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December 10, 2021

How a Fake Pro-Hamas Rabbi Took in a Progressive Congressional Candidate

Linda Goldstein and the bizarre world of parody Twitter accounts.

A familiar phenomenon in the bizarre world of social media is the parody Twitter account, where someone creates a fake persona who tweets absurdities. These accounts are usually thinly disguised, but every once in while they can trip somebody up. Take, for instance, an account purporting to belong to the “chief rabbi of Gaza,” created to mock the pro-Palestinian sympathies of some far-left Jews, and its recent interactions with the campaign to make a progressive activist named Imani Oakley the next congresswoman from Newark. Jon Levine writes:

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