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Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Jun 4, 2026, 10:40 AM

Gaza’s women get lost in the argument about them

A woman watches as Palestinians retrieve items from the rubble of a destroyed building following overnight Israeli army bombardment on al-Shati camp for Palestinian refugees, west of Gaza City, on September 12, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Girls are being handed to older men and women forced to trade sex for food. But instead of trying to protect them, we debate which side is to blame

May 27, 2026, 11:40 PM

Looking Past ‘Silenced No More’

A Google search for the current headline returns the article with the original verb still indexed.

A newspaper does not need to lie to reposition reality. Sometimes it can do so through something far quieter: the placement of uncertainty. On May 12, the New York Times gradually transformed the headline on its coverage of a two-year...

May 19, 2026, 12:07 AM

Still an Activist, Not Yet New York’s Mayor

There are official acts that reveal more about what their author thinks an office is for than any speech could. The video released by the mayor of New York City on Friday evening, in the hour before Jewish New...

May 16, 2026, 6:03 PM

The Eurovision Audience the New York Times Couldn’t See

Spain gave Israel 33 percent of its public vote at Eurovision 2025, in a country whose public opinion is deeply hostile to the Israeli government. The New York Times investigation published on May 11 treats this result as suspicious...

May 12, 2026, 5:58 PM

Eurovision – the Stage that Stopped Being a Given

Tonight in Vienna, Noam Bettan walks onto the Eurovision stage. He is twenty-eight years old. He will sing "Michelle," a pop ballad about ending a toxic relationship, performed partly in French, a nod to his family's roots. Before he...

May 1, 2026, 12:54 AM

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What Yair Garbuz painted back into view

The late artist pushed Israelis to question our automatic – and seemingly common-sense – assumptions about moral superiority

Apr 26, 2026, 12:51 AM

After Memorial Day, the Question of Shared Memory Remains Unresolved

A date in fragments. A memory yet to cohere. AI-generated image, developed in Photoshop, by Sagit Alkobi Fishman.

Israel’s Memorial Day ceremony still takes place. The siren sounds, the rituals unfold. But the conditions that once allowed it to function as a shared ground of meaning are no longer in place. At the ceremony that opened Israel's Memorial...

Apr 25, 2026, 12:55 AM

What the Kippah Held, and What Cutting It Revealed

"Your kippah is against the law." The sentence was spoken this week in a café in Modiin. Alex Sinclair, a lecturer who had worn the same kippah for twenty years, was working on his laptop when a stranger approached...

Apr 19, 2026, 12:23 AM

Settler Violence Gets Rewritten. And It’s Just the Symptom.

Settler violence in the West Bank is no longer a story confined to left-leaning media. In recent months, it has opened prime-time broadcasts on major Israeli channels, been documented by international cameras, and acknowledged by the security establishment itself....

Apr 10, 2026, 7:14 PM

Kanye West Made Antisemitism the Art. Unlike Wagner.

A government that rarely bans artists banned one last week. The British Home Office blocked Kanye West from entering the United Kingdom, ruling that his presence would not be conducive to the public good. The Wireless Festival in London,...

About Me

Doctoral candidate at Bar-Ilan University’s School of Communication and a President’s Fellow, researching how narratives emerge on digital platforms and collaborative environments, shaping public discourse. The work draws on an interdisciplinary foundation spanning computer science (Technion), philosophy and digital culture (Tel Aviv University), and visual and social design (Holon Institute of Technology).