Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn 🎗
@SaraHirschhorn1
Historian @UofHaifa; Fellow @JewishPolicy; @SamiRohrPrize Author, City on a Hilltop (@Harvard_Press); Book #2: Zionism & Identity Politics 1967-Oct 7; Pundit.
France recognizing Palestine is domestic politics, not international relations.
This symbolic act may not have a lot of teeth today, but it's an indication of the coalition (if not all of Israeli voters) strategic thinking. But most of all it represents how HAMAS sabotaged the future of Palestinian statehood for at least a generation, because how can…
Knesset overwhelmingly approves non-binding proposal to annex West Bank jewishnews.co.uk/knesset-overwh…
Really fascinating to see @GovMikeHuckabee's new role in the haredi draft issue - I'm sure some will say this is political interference, but to my mind it's also about U.S. national security and the military alliance with Israel:
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee met with Rav Dov Landau today and spoke about the Chareidi draft. Huckabee: As important as it is to have soldiers, you must also have scholars. Scholars remind you of who you are and why you’re here, and soldiers to protect…” Harav Landau: “If only…
Thanks so much to @yaakovkatz for having me on the Jewish People's Podcast at JPPI to discuss the new Crisis of Israel Studies report!: youtube.com/watch?v=wNcJG4…
As U.S. campuses grow more hostile to Zionism, Israel Studies faces an identity crisis – and possible extinction. Dr. @SaraHirschhorn1 joins us to discuss JPPI’s new report on the field’s challenges, its “administrative homelessness,” and how it might survive by reimagining…
Shocking revelations: $260 million in funding funneled to Hamas-aligned charities. We must stop financing terror under the guise of charity. It's time to demand accountability and protect our values.
Next year I am definitely buying a bigger bingo card:
If there's one thing Jews are good at, it's bringing people together.
Is this the future of the Democratic party? The leadership seems terribly quiet:
Thank you @Algemeiner @DionJPierre for covering my new report for @JewishPolicy on "Israel Studies at American Universities: Is There a Path Forward?" It's not a light beach read, but I hope the Twitterati will be reading and responding this summer! algemeiner.com/2025/07/21/isr…
If you want to talk about intersectionality, you can talk about how HAMAS held a mentally-ill Ethiopian-Israeli hostage for more than 10 years. I believe that Bedouin-Israeli Hisham Al-Sayed, held hostage when he too suffered a mental health episode and wandered into the Strip,…
BREAKING: Avera Mengistu, held captive by Hamas for over a decade, was released from the hospital today. He spent five months in the hospital, that alone tells you how cruel Hamas was to him.
Breaking: I just discovered that former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett registered this month as a foreign agent for Qatar. Per the new FARA filings, he’s being paid $30k per month for 7 months to, and I quote, “publicize the fact that Qatari higher education efforts do…
A reminder to all that antisemitism is seeing a major revival not as mere prejudice, but as politics. As a universal political explanation. As a mobilizing political force. As an alliance-forming political tool.
To read the full report, click here >> bit.ly/4kO4mXu
Thank you @JewishChron @DatReporter for covering my @JewishPolicy report "Israel Studies at American Universities: Is There a Path Forward?". In many ways, my experience teaching @UniofOxford was quite different - if I know much has changed since Oct 7: thejc.com/news/israel/an…
Thank you @JewishChron @DatReporter for covering my @JewishPolicy report "Israel Studies at American Universities: Is There a Path Forward?". In many ways, my experience teaching @UniofOxford was quite different - if I know much has changed since Oct 7: thejc.com/news/israel/an…
I did not have Zohran Mamdani as the lovechild of some Epstein-Mossad conspiracy theory on my 2025 bingo card:
Thinking this might be the same deal with Zohran Mamdani given the fact that his mother was married (just before she became pregnant with him) to a Jewish New Yorker named Mitch Epstein for 10 years. Oh, and she attended Harvard which is effectively a Mossad base.
I can't wait for the day that I'm appointed the Shalom Falafel Chair of Israel Studies!
Thank god at least *one* organization maintained its commitment to funding research
Thank you @bandlersbanter @JNS_org for covering my new @JewishPolicy report "Israel Studies at American Universities: Is There a Path Forward" - an important read for all those concerned about higher ed and the dormroom to boardroom pipeline: jns.org/israel-studies…
This is what leadership looks like, thank you @RepJoshG :
NJ Rep. Josh Gottheimer introduces resolution condemning ‘Globalize the Intifada’ after Mamdani meeting trib.al/XYN1i9M