Yair Wallach
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
- According to Btselem, the IDF killed 89 Palestinians in the last six days. Some of them were, according to Israeli military sources, Hamas/Islamic Jihad activists on Israel's hit list (that is, it was retribution rather than specific threat). The vast majority of casualties were civilians.
- All the president's men
- So depressing. I've read these people's work for years. Scary times. bsky.app/profile/drew...
- Deciding on what not to comment is as important as whatever you have to say. Sometimes - usually - the best thing is to move on.
- Two Palestinians are reported kidnapped from Masafer Yatta by a Israeli settler
- I will delete/update if there's new information
- I did wonder about this WWI cemetery. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
- Muhamad Majadla (ch12, Israel) reports that Palestinian returnees were "offered flights to third countries as an alternative to going back to Gaza".
- Why I am not a Diasporist - my 15,000 word treatise that will be written one day
- but not today
- Haaretz reports that only 12 Palestinians (9 women and 3 children) were allowed to cross from Egypt to Gaza yesterday. They were taken by the pro-Israel Palestinian militia for interrogation by Israeli officials, and their luggage was mostly confiscated. 38 Palestinians were turned back to Egypt.
- In Israel, the government openly says still hopes to push as many Palestinians out of the strip as part of "mass voluntary migration", and is extremely reluctant to allow anyone back into Gaza. The logic of ethnic cleansing still dominates.
- Perhaps this just a fantasy of the extreme right. I am less sanguine. The resumption of full scale bombing and incursions, in Gaza and the West Bank, and the expulsion and killing of tens of thousands, appear to me a very real scenario.
- The NYT website is a cemetery of ledes. You have a story that Iran is allegedly willing to shut down its nuclear program. Headline: U.S. and Iranian Officials to Meet as Trump’s Threats Loom.
- Don't mess with genealogists
