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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

3 years

It’s not proportional. It’s not temporary. It’s not legal. It’s not equal. And it’s not complicated: Believe your eyes. Follow your conscience. The reason that it looks like apartheid is simply because it is apartheid. | full interview on @democracynow :

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

1 year

Does such a "multi-tiered class system" has a name? 🤔

Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

1 year

Israelis have dropped the notion of a two-state solution and largely embraced a multi-tiered class system where Jews are on top, prominent Israeli intellectual says in CNN interview

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

1 year

In short, a regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

. @POTUS Biden, this is apartheid.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Not only 'a few'. In fact, many and growing. This is apartheid.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

From the River to the Sea.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Remember 78yo 'Umar As'ad عمر أسعد, the Palestinian American killed by Israel back in January? The U.S. "condemned", Israel promised to "investigate". That was 4 months ago. Israel doesn't investigate. Israel whitewashes. And the Biden administration is complicit.

Matthew Miller

@StateDeptSpox

2 years

We are heartbroken by and strongly condemn the killing of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank. The investigation must be immediate and thorough and those responsible must be held accountable. Her death is an affront to media freedom everywhere.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

An enabler of white supremacy denies Israel's regime of Jewish supremacy.

Mike Pompeo

@mikepompeo

2 years

Israel is not an apartheid state.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

4 years

Now that Israel has magnanimously agreed to “suspend declaring sovereignty”, all can calmly get back to underwriting Israel's tried-and-tested perpetual oppression of Palestinians: arbitrary killings, land theft, controlling every aspect of an entire people's life. Biz-as-usual.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

#IsraelElections2022 1// With today’s rise of the racist 'Jewish Power' party, the quiet part of Israel’s regime of Jewish supremacy over Palestinians has never been louder. To date, the world was mostly silent in the face of this 21st century reality of apartheid.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

10 months

1/ As you read news about Israel's "judicial overhaul", here's some apartheid context: today the Knesset approved the Admissions Committees Law expansion. How much media coverage is this getting? almost none. This law allows for housing segregation against Palestinian citizens.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

4 years

1// What the Palestinians are being "offered" now is not rights or a state, but a permanent state of Apartheid. No amount of marketing can erase this disgrace or blur the facts.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Jerusalem time, Beirut time, any time is a good time to be standing together with @amnesty -- especially this time, @yairlapid . #EndIsraeliApartheid

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Israel will go on "interfering with" Palestinians anywhere between the River and the Sea it covets their land, with the goal of dispossessing them. The excuses change from time to time, the ideology remains.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

5 years

Conquer and Divide: the shattering of Palestinian space by Israel | Explore the maps in this interactive project, see reality for what it is – and demand an entirely different future. | @btselem @ForensicArchi |

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

5 months

In #Israel it is still not possible to identify all the bodies. In #Gaza it is impossible to count all the bodies. Throughout my @btselem years, I feared a time so violent, when not all victims could have a name or a grave. We have reached this. We live this horror. | @haaretzcom

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

When @RepRashida speaks of Israel's apartheid regime, she not only echoes her family's lived experience -- but is also articulating the growing consensus of Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights groups, including @alhaq_org , @btselem and @HRW . /1

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3 years

. @RepTedDeutch (D-FL) after @RepRashida 's speech opposing #IronDome funding: "I cannot allow one of my colleagues to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and label the Jewish democratic state of Israel an apartheid state."

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Thank you @EmmaWatson @MarkRuffalo @SusanSarandon @GaelGarciaB and all that have joined the @Art4PalestineUK letter | @hrw @btselem

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

The i’s have been dotted; the t’s crossed. This brutality desires to hide itself within “the rule of law.” In fact, it being so legalized – and as such, so celebrated by Israeli propaganda – only makes this system more horrific. #EndIsraeliApartheid @btselem

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

5 years

"We are already living in a one-state reality... when Israeli citizens vote, we make decisions not only with regard to our future but also with regard to the future of occupied human beings with no political rights." | @btselem director on @France24_en

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

There is not a single square inch in the territory Israel controls where a Palestinian and a Jew are equal. This is apartheid. | @guardian @btselem

We are Israel's largest human rights group – and we are calling this apartheid | Hagai El-Ad

The systematic promotion of the supremacy of one group of people over another must end, says Hagai El-Ad, executive director of B’Tselem

www.theguardian.com

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

1 year

The UK and Israel can disagree all they want, but #apartheid is not just a term: it is the lived reality for millions of Palestinians -- and it is the growing consensus around the world. (Following quote is from the "2030 roadmap for UK-Israel bilateral relations")

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

First Israeli PM @naftalibennett FM @yairlapid DM @gantzbe and @IDFSpokesperson tried lying with regards to the killing of @AlJazeera journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh . Now they promise to "investigate". Which is nothing but the next step in Israel's organized whitewash.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

This is why @btselem is calling it #Apartheid , Mr. President. | from the interview with @ayman on @AymanMSNBC

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

5 years

Inspired to meet Rep. @IlhanMN . Your courageous voice redefines the political space for justice precisely since, as MLK Jr wrote, we are tied in a single garment of destiny. To date, failed American foreign policy underwrote the injustice in Palestine. It can - it must - change.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

10 months

Israel's regime *is* apartheid. This fact is so flagrantly obvious, that the U.S. House of Representatives had to try and deny it via a pathetic, thought-police style, 412-9-1 vote. Which only proves once again that nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

One year since the killing of Iyad al-Halaq by Israeli Border Police. Remember the promises to investigate? so far, no one was held accountable. Israel uses "investigations" to silence criticism, hoping for public attention to move on. A year has passed. We have not forgotten.

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

@btselem

4 years

Netanyahu: "Tragedy". Gantz: "Very Sorry". When police killed Iyad al-Halaq in May, Israel’s top officials remorsefully vowed to investigate. Yet in the last decade, investigations have been used to whitewash hundreds of cases in which Israeli forces killed Palestinians.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

. @btselem : "No one should believe the promises to 'investigate', because that is nothing but the first step in Israel’s organized whitewash. Israel is unable and unwilling to conduct such investigations" | @mideastXmidwest in @voxdotcom on #ShireenAbuAkleh

The killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, explained

Shireen Abu Akleh covered occupied Palestine for two decades. She was killed doing her job.

www.vox.com

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

"This is not democracy plus occupation. This is apartheid between the river and the sea." | @APNews @btselem

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

Gaza is not a humanitarian issue. It is a justice issue. #Gaza was not hit by a tsunami. It was hit by repeated waves of Israeli bombings and 14 years of blockade. | full interview, with @hrw 's @OmarSShakir , on the @MehdiHasanShow : | @btselem #FreeGaza

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

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2 years

Dismantling #Apartheid will build a just future.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Israel's justices once again prove that the occupied cannot expect justice from the occupier's court.

Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

2 years

After two decades, Israeli court approves eviction of eight Palestinian villages

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Israel will not hold itself to account, just like its #apartheid regime won’t dismantle itself. International stakeholders who do not call this out simply cast themselves as a cog in Israel’s whitewashing machine. | @btselem

We need to show Israel the time for accountability has arrived

Israel should not be allowed to whitewash the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with a sham ‘investigation’.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

11 months

Tomorrow is my final day at @btselem . This morning I went to Ramallah, to bid farewell to @SJabaren and colleagues at @alhaq_org . I have nothing but the utmost respect to Al-Haq's perseverance, tenacity, and professionalism in the face of Israel’s oppression.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

Israel is not a democracy that has a temporary occupation attached to it: it is one regime between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and we must look at the full picture and see it for what it is: apartheid. | @democracynow @btselem

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

Proud to be in solidarity with @alhaq_org 's director @SJabaren , and with other Palestinian human rights defenders. Al-Haq and @btselem proudly won international awards together, and together we will defeat this apartheid.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

4 years

PM @netanyahu argues that the ashes of the 1940s give rise not to the conclusion that no person should ever be left bare of rights, but the opposite: that there is a people – the Palestinian people – who should remain bare of rights under all circumstance.

Opinion | Opinion | Netanyahu exploits the Holocaust to brutalize the Palestinians

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

4 years

“I think about us and the Palestinians, and see the picture of George Floyd in my mind. We have our knee on their necks while holding an argument with ourselves on how we wish to continue doing so.” | extensive interview in @haaretzcom on @btselem 's work

'It's like George Floyd. We have our knee on the Palestinians' necks'

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

Anti-Semitism allegations by @netanyahu against the @IntlCrimCourt are a moral outrage. The PM traded in Holocaust remembrance, serving as the #1 legitimizer of anti-Semites, white supremacists and apartheid supporters. He has no moral standing.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

1 year

After nine years, it's time. I am deeply attached to the work of @btselem – a bond that, rather than waning, only grew stronger with every passing year. That is why leaving will be so hard. Yet as difficult as it is, this is the right step - for B'Tselem, and for the work ahead.

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

@btselem

1 year

Hagai El-Ad is stepping down as B'Tselem's Executive Director after nine years. We're sad to say goodbye and are deeply grateful for the courage, vision and wisdom with which he led the organization forward ❤️ Read Hagai's letter here:

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

This is apartheid. The bullet or the bulldozer, the permit denied or the prison cell extended, humiliation and dehumanization. Israeli, high-tech surveillance mixed with lowbrow violence, Jewish supremacy-centered, apartheid.

Opinion | Opinion | Bullets, brutality and bulldozers: What Israeli apartheid is really like

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@HagaiElAd

2 years

"The sands are shifting in the United States, in the Congress, in public opinion, and in the American Jewish community, and the apartheid discourse is part of it." -- @DanielSeidemann in @guardian #EndIsraeliApartheid

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

"Senior officers" so "shocked" by soldiers not seeing 'Umar As'ad as a human being -- spare us your sanctimonious gibberish. Say, when Israeli senior officers ordered shooting at thousands of Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza, did *they* see human beings?

Israeli officers rattled by death of elderly Palestinian: 'Soldiers didn't see a human being'

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@HagaiElAd

2 years

Some 12 hours after Nasser Nawaj'ah, @btselem South Hebron Hills researcher, was arrested in Susiya, he has been released. During this time, no one knew where he was held or by whom: army, police, or GSS. Arresting an employee of a human rights organization is uniquely egregious.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

חלפו כבר 12 שעות מאז שנסר נוואג׳עה, תחקירן השטח שלנו בדרום הר חברון, נעצר ע"י חיילים בסוסיא. מאז איש אינו יודע איפה נסר מוחזק, למה או ע"י מי. מהצבא, המשטרה והשב"כ מתקבלות תשובות עמומות, סותרות, או שסתם אין תשובה. זו השורה התחתונה: עובד של @btselem נעצר וכאילו בלעה אותו האדמה.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

4 years

The entire world has heard Israel say, with American backing: “our plan for Palestinians is Apartheid.” Even if de-jure annexation doesn't go ahead, this fact still stands. So the question for the world is: how do you respond to 21st century Apartheid?

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

11 months

Seriously? So touching that you've bothered to murmur something. The facts speak for themselves: 1 Blanket impunity is the norm, for *decades* already 2 Soldiers protect Jewish perpetrators, sometimes join them 3 Settler violence is state violence -- and you're all complicit.

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@IDF

11 months

A joint IDF, ISA & Israel Police announcement: "In recent days, violent attacks have been carried out by Israelis in Judea and Samaria against innocent Palestinians. These attacks contradict every moral and Jewish value; they constitute, in every way, nationalist terrorism, and…

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

The @btselem lecture did take place this morning. The Israeli government will have to contend with us until the apartheid regime ends.

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Israel’s education minister says he's banning groups that call Israel an “apartheid state” from lecturing at schools.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

The infinite U.S. ability to both-side everything simply spells out just how one-sided their policy is.

Ambassador Jack Lew

@USAmbIsrael

2 years

A statement by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem:

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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Over a week since the pogrom in Turmusaya, @USAmbIsrael is yet to visit this quintessential Palestinian-American community. Hundreds of settlers attacked Turmusaya. When Israeli official forces arrived, they opened fire -- at the Palestinians. Amb Nides did find time for this:

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Shabbat Shalom with the soldiers of the @IDF !

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

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5 years

"without justice, there can never be a lasting peace" -- thank you @IlhanMN . We will build a better world, together.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Israel may have kicked @OmarSShakir out, but his (kind) heart and (brilliant) mind never left #Palestine

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@HagaiElAd

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1/ In 2019, Israeli “democracy” is so robust that millions of Palestinians with no political rights get to *twice* watch how others are voting on their future, while they're not even asked.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

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. @nikkihaley recently spoke of the "border" between #Gaza and #Israel . "Border"? seriously? here's what I had to say on this, and more, on @CNN : | @btselem

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

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2 years

. @POTUS Joe Biden's forthcoming Middle East visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia is enabled by excusing Israel and Saudi Arabia for the journalists his own administration says were killed by Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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כל האולפנים: הקונספציה קרסה כל האולפנים, באותה נשימה: לשטח, להפציץ, לכתוש

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

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Torn between "concern", "deep concern", and "grave concern" the governments of 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 remain steadfast in their sincere commitment to do nothing at all.

Joint statement by Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom following recent events in Israel and...

The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada and the UK are deeply concerned by recent events in Israel and the West Bank which further reduce the prospects fo

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

4 years

“saddened”? on the day @USAmbIsrael opened his embassy in Jerusalem, Israel killed 73 Palestinians by the Gaza fence. Friedman’s words on Iyad al-Halaq are as sincere as @realDonaldTrump “expressing sorrow” over the George Floyd killing #BlackLivesMattter #PalestinianLivesMattter

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We are all saddened by the death of Iyad Al Halak this weekend and extend our deepest condolences to his family and to those who mourn this tragic loss. We welcome Israeli officials’ expression of sorrow and commitment to a swift investigation into the incident.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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The regime is more powerful than any law, and its fundamentals – not shifting political sands – are what count. The consensus in support of Jewish supremacy over Palestinians – namely, #Apartheid – is solid. | @haaretzcom @btselem

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3// Global silence was, and remains, complicity. It underwrote today’s political outcome. That silence must now – ever so belatedly – be replaced with action, effective consequences, and accountability. //end//

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The question for the world is: what kind of relationship will you have with apartheid Israel? | #SaveMasaferYatta | Listen to the full @guardian Today In Focus podcast with @basel_adra @mck_beth @NosheenIqbal :

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1// Israel's high court greenlighted (once again) the state's efforts to expel Palestinian communities from their homes and lands in the South Hebron Hills The @IntlCrimCourt can stop it #SaveMasaferYatta This is why @btselem wrote to the ICC prosecutor.

B’Tselem urgent appeal to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: stop Israel from...

This week (Monday, 3 October 2022), Israeli human rights group B’Tselem wrote to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, requesting his urgent intervention to stop Israel...

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2// No one should be allowed to continue pretending that the ugly reverberations of Israel’s decades-long subjugation, disenfranchisement, and oppression of Palestinians hasn’t reached their ears.

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6// But, the painful facts of today give rise to hope for the future, the only future that can genuinely offer peace. A future not based on supremacy for some and oppression for others, but on full equality, liberty, dignity, and rights for all. That day will come. //end//

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4// Tomorrow, there will still be 14 million people living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, five million of them Palestinian subjects who have no political rights.

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2 years

It is grotesque that the United States is pressuring Palestinians to conduct a joint investigation with Israel, given Israel's demonstrated record of whitewashing the killings of so many Palestinians. | #ShireenAbuAkleh @theintercept @btselem

Israel Admits It Might Have Killed Journalist, Attacks Her Funeral

Israeli police assaulted mourners carrying the casket of reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, the same day Israel’s army admitted it might have killed her.

theintercept.com

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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2// The reality on the ground is already one of full Israeli control over the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and everyone living in it. It is a reality of one, inherently undemocratic, state.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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Senator @BernieSanders showed that you *can* stand up for Palestinian rights and be one of the most consequential & popular political leaders in the U.S. Next step: that it’ll be impossible to be one without taking such just, rights-based positions. Thank you, Senator Sanders.

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@HagaiElAd

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"A U.S. president who buys into a certain narrative which has very little to no relation to what's going on on the ground" | @USMEP 's Daniel Levy on @POTUS Biden visit to Israel-Palestine and beyond

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@HagaiElAd

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Separated by the different personal statuses allotted to them, and by the many variations of inferiority Israel subjects them to, Palestinians living under Israel’s rule are united by all being unequal. This is apartheid. | @guardianopinion @btselem

We are Israel's largest human rights group – and we are calling this apartheid | Hagai El-Ad

The systematic promotion of the supremacy of one group of people over another must end, says Hagai El-Ad, executive director of B’Tselem

www.theguardian.com

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@HagaiElAd

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Israeli impunity comes with a large “Made in the USA” label, for Washington is where it is manufactured. | @PostOutlook | @btselem

Perspective | Israel has chosen a two-tiered society. Violence is the inevitable result.

Denying basic rights to Palestinians is unsustainable in the long run.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@HagaiElAd

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The denial of political rights was one of the cornerstones of apartheid South Africa. That country considered itself a democracy. Many will consider Election Day in Israel a "celebration of democracy". It’s not. | @btselem @nytopinion

Opinion | Democracy, Israeli Style (Published 2019)

An election, a peace plan and an endless occupation.

www.nytimes.com

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@HagaiElAd

3 years

Today #StandWithThe6

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@HagaiElAd

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1// "I think the Arab culture around us is the jungle... they have not reached the evolutionary stage where there are human rights... I feel that I have nothing that's racist... I have no hatred for anyone and I have personal relationships with Palestinians" --MK @YoazHendel1

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@HagaiElAd

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Israel turned the #Gaza strip into the biggest open-air prison in the world, one that is uniquely unsuited to deal with the pandemic: “Israel will not be able to deflect the blame if this nightmare scenario turns into a reality that it created” | @btselem

Can Gaza cope with Covid-19 after years under lockdown?

Coronavirus could devastate the Palestinian territory, already hit hard by Israeli restrictions

www.theguardian.com

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@HagaiElAd

3 years

ההאשמות של @netanyahu נגד בית הדין הפלילי הבינלאומי בהאג באנטישמיות הן לא סתם עוד שקר: הן שערורייה מוסרית. לנתניהו, שהתנדב לסחור בזיכרון השואה כדי להיות המכשיר מספר 1 של אנטישמים, חסידי עליונות לבנה ותומכי אפרטהייד כמו טראמפ ואורבן, אין זכות עמידה מוסרית.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

6 years

Dani Danon perfectly exemplified at the #UNSC today the depths of Israeli hypocrisy. In English, Israel is a “democracy.” In Hebrew, without translation — calling me a "collaborator" with the enemy — incitement. “Democracy” reduced to propaganda for external consumption.

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@HagaiElAd

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It looks like apartheid because it *is* apartheid. | @btselem

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@HagaiElAd

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While all eyes are on #Gaza , Israel advances forcible transfer of Palestinians in the WB: "The uprooting of Palestinians is not a project of the settlers, the bad ones, the good ones, or the other ones. It is a state project." | @NewYorker @IChotiner

The Gaza-ification of the West Bank

As the war in Gaza escalates, so, too, has the forcible displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank. Is Israel’s approach to the two regions linked?

www.newyorker.com

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@HagaiElAd

3 years

Israeli bulldozers, on their way to demolish the next home of a defenseless Palestinian, are driving on roads paved with inconsequential expressions of intl concern. Every time euphemisms are used, instead of calling crimes by their proper name, it emboldens Israel to continue.

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@HagaiElAd

1 year

Nasser Nawaj'ah was at Ofer military "court" this morning, for day 1 of "evidentiary" hearing in the government's "case" against this remarkable @btselem human rights defender. A baseless prosecution heard at a place where the conviction rate is just about 100%. Go do the math.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

5 years

The election results confirm something deep, and very rotten: resounding vote of confidence in favor of furthering the existing situation, more dispossesion & control of millions of Palestinian denied fundemental rights; the debate limited to pace, scope, level of brutality used.

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@HagaiElAd

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@DanielBShapiro You really should know better, Dan. In reality what's well-documented is the lengths Israel goes to in order to get away with the systematic whitewashing of Palestinian civilian casualties. I'll link below to a number of @btselem reports demonstrating this in detail. //1

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@HagaiElAd

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5// And all of us here, in one way or another, remain under the rule of the same government in Jerusalem, a government that works relentlessly to advance the supremacy of one people at the expense of the other, while continually trampling its rights underfoot.

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@HagaiElAd

4 years

Official Israeli police response to their killing of Iyad al-Hallaq doesn't mention his name. Relates to the killing as "the morning incident in the Old City". Expresses sadness over just one thing: they're being "irresponsibly" critiqued by public figures & "various elements".

משטרת ישראל

@IL_police

4 years

בהמשך לאירוע הבוקר בעיר העתיקה בירושלים – לצערנו אנו עדים בשעות האחרונות להכללות ולהשתלחות בוטה וחסרת אחריות של אישי ציבור וגורמים שונים בשוטרי משטרת ישראל ולוחמי משמר הגבול הפועלים מדי יום ולילה למען שלומם ובטחונם של אזרחי ישראל

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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"A small number of watchdogs" is a very specific way of framing the established consensus of Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights groups that reality here is, indeed, an #Apartheid regime. Hi @nytimes , listen to @alhaq_org @AlMezanCenter @hrw @amnesty @btselem ...

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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3// The main change today is that Israel and the Trump administration are taking a step further in laying bare their intention to perpetuate this reality. This clarity significantly reduces the gap between the situation as it is, and the euphemistic terms used to describe it.

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@HagaiElAd

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It will soon be a year to the day since the killing of renowned Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

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@HagaiElAd

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So happy that @USAmbIsrael Nides is having such a delicious time in Tel Aviv. Looking forward to him finding the time beyond 🦋 and restaurant reviews, to share his thoughts on an 80yo dead Palestinian American, killed by Israeli soldiers. His name was 'Umar As'ad عمر أسعد.

Ambassador Jack Lew

@USAmbIsrael

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Great food at Miznon…I’ve eaten at the one in New York but in Israel it tastes even better! What do you think Ambassador @giladerdan1 ?

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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3/ Yesterday, Israel's "opposition" parties accused the government of destroying democracy etc. Today, some of them voted *with* the coalition to get the law approved in its final reading. Because when the issue is anti-Palestinian legislation, Jewish consensus is the norm.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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. @MaryLouMcDonald 's clarity of conviction is inspiring. And that's exactly what's needed in order to dismantle Israel's 21st century #Apartheid . Deeply moved by meeting her in the Dáil building, together w/ @pchrgaza 's @RajiSourani and @johnbradysf @chrisandrews64 @frances_black

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@HagaiElAd

3 years

The minister of defense may have signed the order this time, but the responsibility, and the disgrace, lie with the entire government – with every single minister and with all the parties to the coalition. | @btselem

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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A year and a half ago Israel managed to kick out @HRW 's Israel and Palestine Director @OmarSShakir . Yet be it from Ramallah, Jerusalem, or Amman the work -- ever so clearly -- continues unabated. Kudos, Omar.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

3 years

"One of the pillars of Israel’s #apartheid regime is to take over most of the resources, and to use them to promote and perpetuate Jewish supremacy at the direct expense of Palestinians." | @btselem spokesperson @amit_gilutz in @Independent

‘We came here to redeem a land and we end up contaminating it’: Israel’s pollution problem in...

As the occupier, Israel has obligations both to the people and environment, under international law. It is time that the world and its courts step up the pressure and hold Israel accountable, writes...

www.independent.co.uk

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Listen to @dianabuttu and @OmarBaddar discuss #apartheid , the 2021 reports by @btselem and @hrw , and the formation of Palestinian-Israeli-international consensus in the human rights community. (Excerpt from @theIMEU 's excellent _This Is Palestine_ podcast )

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

. @StateDeptSpox , again, unwilling to name Israeli policies in Masafer Yatta the war crime that they are ("evictions"), while insisting on laughable US "both sides" call (what does this even mean? say, to Israel - stop "evictions"; to Palestinians - stop getting evicted?)

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

2 years

Come on, @USAmbIsrael Nides. We're still waiting to find out what "language" you'll use in relation to a certain dead Palestinian American, Mr. 'Umar As'ad. Isn't it absurd that 3 weeks after Israeli soldiers killed him, you've yet to say a single word? Nope. It's grotesque.

Ambassador Jack Lew

@USAmbIsrael

2 years

Come on, this is absurd. That is not language that we have used and will not use.

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

5 years

A year of demonstrations, over a decade of blockade. The Gaza Strip is the largest open-air prison on earth. End the killing, lift the blockade, ensure a future for #Gaza . | @btselem

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Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

@HagaiElAd

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דני דנון מציג במדויק את עומק הצביעות. באנגלית, ישראל היא "דמוקרטיה". בעברית בלי תרגום - הסתה נמוכת מצח. "דמוקרטיה" כדימוי, מוצר תעמולה לצורכי יצוא. איך אמר נתניהו? חרפה.

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