Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud
@yaelmiz.bsky.social
| Century International Fellow | PhD Candidate | Israel and Palestine politics & history | perennial weltschmerzer
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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.
October 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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"I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."
My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east
theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...
theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...
Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland
The former British leader was tapped to lead redevelopment efforts in Gaza if a deal is agreed upon.
theconversation.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."
My comments in @warontherocks.bsky.social in their October 7 brief on what it will take to end the war. We're all breathing a sigh of relief, but I don't think we're there yet. The plan still has a main weakness of having no enforcement mechanisms or timelines. warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
The Ripple Effects of the Oct. 7 Attack on Israel
This is a special edition of our members-only newsletter, In Brief, where each week, experts will dig deep into a single issue happening in the world to
warontherocks.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My comments in @warontherocks.bsky.social in their October 7 brief on what it will take to end the war. We're all breathing a sigh of relief, but I don't think we're there yet. The plan still has a main weakness of having no enforcement mechanisms or timelines. warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
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الحمد لله رب العالمين
שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה
שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה
October 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
الحمد لله رب العالمين
שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה
שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה
"no matter the costs, principled integrity is a priority, taking a stand means standing fast, and contesting the predations of the powerful gives meaning to the lives we lead."
An inspiring essay by the preeminent feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
An inspiring essay by the preeminent feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
www.bostonreview.net
September 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"no matter the costs, principled integrity is a priority, taking a stand means standing fast, and contesting the predations of the powerful gives meaning to the lives we lead."
An inspiring essay by the preeminent feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
An inspiring essay by the preeminent feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
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Elizabeth Tsurkov, for me, is an example of a rare Jewish Israeli who decided to embrace the Middle East as her home, immersed itself in Arabic language and culture, struggled and put herself at risk for justice and liberty for people in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. She's a model of how things can be.
Elizabeth Tsurkov has been released after being kidnapped by Kata’ib Hezbollah and spending more than two years in captivity.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Israeli-Russian graduate student freed after 903 days in Hezbollah captivity
Elizabeth Tsurkov, who entered Iraq to do research for Princeton, had gone missing in Iraq in early 2023
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Elizabeth Tsurkov, for me, is an example of a rare Jewish Israeli who decided to embrace the Middle East as her home, immersed itself in Arabic language and culture, struggled and put herself at risk for justice and liberty for people in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. She's a model of how things can be.
A non-insignificant part of the Witkoff success is his recent appearance on the scene. Dems have four more years of soul searching, and a huge part of that should be on revamping their foreign policy priorities. It's embarrassing that our hopes for a more peaceful future rest on his shoulders.
NEW: My deep dive on Trump in the Middle East
Details on Witkoff's WhatsApp habits; what plans for aid in Gaza suggest for the prospects of meaningful progress; how infighting + $ concerns are affecting policy talk; the latest on Iran, Syria, the Qatar plane & more
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Details on Witkoff's WhatsApp habits; what plans for aid in Gaza suggest for the prospects of meaningful progress; how infighting + $ concerns are affecting policy talk; the latest on Iran, Syria, the Qatar plane & more
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
A Moment Of Truth In The Middle East For Donald Trump — And His Billionaire Friend
Witkoff has embraced untraditional tactics and defied some conservatives as the administration seeks quick wins in the Middle East. Now his strategy is being put to the test.
www.huffpost.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A non-insignificant part of the Witkoff success is his recent appearance on the scene. Dems have four more years of soul searching, and a huge part of that should be on revamping their foreign policy priorities. It's embarrassing that our hopes for a more peaceful future rest on his shoulders.
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If jewish currents isn't one of the best outlets we have, I don't know what is
jewishcurrents.org/on-the-squee...
jewishcurrents.org/on-the-squee...
On the Squeezing
The Parable of the Lemons
jewishcurrents.org
April 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
If jewish currents isn't one of the best outlets we have, I don't know what is
jewishcurrents.org/on-the-squee...
jewishcurrents.org/on-the-squee...
On the day that Israel enacted a complete blockade on aid and commercial goods entering Gaza, COGAT released a report on OCHA's "biases and methodological inconsistencies." As if we could trust COGAT to begin with, they have since stopped producing any statistics for what entered in March.
April 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
On the day that Israel enacted a complete blockade on aid and commercial goods entering Gaza, COGAT released a report on OCHA's "biases and methodological inconsistencies." As if we could trust COGAT to begin with, they have since stopped producing any statistics for what entered in March.
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The scale and intensity of atrocities committed by Israel during the last 18 months dwarfs anything in the previous 78 years. Torture, mass detention, executions, massacres, destruction, ethnic cleansing. None of it is new, but the scale and intensity is.
April 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The scale and intensity of atrocities committed by Israel during the last 18 months dwarfs anything in the previous 78 years. Torture, mass detention, executions, massacres, destruction, ethnic cleansing. None of it is new, but the scale and intensity is.
A weird time to be on a Fulbright in Israel/Palestine. My funding is fine, and it's the last cohort of Hays for the foreseeable future. I take this responsibility & my PhD very seriously, yet I can't help but feel it's a futile endeavor in this environment both at home and what's happening here.
April 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A weird time to be on a Fulbright in Israel/Palestine. My funding is fine, and it's the last cohort of Hays for the foreseeable future. I take this responsibility & my PhD very seriously, yet I can't help but feel it's a futile endeavor in this environment both at home and what's happening here.
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“‘No Other Land,’ an audacious and devastating film, was 2024’s most decorated documentary“ and just won the Oscar for Documentary Feature but still doesn’t have a US distributor. Gift link for context: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/m...
‘No Other Land’: An Eye-Opener About the West Bank and the Movies (Gift Article)
A team of Palestinian and Israeli directors take a daring approach to the subject. But the Oscar-nominated film could not find a U.S. distributor.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
“‘No Other Land,’ an audacious and devastating film, was 2024’s most decorated documentary“ and just won the Oscar for Documentary Feature but still doesn’t have a US distributor. Gift link for context: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/m...
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SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies has the pleasure of hosting next week two excellent scholars - Professor Zvi Ben Dor Benite and Dr Eirik Kvindesland - talking on the Jews of the Indian Ocean
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jews-of-th...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jews-of-th...
Jews of the Indian Ocean
A panel of two lectures by Professor Ben-Dor Benite and Dr. Kvindesland
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies has the pleasure of hosting next week two excellent scholars - Professor Zvi Ben Dor Benite and Dr Eirik Kvindesland - talking on the Jews of the Indian Ocean
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jews-of-th...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jews-of-th...
Spent the last week selling the ceasefire deal to friends and family, to assuage my own despair. There are too many ways it could fail. The idea that Israel will ever withdraw from Gaza is likely the culprit. The deal will thus fall apart after phase 1 and Trump's interest in Gaza only goes so far.
January 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Spent the last week selling the ceasefire deal to friends and family, to assuage my own despair. There are too many ways it could fail. The idea that Israel will ever withdraw from Gaza is likely the culprit. The deal will thus fall apart after phase 1 and Trump's interest in Gaza only goes so far.
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So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
January 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
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I trust people who:
- acknowledge when they get things wrong
- change the mind and explain why
- acknowledge the things they're unsure about
- engage seriously with counter arguments
- show consistency even when it's uncomfortable
- are not afraid to say things their followers won't like
- acknowledge when they get things wrong
- change the mind and explain why
- acknowledge the things they're unsure about
- engage seriously with counter arguments
- show consistency even when it's uncomfortable
- are not afraid to say things their followers won't like
January 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I trust people who:
- acknowledge when they get things wrong
- change the mind and explain why
- acknowledge the things they're unsure about
- engage seriously with counter arguments
- show consistency even when it's uncomfortable
- are not afraid to say things their followers won't like
- acknowledge when they get things wrong
- change the mind and explain why
- acknowledge the things they're unsure about
- engage seriously with counter arguments
- show consistency even when it's uncomfortable
- are not afraid to say things their followers won't like
Fort Greene park, Christmas eve. I come to this park regularly. It holds the remains of 11,500 men and women who died in British prisons on ships off the coast. Imagine a similar outcome 250 years later in Palestine.
December 25, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Fort Greene park, Christmas eve. I come to this park regularly. It holds the remains of 11,500 men and women who died in British prisons on ships off the coast. Imagine a similar outcome 250 years later in Palestine.
I get a small, daily reminder of the depths of loss the genocide has wrought on Gaza and its people. Three years ago, a falafel shop opened on my corner of Nostrand Ave in Brooklyn. Cafe Tamam was run by a man from Gaza. I spent many memorable moments with him, some watching World Cup games.
December 18, 2024 at 10:26 PM
I get a small, daily reminder of the depths of loss the genocide has wrought on Gaza and its people. Three years ago, a falafel shop opened on my corner of Nostrand Ave in Brooklyn. Cafe Tamam was run by a man from Gaza. I spent many memorable moments with him, some watching World Cup games.
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Jerusalem tonight
December 7, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Jerusalem tonight
This hits better on X but there’s a strong irony that while Arab states across the region are abandoning Assad, the tankies tweeting from comfortable homes in coastal U.S. cities will be the last pillar of the “axis of resistance.”
December 7, 2024 at 7:35 PM
This hits better on X but there’s a strong irony that while Arab states across the region are abandoning Assad, the tankies tweeting from comfortable homes in coastal U.S. cities will be the last pillar of the “axis of resistance.”
No sigh of relief that the war is over as a bloody night awaits Lebanon.
It's been 1 year since the temporary ceasefire & hostage deal with Hamas. Only SEVEN hostages have since returned alive.
Israel has pursued only death and destruction, for its enemies and citizens alike.
It's been 1 year since the temporary ceasefire & hostage deal with Hamas. Only SEVEN hostages have since returned alive.
Israel has pursued only death and destruction, for its enemies and citizens alike.
November 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
No sigh of relief that the war is over as a bloody night awaits Lebanon.
It's been 1 year since the temporary ceasefire & hostage deal with Hamas. Only SEVEN hostages have since returned alive.
Israel has pursued only death and destruction, for its enemies and citizens alike.
It's been 1 year since the temporary ceasefire & hostage deal with Hamas. Only SEVEN hostages have since returned alive.
Israel has pursued only death and destruction, for its enemies and citizens alike.
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7 Oct 2023 was most likely the deadliest day in the history of Palestine/Israel (ever). With over 800 civilians killed by Hamas.
2023 was most likely the deadliest year in the history of the country, with over 20,000 civilians killed by Israel.
2024 better make this stop.
2023 was most likely the deadliest year in the history of the country, with over 20,000 civilians killed by Israel.
2024 better make this stop.
December 31, 2023 at 11:54 PM
7 Oct 2023 was most likely the deadliest day in the history of Palestine/Israel (ever). With over 800 civilians killed by Hamas.
2023 was most likely the deadliest year in the history of the country, with over 20,000 civilians killed by Israel.
2024 better make this stop.
2023 was most likely the deadliest year in the history of the country, with over 20,000 civilians killed by Israel.
2024 better make this stop.
I am hesitant, yet need to believe that all those in the center/left who preferred to bracket the issue of the occupation from the public discourse during the judicial overhaul protests won't make the same mistake during this terrifying moment of crisis. We cannot afford it.
November 2, 2023 at 10:24 PM
I am hesitant, yet need to believe that all those in the center/left who preferred to bracket the issue of the occupation from the public discourse during the judicial overhaul protests won't make the same mistake during this terrifying moment of crisis. We cannot afford it.
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The Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social learned about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin. For New Lines, she describes the whiplash of absorbing atrocities across multiple decades and reflects on worlds overturned.
Memory Voids and Role Reversals
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
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November 1, 2023 at 7:53 PM
The Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social learned about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin. For New Lines, she describes the whiplash of absorbing atrocities across multiple decades and reflects on worlds overturned.