Yair Rosenberg
Staff Writer at The Atlantic
Staff writer, @TheAtlantic. Teller of stories, troller of Nazis. Newsletter: https://t.co/DzNv9fV6EO Music: https://t.co/SJi84fBgew
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Yair Rosenberg
On October 7, 2023, Israel suffered the most catastrophic assault in its history when Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,000 people and took hundreds of others hostage. Almost a year later, Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, the most powerful militia in the world, along with the entire leadership of his organization.
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2 weeks ago |
aei.org | Jonah Goldberg |Yair Rosenberg
Atlantic columnist Yair Rosenberg joins Jonah Goldberg to discuss the shocking rise of Jew hatred in America, the connection between populist movements and antisemitic sentiments, and Edward Said’s influence—all while poking fun at the podcast bros and reminding the elite institutions about the importance of standing with Israel. Show Notes:—Yair’s column for The Atlantic: “Deep Shtetl”
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Yair Rosenberg
The founding father of Zionism, the modern movement to create a Jewish state, had a Christmas tree. In 1895, Theodor Herzl, the Jewish journalist who would later convene the world’s first Zionist Congress, was busy lighting the holiday ornament with his family when the chief rabbi of Vienna dropped in for a visit. The cleric was not amused—but the episode helps explain what Zionism is, why it came to be, and why it still finds adherents.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Yair Rosenberg
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. When Hamas stormed across the Gaza border on October 7, it knew exactly what it was doing. The group had detailed maps of nearby Israeli military bases and forces, and quickly overran them. But the terrorist group did not stop there.
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1 month ago |
theatlantic.com | Yair Rosenberg
The evening that Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris, Netanyahu land rejoiced. The news anchors on Channel 14, Israel’s equivalent of Fox News, toasted Trump’s victory live on air. Yinon Magal, the ultranationalist host of Israel’s premier right-wing talk show, led his audience in a round of celebratory singing while Trump’s face grinned on the screen behind them.
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Yes, that's precisely what has been happening in Israel. The parties in Netanyahu's coalition have been incentivized by their poor polling to paper over their differences, knowing that if they don't hang together, they will hang separately. We're seeing a stress test of that now.
@Yair_Rosenberg Coming from a presidential system myself, I was fascinated to learn that the dynamics of parliamentary systems is that unpopular coalitions tend to hold together for mutual electoral advantage. We saw this in Canada too (Trump saved the Liberals from themselves)
Just doing my job! Hard enough for most folks to follow one political system, let alone a completely different one overseas. Thank you for reading!
@Yair_Rosenberg Thanks for covering this for us normie schmucks out of the loop (really). It’s hard to follow from the outside Here’s a dancing Mexican cat as gratitude. https://t.co/ujcV7qA4aG
"The perpetrators of anti-Jewish acts do more than nearly anyone else to turn Jews who were once indifferent or even hostile to Israel’s fate into reluctant appreciators of its necessity." https://t.co/bKJnfKwgfJ
