David Twersky (journalist)

David Twersky (February 19, 1950 – July 16, 2010) was a journalist, Zionist activist, and peace advocate in Israel and the United States.

David Twerksy was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, where he grew up in the left-leaning Sholem Aleichem cooperative housing project.

He attended Ramaz School in Manhattan and was active in the Labor Zionist youth movement Habonim.

He edited Shdemot, the literary journal of the kibbutz movement, and Spectrum, an English-language political monthly.

One of his best-known stories involved President Bill Clinton's associate Johnnetta B. Cole, who had been suggested as a possible nominee for Secretary of Education, and the fact that she had served on the national committee of the Venceremos Brigade.