that a party is banned from running in an election for presenting a (peaceful and democratic!) programme for regime change is mind boggling.
@ChaimSmierc
Chaim • חיים
2 years
🔴 breaking: the Arab party “Balad” has been disqualified from the election to Knesset. The Knesset Election Council voted 9-5 with Ben Gvir (RZ) and Karhi (Likud) abstaining. Balad was disqualified for not recognizing the state of Israel. Balad is taking this to the high courts.
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@Gilad_Halpern
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Meeting Palestinians
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Gilad Halpern
2 years
This.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
How it started How it's going
@mxmxnto_mori
louis
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starving starving miners minors
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@Gilad_Halpern
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Israel and Palestine are identity vessels. Always have been. Smart take.
@AnshelPfeffer
Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר
5 months
Sadly both sides yearn so much for support and solidarity that Palestinians will embrace a genocide-denier like Chomsky and Israelis hug a racist like Douglas Murray, without understanding that it’s not about them. The Isr-Pal conflict existed before the western identity wars >
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
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I see many people comparing the Jerusalem Day flag march to the gay pride parade, so let me help you: GPP: an oppressed minority calling for equal rights. JDFM: an oppressive majority protesting to preempt equal rights.
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Gilad Halpern
2 years
Welcome to America #459 : A colleague invited me to join him and his wife for dinner in six weeks.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
A newspaper published a "definitive" ranking of Israel's greatest political losers of all time and Shimon Peres came in second
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
6 years
The making of a Palestinian symbol. An Israeli own goal of gargantuan proportions. Unbelievable
@NatashaRoth01
Natasha Roth-Rowland
6 years
Activists from @LondonPalestine and @protestencil have sent a message of solidarity with #AhedTamimi from London to Nabi Saleh via @972mag
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Pressing "send" never felt sweeter: PhD research proposal submitted!
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
3 years
The difference between right and left is that leftists are desperately looking for any bad reason not to vote for their party, while rightists overlook every good reason not to vote for theirs.
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Gilad Halpern
3 years
If only the Palestinians could afford a multi billion arms deal with the US...
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
2 years
How it started
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
3 years
If Gantz doesn't pull out and fails to pass the electoral threshold, granting Bibi a clear victory, it will be the logical conclusion of his political career this far
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
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All we are saying is give arms deals a chance
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Gilad Halpern
6 months
I never thought, in my wildest dreams, that one month into this war, dozens of children, women and elderly people would have yet to be freed.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
5 years
I cannot get over the fact that the New Yorker spells reelection with an umlaut.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
3 years
It might be useful to consider Apartheid as a category, rather than a historical episode. Just as it's not serious to dismiss displays of fascism just because we're not in 1920s italy.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
Israel is not short on miracles, but the fact that Naftali Bennett was once taken seriously, by his adversaries and followers alike, tops them all
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
3 years
Overheard in Tel Aviv: - He is not religious, is he? - Oh God no. He's a Reform rabbi, of course he's not religious.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
2 years
Israeli right wingers: the Arabs have always wanted to kill all of us, and forever will. Also Israeli right wingers: Settlers and their Palestinian neighbours lived in perfect harmony until Rabin and Peres let Arafat and his henchmen back into the Territories.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
. @bariweiss wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes as an Israeli leftist
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Gilad Halpern
3 years
There are way too many to recall, but if Yair Lapid pulls this one off I take back all the bad things Ive said about him over the years
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Gilad Halpern
4 years
Reading this, I thought to myself: One state or not, for most Israelis, Yavne is not a metaphor. It is a suburban town just south of Rehovot, where most people can't afford to buy real estate anymore.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
Went up to Jerusalem to spread some disease. My favourite banner: "Bibi - go; Messi - stay."
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
5 years
As @JananBsoul1 once said, too bad Gazans aren't chickens.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
2 years
To all @TelAvivReview listeners out there: You may have noticed that we've been running some re-runs in recent weeks. That's because TAR is taking a break - for the next six months we will have only occasional original episodes.
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Gilad Halpern
4 years
An amazingly witty banner. Can be read both as "yes, we can" and "yes, a crook"
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
2 years
Well, Breaking The Silence, all you have to do is wait 60-70 years
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
6 years
The article doesn't say whether she will stop writing for @Jerusalem_Post so that normal people can start reading it again.
@TheDailyDigest
The Editor
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Jerusalem Post Columnist Caroline Glick Joins Breitbart News
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Gilad Halpern
4 years
@BarashiKinneret יש יותר מ-2 מיליון פלסטינים
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Gilad Halpern
4 years
Ok let's get cracking - this PhD will not pretend to write itself
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
There Is No Plan
@BarakRavid
Barak Ravid
4 years
Israeli officials believe White House may release peace plan before election - my story on @newsisrael13 and @axios
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Gilad Halpern
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Being an anti vaxxer - being inherently suspicious of authority, insisting on making a moral decision, getting a lot of flak for it - feels like being a leftist in Israel, except that you're wrong and an idiot.
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Gilad Halpern
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A shout out to @NLIsrael for upgrading their online newspaper archive. One small step for the website, a giant leap for historians
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Gilad Halpern
4 years
Liberal Zionism in a nutshell
@YairWallach
Yair Wallach
4 years
No gender segregation allowed in Jews-only swimming pools
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Gilad Halpern
3 years
I will be 40 later this summer, I first voted in the 2001 election, and if this new government gets off the ground it will be the first time I've voted for a party that joined a coalition.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
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@ronniehirsch89 כמו רוסית. כשגיליתי את זה, שאלתי רוסי: איפה גר נשיא ארצות הברית? הוא ענה: מה זאת אומרת? בבית לבן
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On a bus, going past Rabin Square. Me: "oh no, what's this mass demo? So many anti vaxxers, so depressing." Also me, getting closer: "phew it's just settlers."
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Gilad Halpern
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The yente state of the Jewish people
@shaynamalka
Shayna Weiss
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Israel: we are a normal nation Israel: calls a Jewish celebs's mom to complain about him
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Gilad Halpern
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Whenever I come across Mazzig I am reminded of the essay I will one day write, about the striking inverse correlation between the Israeli right's intellectual poverty and political power.
@ArielleLAngel
Arielle Angel
4 years
H*n M*zzig knows, because I told him, that I am a Sephardi/Mizrahi woman & the EIC of Jewish Currents. He continues to erase that fact because he is 100% bad faith. This is not about Mizrahi representation, it's about redirecting the American convo re: race, Zionism, & the left
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First hummus since lockdown 🤤
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Gilad Halpern
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A student told me today that my course is her favourite this semester! I'm starting to like this teaching business
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
What about a country that idolizes Ariel Sharon and Rehavam Ze'evi but cancels Mahmoud Abbas?
@bungarsargon
Batya Ungar-Sargon
4 years
A movement that idolizes Leila Khaled and cancels Yitzhak Rabin is no place for any American with a conscience.
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Yay I have 1000 followers! Hard to believe so many of you are putting up with me.
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Gilad Halpern
2 years
Peak Tel Aviv criminality: NIS500-worth of Nespresso capsules have been stolen from the back seat of my car.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
Hey, Don! *Whispers*: you said the secret bit out loud!
@dpinsen
David Pinsen
4 years
“And we moved the capital of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the Evangelicals. You know, it’s amazing with that: the Evangelicals are more excited by that than Jewish people.”
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Gilad Halpern
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Here's a wild idea for @eddyportnoy and @kenkrim : an illustrated Yiddish poetry book entitled "Itzik Manga"
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Gilad Halpern
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A note from Palestine Post editor in chief to CEO about inability to stock the canteen during the siege of West Jerusalem in 1948, suggesting a tea and coffee pool nurtured by the staff instead. "Some such drill is now working with regard to News Room cognac." #journalism
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Gilad Halpern
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"I wrote the foreword but I didn't inhale"
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
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It has emerged that the amazingly brave and talented @Elizrael was kidnapped in Iraq in March. This interview she gave me and @dahliasc in 2019 shows a lot of her sharpness, humility and sheer guts. Praying for her safe return.
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Gilad Halpern
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Call me a hopeless optimists, but these are the very last whimpers of a failed and corrupt leader, who will go down in history without a single real accomplishment to his name.
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Gilad Halpern
3 years
I know that one day we will miss Netanyahu, but I want that day to come already
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Gilad Halpern
4 years
If Amir Peretz fails to persuade her to backtrack, he's tonight's biggest loser. He put the last remaining shreds of his political capital on the line to secure a merger with Levy, which an overwhelming majority of his followers found hard to swallow - for this very reason.
@joshualeifer
Joshua Leifer
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Orly Levy, leader of Gesher, which merged with Labor and Meretz in the last Israeli elections, has reportedly announced that she will not support a govt. that depends on the Arab-led Joint List. This could potentially torpedo any prospect of a Gantz-led govt. coalition.
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
My guilty pleasure: reading about two obscure historical figures interacting and realizing that the streets named after them in Tel aviv are next to each other and thinking that maybe they were actually connected
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
2 years
If Lapid has any political instincts - and recently it has proved to be the case - he will shout from the rooftops that Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi are welcome in his coalition. It may well increase voter turnout among Arabs, currently at a record low.
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Gilad Halpern
5 years
At least @CarolineGlick can keep her US passport #silverlining
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
9 years
Why I, an #Israel Jew, will vote for the Arab party. My piece in the @jdforward http://t.co/TblMaw6M1e
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Gilad Halpern
6 years
@yaelnetzer כמו האגדה האורבנית על האודישן לגלצ של אילנה דיין. -אני רואה שאת גרה בדרך ההגנה. את יכולה להגיד לי באיזו הגנה מדובר? - אתה יודע, הרחוב המקביל הוא דרך השלום. אתה יכול להגיד לי באיזה שלום מדובר?
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@Gilad_Halpern
Gilad Halpern
4 years
53 years of American foreign policy in a nutshell
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