Yair Wallach
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Yair Wallach
@yairwallach.bsky.social
Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
זה יחסית עוד סביר. הטיסות הישירות במחירים פסיכים
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
זה היה ממש סיוט וזה משתנה מדקה לדקה
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
ישבתי על זה שבוע ובסוף מצאתי טיסות ב300 ליש״ט לבנאדם.
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The main source is Sapir's book, and he offers various explanations why the Imam fell out with him. I guess other historians opted for the less sensationalist one
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
50 shades of horror
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"The Jews" apparently sounds racist. I noticed that students avoid the term and prefer "Jewish people". If you want people to listen to "the facts" about the Jews, you can't use the term. Strange, warped logic
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Yes
November 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
He has a long history of not recognising - and even defending - antisemitism right in front of his face.
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Hopefully, at some point Anthony Blinken, Brett Mcgurk and Jake Sullivan will not be able to go abroad in fear of being arrested.
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
"— all while failing to meet Biden’s stated objectives of preventing needless suffering or warfare beyond Gaza, and of not undermining respect for international legal principles".
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"Biden’s Gaza policy was largely a failure. His administration contributed to tens of thousands of preventable deaths, prolonged the war because of the president’s refusal to deploy American leverage over Israel, and boosted skepticism of U.S. foreign policy abroad and among Americans ..."
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Yes, and the IDF was similarly stunned, because an open-ended war was against their philosophy and 76 years of Israeli military doctrine.
But Israeli officials were very shaky in the first 8 weeks and could easily have been told what to do and not to do.
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Good question. I think there isn't a single woman cited in the report - this seems to have been a closed boys' club.
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM