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4 years

I sifted through Adalah's discriminatory laws database to put together what I think is a good tweet thread for anyone who denies that Israel discriminates against non-Jews. Emphasis mostly on de jure discriminatory laws that apply within the '49 borders, not West Bank.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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4 years

@c0g1018 @iantDC @RashidaTlaib Let's start with the Absentee Property laws, which confiscated all the property of Palestinian Arabs who fled from their homes during any part of the 1947–49 violence, but don't apply to Jews.

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Seeing a few Israeli dead getting more attention than tens of thousands of Palestinian dead highlights the racist dehumanization. Israelis are given the right to a story, a family, a context to their life and death. Palestinians are barely allowed a statistic that keeps going up.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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3 years

More Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israeli rockets in the past day than Israelis have been killed by Gazan rockets in the past 20 years. The two "sides" are not equal.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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5 months

My view of the protests in and near Columbia University is that today they found yet another mass grave in Khan Younis with hundreds of bodies of Palestinians Israel killed.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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3 years

My wife got me a Palestinian flag kippah as a Hanukkah present! Now I just need to figure out at what shuls I can get away with wearing it.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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2 years

@GoldsteinBrooke South African apartheid did the exact same thing to segregate the Bantustans.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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9 months

“But Hamas” is a constant refrain. Previously, my main objection has been that Israel’s genocidal attack has little to do with ending Hamas and the civilian death is unbearable. Implicit was me agreeing that ending Hamas, on its own, would be a good thing. I no longer think that.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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5 months

Israeli soldiers holding signs that together read “We are the soldiers of the Jewish people’s army from right and left. We won’t take off our uniforms until we erase and destroy Gaza.” In Israel, genocide is mainstream.

המילואימניקים - דור הניצחון

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5 months

מה דעתכם על האמירה של הלוחמים?

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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7 months

The way pro-Israelists are tripping over themselves to delegitimize a Jew, on the day he accepts an Oscar for a film memorializing the Holocaust, just because he expressed sympathy with Palestinians, shows how far they have sacrificed any care about Jews to the altar of Zionism.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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1 year

However horrific the attack on Israeli civilians, the Israeli attack on Gaza is worse. This will be worse than Sabra and Shatila. I am scared that this will reach the levels of the Nakba and of the Armenian and Rwandan genocides.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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11 months

The best comparator for what Israel is doing now in Gaza is not anything previous in Palestine. It’s Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. There, as here, Israel engaged in a bloody long-term attack with the purported goal of ending Palestinian resistance from Lebanon once and for

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Israel bombed Gaza without provocation during a ceasefire, killing more than a dozen people, in order to provoke a response so it can play the victim and get a rally-behind-the-flag message to hold its coalition together. Culture of death.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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2 years

If Israel needed to disenfranchise all Palestinians to maintain Jewish power, it would. But like the Jim Crow south, it maintains the facade of democracy while ensuring Palestinians have no self-determination. A 🧵

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2 years

Two Palestinian students of Hebrew U were listening to music in Arabic. Off-duty officers asked them what the music was, and they said none of his business. Officers then arrested them for playing “nationalist songs” supposedly constituting threats and endangering public safety.

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2 years

Israeli MK Katz: “Yesterday I warned the Arab students, who are flying Palestine flags at universities: Remember 48. Remember our independence war and your Nakba, don’t stretch the rope too much. […] If you don’t calm down we’ll teach you a lesson that won’t be forgotten.”

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10 months

Israel uses the Star of David the way the KKK burned crosses and the way neo-Nazis use swastikas, as a hate symbol to intimidate and traumatize. It should come as no surprise to anyone that the symbol begins to take on these associations globally.

Quds News Network

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After invading western #Gaza , Israeli tanks seared a star of David into what used to be Al Katiba Park for families.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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4 years

Michael Che's joke is based on the simple fact that Israel is a racist ethnostate. The same joke would work with Alabama vaccinating "the white half." The threat isn't that a punchline isn't factual: it's that Israel's systemic racism is now so well known that it's a trope.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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2 years

Oh no the fascist party in Israel is expected to get 12 seats! And the other fascist party is expected to get 14 seats! And the other fascist party is expected to get 24 seats! And the other fascist party is expected to get 31 seats!

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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3 years

Zionists are simultaneously pushing the theory that only a Jewish ethnostate of Israel keeps Jews worldwide safe from antisemitism, and raising alarms about worldwide Jews being in danger from antisemitism. 1/13

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9 months

Let’s do some math. 145 thousand tons is 145 million kilograms. For 2.2 million people, that’s about 70 kg/person. Over 100 days, that’s 0.7 kg/person/day, or about a pound and a half of food. And this includes drinks (remember that Israel has cut off water). 1/3

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List of foods that entered the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. Israel has not and will not stand in the way of providing food or any other form of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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1 year

As someone who very gradually made my way from anti-occupation liberal Zionism to anti-Zionist support for Palestinian rights, I pinpoint the key moment of my transition as learning about the Nakba. 1/6

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3 years

I generally consider myself fairly well-versed on the history of Zionism and the Nakba, but I am still constantly learning new horrors. Yesterday I found out for the first time that Israel had labor camps for Palestinians, some as young as ten, from 1948–56.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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2 years

When Zionists call Palestine Jewish land they mean broad connection to the land as a whole in ancient sources. When Palestinians call it Palestinian land they mean “my family owned that exact house and that farmland and here’s the key from before being exiled in living memory.”

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3 years

An Israeli court just reversed the incitement convictions of five Israeli teens who openly celebrated the burning alive of a Palestinian baby in 2015. This is the latest in a string of heinous court decisions related to the murder. 1/12

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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1 year

I do mourn the Israeli civilians killed. And I would have more time to mourn them if I didn’t need to be mourning the Palestinian civilians killed, if I didn’t need to immediately switch to being terrified because Israel is embarking on genocide and the world is cheering it on.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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3 years

Say what you want about issues with broader Nazi comparisons, but settlers in Palestine are using stars of David the way swastikas are used elsewhere.

Issa Amro عيسى عمرو 🇵🇸

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3 years

Israeli Jewish colonists sprayed hate graffiti yesterday night near Ramallah.

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8 months

Imagine if there was an allegation that 12 teachers in New Mexico took part in the January 6 insurrection, and because of that the United States decided to defund the New Mexico education system. That’s what’s going on with UNRWA. Except UNRWA doesn’t just run schools in 1/3

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3 months

Liberals today

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2 years

Zionism’s problem is with Palestinian existence itself, with the fact that there are non-Jews whose ancestral identity is tied to the same land Zionism has colonized for Jews. The attacks on the word “Palestine,” the Palestinian flag, the status of refugees, all stem from this.

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3 years

Zionists today: It was never called Palestine! Zionism isn’t colonialist! Zionists 100 years ago: We need an organization to buy land for Zionism. I know, let’s call it the “Palestine Jewish Colonization Association”!

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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9 months

I have no love for Hamas. I don’t support its religious fundamentalist worldview and I don’t support attacks on civilians. But at the moment, Hamas is the sole group defending Palestinian lives.

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3 months

So just to be clear, all the people who are saying you can never protest a synagogue even if it’s engaging in war crimes are also going to condemn Israel for bombing hundreds of mosques in Gaza, right? No?

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3 years

It is to Emma Watson’s credit that her career and activism have gone well beyond her Harry Potter role. It is to Danny Danon’s discredit that calling people antisemites is the only tool in his repertoire.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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9 months

Hamas is all that is slowing down genocide in Gaza, all that is standing in the way of Sabra and Shatila-like mass executions of Palestinians in Gaza. And for that reason, Hamas’ guerrilla warfare against Israel’s army is vital.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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2 years

Israel spent the last weeks trying to provoke Hizballah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, anyone into doing something that they could use as an excuse for more bloodshed. They got no such excuse. Losing patience, they’ve embarked on the bloodshed anyway.

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As Israel is demanding a million Palestinians flee for their lives or be killed, recall their Nakba talking point that Palestinians weren’t expelled, they voluntarily left their homes. This is what that looks like. It is anything but voluntary.

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2 years

I hereby award Israel the prestigious “genocides more slowly than other genociders” prize.

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9 months

Three days later, Israel and its proxy committed the Sabra and Shatila massacre, an act of genocide killing thousands of Palestinians in those refugee camps.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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3 years

From Partition, to Oslo, to Camp David and Taba, a recurring tool of Zionism has been to (1) propose an unjust “compromise,” (2) accuse Palestinians of being rejectionists and warmongers for refusing it and (3) use this as justification for further violence and greater injustice.

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Statement from the families of Sheikh Jarrah

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The gall of Israel, creator of the largest and longest-lasting refugee crisis in modern history, trying to portray itself as a savior of refugees. I’m glad it’s taking in Ukrainian refugees, but this underlines, not undermines, the inhumanity of its treatment of Palestinians.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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11 months

of Southern Lebanon for 20 years, at the end of which it withdrew with nothing gained. In the wake of its occupation came Hizballah, one of Israel’s most potent consistent enemies. On the way to gaining nothing, Israel killed tens of thousands, mostly civilians.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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There were far more random attacks on Palestinians of '48 over the past week than alleged antisemitic attacks in the entire United States (50 times the population). But somehow the narrative is that the former were isolated incidents while antisemitism is out of control.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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ADL’s new campus report is as usual full of inflation of incident totals and conflation of antisemitism and criticism of Israel. I went through the 52 reported incidents at a Columbia University, by far the campus with the most (second place has 38). Here’s what I found: 1/6

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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2 years

Reminds me of when Philadelphia cops beat Rickia Young, kidnapped her 2 year-old from her car, and then staged this photo op claiming they rescued the toddler. The soldiers are part of the pogrom in Huwara.

Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر

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In the midst of the shameful attacks on Palestinians by Jewish extremists in which over 100 Palestinians have been injured and dozens of homes and cars torched, it was the IDF on the ground *helping* Palestinians such as this family who tragically had to escape their burning home

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3 years

A 70 year-old Palestinian woman was struck by a settler’s car this morning and killed. If it were the other way around it would be international news about a ramming terror attack. As is, it’s a footnote story that has already been written off as an accident.

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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2 years

@rmc031 On the one hand, I get how strange that tweet looks. On the other hand, having become estranged from several members of my family over their bigotry, I took some comfort from hearing that others have similar experiences, and that this should not dissuade us from racial justice.

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When Israel shot Shireen Abu-Akleh, one argument its defenders repeatedly made to claim the shooting was accidental was "Why would Israel shoot her?" The evidence and witness testimony have always debunked Israel's claims, but Israel's shooting of its own citizens in Gaza proves

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Israel does not have the right to conduct mass shootings in Nablus. And Palestinians have the right to defend themselves. The slogan of Israel having a right to defend itself, ignoring those two points, is non-sequitur. It distorts the reality of what is happening.

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Again, I say this without expressing any support for Hamas generally or for attacks on civilians. I say it the same way I would talk about the Ukrainian far-right militias defending the country against Russia. The same way I would talk about Stalin defending against Nazi Germany.

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all and establishing a Lebanese government that would give Israel “forty years of peace.” The result? Israel lost any global sympathy quickly, especially after the Sabra and Shatila act of genocide. Israel’s puppet government fell almost immediately. Israel occupied a portion

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It's always strange when Zionists point to the history of Palestinian Jews to try to attack Palestinian identity. That's just the point. Palestine always had Muslims, Christians, and Jews. And when pre-Zionist Jewish immigrants came, they became Palestinian (and Ottoman). 1/6

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Israel got its way. PLO forces withdrew from Lebanon under the supervision of a multinational peacekeeping force, conditioned on the peacekeeping force staying to protect Palestinians. The next month, the peacekeeping force left, leaving the Palestinians there defenseless.

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This. This is probably the biggest misconception among Americans, thinking that it’s a “conflict” over the borders between two neighbors. Palestinians’ homes are in Haifa, Jaffa, Asqalon, Jerusalem. All of Israel is on top of Palestine, and all of Palestine is coveted by Israel.

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Palestinians are not Israel's neighbors. They don’t live next to Israel but 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 it. Israelis have luxury of ignoring Pal’s while Pal’s cannot ignore Israelis. Soldiers & settlers shape every aspect of their lives—from where they can go to how much water they have etc. /2

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Yeshayahu Leibowitz stan account

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2 years

Describing "Inshallah" as "Israeli slang" is self-parody levels of appropriation and erasure.

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9 months

In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon with inhumane force, the closest historical analog to the current war on Gaza. Israel bombed several cities heavily and besieged Beirut for two months. The main demand was the withdrawal of all PLO forces from Lebanon.

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2 years

Israel's current economic crisis shows how BDS will win. Israel's economy is uniquely vulnerable to outside economic pressure. It is small and heavily reliant on foreign investment in companies, especially technology. 1/4

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Zionists literally paying people to attend their protests does irreparable damage to the fight against antisemitic ideas about Jews controlling the world through money. Same with AIPAC buying politicians. Another way Zionism makes Jews less safe.

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Israel propagandists: Palestinian identity and the Palestinian flag were only invented in the 1960s. Me: Now explain the Club Deportivo Palestino, a football club founded in 1920 by Palestinian immigrants in Chile with this name and symbol.

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Netanyahu, just yesterday, stated that they will attack Rafah even if all the hostages are released and even if there’s a ceasefire.

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This war ends today if Hamas surrenders and frees the hostages.

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1 year

While a leading Israeli news channel was interviewing a Palestinian man in Al-Aqsa by video call, Israeli police came up and stole his phone. The anchors (less so the man) were shocked. At one point one anchor says “This sort of proves his earlier claim, which I had doubted.”

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זה עוד לא קרה לנו, באמצע ריאיון עם פחרי אבו דיאב (מתפלל באל אקצא) מגיע שוטר ופשוט מעיף לו את הטלפון, סתם, בלי סיבה נראית לעין. @ynetalerts @attilus @10elilevi @IL_police

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2 years

@GoldsteinBrooke Look how oppressed white people were in the Jim Crow south!

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"Deterrence" "collateral damage" Terms used to whitewash Israel's terrorism against Palestinians.

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2 years

The Israeli journalist reaction to hostility in Qatar is why BDS will win. Israel has a very insecure culture. They are dependent on inflating self-esteem, on proving to everyone how amazing they are and having everyone say they’re start-up geniuses and declaring friendship.

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2 years

Zionists are now claiming that Palestinians handing out candy during iftar celebrations are doing so to celebrate the shooting in Tel Aviv. This is a blood libel.

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Israel is manipulating the fact that people have weak intuitions for large numbers. Humanitarian organizations have said that there is life-threatening famine. There are four times as many Palestinians in Gaza facing catastrophic hunger as in the rest of the world combined! 3/3

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ADL has now created a page to defame @m7mdkurd for his Palestinian rights activism in an attempt to deplatform him. In embracing C*n*ry Mission's precise tactics, ADL shows how little daylight there is between "fringe" and mainstream Zionism.

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Israeli police are now arresting people for hanging tame anti-occupation signs. (“There is no holiness in an occupied city,” a slogan long used by liberal Zionist Jewish activists against Jerusalem discrimination.) Israel is abandoning the thin facade of democracy it had.

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עשרה שוטרי משטרת בן גביר פרצו לדירה של אחי הקטן ג'ק ועצרו אותו בגלל השלט הזה שיש לו במרפסת כבר שנים. כל זה לאחר שהמון פאשיסטי ימני ניסה לפרוץ לשם בעצמו, הגיע משטרה ופרצה אליו הביתה ועצרה אותו. על מה? למה? ולמה צריך עשרה שוטרים לזה? לפני כמה ימים צייצתי על מדרון חלקלק. הנה הוא

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When Israel says the prisoners it is releasing are terrorists, this is what they are: children it has tortured and coerced into making confessions.

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Here’s a personal story about Palestinian child prisoners: - In 2012, I was arrested in Hebron while participating in a march to open Shuhada street, which was a main market street for Palestinians until the Israeli military shut it down, and made it for Israeli settlers only.

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My love and solidarity to the brave protesters. And as they have said, let’s not stop talking about Gaza.

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This for Zionists. Be it fear of antisemitism, post-Holocaust trauma, excitement over a Jewish-majority society, indoctrinated education, concern for the hostages, whatever. “Extenuating circumstances” for supporting the Palestinian genocide are irrelevant.

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But a Jewish ethnostate of Israel just doesn't address that trauma. The first Zionist thinkers came from the theory that all nations should be ethnostates and that the world should be divided by ethnicity. They wanted all Jews to move to their Jewish state. 3/13

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O.7 kg is the weight of a little less than 3 cups of fluid. So if Palestinians had nothing more than one cup to drink three times per day each, over 100 days they would already be using more than Israel has allowed in. And this is even if Israel’s own numbers were true. 2/3

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A day or two before Israel pretends its bombing of a hospital and murder of 500 people was just an oopsy, remember that when convenient it brags about its precision. This is intentional and this is genocide.

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The push to ethnically cleanse Huwara has nothing to do with the shooting yesterday and everything to do with it being in the way of a Jew-only road connecting two settlements. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn’t been paying attention to the decade-long campaign against the town.

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They’re just openly threatening more genocide now. This is one of the leaders of Israel’s Likud party, not one of the more ideological extremists, one of the possibilities of Netanyahu’s successor. I fear for Palestinians of ‘48.

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They simply do not understand the wrong committed against Palestinians in the Nakba. That the entirety of Palestine, from the river to the sea, is Palestinians’ homeland. That the right of return is central to freeing Palestine and not a side issue that can be bargained away. 5/6

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There is a zero percent chance that the “You killed Jesus” antisemite had anything to do with Palestine Writes. This tweet is actively steering an antisemitic incident away from the actual antisemitism in order to attack Palestinians.

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This morning at Penn, while people were arriving for prayer at Hillel, a man walked in shouting “F the Jews, you killed Jesus Christ” and vandalized the property. The man fortunately has been arrested by Penn police, however, this is the reality Jewish students face on campus

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When Palestinians want to protest, Israel bans the protest to preserve law and order. When Jews want to protest, Israel bans Palestinians to preserve law and order.

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Antisemitism is bigotry toward Jews. That’s it, that’s the definition. I have yet to see a single coherent explanation for how the IHRA’s twisted definition and mess of examples provides any advantage over that in fighting antisemitism.

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Israeli discourse over “Arab crime” has now moved to a campaign to extend the martial law tools Israel employs in the West Bank to Israel as well. This gives away the game: the denial of WB Palestinians’ rights has always been about their ethnic origin, not citizenship. 1/7

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Israel’s old lie was that it’s morally superior to Palestinian “terrorists” because its army targets civilians and it doesn’t. With Palestinian resistance now targeting only soldiers and WB settlers, and Israel attacking whole cities, the lie is more obvious and harder to sustain

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Synagogues cannot simultaneously declare themselves as standing with Israel and then claim that pro-Palestine activists are only targeting them for being Jewish. If you stand with Israel, you get condemned beside it.

Eliana Fishman 🔥

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@JewishWonk Many (many, many) American shuls have "wherever we stand, we stand with Israel" signs out front. Free Palestine graffiti on those synagogues is not antisemitic

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Israel’s DEFENSE of bombing WCK is: They suspected there was an armed man in a truck with the WCK convoy. So they decided to bomb the whole convoy. Even putting aside the likely lies, and their purported “mistake” that the man was gone by the time they bombed the convoy, this

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I am optimistic that as discussion of the Nakba gets more mainstream by the year, liberal Zionism will dwindle and true pro-Palestinian advocacy will grow. Commemoration of the Nakba is key. We see it happening already, if slowly. 6/6

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The root of this deserves sympathy: an intergenerational narrative of oppression, of being hated, of pogroms and scapegoating and yes the Holocaust. Intergenerational Jewish trauma is real. 2/13

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1 year

Excellent point. Sympathizing with Nazis is not implicated by the IHRA definition. Sympathizing with Palestinians is.

Em Cohen gazafunds.com

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Don't worry everyone, I checked the IHRA definition of antisemitism (which canada has adopted) and am here to assure you that canadian parliament giving a standing ovation to a nazi waffen SS veteran doesn't meet the IHRA definition of antisemitism 🧵

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Today an Israeli soldier accompanied by a settler ordered a Palestinian farmer to leave his own land, on the basis of martial law authority. The settler then, unprovoked, punched the farmer in the face. The soldier said there was nothing to do—he lacked authority to arrest him.

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When international news talks about periods of calm or quiet in Israel or Palestine, they mean quiet for Jewish Israelis. There are no periods of calm for Palestinians. The violence and terror against Palestinians is constant.

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3 years

Israel continues to share that philosophy. In the 1950s it sabotaged MENA Jewish communities to spur immigration to Israel. It never tried to improve life for Soviet Jews, just get them out. It responded to antisemitism in France by telling Jews they have no future there. 4/13

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65 years later, Israel has finally released documents about the Kafr Qasim massacre. We can expect damning, if unsurprising, new information in the coming days. One of the few massacres taken seriously and condemned even within Israel, but of course no one was held accountable.🧵

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The Hasbara apologetics script is now moving from stage 2, "Palestinians did it" to stage 3, "We did but it was a mistake." Expect to get to "We did it but it was Abu Akleh's fault" by Monday.

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6 months

Zionists after Jonathan Glazer explains the point of his movie

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1 year

Israel’s main labor union, a bastion of that mythical Zionist left, putting out a map that annexes the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan to Israel. (It’s made out of words for various sectors of Israeli society, for a pluralism/coexistence message.)

זוהר זו | 🎗 🚩 Zohar zo

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1 year

בהסתדרות כבר סיפחו את הגדה

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Israel defenders tend to say that criticism of Israel crosses into antisemitism when it evokes antisemitic tropes. One such trope is the blood libel of Jews poisoning wells. But Israel has done just that, filling a spring with cement to make Palestinians' lives unlivable.

Benzi Sanders

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Images of the IDF pouring cement into Palestinian wells reminds me of the verse: ״And the Philistines stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with earth.״ - Bereshit (Genesis) 26:16

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The reason is the blind spot of the Nakba. Liberal Zionists see the post-1967 wrongs and the day-to-day violence. But they have not understood that the foundations of the state are built on similar wrongdoing in 1947. 3/6

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2 years

Israel is considering legislation to criminalize practice of non-Orthodox Judaism at the Western Wall. Israel has some of the world’s harshest laws against Jewish practice, laws that would rightly be called antisemitic anywhere else. Fascism always spreads and spares no one.

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Israel: Don’t worry, we’re pausing the dismantling of the Supreme Court and instead we’re going to give our most extreme supremacist a private army.

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11 months

Communications in Gaza just collapsed—likely Israel bombed or shut down phone utilities. We may not know what's happening for some time, and I fear the worst. Sabra and Shatila also happened under cover of blackout. The outside world only learned of the genocide after the fact.

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2 years

Tear-gassing a NICU isn’t just evil, it’s cartoon villain over-the-top levels of evil.

Good Shepherd Collective

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WATCH: Israeli forces deployed teargas in a Palestinian hospital in Jenin, specifically impacting this prematurity ward for newborns. Teargas is a chemical weapon causing suffocation and potentially resulting in respiratory failure and death. There is no defense for this.

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Oppenheimer, in centering the moral angst of the weapon creator while omitting the humanity of the victims, reminds me of the popular genre of Israeli film, “יורים ובוכים,” literally “shooting and crying.” The subtext is inevitably that violence is okay if you feel bad about it.

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