Elizabeth Tsurkov  Verified account

@Elizrael

Passionate about human rights. Research Fellow at the Israeli Forum for Regional Thinking () focusing on Syria. Poli-sci grad student

Chicago, IL
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Joined December 2008
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    May 10

    My new piece for the on Israel's unprecedented attacks in Syria last night & why Russia seems content to let Israel bomb Iranian targets

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  2. 28 minutes ago

    Shameless. Iran coerces Afghan refugee children into going to fight, kill & die to preserve Assad in power, or face deportation (via )

    Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticizes the U.S. administration’s separation of immigrant parents and children.
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  3. 2 hours ago

    I've never been more ashamed to be an Israeli and a Jew. This month, 76 years ago, the Nazis forced my great great grandparents Arye & Hanna Girshovich into a synagogue with many others in the community and burned them alive.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Far-right Israelis taunt grandfather of 5-yo Ali Dawabsheh who was burned alive by settlers. "Where's Ali? Ali was burned. Ali is on the grill"

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  5. 2 hours ago

    Haaretz: Netanyahu continues to insist on total withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria in exchange for allowing Assad to retake southwest Syria, but Israel hasn't even secured an agreement concerning an Iranian withdrawal from 60KM from the occupied Golan

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    2 hours ago

    selling these Fight Fascism shirts. All profit goes to ’s bond fund to bail immigrants out of ICE detention

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Another video of today's protest in Efrin in response to incessant theft, abuse, arrests & occasional killings by FSA factions based in the city

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  8. 3 hours ago

    Civilians staged a protest against the FSA factions in Efrin calling on them to depart the city during & after burial of Sami.

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  9. 3 hours ago

    An FSA group based in Efrin city killed Sami al-Hawa Abu Qawj this morning for resisting an attempt to steal his property. His brother who intervened was shot too & is apparently being treated in Turkey now.

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    10 hours ago

    הרשימה המשותפת – גוף ללא נשמה! מרזוק אלחלבי על חוסר תפקודה של הסיעה השלישית בגודלה בכנסת

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    8 hours ago

    מי שלא רוצה להגיע להסדר עם חמאס צריך לפתור את עזה בהסדר עם הרשות. בממשלה לא רוצים את זה או את זה, והחליטו להקריב את עוטף עזה עבור עתיד ההתנחלויות. יום אחד נביט אחורה ולא נאמין שהסכמנו לקבל את העסקה האכזרית הזו

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    6 hours ago

    Saudi Arabia detained two more women's rights advocates ahead of the much-hyped lifting of a decades-old ban on women driving

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    9 hours ago

    The screaming is "beyond imagination." Yemenis describe sexual abuse, torture in prisons run by the United Arab Emirates, a close U.S. ally.

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  14. 13 hours ago

    Remember the geniuses who told us Clinton is just as bad as Trump and voted for third parties or stayed at home?

    AP: “Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three ‘tender age’ shelters in South Texas.”
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    20 hours ago

    WATCH: Children separated from their parents during the Holocaust speak out about the trauma it has caused. How can anyone defend such inhumane policies?

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  16. 14 hours ago

    Israel bombed 3 targets in Gaza in retaliation for incendiary kites launched from Gaza. In response, militants fired 13 rockets from Gaza. 4 were intercepted. No injuries. Israel then bombed 8 more targets in Gaza.

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    Jun 19

    Keep it up! Add your name to the dozens of members of Congress calling on Netanyahu to cancel the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar. You can learn more about the village and how to add your name at .

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    Jun 18

    This man has done an impressive amount of living: on the former Israeli military pilot, far-right government minister, drug smuggler, emigrant to Nigeria, credit card fraudster, and physician who was just arrested for also being an Iranian spy.

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    Jun 18

    This time of year we mark an unfortunate milestone: 11 years since Israel tightened the closure on , an elaborate punitive scheme which has failed to serve its political objectives and has caused inconceivable suffering for Palestinians. The closure must end now.

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  20. Jun 18

    Excellent piece by on Israelis' embrace of Trump and illiberalism

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  21. Jun 18

    First semi-confirmed Israeli strike in Deir Ezzor since 2007 (the strike on the nuclear reactor in al-Kibar). Previous confirmed Israeli strikes were on targets in western Syria & the Homs desert (T-4 base)

    The airstrikes on , near border, were carried out by : US official to CNN
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