Sam Sokol
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Political reporter at The Times of Israel. Ex-Haaretz, Jerusalem Post & JTA News. Author of Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews
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An Israeli man walks his dog via drone (source: Facebook)
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Ukrainian Ambassador to Russian ambassador on security council: “There is no purgatory for war criminals, they go straight to hell ambassador”
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This is an abomination before God and man and should be condemned in the harshest terms possible. I call on all Jews, Arabs, Kurds, Persians and other peoples of the Middle East to unite and protest this assault on our shared culinary heritage 👇
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Woman in Kyiv recalls hiding from Nazi bombs in 1941 and is now hiding from Russian bombs in 2022. Says her family died at Babyn Yar. Calls on Vladimir Putin to pull his army out of Ukraine
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This is Uman now. Weird that a country that needs to be denazified attracts so many Jews over the high holidays
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Biden gave a very strong speech on Israel that was welcomed warmly in Jerusalem and is now sending his SecState, supplies and a fleet. It is incredibly disingenuous to use our suffering for political ends
Israel is under attack, Americans are being held hostage, and at least 22 Americans have been killed.
But what is Biden focused on? Delivering a speech on junk fees.
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Newborn babies in a reinforced hallway in an Israeli hospital
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This is offensive. I’m a reporter and an Orthodox Jew. And I recently wrote a piece about the possible dangers of reopening synagogues. This isn’t anti-religious, it’s reporting in the public interest, including that of the observant public
Kayleigh McEnany: "Boy it's interesting to be in a room that desperately wants to seem to see these houses of worship & churches stay closed."
Reporter: "Kayleigh, I object to that. I go to church. I'm dying to go back to church. The question that we're asking... is it it safe?"
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I don’t know the original source for this video or when/where it was filmed but it appears to show Hasidic Jews stomping a Russian flag and waving a Ukrainian one
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Addressing pro-Trump demonstrators prior to the attack on the capital building, Rudy Giuliani said “so let’s have trial by combat.”
The violence at the Capitol was shameful.
It was as criminal as the rioting and looting this summer which was not condemned strongly enough by the Left.
This violence is condemned in the strongest terms.
Our movement values respect for law and order and for the Police.
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29-year old Serafim Sabaranskiy was killed two days ago defending Kharkiv. In his last interview, he derided Russian Nazi rhetoric, saying: "My grandmother is Jewish, I often fly to Israel" and that he was crying because Russia bombed the city's Hillel House
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Depression sucks but I’m working at it and I’m gonna beat this
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The cognitive dissonance is astounding
This statement from
@LouDobbs
pretty much sums up where we are right now.
“Eight weeks from the election and we still don’t have verifiable, tangible support for the crimes that everyone knows were committed... we have had a devil of a time finding actual proof.”
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Apparently, Israel has been unsuccessful at getting back antiquities which are now in Trump’s possession at his Florida club.
Great piece by
@amirtibon
and
@nirhasson
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In an interview with me for
@haaretzcom
,
@AVindman
explained why he feels vindicated by current events and how he believes the Trump administration emboldened Putin in his march to war in Ukraine
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Don’t 👏 take 👏 smiling 👏 selfies 👏 at 👏 [expletive deleted] 👏 Auschwitz
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"'I got called a nigger 15 times today,' the veteran officer shouted in the rotunda to no one in particular. 'Trump did this and we got all of these fucking people in our department that voted for him. How the fuck can you support him?'"
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Ukrainian Jews in Odessa dance to keep their spirits up while waiting for buses to evacuate them abroad.
"We were trying to lift the spirits of those leaving and now on the way to the border," a community leader told me
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In my latest piece for
@haaretzcom
, Aron Ehrlich and I examine the Ukraine conflict through the stories of four people caught up in Russia's invasion, including
@IAPonomarenko
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I just spoke to the head of Hillel in Kharkiv. She struck a defiant tone, saying that local Jewish students were joining the army and declaring that she would never leave her city. "Slava Ukraini" has been replaced by "Russian ship go fuck yourself," she said
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Apparently not
"In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law."
-- Trump August 18, 2016 (Charlotte NC rally)
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One officer "described extraordinary scenes in which protesters holding Blue Lives Matter flags launched themselves at police officers."
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Over the past few years I've struggled with low self-esteem, anxiety and depression. This Rosh Hashanah I decided that I'm going to defeat all three. We'll see how it goes. Wish me luck
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I agree with 90% of what
@RadioFreeTom
wrote here and I had also decided to leave the party after the Kavanaugh hearings. (I’ll be doing so shortly.) I can’t continue in a party that doesn’t represent my values or have any redeeming qualities anymore.
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An evangelical who acted as an advisor to Trump just wrote this in the Times of Israel 👇
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Moscow’s military cooperation with Tehran will likely result in Russia assisting Iran with the development of its nuclear program, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told
@haaretzcom
's annual Democracy Conference on Monday
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“These aren’t journalists grappling with complex questions about how best to do their crafts — these are propagandists…We should be way past the point of giving them the benefit of the doubt,” writes
@atrupar
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Natan Ben-Nun of the Rabbi Nachman Foundation in Uman showing the inside of the main hall of the synagogue that Russia accused Ukrainian forces of using as an arms depot.
“It's empty," he said. "There are no guns."
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Forget the Sith. How are the Jedi at dealing with (possible) Presidential collusion?
@HamillHimself
@pptsapper
@arawnsley
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The Ukrainian MFA has summoned Israel’s ambassador to Kyiv to demand an explanation, following Israeli media reports that Jerusalem requested Moscow’s assistance in evacuating its citizens from Ukraine in case of war
My latest for
@haaretzcom
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“Two, four, six, eight. We just want to urinate!”
Now this is a political movement I could get behind
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The happiest place on earth isn’t Disney, it’s Romanian in Chicago
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Jews performing the biblical commandments of Sukkah and Lulav amidst the destruction in Kyiv. (📸 by Arthur Kozlov. Courtesy of Jonathan Markovich.)
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The guy Musk recommends for information on the Israel-Hamas escalation is an antisemitic account with a history of spreading misinformation
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This is one the scariest lines I’ve ever seen in a news report: “Senate GOP resistance is building over Democratic measures to bolster security around US elections, setting the stage for a partisan clash with the House over imposing tougher safeguards ahead of 2020.”
Keeping foreign influences out of our elections and making sure they run fairly is only "political fodder" if one of the two parties doesn't want that.
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Everyone on Twitter seems to have become an expert on constitutional law, statistics and epidemiology.
When did everyone have a chance to go back to university and get multiple degrees and why didn’t anyone tell me about this opportunity?
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Well now that this tweet has blown up, I don't have a SoundCloud but I did recently write a book about Russian disinformation and the weaponization of anti-Semitism
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So is this the Salem Witch Trials or is this the Crucifixion? Is Trump a witch or is he Jesus? I'm getting confused. My rootless cosmopolitan brain can't handle these high level legal arguments
Rep. Loudermilk: "When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers."
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In a recent interview,
@AVindman
told me that “Trump was out there bandwagoning for Putin in a way that suggested the Republicans would not punish Putin for his aggression...That was Putin’s assumption.”
Trump says tonight that he was “amazed it didn’t get out” that he told the president of a NATO country in a closed door meeting that he would refuse to honor the treaty and defend other NATO countries if they were attacked by Russia, unless they spent more on defense.
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16 years ago today (on the Hebrew calendar) my father had a heart attack and died in front of my eyes. I was 20. I’m now in a Jerusalem synagogue for mincha (the afternoon service) to say Kaddish, the mourner’s prayer. I miss you dad.
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Two Danish reporters shot, injured in eastern Ukraine
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Just stepped outside and within 100 meters of my front door saw three people without masks. How hard is it, in a Red City during a lockdown, to wear a mask? Seriously?
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Jews pray in Kharkiv as the sounds of battle echo through the synagogue
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Republicans have no way to communicate now, says
@DevinNunes
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I’m looking for a new full-time journalism job, either in Israel or back in the States. I’ve worked for the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, JTA News and IBA. My bylines have appeared in the Forward, Columbia Journalism Review, Foreign Policy and Open Democracy. Any leads welcome
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The new, updated, edition of my book just came out. It brings the previous edition up-to-date and provides a close look at developments in Ukraine circa 2013-2022
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IDF using attack dogs in Hamas tunnels per government spokesman
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This photo from the New York Times says it all. No one is coming to their defense
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“I’ve tried to understand so many times why he keeps it going, and I just don’t get it,” Mr. Brennan said. “After Christchurch, after the Tree of Life shooting, and now after this shooting, they think this is all really funny.”
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The asymmetry between Zelensky’s outspoken support for Israel and Netanyahu’s silence on Russian agression is striking
Here’s some context I wrote for the
@KyivIndependent
recently
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Last week I interviewed an Israeli woman who travelled to the besieged city of
#Mariupol
to rescue her mother... and ended up evacuating her in a shopping cart. Read it now on
@haaretzcom
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Ukrainian Jews haven’t been on board with Russia’a denazification claims…
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I usually keep my politics out of my Twitter because it’s not professional for a journalist to be partisan. But I’m going to come out and say that, as a moderate conservative, I’m glad I left the Republican Party. This is disgusting
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“President Putin has comprehensively lost the information war in Ukraine and in the West,” judged Jeremy Fleming, the head of gchq…in an article for The Economist in August. The self-appointed warriors of nafo might claim a little credit for that outcome
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Several years back, when I told my great-uncle, a Polish Jew who fled the Nazis and found refuge in the Soviet Union, that I was writing a book about how Putin’s war against Ukraine harmed the Jews, he told me he’d rip it up he he ever got his hands on a copy.
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…especially as Russia has been destroying Jewish sites
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Kyiv Chief Rabbi Yonaton Markovitch just arrived in Israel, says he will lobby Jerusalem for increased aid to Ukraine
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@gtconway3d
I'm sure there's some enterprising young people in Tel Aviv working on a prototype as we speak 😜
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Sometimes I think that all printer designers and engineers must be sadists. I haven't ever had a printer which worked reliably. Whenever you most need it, it always fails. All other technology has improved but not printers
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Blinken referenced his own Jewish identity in stating that he did not take Russian claims of “genocide” lightly
Blinken to the UN: "Russia plans to manufacture a pretext for its attack. This could be a violent event that Russia will blame on Ukraine or outrageous accusations that Russia will level against the Ukraine government. We don't know exactly the form it will take."
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Yisrael Hayom, the historically pro-Netanyahu newspaper, denounces the PM's 'political bickering' and declares that he should step aside. 'Stop throwing blame all around, take responsibility and accept that the buck stops with you.'
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If Cthulhu wiped out humanity after seeing this, I wouldn’t blame him
In the latest AI/Machine Learning horror, HP Lovecraft sings Rick Ashley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
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Don Jr. using our suffering to make an absolutely baseless claim about Ukraine for political reasons
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Demanding the “freedom” to infect (and potentially kill) your neighbors is a morally bankrupt and stupid hill to die on
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The Russians saved us and the Ukrainians killed us, he told me. He’s since passed away. I wonder what he’d say now about the Russians bombing Jewish buildings and killing Holocaust survivors as part of “denazification”?
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#VictoryDay
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This makes me feel inadequate... and I’m 37
A 14 year old built Manhattan out of LEGO’s.
He aspires to be an architect or model designer at Lego someday.
Incredible...
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Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Day) siren in Jerusalem. Everything comes to a standstill
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My mother’s flight was diverted to the airport in Eilat. She’s now on a bus heading north and someone threw a rock at it, shattering the windshield 😡
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@brianstelter
Forget accusations of Trumpian complicity with Russia, Trump may be unwittingly controlled by Fox News. 😜
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@NataliaAntonova
@CathyYoung63
They have the look of people staring incredulously at the hipster who just set up an easel and started painting at the nest table over
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@Noahpinion
And he had to use an article I wrote to try and bolster his point. And it does nothing of the sort
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@MollyJongFast
My kids complain but do it anyway because while they understand the necessity they are also kvetchers 😉
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Needless to say, this is self-serving propaganda and disinformation that nobody should take seriously
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The Russians apparently struck Podil. It’s one of the more Jewish neighborhoods of the Ukrainian capital. How’s that denazification going?
Ataque también en Kyiv, la capital de Ucrania, en una zona urbana del barrio de Podil, según los servicios de emergencia
#UkraineUnderAttack
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I tweeted about Israelis stopping for the Holocaust Day siren and these were some of the responses 👇
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"The use of the Holocaust of the Jewish people as a political tool must be stopped immediately,” Prime Minister Bennett demanded of Russia.
He’s a bit late, Russia has been using Jews as a political tool against Ukraine since 2014
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Driving to Uman, Ukraine to cover the pilgrimage. Been in transit since yesterday and on the road since 6am
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He seems to be comparing Bibi to Jesus and Bennett, Lapid, et al to the Pharisees from the New Testament
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Sourcing videos of Hamas atrocities: What is the provenance of videos shared by the Telegram channel South First Responders
🧵 Thread
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Pro-Ukrainian demonstration across from Russian embassy in Tel Aviv
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@flmolly
@TheRickWilson
You mean that Trump isn't a reliable source for crowd estimates? Who would've thunk it?
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Does anyone else think that Apple should bring this nifty Nixie tube iPod Nano watch-face to the Apple Watch?
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I just confirmed this with a senior Jewish communal figure in Moscow who noted there were also several openly antisemitic demonstrations in Dagestan and said “the situation is very dangerous”
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