“She pleaded with them to read her many posts and articles online supporting Palestinian rights and criticizing the Israeli government.”
No, this has nothing to do with Oct 7 or any of the Israeli hostages. This is the story of Elizabeth Tsurkov, an anti-Israel leftist who was kidnapped by Shiite Islamic terrorists while ‘researching’ terrorists in Iraq.
I covered the Tsurkov story last year.
Tsurkov’s despicable career was built in no small part on trafficking in attacks on Israel. After 3 Israeli teens were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas in 2014, Tsurkov authored a New York Times post titled, “Israel Is Helping Hamas” in which she sneered that, “one cannot stir a hornet’s nest and claim self-defense when the hornets start biting. This is how the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas commenced.”
Then she complained that “when militant groups fired rockets from Gaza, Israel began Operation Protective Edge, even though no Israelis had been harmed by the missiles.”
In recent articles like “How Israel’s Occupation Came Home” and “Israel knows it will get away with the attack on Shireen Abu Aqleh’s funeral”, Tsurkov blasted Israel. In the wake of a massive wave of Islamic terrorist violence, she shamelessly complained that, “Israeli mainstream media quickly reverted to its habit of focusing on Jewish victims of violence.”
Elizabeth Tsurkov had spent a decade spreading vile smears of Israel, accusing the Jewish State of genocide and apartheid. She was interviewed by the worst anti-Israel activists like Peter Beinart, Matt Duss and Lara Friedman, and her tweets were picked up by pro-Hamas outlets.
And she was employed by an organization that seemed to have ties to the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood.
Despite all this, Israel and the United States went to great trouble to get her out. Now she’s out and gratefully repaying them by tweeting new attacks on Israel.
Meanwhile, the New York Times, which has zero sympathy for innocent victims of Islamic terrorism, has a very sympathetic article in which she describes being tortured and sexually assaulted while being held by the Shiite terrorists.
There is a very revealing moment though when she tries to win over the terrorists by telling them she also hates Israel.
At first, her kidnappers were unaware she was Israeli, and it seemed they had abducted her for a ransom, she said. A month into her captivity, her situation deteriorated, when they found proof of her Israeli identity on her phone. They accused her of being an Israeli spy, which she and Israeli officials who spoke to The Times have flatly denied.
She pleaded with them to read her many posts and articles online supporting Palestinian rights and criticizing the Israeli government. But they were unconvinced.
When she did not confess, she said she was “strung up and tortured.”
Surprising that the Jihadists didn’t care about “her many posts and articles” hating Israel. To them she’s just another infidel. It’s something that the Queers for Palestine crowd has yet to wake up to. Ditto for Tsurkov who’s back to her old malicious games already.
Maybe she thinks that if she writes even more posts and articles against Israel, next time the Jihadists will go easier on her.
Since Tsurkov is actually Russian, not Israeli, the story that springs to mind is of Molotov’s wife, Polina, being arrested and sent to the gulag, despite (or because of) her husband’s position by Stalin, who resented her Jewishness and her ties to his wife, whom he likely had killed. After Stalin’s death, Beria tells her that Stalin is dead and she faints because the murderous dictator was practically a deity. Despite her time in the gulag, she had learned nothing.
