Elizabeth Tsurkov

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Freedom appreciator. Support human rights for all. Senior Fellow @MidEastPolicy focusing on the Levant. @PUPolitics PhD candidate. 'حسن الظنّ راحة القلب'

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1Oct 3, '25Finally, blessedly, free after 903 days in captivity. Thank you President @realDonaldTrump, for the decisive action that brought me home without anything given in return to the kid46.9×1.1M9.6k1.2k329
2Nov 3, '25Israel will never admit it, but I am confident that so many of the successes Israel has had vs. the Iranian axis is not due to Israeli genius but due to the stupidity of the men wh41.5×980k4.1k554762
3Oct 8, '22Only 3 months ago, Russian propaganda was claiming that the Crimea bridge was impossible to attack because of 20 different modes of protection covering it, including military dolph40.3×020k5k757
4Nov 5, '25The @nytimes just published the report about my kidnapping, period in captivity & how I was freed. The report contains graphic details about the torture Kataeb Hezbollah subjected 17×402k3.5k609293
5Nov 5, '25The story of my kidnapping by Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia serving Iran, 903 days of captivity, and liberation thanks to threats of the Trump Administration By @adamrasgon, @16.9×400k1.4k364252
6Oct 24, '25The Riyadh Metro has 85 stations along 6 lines and trains go 40 KM/hour on average. The Jerusalem Light Rail has 35 stations along 1 line, goes 17 KM/hour, all above ground, blocki16.3×384k2.4k324306
7May 10, '21Today's Jerusalem Day march ends in an orgy of hate at the Western Wall. They sing: “Remember me! Strengthen me! Just this once, God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the15.8×04.6k2.4k536
8Nov 11, '25رجال كتائب الحثالة الذين اختطفوني وعذبوني واحتجزوني كرهينة جميعهم يتقاضون رواتب من الدولة العراقية، إما كأعضاء في جهاز أمن داخلي (مختطفيّ ومعذبيّ لمدة 4.5 أشهر) أو في وحدات الحشد ا14.1×332k1.8k15480
9Oct 20, '25أهلاً وسهلاً على تويتر بمارك سفايا مبعوث الولايات المتحدة للعراق الجديد @Mark_Savaya مارك لعب دوراً هاماً في تحريري من قبضة كتائب الحثالة بعد ٩٠٣ يوماً في الأسر دون إعطاء أي مقابل.13.1×310k1.4k56151
10Jun 3, '2132nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. This photo was taken the day before the famous tank man photo. The Chinese regime massacred hundreds of unarmed protesters demand10.7×04k2.4k120
11Jun 2, '20Syrians launched a social media campaign against @Facebook for consistently deleting accounts of Syrian opposition activists, destroying piles of documentation of human rights abus10.7×07.1k1.1k26
12Oct 3, '25شكرًا لكل الذين عملوا على الإفراج عني طوال سنوات اختطافي. شكرًا لكل أصدقائي حول العالم الذين ناشدوا من أجل حريتي ووصلوا من أجلي. المجيب الرحمٰن حفظني حتى في قعر جهنم تحت تعذيب كتائ10.4×247k1.6k89155
13Oct 4, '25مبروك للشعب السوري على إنهيار نظام الطاغية الهربان. اكيد متأخرة بس بسبب انشغالي بكوني كنت رهينة بيد كتائب الحثالة العراقية. الشعب السوري يستحق دولة تتجسد فيها مبادىء ثورة ٢٠١١ العظ10.1×238k2.1k139141
14Nov 5, '25نشرت صحيفة @nytimes للتو التقرير الخاص باختطافي، والفترة التي قضيتها في الأسر، وكيف تم تحريري. يحتوي التقرير على تفاصيل صعبة حول التعذيب الذي مارسته كتائب الحثالة لإجباري على الإدل8.8×207k1.3k12890
15Oct 19, '25Congratulations to Mark Savaya for this important appointment. Mark played an instrumental role in setting me free after 903 days in captivity by Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia8.8×207k7076972
16Oct 13, '19I am still in disbelief. The U.S. is actually going to allow demographic re-engineering & mass displacement of Kurds, Assyrians and Yazidis who lost their sons and daughters to7.9×03.4k1.4k43
17Oct 3, '25View post on X7.2×170k1.5k8836
18May 15, '21Israel isn't even pretending anymore to hit only military-related targets. What you're watching is a war crime.7.1×02.2k2k13
20Nov 12, '22My ex remains my gf despite breaking up with me, changing the locks & throwing my stuff out the window.6.1×04.2k46025
21Nov 26, '22Israeli reporters realizing that their country is despised by Arabs is hilarious and informative. They actually thought that if they normalize with Arab authoritarian regimes it me6.0×03.2k66185
22Nov 7, '25Since my release, I've been flooded by kind messages from thousands of Iraqis expressing their horror about what was done to me by an Iraqi militia serving Iran. The torture I endu6.0×141k1.1k18489
23Jul 26, '14At anti-war protest in Tel Aviv "Forgive us" written in 1043 candles marking the number of ppl killed in Gaza &Israel5.7×07592.1k0
24Dec 26, '16This is insane. Israel will brief Trump on intelligence it collected on Obama.5.3×01.3k1.3k0
25Nov 5, '25تقرير @nytimes عن اختطافي على يد كتائب الحثالة العراقية، واحتجازي لمدة 903 أيام، ثم تحريري دون مقابل بفضل تهديدات إدارة ترامب بقتل قيادات الكتائب إن لم يتم الإفراج عني. بقلم @adamr5.2×122k6558046
26Oct 12, '25أود أن أوضح أن تجربتي المأساوية في قبضة كتائب الحثالة لم تغير شعوري تجاه الشعب العراقي، هذا الشعب الحبّاب التي عادته الإحسان وسجيته الكرم. وحتى بينهم وجدت الرحمة والجود وحب الوطن، 5.1×121k1.2k6278
27Oct 3, '25מודה מעומק ליבי למנהלת החטופים ולכל הגורמים שפעלו בנחישות ובמסירות למען שחרורי. תודה מיוחדת לצוותים הרפואיים המדהימים על הטיפול המסור. תודה לכל מי שפעל למען שחרורי מהשבי. אין לי מי4.7×110k1.4k8726
28Oct 18, '25وقاحة الميليشيات الخادمة لإيران لا تُوصف. أولاً تغتال أحد من النواب وقف ضدها في الطارمية، ثم تلوم داعش وتستخدم جريمتها لأجل الترويج لتنفيذ تطهير عرقي في الطارمية. كتائب الحثالة يري4.6×110k9027753
29Oct 9, '25فرضت وزارة الخزانة الأمريكية اليوم عقوبات جديدة على عدد من الكيانات والشخصيات المرتبطة بكتائب الحثالة العراقية. من بينهم أشخاص نهبوا ثروات العراق لحساب قيادة الميليشيا واستثمروا هذ4.3×102k9015827
30Jan 6, '20Sources inside the Turkish-backed Syrian factions tell me that in exchange for fighting in Libya, fighters are being promised Turkish citizenship after 6 months of deployment. Mult4.2×098090066
31Jul 11, '2025 years after Srebrenica, Muslim lives have never been as devalued as they are now: genocide in China, ethnic cleansing in Burma, repeated chemical attacks & extermination by 4.2×02k74829
32Jan 4, '20Soleimani oversaw the murder, starvation, displacement, detention and torture of millions of brown Syrians and Iraqis.4.0×02.2k57921
35Oct 3, '20Video of a Syrian mercenary in Azerbaijan speaking about the heavy shelling carried out by Armenian forces. I reached his cousin. The fighter is Mustafa Qanti, 23-years-old. He was4.0×088869694
36Oct 16, '20Foreign powers that intervened in Syria to advance their interests are now exploiting Syria's economic ruin to recruit men to fight their battles abroad my new piece @NYRDaily base3.8×01k59650
37Oct 21, '25من الواضح أن علي بن أبي طالب ما أورث عبقريته للسفلة الذين يتشدقون باتباعه... حين اغتيل أمير المؤمنين في عام 661 ميلادية، كان اليهود في فلسطين وفي الشتات حول العالم يعيشون تحت حكم ا3.7×88k5673280
39May 11, '21Israeli military commentators (Army mouthpieces) are saying the Israeli Army will significantly intensify bombings of Gaza & destroy more skyscrapers. Since when do buildings b3.5×01.7k59142
40Mar 21, '19Trump is determined to help Netanyahu, facing 3 corruption indictments, to get re-elected in 19 days. International law clearly prohibits settlements and annexation of occupied ter3.2×01.4k5858
41Sep 25My new investigative piece for Haaretz on the Israeli occupation of southern Syria, based on interviews with dozens of local residents, Syrian detainees released from Israeli priso3.1×74k568211121
43Oct 29, '25كشفت مجلة @TheAtlantic أن وزارة الاتصالات العراقية أعطت عقدًا دون منافسة لشركة "المهندس" الميليشياوية لصيانة شبكة الألياف البصرية العراقية وإنشاء شبكة بديلة جديدة، ما قد يسمح لإيرا3.1×73k5836344
44Jul 5, '14Hundreds of Jews & Palestinians chanting in Haifa right now: "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies"3.0×05241k0
45Jun 21, '22Alexei Gorinov, a Moscow Councilor, is facing 10 years in prison for calling what's happening in Ukraine 'war.' For the past 2 months he's been held in solitary confinement. Despit2.9×01.6k41014
46Nov 11, '25The "Syrian refugee crisis" was always a misnomer. The true crisis was not one of migration, but the murderous campaign waged by Assad, who was willing to turn his country into a p2.9×67k6719644
47Jun 1, '21The de-humanization of Arabs is so dominant in Western discourse that acknowledging Arabs' pain, loss and humanity is noteworthy and even controversial.2.7×01.5k39526
48May 12, '21The Jewish mobs rampaging tonight organized themselves via Telegram and Facebook groups. They spoke explicitly about using weapons & killing Arabs. All the information below wa2.6×072463743
49May 26, '20I just tested this too. Comment deleted in 20 seconds. @google & @youtube are helping Chinese regime censors2.6×01k52323
50Sep 27, '22Russian men drafted into the 1st Tank Regiment were informed they will undergo no training whatsoever & will be dispatched to Kherson on September 29th to face off with the wel2.4×01.1k31046
51Jun 13, '21Protesters are beginning to gather outside the Knesset to celebrate the ouster of Netanyahu as the new government is sworn in. For the first time since 2009, Netanyahu won't be Isr2.2×01.1k33312
52Feb 24, '20Russia has killed more Syrian civilians than ISIS. It is leading the current offensive on northwest Idlib, which displaced over 1,000,000 humans from their homes. This impunity mus2.2×068052528
53Aug 6, '18This tweet by an official Saudi propaganda account @Infographic_ksa has now been deleted. Seems they realized that reminding us that 15 of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi is not a gr2.2×05685079
54Oct 14, '20How it started how it ended2.0×01.4k1387
55Jul 3, '20This is what Assad has done to Syria, not "conflict". The rebels and ISIS don't have an air force that can cause this massive damage.2.0×087337412
56Jan 6, '21The US is far from perfect, but when its influence diminishes, worse actors fill in the gap - authoritarian regimes such as China and Russia. America's soft power, its image as a f1.9×078618527
57Feb 29, '20I'm old enough to remember the days when Obama admin officials were justifying their inaction in the face of chemical weapon massacres by scaring Americans about the formidable Syr1.9×093330621
58Aug 26, '18Post by a Syrian-American activist. The Syrian people lost their most stalwart ally in congress. RIP Senator McCain.1.9×09883184
59Oct 16, '16Hillary was satirized in the same segment. So SNL is rigging the election in favor of third party candidates?1.9×01k3070
60Jun 19, '21Israeli Policemen torture a Palestinian after detaining him near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem1.9×050150620
61Oct 8, '19Turkey presents itself as a force capable of taking on ISIS in Syria. These are the guys they're sending into the battlefield. A fighter from Jaysh al-Sharqiya says: "We will hit m1.8×047341320
62Aug 1, '20You mean pro-COVID19 protesters1.7×01k2088
63May 14, '21أشلاء ودماء ودمار وأطفال مرعوبين وكل هي الجرائم عم تُرتكب بإسمي. عقود عم يحاصرو شعب في بقعة أرضية صغيرة كأنو مشان حمايتي أنا كمواطنة إسرائيلية. الله يغفر لنا #غزة_تحت_القصف1.7×079125017
64Sep 4, '18This is the state of international law in 2018: You can torture, bomb, besiege and starve to death your own people, just don't gas them with chemical weapons.1.7×04974358
65Apr 14, '18Some of what Syrians are posting online & telling me tonight. A filmmaker from Daraa, survived a kidnapping by rebels, now in Europe: "What is clear from the Pentagon's press c1.7×06243665
66Mar 14, '18Media activist Ahmad Hamdan was one of the activists in eastern Ghouta who launched the #IAmStillAlive solidarity campaign. He was killed today in an Assad regime airstrike on Hamo1.7×05114182
67Aug 4, '20Ibrahim al-Ahmad al-Hameesh from Raqqa & Abdul Halim a-Salem from Tabqa are two of the Syrian refugees killed in the Beirut explosion. They escaped the Assad regime & ISIS 1.7×079027611
68Jan 1, '18Literally 13 days ago Netanyahu proclaimed that the ongoing protests in Israel against his corruption are funded by foreign actors. Now he's chastising Rouhani for making similar c1.7×06043990
70May 15, '21A Jewish mob attacked cars they believe belong to Arabs in Ramleh tonight. Policemen in full gear stand by & do nothing.1.6×051335420
71May 23, '21Once again, Israeli Police caught on camera beating random Palestinians in Umm al-Fahm, northern Israel.1.5×050337912
72May 16, '19Crying tears of joy. Just found out that multiple Syrian friends will be resettled in the EU. Some are literally escaping bombing of Idlib right now. I played a very minor role in 1.5×01.1k1210
73Jan 3, '20Distribution of sweets across areas held by the Syrian opposition in Syria celebrating the death of Qassem Soleimani. Before we judge them for celebrating an assassination, legs re1.5×06242939
74May 10, '21Israeli reporter with Channel 13 (a mainstream outlet) refers to today's events in Jerusalem as "resulting in no injuries." Palestinian suffering is absolutely invisible to Israeli1.5×066730116
75Nov 9, '21Wow. @ronenbergman confirms that Israel rushed to classify the 6 Palestinian civil society orgs as terrorist groups after Israel found out that @citizenlab discovered NSO's spyware1.5×054331139
76Mar 27, '22Moscow Police arrested a man for holding a sign "You won't be able to arrest everyone. Freedom to all political prisoners."1.5×085921110
77Oct 24, '19Tripoli, Lebanon cries out "down with the rule of the corrupt thugs" & sends greetings of solidarity to other cities that are revolting. Protesters vow to keep striking until t1.5×060030314
78Oct 12, '19The worst thing for me about doing research on the invasion of NE Syria is not watching field execution or looking at photos of mutilated children. It is talking to the Syrians fig1.5×052926427
79Feb 8, '20Syrian pro-regime fighters have filmed themselves torturing civilians, executing them, with chopped heads of people they've beheaded, desecrating mosques and gravesites. Because th1.5×050633417
80May 15, '21Israeli journalist Ohad Hemo explains the logic behind the targeting of high-rises in Gaza: "the people who live in them are middle-upper class. They are the segment of society tha1.5×046928956
81Mar 15, '20عاشت سوريا ويسقط بشار الأسد1.5×0918877
82Jan 3, '20Swedish state TV calls Soleimani a "top diplomat" and @IlhanMN calls him a "foreign official." There are many valid reasons to oppose the killing of Soleimani, but the man ran murd1.5×056121811
84Nov 7, '18There's something special about a country that can welcome and allow a Somali refugee to reach Congress without having to shed her identity.1.4×07642094
85Jan 9, '20Partisanship has hijacked everything. Leftists promised us WW3 after the assassination, but It failed to materialize, so now they're latching onto this, blaming Trump for Iran shoo1.4×076817411
86Oct 13, '25צופה שוב ושוב בחטופים מתאחדים עם משפחותיהם ובוכה מאושר. הזמן בשבי מרגיש אין סופי. לשרוד כל יום זה מאבק נגד החולי, הרעב, הבדידות, הייאוש ואיבוד השפיות. כל כך מגיע לשורדים, למשפחותיה1.4×32k676637
87May 12, '21Incredibly worrisome development that sets apart the current conflict from previous Israel-Gaza wars. Palestinian and Israelis are attacking each other in the streets, torching hol1.3×049229627
88Apr 16, '21Irony is dead. Syrian officials celebrate the end of French colonial rule over Syria at... a Russian airbase near Lattakia1.3×067118511
89Mar 15, '22Anastasia Parshkova was arrested in front of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow for holding a sign "Thou shalt not kill" She was taken to the Khamovniki police station. S1.3×06172269
90May 23, '21The family of a Palestinian-Israeli teen, Muhammad Kiwan Mahameed, apparently shot & killed by Israeli Police by accident, decided to donate his organs. His organs will give li1.2×055719918
91Nov 28, '20I tested positive for COVID. I'm doing well & actually relieved. Thought I'd share my symptoms because they were so atypical that I delayed getting a test for 8 days after thei1.1×05574815
92Jan 5, '21View post on X1.1×06751194
93Nov 25, '22Family is a man, a wife he cheats on, a gymnast he secretly dates & impregnates who is young enough to be his daughter, and the cleaning lady he knocks up.1.0×06918813
94Jun 20, '20Can confirm - it was quite bad. I am alive because my parents (who collectively spent 12 years in prison/hard labor for peaceful political opposition) were able to obtain baby form1.0×05881285
96Jul 17, '20عاشت سوريا ويسقط بشار الأسد1.0×0708481
97Dec 23, '20My sister is 22 and in March will vote for the 5th national Israeli election in her life. Until Netanyahu is convicted, it seems Israel is doomed to keep repeating elections every 0.9×05351183
99May 22, '19Happy you share with you that this fall I will begin my PhD in political science at Princeton. Subsidized higher education in Israel, a generous scholarship from the University of 0.7×052490

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