Deeply honored and incredibly grateful to the Israel Political Science Association for selecting my dissertation for the Best Dissertation Award. 🙏
​Thank you to my supervisor, Prof. Michel Shamir, and my academic @telavivuni.bsky.social @taupolisci.bsky.social
#academy #polsci

Grateful to my collaborators Guy Mor-Lan, Yael R. Kaplan, Tamir Sheafer & Shaul Shenhav.
Looking forward to sharing our work at #EMNLP2025 and to continuing the dialogue between political science and computational methods.

These projects show how computational tools can deepen our understanding of identity and delegitimization in politics, tracing them across decades, at scale, and in new ways.

HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text Political language is deeply intertwined with social identities. While social identities are often shaped by specific cultural contexts and expressed through particular uses of language, existing data...

(2) HebID:
A survey-grounded dataset for detecting 12 social identities in Hebrew political texts.
By connecting elite speech (parliament + Facebook) with panel survey data, we capture how identities shift across contexts.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.15483

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech We present the first large-scale computational study of political delegitimization discourse (PDD), defined as symbolic attacks on the normative validity of political entities. We curate and manually ...

Our new large-scale dataset and models track delegitimization, its characteristics, and its targets, revealing the evolution of delegitimizing rhetoric in Israel over the last 30 years.
🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.15524

(1) The Enemy from Within:
We introduce a new NLP task: detecting Political Delegitimization Discourse (PDD).
Our dataset traces 30 years of Israeli political rhetoric, showing how delegitimization emerges and evolves.

Excited to share that two of our papers were accepted for publication at #EMNLP2025 🎉
(a top tier computer science conference) a great opportunity to bring political science questions into conversation with computer science.
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Your personality doesn't always predict your views...

Using data from Israel, @naamarivlin.bsky.social and co-authors show the relationship weakens when ethnonational conflict comes to the forefront.

Out now in POQ: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

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Grateful to the @comptext.bsky.social Association for awarding me a travel grant to attend COMPTEXT 2025!
Three days filled with fascinating research, thought-provoking panels, and cutting-edge methods in computational text analysis.

Can’t wait for next year! 🤩
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After 3 packed days of research, workshops, and networking, #COMPTEXT2025 has officially wrapped up! In 48+ panels, 220+ presentations, and a full day of tutorials we received a great review of the state-of-the-art in our field. Thanks everyone and see you next year!