Linda Dayan
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Correspondent, @Haaretzcom. Tel Avivi stereotype, k-pop stan, McNugget enthusiast. No relation to Moshe. Views are my own and will probably disappoint you.
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Joined January 2021
No more using the word “Zionist.” From now on, we’re gonna be specific with what we mean. Are you talking about “Kahane fans” or “believers in a 2 state solution” or “a guy with a Jewish last name?” Just say that. Say what you mean Instead.
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Today I made the rape denial fandom pretty angry.
You won't free Palestine by denying Hamas raped Israelis | Haaretz Today
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Bereaved families and families of hostages are building tents outside the Knesset that they intend to stay in 24/7, demanding that Netanyahu step down and a proper government rise instead.
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Projected onto a building on Tel Aviv’s Kaplan street are revolving messages - 40,000 ppl killed in Gaza - where is your red line?” And “2m ppl have become refugees in Gaza - where is your red line?”
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Can anyone lend me a ouija board so I can ask my great-grandparents if the Jews who were persecuted in the literal blood libels in 19th century Syria were gaslighting or just in over their heads intellectually.
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Noa Argamani, who has been returned from Hamas captivity, has a message: remember the 120 hostages still in Gaza, and “may we learn to love and not to hate”
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Rest in peace to my friend Sam, who years ago, whenever he came across inflammatory posts about “zionists,” would just reply “what the hell is a Zionist” and wait.
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PHRI has advocated for Palestinian prisoners and has been fiercely critical of Israel's bombardment of Gaza, but some people find it easier to recast them as Netanyahu proxies than to acknowledge the atrocities they are bringing to light here.
The position paper we published today surveys the #sexual and gender-based #violence committed during the October 7 #Hamas attacks. It aims to highlight the rehabilitation needs of survivors and witnesses of the violence - and urge an investigation of crimes against humanity.
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It's all felt a bit hopeless lately, but look at this crowd showing up with @omdimbeyachad to wage Jewish-Arab, Israeli-Palestinian peace 🟣
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Gonna be real with you guys, for a little while I thought "Khymani" was a misspelling of "Khamenei" and was really confused as to why people were talking about the ayatollah's pronouns.
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The protester, 17-year-old Ayelet, tells Haaretz: "There were about 50 people [at Shrier's talk], mostly Americans. Why? Because no one here cares about it. It’s an entirely manufactured outrage.”.
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Excited to announce that starting next week, I’ll be taking on a new role at @haaretzcom , as a full-time reporter ~ I’ll be covering the Jewish world beat, as well as a lot of the fun and less fun stuff I’ve already been writing about. I’m nervous! But that’s good!.
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Wrote about feeling like a lefty traitor while talking to Israelis and like a government spox when talking to friends abroad: . In War, Israeli Leftists Find Themselves Truly Alone .
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Witnessed a debate/discussion/fight between students from the Stanford encampment and the speaker they brought in and a Zionist student. It was a magical experience, because absolutely none of it was tethered in reality.
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After military police give the activists from Standing Together three minutes to clear out before being towed, they prepare to go. But not before a statement: The same police who let right-wingers block aid transfers will not let food through to Gaza. But it will go through.
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At the mass rally in Tel Aviv demanding a hostage deal, an end to the war, and peace between Israelis and Palestinians, a panel of young activists asked guests to turn their flashlights on if they believe in peace, illuminating the arena
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Spent yesterday listening to testimonies about the severity of sexual violence on October 7. I left shaking and nauseous, but maybe that’s because I didn’t realize how central it is to anti-imperialism.
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Tomorrow would have been the 57th birthday of Maya Goren, who was taken hostage by Hamas and murdered; her body remains in Gaza. At the rally at Hostage Square, they’re handing out her favorite candy bar, with the phrase “be good, be like Maya”
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Whitewashing the experiences of Mizrahi Jews in Israel, particularly in the country's formative years, does a disservice to our present. But wooooooh boy just. absolutely making up injustices and presenting them as historical fact is much, much worse.
Israel keeps saying how the Arab world terrorized Jews. Stop w/ that argument to justify colonial #Israel. Israel took Mizrahim and had a sterilization policy which forced contraception on Mizrahi women. Israel banned speaking Arabic + sent Arab Jews to camps to "civilize" them.
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Protesters scuffle with police, try to break through a barricade. They’re chanting “shame,” “Ben Gvir is a terrorist” and “where were you at Sde Teiman,” the infamous prison where Palestinian prisoners were abused, at the cops
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“We won’t give up!” Tonight, too, thousands of people have gathered at Tel Aviv’s Begin gate to demand a hostage deal immediately
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I tried the McDonald's falafel so you don't have to (also please don't).
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It had EVERYTHING: claims that Palestinians aren’t oppressed, claims that Muslim countries were wonderful and perfect for Jews, the phrase “I refuse to condemn the resistance,” calling for Israeli Jews to go back to Poland and Russia….
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Gonna take all the Americans who are framing this conflict as "white vs. POC" and put them in a room full of Israelis and Palestinians and they're not allowed to leave until they figure out who's who from appearance alone.
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Strategically speaking, if you think that one side of a conflict can control the weather, you should probably join that side.
Tunisian president says Zionists are responsible for deadly North African storm
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There were more shitty antizionist talking points because they outnumbered the guy 20 to 1, but damn. Everything sucks.
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“We don’t want more deaths, now is the time for agreements! We don’t want more funerals, now is the time for deals!” Protesters in Tel Aviv today, led by the family members of hostages
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My advice to everyone everywhere as a longtime protest-goer: If there is a chant in a language you don't understand, don't chant along. Even if they tell you what it means. Even if it sounds cool. Don't get yourself filmed shouting something you can't stand behind.
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Protesters calling for an immediate hostage deal set off flares
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In a rare move, the family of Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin has given permission to publish the video of him released by Hamas after over 200 days in captivity in Gaza. In it, he is seen with an amputated hand, calling on the government to release the hostages.
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Women’s groups across Israel are calling for a hostage release deal immediately. In Tel Aviv, protesters are naming the hostages still held in Gaza
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Having Noam in the Knesset is terrifying, but also kind of flattering. Why are you so obsessed with me, Avi Maoz, sixth on the Religious Zionism slate? All I do is listen to kpop and eat popcorn for dinner.
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It’s been fascinating to watch Israeli teens mobilize politically recently - and particularly how their methods contrast with those of the much older protesters from the anti-judicial coup movements. This event, calling for draft refusal, is one example
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Protesters chant “Ben-Gvir is a terrorist” at police after a demonstrator’s arrest in Tel Aviv
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Protesters begin to arrive at the Histadrut building, the home of Israel’s trade union, demanding a general strike for the return of the hostages
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"Asked about Naftali, another Likud insider responded: 'What did he do this time?'".
Hananya Naftali tweeted falsehoods and doctored photos in recent days and implied he’s working for the Israeli government – but no one is willing to claim him. My latest for @J_Insider
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The rally at hostage square ended abruptly, with a decisive message: the families of hostages cannot take it anymore. Go out to the streets. They directed the crowd to two protests, one on Dizengoff, and one on Begin
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This sticker at the anti-Supreme Court protest says “Amiram Ben Uliel was right.” That is the man who was convicted of murder for firebombing the Dawabsheh family's home in the West Bank in 2015, killing a baby and his parents and severely wounding a 4-year-old boy
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At Al-Auja in the West Bank, during a peaceful march of Palestinians and Israelis calling for water access for all and an end to settler violence, soldiers arrived and declared the area a closed military zone
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Activists from Standing Together arrive at Kaplan Street for the main protest tonight
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Me when my vacation days aren't approved:.
Haaretz is flaming garbage, so no shock there.
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If you’re centering people in kippot in photos and touting multitudes of Jewish identities in your ranks, how did no one proofread this, or cover it up before it could be displayed to the public (and put online!)?
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It's June 9, which means it is the 8th anniversary of the time an Australian Jewish newspaper published my account of surviving a terror attack, which they took from my Facebook, and used a picture also from my Facebook, which was actually of Jenny Slate in Publizity.
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Is there a German word or something for when you expect everyone to be in costume and then you’re the only one in costume? Because I came to this cafe as Kermit the Frog and everyone else is a person.
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Family members of hostages carry a banner, written on a tablecloth, reading “Let my people go”
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The protesters are seated at the busy intersection of King George and Dizengoff, demanding a deal.
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A mass rally calling for a ceasefire in Tel Aviv. “There won’t be security here until there is peace.”
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Baby's first Breitbart hit piece 🥹.
As Transgender Left Protests, Ha‘aretz Smears Author Abigail Shrier in Israel via @BreitbartNews.
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After a rally hundreds of thousands strong, protesters have gone down onto the Ayalon highway, blocking it and lighting fires, calling for an immediate hostage deal
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All of everyone’s Ashkenormativity discourse is bringing me back to 2013 tumblr and that is not a compliment.
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I went to Jerusalem for the event of the year: Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro, bringing conservatism to the Holy Land.
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A sad part of being from an Israeli paper is that the guy in Leila Khaled merch won’t talk to you :(
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My favorite part of war here is watching white Americans I went to college with saying that this is “decolonization” so killing innocent people is good, actually.
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I went to an event to hear the founder of Kohelet speak and all I got was this lousy sense of impending horror .
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One day I’ll write funny things again. I miss writing funny things. My latest for Haaretz today: Why Are Americans Tearing Down Posters of Children Held Hostage by Hamas? .
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My favorite time of year in Tel Aviv: is that a Purim costume or are you an insane person.
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I hosted a special episode of the Haaretz podcast about the Iran strike - with @alufbenn to explain what happened and why, and @arash_tehran walking us through what Iranians experienced .
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I was on the Haaretz Podcast! Give it a listen! Or don't, that's also okay!.
This week on the Haaretz Podcast: Haaretz correspondent @LindaDayan9 recounts her reporting from campus protests at several California universities.
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Spoke a bit about my latest column on the protests on college campuses and how they're perceived in Israel with @kimbrunhuber on CNN today, and welcomed the world into my studio apartment.
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I moved to Israel seven years ago today (!) and two wars, one pandemic, 23 months of army, four jobs, four years of volunteering, and 20 million shwarma pitas later, I can say that it does not get less weird the longer you've been here.
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If you are going to protests here in Israel, no matter what kind, bring ear protection. Ear plugs, ear muffs, you can get something at any pharmacy or hardware store. I cannot stress this enough. There are tens of thousands of people and half of them brought airhorns.
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This is the most patriotic I've ever seen the Haaretz newsroom.
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I’ve been in Israel for almost 9 years and I can’t for the life of me remember how to say “to sneeze” so I’m a grown-ass woman walking around saying “I did an achoo”.
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The antifascism marching band is here, calling for the dictator to step down
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A fascinating, well-done piece, whether you agree with the premise or not.
Two months out, October 7 and the Gaza war have pushed Jewish politics — both in Israel and the Diaspora — in a surprising direction
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The Carlton Hotel - where the event was to be held after being dropped, has also cancelled the talk. “From the moment we realized that this speaker advances an agenda against the LGBTQ community, we notified them that they would not be able to hold the talk on the hotel grounds”.
I was surprised that the venue, the same place that hosted my LGBTQ youth group, was using their space for this. Apparently, so were they.
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Want to be distracted from the war -> open media -> can't focus because it's not about the war -> repeat.
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Everything about this is so heartbreaking. Rest in power, Sarit. We all failed you.
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JVP - Los Angeles releases a statement via Instagram story regarding the bungled Hebrew on its Seder plate display this week, saying it was an attempt to move quickly and that “There are endless ways to be Jewish”
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I was surprised that the venue, the same place that hosted my LGBTQ youth group, was using their space for this. Apparently, so were they.
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For some conservative Israelis, Ben Shapiro is a prophet | What Brought These Young Israelis to Hear Ben Shapiro in Tel Aviv.
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Families of hostages lead a procession with fake coffins to memorialize the people who were kidnapped alive from Israel but returned from Gaza in caskets. The march ended at the Tel Aviv square where protests have gone on all week calling for an immediate hostage deal
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My mom's on the phone with me, explaining how I'm related to Jerry Seinfeld's mom on both sides of my family, absolutely winning Jewish geography.
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@arash_tehran People were like "Oh, you know that antisemitic guy who wants to kill all the Zionists" and I was like "Oh yeah, him, not sure what that has to do with Columbia tho".
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“No to a Kahanist government,” protesters are shouting, holding a sign reading “only please will bring security”
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The families of hostages are calling on Arnon Bar-David, the head of Israel’s trade union, to call a general strike for the hostages
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The war is giving me what I like to call "goldfish brain." I have no short term memory, no productivity, just swimming around my little fishbowl all day while definitely not blinking enough.
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Yehoram's story, and that of his parents, are probably not as rare as we think. That's why the world needs to hear them. My latest for @haaretzcom .
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Whenever the "Ashkenazi Jews are just smarter than other people, maybe it's genetics?" discourse resurfaces in something mainstream, I'm thankful to be Mizrahi and illiterate.
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Being in suburban America right now is surreal. Why was there Christmas music in stores before Thanksgiving. Why is there cheese in everything. Why am I the only one jumping at loud noises.
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For displaced Israeli teens, the wilderness is proving a perfect place to find themselves
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Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Square and Begin street are overflowing with hundreds of thousands of protesters- organizers say half a million- calling for an immediate deal to bring home the hostages. After a full week of nightly protests here, this is the most massive so far
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This may shock some people, but I don't think any children of any nationality or ethnicity should be displaced or killed because of the hatred that adult decision-makers harbor.
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A rocket fell a couple blocks away from my building. I stayed in the small space between me and my neighbor's apartments, crouched on the floor with my arms over my head. Everything trembled.
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I want to take this time to thank the white woman from New England that I went to college with who, every time I post on Instagram about what's going on, tries to take the time to educate me about it better and tells me that I should watch some informative TikToks.
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Please read @amirtibon 's harrowing account of the nightmare his family experienced in what was supposed to be their safe haven.
After hours in the bomb shelter with armed terrorists on the other side of the wall, at 4 P.M., we heard a knock on the window and then a familiar voice. "Sabba is here," my daughter said, and we all burst into tears | @amirtibon .
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A summation in @haaretzcom of an evening celebrating free speech: The right to tell parents that their transgender teens are confused, and the right of transgender teens to respond that they aren’t, actually.
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If you advocate for the disestablishment of the Jewish State, you BETTER be dedicating at least 50% of your efforts to ensuring the safety and dignity of Jews in the diaspora.
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As Bibi visits the states, Israelis, led by the family members of hostages, protest for a hostage deal outside the U.S. Embassy branch office in Tel Aviv
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"Hersh's cry is the collective cry of all the hostages - their time is rapidly running out. With each passing day, the fear of losing more innocent lives grows stronger," said a statement from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. We cannot afford to waste any more time".
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Instead of at my synagogue, I’m listening to the Megillah tonight at Hostage Square, alongside thousands of people who are marking this holiday eve by remembering those still in Hamas captivity
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Completely forgot about אדר ג׳ this year.
If you wonder why Israel hasn't hit Iran yet, remember that Purim is approaching. This is when the Jews celebrate their escape from alleged persecution by the PERSIAN King Haman, and their bloody revenge. Purim this year is 22-30 April, so that gives us the most likely date
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During the last siren, I was stuck outside. I laid down in the ground until it stopped, but my nose started to sting. I had been face-down in a red ant nest. Why do bad things happen to medium people.
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I also just wanna mention that tonight was the very first time I've ever heard someone say "rainbow mafia" but, like, in a homophobic way.
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