“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.
Wellington says
I will not take any delight in her torture but nonetheless this woman is a moral idiot and a useful idiot.
Edward Amos Brandwein says
You’re absolutely right, Wellington!
No other words could better describe her!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I will disagree….. and gloat at her misfortune. My only regret is her being released to resume her mendacious activities 😈
The real idiots in this story are Israel and the US, who got her out of there. They should have left her there to rot, and let her captors do whatever they wanted
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
Tony says
Islam and its Muslims are simply following the Quran to fund, teach, and support discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism against all Non-Muslims to make Islam supreme for Allah(Quran 9:5, 29, 111; 98:6-7, etc.). ISLAM IS ANTICHRIST, AHISTORICAL, DECEITFUL, MILITARISTIC, AND POLITICAL against the USA Constitution and Western Laws to conquer and to subjugate Non-Muslims using MUSLIM-TERRORIST-CRIMINAL-GANG ENTERPRISES with ISLAMIC LAW(SHARIA) and with CONTINUOUS, TERROR PROPAGANDA from Islam’s Qur’an to make Islam supreme(Qur’an 3:28, 54; 7:99; 8:30, 16:106, etc.).
Allah affirms Non-Muslims as enemies of Allah. Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels[Non-Muslims] were your clear enemies.” Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims.
Islam is a delusional fraud because there is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO Qur’an in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim Standard Islamic Narrative claims; the Deceitful House of Islam is founded on propaganda, lies, intimidation, and deceit where Islam’s 1400-year traditions are based on fallacy and myth including a more than 300-year gap with no documented history. Hence, NEVER give money to Islamic Countries, Islamic Organizations, Mosques, Islamic Schools, etc. because your are funding your ultimate destruction. Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence.
Muslims are to be terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Again, Islam is a FACTITIOUS IDEOLOGY and CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION despicably fabricated over time into the 21sth century, and there is NO PEACE only genocidal obliteration with Islam and its deceitful Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 8:39: 9:5, 29, 111; 11:119; 32:13, etc.).
ALLAH claims MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than serpentine Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Islam, its Mosques, its Schools, its Organizations, etc. are Terrorist-Criminal Enterprises of hatred and enmity against all Non-Muslims as totalitarian Islam islamizes the society with impunity(Qur’an 5:14; 9:5, 29, 111, etc.). As taught from Islam’s Qur’an, Islam should be banned for its incitement, funding, and promotion of violence, terrorism, hatred, human trafficking, and discrimination against women, children, and Non-Muslims.
Allah stirs hatred against Christians until the resurrection day when Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 60:4.
somehistory says
Stupid…incredibly so. Hornets don’t “bite.” They have stingers.
One who is that ignorant of such mundane things, is a danger to herself and it proved true. She’s too stupid to learn.
She’s the one who became too close to the snakes, which do “bite.”
Westman says
What kind of woman implies that being sexually assaulted should be viewed as victimless ? Sick.
Does she think Indian women, taken as rape-to-wed-brides, by Muslims are not victims?
Talk about Stockholm Syndrome! Like Patty Hearst, being captured and abused only tied her closer to her captors. Lizzy has taken up a weapon for those captors, a pen, to kill support for Israel that will, ultimately lead to Israeli deaths.
somehistory says
Westman, what you have written, reminds me of things I have seen in movies where the young woman *enjoys* being assaulted by some guy..
And those women who go in for being tied up and then ‘forced.’ Even paying money to have that done to them.
It’s a very sick brain that will say that rape victims are not victims. She must have some sick fantasy of being raped, as if that means she is desirable.
But, rape is a crime of violence….it has nothing to do with the woman being *desirable.*
crown says
“ 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. ”
What are you talking about, Daniel?
Gay people are well-respected and occupy very high places in Islamic societies. I mean, like 3 or 4 stories high. Well…for a couple of minutes, at least.
somehistory says
In iran and afghanistan, they may be high on a crane….for some time.
James Lincoln says
crown says,
“Gay people are well-respected and occupy very high places in Islamic societies.”
I was really starting to get upset until I read:
“I mean, like 3 or 4 stories high.”
You got me!
gravenimage says
She Tried to Tell the Terrorists She Hates Israel. They Tortured Her Anyway.
…………………………………………..
She is a Kuffar–and an Israeli at that. Just another “filthy Infidel” to be tortured. No one should be surprised.
Burnaby Lad says
This is like Pokrovsk, it’s a double envelopment for the defenders.
Peter WF says
Even corporal punishment did not teach this idiot anything.
skeptiker says
Ich erkenne ein wiederkehrendes Muster: Weiblich, links, Gutmensch, dumm & naiv.
skeptiker says
Ich erkenne ein wiederkehrendes Muster: Weiblich, links, Gutmensch, dumm & naiv und mit großem narzistischem Sendungsbewußtsein. Warum hört nur keiner auf sie? Warum nimmt keiner sie ernst?
Diese Leuten erleiden unendliche Qualen, wenn Wirklichkeit auf Ideologie trifft und sich ihre Vorstellungen von der Welt, trotz aller Verbissenheit und Engagement, partout nicht einstellen wollen.
ILYA says
Was Tsurkova sexually assaulted?
Looking at her photo, I can’t believe it. But if it’s true, then Shiite terrorists are truly desperate heroes…
OLD GUY says
You have to remember these are boys or men who make love too goats, so maybe they see her as a step up in their sick lives.
Ilys says
Exactly!
somehistory says
Rape is not about romance….it’s about demonstrating their power and strength, so really it doesn’t matter what the female may look like.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
I know this is intended as a joke. But no–rapists are not “heroes”,
Eva says
They should have left her to die.
John Pepple says
I take it that it was the Biden administration that worked to get her out. I hope the Trump administration is more sensible.
jewdog says
I’m enjoying some schadenfreude here. This is a really funny story in a diabolical sense. What a stubborn, blind fool that woman is, but at least she is entertaining.
She was looking for love in all the wrong places, and she got a very nasty surprise from her erstwhile victims, who were not very grateful. Ha!