Oren Kessler

@OrenKessler · Washington DC · joined 13 Dec 2008

2026-2027 Goldman Visiting Prof., @Georgetown. Fellow, @RoyalHistSoc. Author, “Palestine 1936,” winner of the Sami Rohr Prize and a WSJ best book of the year

21 745Followers

8 320Following

70 745Posts total

27.7KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Oren Kessler@OrenKessler11 Sep

Offer not valid for the eight in ten U.S. Jews who, per Pew, say caring about Israel is an essential or important part of what being Jewish means to them 17.9K views · 187 likes · 8 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Oren Kessler@OrenKessler11 Sep

Reason for the season 🍯 Israel celebrates first Rosh Hashanah in three years without hostages in Gaza https://t.co/4TxEifc5x7 618 views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Oren Kessler@OrenKessler9 Sep

Spotted on the internet https://t.co/ksofHpJvj6

698 views · 10 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Oren Kessler@OrenKessler9 Sep

It is undeniable that "West Bank," invented in Amman in 1948, is virtually the only relic of the Hashemites' two-decade occupation-annexation of land between the river and the sea And it's the only term in use that looks toward the Holy Land from east of the river (as did Moses) 7.6K views · 127 likes · 13 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Oren Kessler@OrenKessler8 Sep

Who's in DC? I'll be in conversation at @AmericanU with the great Prof. Michael Brenner, Chair in Israel Studies and Director of the Meltzer Schwartzberg Center, on September 24 The event is free and open to the public – come say hello! https://t.co/5GTvsisxqH https://t.co/Q

830 views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views830this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.82%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %2.15%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	830	924	0.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.82%	3.62%	1.05×
Engagement rate	2.15%	1.52%	1.41×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

8308 Sep

7.6K9 Sep

698

61811 Sep

17.9K

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.29%8 Sep

1.90%9 Sep

2.15%

2.27%11 Sep

1.15%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes80.0%353 in total

Reposts5.9%26 in total

Replies4.5%20 in total

Bookmarks9.5%42 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.