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PHD, NYU Applied Psychology. Studying collective action and collective memory. Reader and table-top re-enactor of military history.

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@tally8076 @jonfranks @JonahDispatch @CliffordDMay Most of the sources aren’t even anonymous! Seems like you didn’t read it. And there was already a mountain of evidence (including video) that rape of Palestinian prisoners is common in Israel. And ofc nationalism is psychological! We can stop the convo here. Bye.

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@ksorbs You people are the dumbest motherfuckers on earth

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@CourageousOp @zsitter @yeselson @JonahDispatch Be honest to yourself and admit that you just really don’t want it to be true that your favorite middle eastern country’s army does really bad shit. This whole stupid affair stems from that very powerful desire to maintain Israeli moral superiority.

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@DamonLinker @jonathanchait Warped morality is the historical norm for nationalism under threat. That it has afflicted so many Americans on behalf of a foreign power is disturbing.

But the absolute most bizarre part to me is the demand that everyone also fall victim to it.

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I don’t even know the history that well and I can tell how wildly inaccurate this is

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@petersavodnik To the extent you hear any politicians like this it’s Democrats

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@baseballcrank Straw man. The actual claim is “rape of Palestinians is rampant in Israeli prisons. It is state policy to (at best) turn a blind eye.”

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@ryangrim @davidsirota I buy Platner’s bonafides. But his definition of working class is suspiciously convenient for a Democratic Party dominated by six figures professionals (and desperate to win back non college America). It’s also wrong. Lawyers and tenured professors are not working class!

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well now hold on a minute

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@adam_louis52328 This but the opposite

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Depressing how many Americans are desperately committed to denying atrocities committed by their favorite Middle Eastern country.

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@SethAMandel I too get very upset and irrational when my favorite national security force is plausibly accused of rape.

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@michelletandler It’s very emotionally difficult when your fave security force rapes a lot. I get it. But feelings are not facts.

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@michelletandler 14 victim testimonies

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@jpodhoretz Ol’ pro-rape Pod

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@AviMayer @NickKristof https://t.co/XQ1fUfgPWs the Israel authorities are well aware, as is most of Israeli society apparently

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@AviMayer @NickKristof Stfu for one second and digest the systemic atrocities