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Yigal Arens

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Hardly anything about my work. If you don't like my views on the Middle East, don't follow. If you do follow, don't complain.

Los Angeles, CA, USA
Joined March 2009
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@yarens1
Yigal Arens
3 months
Graves of people killed in Khan Younes, February 26, 2024.
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@katewillett @Jelperman “Hamas made me do genocide” is not as convincing a slogan as you seem to think it is.
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You’d think this were a terrorist rescue operation, and not a simple effort to pacify donors and right-wing members of Congress
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Unbelievable
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1 year
The Gaza Strip is apparently extremely densely populated. So for those who complain their fighters are "located among civilians" – where exactly would you expect them to be located? And also, here is where the IDF headquarters is , right smack in the middle of Tel Aviv.
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@NetanelWorthy Excellent. So saving us many billions then? And what’s stopping you from refusing to accept the aid – other than the fact that you couldn’t go on with the occupation, waging war and killing Palestinians by the tens of thousands?
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4 months
For some reason, in this case plagiarism is a very nuanced thing
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Bill Ackman
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A few questions: How can one defend oneself against an accusation of plagiarizing Wikipedia for a dissertation written 15 years ago in 2009? Isn’t the whole point of Wikipedia that it is a dynamic source of info that changes minute by minute based on edits and contributions…
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@JoshKraushaar Oh, so suddenly, when it’s convenient for some argument you think is so clever, you recognize Palestine as a country?
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3 months
Tell Israel to stop using Jewish symbols as symbols of the state, and then you’ll be able to easily distinguish those who protest Israeli actions from those who have a problem with Judaism. You can’t have it both ways.
@BenMFreeman
Ben M. Freeman 🇮🇱
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Defacing the statue of Amy Winehouse - specifically her Magen David necklace - is just because of pure unadulterated Jew-hate. We see you, you Nazis.
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@AvivaKlompas @McKelvieTO @fordnation @JustinTrudeau What does this have to do with Jew hatred? The statement opposes apartheid in Israel, and clearly asserts that it's NOT antisemitic to do so.
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@reider Ah, Yes. I can already see the Israeli legal system narrowing its focus to a responsible junior officer.
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2 months
Just imagine the headline if he had been asked about Israelis… how long do you think he would have lasted in his job then?
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Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine
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BREAKING: LEAKED audio of Columbia University vice president Gerry Rosberg unable to respond when asked if Palestinians are human. He stated that this question was “intimidating”. Acknowledging that Palestinians are human is “intimidating rhetoric” to Columbia admin.
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Student-run newspapers — the Daily Trojan, the Daily Bruin, the Emory Wheel, The Daily Californian, Washington Square News, the Berkeley Beacon and the Daily Texan — have come together to compile this nationwide photo essay
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Yigal Arens
6 months
@tksshawa @MairavZ This new talk about "not feeling safe" is really something. There doesn't have to be an actual threat any more. Students (and it's always the pro-Israeli ones, for some reason) insist it's their right to demand the university act simply based on their imagined threat.
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1 year
@AvivaKlompas Ever seen those videos of Israelis sitting on lawnchairs “enjoying” the sight of the IDF bombings and shelling Gaza?
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1 year
Obviously, there’s a pattern here
@QasimRashid
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
1 year
NY: White Vet kills mentally ill Black man—GOP makes killer a hero😳 WI: White shooter kills 2 people at BLM rally—GOP makes killer a hero😳 TX: White Vet kills BLM marcher—GOP makes killer a hero😳 DC: Black cop kills white insurrectionist—GOP makes insurrectionist a hero🤔
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@jaketapper What are all these Americans doing in Israel, anyway? Don’t they have a country of their own – unlike Palestinians? (And if Israel IS their country, why do they maintain their American citizenship? And why does anyone use it to garner sympathy for them?)
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1 year
@AvivaKlompas Do you honestly believe your tweet relates somehow to what is shown in those videos???
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9 months
@ashleyfeinberg For sure. Notice how calmly his staff are dealing with this. They’re used to it.
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@CarolineGlick What exactly is your problem with Muslims praying???
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7 months
@AvivaKlompas So Israeli youngsters were holding a "giant party" a short distance from where 2.5 million Palestinians have been held prisoner for decades? Interesting choice of location.
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@jaketapper I always find it curious that Jewish Israelis who claim that they were in exile only because they were kicked out of their true homeland and have yearned to return for 2000 years, nevertheless do keep their foreign citizenships and even use them to gain sympathy.
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1 year
@AvivaKlompas @RashidaTlaib If you’re so concerned, replace that photo with this video from today. You’re welcome.
@muhammadshehad2
Muhammad Shehada
1 year
An endless line of Palestinians detained & zip-tied by #Israel 's Magav force last night; keeping their heads down; some beaten arbitrarily by Israeli soldiers to frighten the rest! Many were wounded from the police raid & denied medical attention... Dehumanization at its peak!
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@AvivaKlompas And Palestinians cannot allow Israel to continue their dictatorial rule over them. It's been decades.
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1 year
@AvivaKlompas So marginal that the police and military make no effort to stop them, right? And so marginal that they have several ministers backing them. Do I have that right, you paid liar?
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7 months
@academic_la Yet for Palestinians similar events are almost a daily occurrence.
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1 year
Settlers murdered this Palestinian. His family has still not been able to file a police complaint, without which, apparently, the Israelis won’t even bother investigating.
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Marian Houk
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"Palestinians are not allowed to enter Ariel. In order to file a complaint with the police, the only body authorized to investigate settler attacks, Palestinians [such as the Aqtash family] must come to Ariel, coordinate through a lawyer, get to the gate, wait for a mobile cart
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@ireallyhateyou Only in Israeli propaganda cartoons - repeatedly
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10 months
@AvivaKlompas She didn’t criticize Jews. Israel and its slavish supporters have so corrupted the term “Jew-hatred” that they can’t even make coherent statements about Israel any more.
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Yigal Arens
8 months
Israel’s interpretation of “academic freedom”
@OmarSShakir
Omar Shakir
8 months
Israeli forces yesterday violently raided the respected @BirzeitU in the occupied West Bank—arresting 8 students & trashing student council office. 80 Birzeit students now in Israeli detention! Generation after generation deprived of basic rights. Apartheid must be dismantled!
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5 months
Israel admits that over 10% of its soldiers killed in Gaza so far were mistakenly shot by their own forces. But every Palestinian killed was Hamas, of course.
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3 years
Israel's big lie: This isn't self defense — it's a war crime, aided and abetted by the U.S.
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1 year
@AvivaKlompas Opposing Israeli apartheid is not an “anti-Israel bias”, just like opposing South African apartheid wasn’t “anti-South Africa bias”. (And yes, we all know Israel worked with South Africa to develop/test nuclear weapons, but still.)
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@QudsNen If he answered this way about Jews he’d be on his way out already
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@AvivaKlompas Is that why pretty much all Israeli soldiers now cover their faces?
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@ShaiDavidai And while you’re at it, please find out and tell us how much foreign money Israeli universities get.
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7 months
@MairavZ Independence from whom?…
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Yigal Arens
3 months
Credit: (צילום: עבד רחים ח'טיב / פלאש90) The photo is from here: מספרי-ההרוגים-בעזה-כנראה-גבוהים-פי-שלו/
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Yigal Arens
7 years
Israel is responsible for emptying the term anti-Semitism of any meaning
@AliAbunimah
Ali Abunimah
7 years
Go Figure. US @HolocaustMuseum denounced Hungarian PM, who @Netanyahu just rushed to defend
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1 year
@AvivaKlompas @RashidaTlaib So last year this was ok?
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1 year
@AvivaKlompas It’s a call for one state with equality for all. What exactly is your problem with that? Most of the readers of your propagandist posts live in countries exactly like that and would find a country enshrining the superiority of one ethnic group over all others abhorrent.
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10 months
@IDF Palestinian fighters from Jenin have not staged an attack in Israel in a very long time. They simply resist the occupation in the West Bank. And since you're into that kind of propaganda, show us *your* weapons!
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1 year
@HananyaNaftali Hahaha. The definition of “did not age well”… Israeli Police Violently Beat Several Holy Fire Worshipers Trying to Defy Capacity Limits - Israel News
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@BarakRavid So the claim is that they took off all their clothes, but kept the guns, and waited for a camera to show up so they could lay down the guns in front of It? How does this make sense?
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7 years
@goldengateblond Who does. But a lesser person (like me) would have made due with a simple “fuck you, learn to read”...
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@goldengateblond You really feel the need to respond to someone who addresses you like that? You’re a better person than me.
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@Dovszapiro @AvivaKlompas Important distinction: Child convicted in military court by the occupier’s officers NOT = convicted felon
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@bubbaraskin @AsafRonel If it's "voluntary", why would it need encouragement?
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10 years
MT @DaliaHatuqa : CNN's @clancycnn is getting attacked for saying Israeli occupation is problem, rockets symptoms http://t.co/wYTAtbhZdT
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@TranslateRealDT Or Tiffany. Combined.
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@DavidM_Friedman They’re protesting people like you
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1 year
@MEMRIReports So, MEMRI, agents of Israel’s intelligence service, how many playgrounds has Israel constructed in East Jerusalem during its 55-year occupation, and how does that compare to the number of playgrounds built in the Jewish part of the city? You do insist the city is “united”, right?
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@AvivaKlompas Unless they’re Palestinian, of course
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1 year
@AvivaKlompas Yes, we all know how concerned the Israeli government and IDF are with Muslims’ freedom of movement and worship. Do you even read what you post?
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2 years
@aarondmiller2 Well, he’s an ally to the Trump clan, that’s for sure
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1 year
So after a night when 100s of Jewish settlers rampaged through Palestinian towns, killed a person, burned cars & homes, terrorized people, chopped the head off a child’s cat – just one settler was arrested. Are you surprised to hear that his sin was assaulting an Israeli soldier?
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@AvivaKlompas @UNRWA So we have to trust you on this. Why should we? You said Shifa hospital was some kind of Hamas command center, and we all know how truthful you were about that.
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1 year
@AGvaryahu @idanlandau @yuval_abraham ״הכבשים האהובות״? אני חושב שקראתי על דברים כאלה.
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@MairavZ Israel is recycling it’s old “solutions“, which never worked in the past…
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@AviHyman So the 30,000 lives you ended in Gaza is bupkis?
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Yup
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7 years
Palestinian *children* get a lot more for throwing stones
@NatashaRoth01
Natasha Roth-Rowland
7 years
18-month jail sentence for Elor Azaria, the IDF soldier who shot and killed a wounded Palestinian attacker in Hebron last March
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@bubbaraskin @AsafRonel What are you even talking about???
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@Eve_Barlow So if I show you one case of an Israeli soldier who raped a Palestinian woman you’ll denounce Israel’s attack on Gaza?
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2 years
@elgindy_ Mirrors the Russian argument that a Ukrainian national identity is a recent invention.
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@ShaiDavidai @Columbia So protest is terror now? What’s wrong with you?
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5 months
@LaraFriedmanDC Only one thing to add: Whatever happens “the day after”, Israel expects everyone but itself to pay for it. And this time the cost is so high that I can’t see that happening. So Palestinians in Gaza are going to suffer for a long, long time.
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8 years
Yes. RT @BernieSanders : Substance abuse and addiction are health issues not criminal issues. #DemTownHall
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1 year
@Michail_Shapiro Why should they not fight Israel? Israel has been blockading them for years, limiting the amount of food that comes in, limiting their ability to build hospitals and to work. If you were treated, that way, you’d be fighting them too!
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@AvivaKlompas How many billions of dollars is Israel taking from US aid to spend on its military?
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2 years
@AJCGlobal @CNN Everything is “premature”, and everybody needs to wait, until five years from now when Israel concludes that the matter has been forgotten and closes its investigation claiming it can’t determine who fired the shots. Right?
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2 years
@TheGrayzoneNews @MaxBlumenthal Is there a more tired claim by all attackers who are concerned about bad press that some horrible atrocity was supposedly staged – an attack by the other side presumably willing to sacrifice its own people for some minor propaganda gain?
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1 year
@daneasterman The letters they wrote to Nazi officials are available on the web. Lehi expressed support for Nazi policies and offered to fight on their side in return for German support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine that world be based on Nazi-like ideology.
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2 years
“Violence during the reporter’s funeral: The Inspector General opposed an investigation, but relented after pressure from [internal security minister] Bar Lev and instructed – No police officer will be punished.”
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כאן חדשות
2 years
האלימות בהלוויית העיתונאית: המפכ"ל התנגד לחקירה, אך נעתר ללחץ של בר לב והנחה - אף שוטר לא ייענש @moyshis
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@manc_lass3 Just took a photo of myself. That website Is crap.
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5 years
@NateSilver538 Reports are Trump insisted on releasing it against the advice of his staff.
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2 years
Tell me who your friends are
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1 year
@AvivaKlompas I don't see "Jews" mentioned anywhere in that tweet.
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1 month
@RitchieTorres But Israel rejects Hamas ceasefire proposals. Why don’t you complain about that?
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@AvivaKlompas They’re both fighting for independence against an occupier. That’s the important thing.
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2 years
@GeorgeTakei If there’s ever been a case for the gazpacho police, this is it
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9 years
Netanyahu has truly gone mad. He claims Hitler didn't want to kill the Jews, but Palestinians convinced him to do it
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5 years
@mywifecameback What does he have to say about referring to Palestine as "Israel"?
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@GoldsteinBrooke Doesn't the sight of all these Jews suddenly developing such sincere concern for the potential desecration of a Muslim holy site just warm the cockles of your heart?
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@AvivaKlompas I don’t get it. Are you denying that there are ministers in the Israeli government who would very much like to change the status of the Haram Al Sharif?
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8 years
RT @btselem : Israel has a mini-Guantanamo. Sleep deprivation, prolonged binding, abuse.
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@AvivaKlompas Why “paraphrase”? Is there something in their original statement you’d rather your readers not see?
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6 years
Yifat Alkobi ... assaulted elderly Palestinian, trespassed, shoved rock into Palestinian boy’s mouth breaking teeth. Sentenced to community service. No detention until trial. Slapped a soldier, was released after an hour. But Ahed Tamimi is dangerous. What Apartheid looks like.
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John Brown
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יפעת אלקובי, המתנחלת מהשרמוטה, הורשעה בתקיפת פלסטיני זקן, בהשגת גבול, היא הכניסה אבן לפה של ילד פלסטיני ושברה שיניו. על אלו קיבלה עבודות שירות, מעולם לא ביקשו מעצר עד תום ההליכים. אחכ סטרה לחייל, היא שוחררה כעבור שעה. אבל עהד תמימי מסוכנת. ככה נראה אפרטהייד.
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