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Nathan Thrall

@NathanThrall

3 years

At the al-Aqsa mosque, Palestinian youth gathered sponge rounds, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades that Israeli forces fired at them today and created a model of the Dome of the Rock. At the top, they wrote, لن تمروا -- "You will not pass."

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For the first time in decades, Palestinians held a general strike throughout historic Palestine. At Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, peaceful protestors waving Palestinian flags and chanting for freedom were fired at with stun grenades and doused in shit-smelling liquid. #إضراب_فلسطين

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I was just told that I cannot speak at @UArkansas unless I sign a pledge that I will not boycott Israel or its occupation. I refused. A 2017 state law requires @UArkansas to impose this McCarthyist requirement. A reminder that the current effort to quash free speech is not new.

Nathan Thrall

@NathanThrall

7 months

Ads for my book were pulled from @NPR & the @BBC . I told @guardian : "I’m quite sure that a book advocating for Israel would not have had its advertisements pulled...There's an atmosphere that is wholly intolerant of any expression of sympathy for Palestinians under occupation."

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According to the latest figures from the @UN , more than 74% of the 11,078 Palestinians killed in Gaza are children, women, and the elderly:

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territory...

www.ochaopt.org

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Ads for my book were pulled from @NPR & the @BBC . I told @guardian : "I’m quite sure that a book advocating for Israel would not have had its advertisements pulled...There's an atmosphere that is wholly intolerant of any expression of sympathy for Palestinians under occupation."

Chris McGreal

@ChrisMcGreal

7 months

Pro-Palestinian views suppressed in US. Conferences cancelled, media appearances curtailed, pressure on businesses to fire critics of Israeli policies. @NathanThrall @USCPR_ @A7madAbuznaid @CAIRNational @4noura @sarayasin

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Nathan Thrall

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Thank you, Mark. This war did not start this morning. It has been going on for decades. Today's bloodshed is the tip of an iceberg: an iceberg of state violence and ethnic subjugation. Blood will continue to be spilled so long as we ignore the root causes.

Mark Ruffalo

@MarkRuffalo

7 months

I received a note today from @NathanThrall , journalist and author of “A Day In The Life of Abed Salama” that resonated deeply with me. I wanted to share his words as we all watch in horror what is unfolding between the Israeli Government and Hamas today. ⤵️ “It is horrific to

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Nathan Thrall

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Deeply saddened by the loss of my colleague Belal Jadallah, a dedicated journalist and kind soul. He is the 43rd journalist killed in Gaza since October 7. This has been the deadliest month for journalists since @pressfreedom began collecting data more than three decades ago.

Norway in Palestine

@NorwayPalestine

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We are devastated to learn that our dear friend, media freedom defender Belal Jadallah from Norway’s longtime partner @PressHouseGaza , has been killed. We will continue to work to fulfill Belal’s dream of protection for all journalists everywhere. May his soul rest in peace

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Nathan Thrall

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. @iamjohnoliver : Gazans "have been living under a suffocating blockade for 14 years. In Israel & the occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinians are essentially being governed by a form of apartheid, an assessment echoed by both international & Israeli human rights groups."

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Nathan Thrall

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Lock him up.

Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו

@netanyahu

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You have to hear this to believe this.

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Nathan Thrall

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500+ Biden/Dem staffers call on Biden "to end the...occupation, blockade, and settlement expansion that led to this exceptionally destructive period in a 73-year history of dispossession and ethnic cleansing. The resulting status quo is...apartheid."

Jacqueline Alemany

@JaxAlemany

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Scoop: Over 500 Biden campaign & Democratic Party staffers and organizers have signed a letter issued on Monday calling on Biden to do more to protect Palestinian human rights & demanding that the Israeli government be held more accountable by the admin >

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"It's the height of racism," said a Sheikh Jarrah resident facing eviction. "Jews can get back their properties, but not the Arabs." The London-born deputy mayor of Jerusalem said this policy is necessary to preserve Israel's Jewish character.

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Nathan Thrall

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Floored.

The Pulitzer Prizes

@PulitzerPrizes

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@hannahdreier @nytimes @stillsarita @NewYorker @sarahanneconway @city_bureau @invinst @Reuters @washingtonpost @katieengelhart @NYTmag @vkaramurza @JustinCChang @latimes @thedeadhandbook @AP @YohanceLacour @propublica @js_kaplan @JustinElliott @BrettMmurphy @Amierjeski @kirstenberg @missebonibooth @roundaboutnyc @BasicBooks @UTAustin @jonathaneig @fsgbooks @simonschuster @SimonBooks @criveragarza @HogarthBooks @randomhouse @UHouston @GeorgiaReview @UGAPress @UCSanDiego Congratulations to @NathanThrall and @MetropolitanBks . #Pulitzer

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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: One man's quest to find his son within the labyrinth of Israeli rule. My piece in @nybooks , free to view through April 4:

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US taxpayers are complicit in a system of apartheid, where Israel administers 90% of the land & leaves 10% as Palestinian enclaves of pseudo autonomy. "Before we talk about what good the US can do, let's talk about how the US can stop doing harm."

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Nathan Thrall

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A 53-year-old occupation is not "temporary." The permanent occupation and the Israeli settlements are not somewhere "outside" Israel. A state that denies basic civil rights to millions from one ethnic group is not a democracy. It's apartheid.

Nathan Thrall · The Separate Regimes Delusion

The fiction of separate regimes allows liberal Zionists to promote a politically correct two-state solution based on the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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After the Union Club canceled my book talk in Frankfurt, offering no indication that they had even read the book, my friend @yaffaesque (the event's moderator) sent a letter to the club's president about the absurdity of this ostensible effort to protect Jews by censoring them:

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

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Author @nathanthrall has just won a Pulitzer Prize for his book on the Israeli occupation, but he has repeatedly had events canceled in the U.S. and Germany. He says it's rooted in a fear of being labeled antisemitic for "entirely legitimate criticism of Israel."

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"The US is giving $3.8bn per year to continue a situation in which millions of people are being deprived of basic civil & political rights based on their ethnicity. That is called apartheid. It's unacceptable that the US is giving a penny." @democracynow

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Nathan Thrall

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One night in 2005, Israeli soldiers came for Huda Dahbour’s teenage son. He was gone for a year and a half. The damage done to their family–and so many others like them-was incalculable. 🎵Listen to a @guardian excerpt of A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA:

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When Martin Luther King criticized US involvement in Vietnam in 1967, the @nytimes condemned him in an editorial, headlined "Dr. King's Error." Today's racial justice activists call to end US taxpayer funding of apartheid in Israel-Palestine, while US liberals condemn them. 1/3

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Before the world ends apartheid, it first has to name it, and this rigorous 200+ page report by @HRW has done so in a way that is impossible to refute. A historic document, representing a major shift by the world's leading human rights organization. 1/9

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In Gaza's hospitals: no lights or electricity, surgery without anesthesia, wounds treated with polluted water and stitched with sewing needles, clothes instead of bandages wrapped around large burns:

Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the 'nightmare' of Gaza's hospitals

In the besieged Gaza Strip, hospitals are nearing collapse as doctors work under the most trying conditions. Medical supplies are dwindling and fuel is running out even as the death toll is mounting...

apnews.com

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Nathan Thrall

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Cannot say I was surprised to learn that my May 7 event at the Union International Club in Frankfurt was canceled just days before it was to occur. Fortunately, the wonderful team at Medico International, @nothilfe , have agreed to host it instead:

Life, Death, Tragedy in Israel and Palestine - Veranstaltung - 07.05.2024 - medico international

An Evening with Pulitzer Award Winner 2024 Nathan Thrall. With Livestream via Twitter.

www.medico.de

Nathan Thrall

@NathanThrall

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It's an extraordinary time to be discussing Palestine in Germany, which has banned speakers critical of Israel from stepping foot on German soil or even appearing at conferences by video. I'll be giving talks in Berlin on May 6 and in Frankfurt on May 7. Details below:

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Nathan Thrall

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For @NYTmag , I wrote a piece about BDS, Israel and the Democrats. It’s also about Black-Palestinian solidarity and the increasing use of a racial justice prism to describe the situation today.

How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism Is Fracturing American Politics (Published 2019)

The growing prominence of the B.D.S. movement — and the backlash to it — is widening fault lines from college campuses to Capitol Hill.

www.nytimes.com

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Nathan Thrall

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3 years

Days after conquering the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967, Israel razed one of its Palestinian neighborhoods and transformed it into the Western Wall plaza. On Jerusalem Day in 2021, Israelis celebrated in that occupied plaza as a fire blazed in the al-Aqsa mosque compound above.

איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh

@AyOdeh

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Deeply grateful to @BoellStiftung not only for drawing more attention to @mashagessen 's brilliant and humane @NewYorker essay but also for proving, in its reaction to the piece, the very points that Masha so powerfully makes.

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today.

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Two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa: Both Israel & South Africa "concentrat[ed] the 'undesirable' population in as small an area as possible...driving these populations from their land & concentrating them into dense+fractured pockets...Such a reality is...apartheid."

GroundUp

@GroundUp_News

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Israeli ambassadors compare Israel to South Africa.

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Honored to see A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA named one of the @NewYorker 's top 12 nonfiction books of 2023.

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In a powerful, groundbreaking new paper, Israel's leading human rights organization @btselem finds the idea that Israel is separate from its 53-year occupation is "divorced from reality." There is one sovereign apartheid regime between the river & the sea:

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"If you understand that the US is part of the problem--that it is funding the slow takeover of this entire territory--then of course anybody in favor of Palestinian freedom & independence should not want a greater role for the United States." @democracynow

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Apologists for apartheid in South Africa made the same arguments that defenders of Israel use today: the oppressed group is violent and anti-democratic; what about worse practices in other places? Read @ChrisMcGreal on sanctioning Israel in @guardian :

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Nathan Thrall

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In today's @Guardian , an excerpt of my new book, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA, coming Oct 3. Get your copy, and @HRW will send a complimentary copy to any friend, relative, or colleague in the US for free:

The Guardian

@guardian

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‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail

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Israeli-Palestinian NGO @cfpeace sends letter to @POTUS demanding stop to all aid to Israel until it ends gross violations of human rights & international law. US aid is used "for purposes of domination, oppression and banishment of Palestinians on both sides of the green line."

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My conversation with @CNN 's @biannagolodryga about A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, the trauma of parents who have lost their children, and the systemic oppression that leads to recurrent bloodshed. Airs tonight on @PBS @AmanpourCoPBS at 11pm EST:

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3 years

Contrary to Israeli claims, here is Israel's own military intelligence report on the 391k Palestinians made refugees by June 1948: Arab directives caused the displacement of only 5% of villages. "Jewish military action" was the "decisive" cause of 70%.

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Terrible update from Azmi: "Building next to us was hit with no warning. Muhammad [Azmi's eldest son] & two others were injured. He had a fracture in his skull, front and back...The building fell on top of the place where I slept, but I wasn't there. I left 15 mins earlier."

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The life of my dear friend Azmi Keshawi after being forced to flee from his home in Gaza City: "Gaza under Israeli siege: Bread lines, yellow water and nonstop explosions" -by @IsabelDeBre & @najib_jobain

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3 years

Apartheid states aren’t democracies.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

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Apartheid states aren’t democracies.

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. @ewarren : "The two-state solution has been the official policy of the United States and of Israel for nearly 70 years now." False: US adopted two states in 2001; Israel, with 14 poison pills, in 2003. Reciting "two state" slogan ≠ counter to Trump plan.

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Nathan Thrall

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It's an extraordinary time to be discussing Palestine in Germany, which has banned speakers critical of Israel from stepping foot on German soil or even appearing at conferences by video. I'll be giving talks in Berlin on May 6 and in Frankfurt on May 7. Details below:

Yanis Varoufakis

@yanisvaroufakis

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Why I was banned from Germany: In the name of protecting Israel’s security, the German government has sunk to farcical new authoritarian lows.

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The Trump plan is not the antithesis of the international community’s longstanding approach to the conflict. It is its logical fulfillment. My piece:

Opinion | Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan Exposes the Ugly Truth (Published 2020)

This isn’t a break with the status quo. It’s the natural culmination of decades of American policy.

www.nytimes.com

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A deep and enriching conversation with @MsRachelCooke about A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA and the particular challenge now of speaking of injustice in Israel/Palestine.

‘It’s lonely being a Jewish critic of Israel’ – Nathan Thrall on his book about a Palestinian...

As the Israel-Hamas war escalates, the US author says his book tour is fraught with the possibility of misunderstanding

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Last month, the @nytimes editorial board claimed that Israel's far-right government "marks a qualitative and alarming break with all the other governments in Israel’s 75-year history." Today @HagaiElAd , Executive Director of @btselem , sets the record straight:

Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

1 year

Liberal Israel’s masquerade ball: A more cultured apartheid

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Writers from around the world (including me) are donating signed copies of their books to raise money for The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund. Proceeds will go to critically injured children in Gaza who are in desperate need of care. #BooksforGaza

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Students at @UArkansas demand that they be allowed to hear from me and other speakers who refuse to sign a McCarthyite pledge: "We find our ability to listen to and learn from multiple perspectives and foster an informed conversation radically curtailed."

Sign the Petition

Act 710 and Our Mission

www.change.org

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I was just told that I cannot speak at @UArkansas unless I sign a pledge that I will not boycott Israel or its occupation. I refused. A 2017 state law requires @UArkansas to impose this McCarthyist requirement. A reminder that the current effort to quash free speech is not new.

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I talked to @nybooks about my piece, the two-state solution, working for Bob Silvers, and American responsibility for deep injustice: "Today’s reality in Israel-Palestine is at odds with everything the United States claims to stand for.”

The Endless Occupation, a New Understanding | Nathan Thrall

On March 19, 2021, we published Nathan Thrall’s extraordinary piece “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.” It describes the experience of one Palestinian

www.nybooks.com

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On Nakba Day, every US taxpayer should read this piece: "If it is wrong to hold Palestinians as non-citizens under military law, & wrong to impose a blockade that denies them the necessities of life, it is surely also wrong to expel them and prevent them from returning home."

Peter Beinart

@PeterBeinart

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We can't understand what Israel is doing in Jerusalem--expelling Palestinians to create a Jewish city--without understanding how Israel was born: By expelling Palestinians to create a Jewish state. Until Jews face the Nakba, the Nakba will never end

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The former director general of Israel's foreign ministry, who was also ambassador to apartheid South Africa: Trump and Netanyahu are seeking to make "permanent the domination of one ethnic or religious group over another" and "legitimize a new 21st-century model of apartheid."

Foreign Policy

@ForeignPolicy

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Attempts to whitewash an oppressive regime by creating fictitious autonomous states inhabited by subjects who have no real political rights did not work in South Africa and they will not work elsewhere, writes Israel's former ambassador to South Africa.

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Why did the people of Flint, Michigan, one of the poorest cities in the US, die as a result of a decision to save $5 million while the US was spending *billions* to support apartheid in Israel, where per-capita income is 1.5 times higher than in Flint?

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The Western media discourse gets it all wrong. Israel is not at risk of becoming an apartheid state — it already is one.

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My book "The Only Language They Understand" is out today. Read an excerpt in today's edition of @guardian :

Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace

The long read: The possibility of a lasting deal seems as far away as ever – and the history of failed negotiations suggests it’s largely because Israel prefers the status quo

www.theguardian.com

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Superb piece by @weizman_eyal in the latest @LRB . Especially sharp on the colonial links between two German genocides.

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Editor-in-chief, @haaretzcom : "The 1948 story isn’t summarized by the argument of 'fled or were expelled,' but with the decision to prevent the refugees’ return and to confiscate their land for Jewish towns and villages....This is the heart of the matter."

Opinion | Opinion | Jewish Israelis should stop being afraid of the Nakba

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www.haaretz.com

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For @lithub , I selected the poem "Revenge" by Taha Muhammad Ali:

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

@arablit

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Thanks to @lithub for putting together this list of 40 beautiful & brilliant Palestinian books:

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🎧You can now listen to "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama," produced by @audmapp and narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner, on the @nybooks website. 🎧 The article and the audio are now free to listen/read until Monday, April 12. 🎧Listen🎧 or read here:

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama | Nathan Thrall

Under the shadow of the Israeli separation wall, one man’s quest to find his son.

www.nybooks.com

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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: One man's quest to find his son within the labyrinth of Israeli rule. My piece in @nybooks , free to view through April 4:

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Thrilled to be in NYC with Abed Salama, who's at Barnes & Noble holding a copy of the book that bears his name.

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In the latest episode of Pod Save the World, @brhodes and I discuss A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, Palestinian life under occupation, the deep roots of the current bloodshed, and what the US gets wrong about Israel/Palestine:

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The head of Israel's leading human rights organization, @btselem , on the violent resistance to apartheid that shocks Israelis & the rest of the world, and the invisible violence of apartheid that those calling to restore calm wish to return to. @HagaiElAd

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

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

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In 2010, @Rob_Malley asked where in the Middle East I wanted to go. Days later, I was working on a first @CrisisGroup report in Gaza. I leave today grateful for a decade with the best of colleagues. 🙏 Now turning to a new book and magazine projects. @NYTmag

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Deeply honored to be on the @FT 's Best Books of 2023 - Literary Nonfiction: "This quietly heartbreaking work of non-fiction reads like a novel."

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Israeli human rights organization @btselem has put together a rich interactive map showing the history of Israeli occupation, land grabs, and segregation of Palestinians from one another and from Israelis.

Conquer and Divide

Check out Conquer and Divide, a special interactive project that shows how Israel fragmented Palestinian space.

conquer-and-divide.btselem.org

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On @democracynow Part 2, I spoke about my recent @nybooks piece and how Israel uses the same justification for taking over Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah, land in the West Bank, and villages in pre-67 Israel: "What do you want, this is a Jewish state."

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Until now, the Israeli left claimed that Israel is a democracy running a "separate regime" of apartheid in the occupied territory. Today, @btselem broke the mold, finding that there is one apartheid regime. To understand why, read more in the next @LRB :

Nathan Thrall · The Separate Regimes Delusion

The fiction of separate regimes allows liberal Zionists to promote a politically correct two-state solution based on the...

www.lrb.co.uk

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3 years

In a powerful, groundbreaking new paper, Israel's leading human rights organization @btselem finds the idea that Israel is separate from its 53-year occupation is "divorced from reality." There is one sovereign apartheid regime between the river & the sea:

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. @HRW : In the West Bank, Israeli apartheid includes "severe repression" and "the imposition of draconian military rule on Palestinians while affording Jewish Israelis living in a segregated manner in the same territory their full rights under Israel’s rights-respecting civil law"

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Martin Luther King was "clear that the fight for racial justice at home was indivisible from the struggle for human rights abroad," writes @JeanneTheoharis . US liberals cannot credibly call for racial equality at home while funding and defending apartheid in Israel-Palestine. 2/3

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Thank you @NPR and @nprbooks for selecting A Day in the Life of Abed Salama as NPR's Book of the Day.

Nathan Thrall's book revisits a tragic bus accident in Jerusalem : NPR's Book of the Day

Today's episode is a true story that takes place in Jerusalem. In 2012, a bus collided with a semi trailer. Six Palestinian kindergarteners and a teacher burned to death. Abed Salama,, who is the...

www.npr.org

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As I wrote for @NYTmag last year, the Democratic party is changing. One of the only foreign policy issues highlighted in the latest @BernieSanders campaign ad is Palestinian human rights.

How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism Is Fracturing American Politics (Published 2019)

The growing prominence of the B.D.S. movement — and the backlash to it — is widening fault lines from college campuses to Capitol Hill.

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Blue and White, the main challenger to Netanyahu's left: annexing the Jordan Valley, seizing nearly thirty percent of the West Bank, and territorially encircling millions of West Bank Palestinians so that they can never have a border with Jordan...that was our idea first.

ToI ALERTS

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Live update: Blue and White says Netanyahu copied them on Jordan Valley annexation

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"BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate"--my piece for @guardian :

BDS: how a controversial non-violent movement has transformed the Israeli-Palestinian debate

The long read: Israel sees the international boycott campaign as an existential threat to the Jewish state. Palestinians regard it as their last resort

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5 years

In today's @NYTmag , I wrote about BDS, the framing of Palestinian rights as a racial justice issue, pro-Israel legislation that stifles free speech, the Democratic establishment versus the base, and the influence of mega donors on US policy toward Israel.

How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism Is Fracturing American Politics (Published 2019)

The growing prominence of the B.D.S. movement — and the backlash to it — is widening fault lines from college campuses to Capitol Hill.

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7 years

My piece on Israel's perpetual occupation and the myths that sustain it:

Opinion | The Past 50 Years of Israeli Occupation. And the Next. (Published 2017)

Israel enjoys perpetual control of the Palestinian land it captured in 1967 thanks as much to myth as military power.

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3 years

. @HRW found that Israel's "policy is to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians across Israel and the occupied territory." 2/9 #Courage2FightApartheid

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1 year

Imagine the US and UK -- two countries that supposedly share values with Israel -- advancing government plans to expand white Christian towns in majority non-white, non-Christian regions in an official attempt to whiten and Christianize them.

Israeli cabinet advances plans to ‘Judaize’ Galilee, expand West Bank settlements

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www.haaretz.com

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3 years

Palestinian unity is a threat to the two-state solution, which is a proposal to divide Palestinians while keeping Israeli Jews united. But why does the international community believe Palestinians have less right to live as one people than Israeli Jews do?

We Can’t Expect Joe Biden to Stop Supporting Apartheid

The Western media discourse gets it all wrong. Israel is not at risk of becoming an apartheid state — it already is one.

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Jacobin

@jacobin

3 years

The Palestinian uprising has exposed Western discourse on the conflict as so many myths. This is not a conflict between two states, it’s a domestic conflict between two peoples. And Israel is not at risk of becoming an apartheid state — it already is one.

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3 years

Israel "proper" is not separate from the territory it controls. My piece in the next issue of the @LRB :

Nathan Thrall · The Separate Regimes Delusion

The fiction of separate regimes allows liberal Zionists to promote a politically correct two-state solution based on the...

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4 years

In 1979, the Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organization released a master plan for West Bank settlements that was designed to prevent a Palestinian state. Trump tweaked that map and called it a two-state solution.

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3 years

@TatumDRezvani Yes, I shot the video this afternoon. You're more than welcome to use it.

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3 years

From formally annexed Sheikh Jarrah to de facto annexed Beit El to conquered Jaffa, the process is the same: backed by the state, the dominating group, Jews, takes over the land and replaces the dominated population, Palestinians. #Apartheid

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3 months

The definition of hypocrisy: a US president supplying the arms that are killing thousands of civilians in Gaza while saying "There are a lot of innocent people who are starving, a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying, and it's gotta stop."

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2 months

Had the pleasure of speaking to David Green for this weekend's @haaretzcom about the war in Gaza, the delusions of American diplomacy, and whether October 7th has made Israelis rethink the costs of controlling Palestinian lives indefinitely.

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4 years

50 former foreign ministers & European leaders: Trump's plan formalizes "the current reality in the occupied Palestinian territory, in which two peoples are living side by side without equal rights. Such an outcome has characteristics similar to apartheid"

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3 years

For MLK & Rosa Parks, "the fight for racial justice at home was indivisible from the struggle for human rights abroad." Picketing the embassy of apartheid South Africa, Rosa Parks said, “I am concerned about any discrimination or denial of any people regardless of their race.”3/3

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9 months

"In fact, the great majority of those who are so contemptuous of Ben-Gvir live very well with an Israel of Jewish supremacy – they just don’t, heaven forbid, shout it from the rooftops." @HagaiElAd

Opinion | The true architects and implementers of Israel's regime of Jewish supremacy

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4 years

Refreshing to see that only days after releasing the Trump plan, one of its chief architects, @GreenblattJD , has come around to opposing approaches that are 1-sided, distorted, dangerous to US allies, & designed to drive Palestinians (who deserve better) into a ditch.

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@GreenblattJD

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A 1-sided, distorted analysis. The ideas are dangerous to an important ally, based on an approach that has driven Palestinians (who deserve a better future) into a ditch. Time to embrace reality, seek a brighter future & stop being an arm-chair critic.

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For those asking about my book, which tells the story of one heartbreaking day in Israel-Palestine, a new excerpt was published today: The book can be ordered here:

Nathan Thrall

Author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy.

www.nathanthrall.com

Nathan Thrall

@NathanThrall

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Ads for my book were pulled from @NPR & the @BBC . I told @guardian : "I’m quite sure that a book advocating for Israel would not have had its advertisements pulled...There's an atmosphere that is wholly intolerant of any expression of sympathy for Palestinians under occupation."

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3 years

. @HRW builds on the work of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Russell Tribunal, @UNESCWA , & leading human rights orgs, Palestinian ( @alhaq_org @pchrgaza @AlMezanCenter @BADIL_Center @Addameer ) & Israeli ( @Btselem @BtSIsrael @YeshDin @PHR_IL ). 9/9

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6 months

American politicians like @SenTomCotton are more committed to Israel than to freedom of speech. Would Cotton support a law forcing university speakers to pledge not to boycott China for its human rights violations?

Tom Cotton

@SenTomCotton

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I’m proud of Senator Hester and our state legislature for taking an early, strong stand against the BDS movement. Arkansas won’t tolerate antisemitism.

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3 years

. @HRW : "Every day a person is born in Gaza into an open-air prison, in the West Bank without civil rights, in Israel with an inferior status by law, and in neighboring countries effectively condemned to lifelong refugee status, solely because they are Palestinian and not Jewish."

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8 years

Can Obama still salvage his Palestine legacy? My piece for @nybooks :

Obama & Palestine: The Last Chance | Nathan Thrall

There is only one option left to Obama that isn’t seen as unrealistic, unpalatable, or insignificant: to set down the guidelines or "parameters" of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement—on the four...

www.nybooks.com

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3 years

. @HRW : "A Jewish citizen of any country who has never been to Israel can move there or to a settlement and automatically gain citizenship, while a Palestinian refugee expelled from his home and languishing for more than 70 years in a refugee camp in a nearby country cannot." 6/9

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3 years

Israeli Nation-State Law, 2018:"The right to national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish People" Israeli President, 2021:"Tearing down the Israeli flag by Arab rioters & replacing it with the Palestinian flag is a brutal assault on shared existence"

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3 years

In a new @CarnegieEndow paper, Nathan Brown explains how the struggle against Israeli annexation was lost long ago & why hamstrung US officials use "the corpse of the two-state solution" to "avoid acknowledging the current one-state reality" of apartheid.

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Rarely is Israel-Palestine written about with such profound clarity and power. Read @btselem executive director @HagaiElAd 's extraordinary op-ed on the occasion of the group's new paper on Israeli apartheid:

Hagai El-Ad חגי אלעד حجاي إلعاد

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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

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I spoke to @NRC about @HRW 's apartheid report and my piece for @nybooks : "There is no solution in sight... Not a 2-state solution, not a 1-state solution, and not a 7-state solution either. What can be foreseen is that millions of people will remain deprived of basic rights."

NRC

@nrc

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Een HRW-rapport stelt dat Israël een apartheidsregime voert ten opzichte van Palestijnen. De Amerikaanse analist Nathan Thrall noemt het een „historisch document”. „Voordat de wereld een einde kan maken aan apartheid, moet die eerst worden benoemd."

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11 months

Fixed the headline: Biden to Promote Alliance of Killers of American Journalists #JusticeForShireen

Biden Administration Engages in Long-Shot Attempt for Saudi-Israel Deal

The president and his aides are pressing an aggressive diplomatic effort as Riyadh makes significant demands in exchange for normalization, including a nuclear deal and a robust U.S. security pact.

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7 years

"Gazans are taxed by a government that is actively seeking to do them harm." My piece with @RobBlecher :

Opinion | The Next War in Gaza Is Brewing. Here’s How to Stop It. (Published 2017)

A noose is tightening around the Strip. It must be loosened before it’s too late.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

Powerful, incisive column by @gideonle in @haaretzcom , citing @btselem & my new @LRB piece. "It’s impossible to separate the territories and Israel, and it’s impossible to consider the occupation temporary. The conclusion: Israel is an apartheid state."

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6 months

Was an honor to be in discussion with @BarbaraRansby and @hrw 's @OmarSShakir about A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, the war in Gaza, and @hrw 's report on Israeli apartheid. 🙏 @RabbiBrant for the warm introduction. Airs tonight on @cspan @BookTV :

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Nathan Thrall Discusses A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

Nathan Thrall, former Arab-Israeli Project director at the International Crisis Group, discussed his book about the plight of a Palestinian man whose five-year-old son was a in a school bus …

www.c-span.org

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8 months

What a tremendous honor.

Baillie Gifford Prize

@BGPrize

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Kudos to @NathanThrall who has been longlisted for #BGPrize2023 for ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story’ #longlist

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The definition of antisemitism adopted by the US State Department and IHRA has been applied to the Senior VP of the main representative body of British Jews -- for criticizing Israel's nation-state law.

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2 years

Honored that @Longreads named A Day in the Life of Abed Salama a Best Feature of 2021. And floored by these generous words from @seywarddarby . You can read the piece at @nybooks :

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4 years

Read the call by 129 Israeli & Jewish scholars, many of them specialists in anti-semitism and Jewish and Holocaust history, not to adopt the IHRA definition: "the association of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is fundamentally wrong."

Call of 129 Jewish and Israeli Scholars to French Parliament About Resolution on Anti-Semitism

Call of 129 Jewish and Israeli scholars to French parliament about resolution on anti-Semitism, 27 November 2019

www.scribd.com

בני גנץ - Benny Gantz

@gantzbe

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I applaud the French Parliament for passing a resolution equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. It is high time that Europe uncovers and combats the ugly faces of modern anti-Semitism. I want to thank President Macron for his strong leadership in this regard.

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