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This is unprecedented as far as I know. It is, in fact, historic. Biden staffers organized a vigil outside the
#WhiteHouse
calling on their boss to call for a ceasefire.
Wow!
And to the staffers, thank you so much!
#MelissaBarrera
, who was already fired from the Scream series for daring to support
#Palestinian
rights, has now been dropped by her reps and is being attacked viciously for posting a link to donate to
#UNRWA
She deserves all of our support.
#Israel
has used the October 7 attack by
#Hamas
to destroy many norms. The biggest ones have gotten the most notice, those that are part of genocide and ethnic cleansing. But there's more, and it's going to have profound effects on warfare going forward.
1/
Let's be clear. This guy is saying that the very existence of
#Palestinians
is a threat to Jews. That's not only anti-Palestinian hate, it's also profoundly
#antisemitic
to suggest that our safety depends on the erasure of another people. It's a lie and it's
#Antisemitism
.
Just walked out of Brussels train station from the Eurostar. This is what greeted me.
Nice way to make the Jews feel uncomfortable. We are clearly not wanted here. Sorry I came.
... the already widely held view that there are no rules, just what the US will allow its friends and forbid others.
The US and
#Israel
have struck what could be a mortal blow to the fledgling effort to establish international laws that protect civilians. Congratulations.
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Israel has intentionally targeted civilians, hospitals, ambulances, schools, journalists, UN shelters, humanitarian workers, and civilian infrastructure of all kinds. They've done these things before but never on this scale and never so openly.
2/
Israel has made no effort to hide these acts. On the contrary, they have tried to justify them as intentional acts. They've been supported in this by the US and EU. In the future, other countries will do the same and opposition will only reinforce...
3/
After what happened to him, and especially to
#BreonnaTaylor
the fact that Kenneth Walker had this hanging over his head for this long is an atrocity. It's barbaric, cruel and yet another signal that our policing and judicial system is rotten to the core.
This will be how history remembers
@JoeBiden
This is his legacy.
But it's also the legacy of every hypocrite American liberal who has either nodded at or stayed silent in the face of
#Israel
's genocide.
With much fanfare, the IDF and its amen chorus in the US and around the world said they had evidence that hostages had been held at Nasser Hospital.
More quietly, they now admit the truth: there is no such evidence.
Israel's dissembling never stops.
This is pure
#Antisemitism
. Calling a Hebrew University professor who is one of the world's leading Holocaust scholars a "token Jew, just because you want to deny his expert opinion. Pure antisemitism.
@mehdirhasan
Token Jew saying something that serves your point does not change fact it is not genocide. It is war. The war will end. Palestinians will not be eradicated. And there is only one party outwardly calling for genocide of jewsโHamas et al
This is a university.
#Israel
detonated 315 mines to blow it up. By definition, that means it was not a legitimate military target, as Israel would have to have full control to plant so many mines. This is a clear example of a
#warcrime
and destruction for the fun of it.
The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.
This report by
@btselem
proves conclusively that
#Israel
intentionally murdered entire families, including young children during its assault on
#Gaza
last month.
"The most moral army in the world" at work again.
The authors of the greatest
#genocide
of the 20th century passionately support the greatest genocide of the 21st century (so far).
History will not be kind to
#Germany
.
#Israel
can count on our staunch solidarity in the fight against blind terrorism. Rockets from Gaza continue to fly towards Israel. People continue worry about the fate of the hostages โ they must all be released immediately.
@ABaerbock
in Israel. 1/2
#Palestinian
journalist Said Arikat is a permanent fixture at State Dept. briefings, a widely respected journalist. As a recent
@JNS_org
article shows, far-right supporters of
#Israel
hate him and can't come up with anything substantial against him.
1/2
This is ridiculous. This is a clear anti fascist and anti Nazi bit that has been part of the act since The Wall came out more than 40 years ago. Anyone who's seen the film or even the album cover knows it.
#Israel
has jammed 1.5 million
#Palestinians
into
#Rafah
The fish are all in the barrel and are being bombed now. So much for the obvious nonsense about
#Israel
letting civilians escape.
#GenocideJoe
and Netanyahu lied to us all again.
NOW | Please don't leave us. Witness what is happening now in the most densely populated area in the world, where 1.5 million people reside. We are facing annihilation in Rafah๐
Some points about the contemptible op-ed by
#GenocideJoe
in the
@washingtonpost
today.
1. Biden calls for the int'l community to govern Gaza temporarily until he can install the PA there. No mention of even considering, much less asking, the
#Palestinian
people what they want
1/
So, given that Tlaib introduced a bill just this summer accusing Assad of crimes against humanity, we are left with the question: which is greatest,
@RabbiShmuley
's stupidity, dishonesty, or racism?
Thatโs pretty rich coming from a woman who never once condemned but Bahar Al Assad as a genocidal maniac even after he murdered 600,000 Arabs.
@rashidatlaib
is American Taliban and is an American abomination. She has no concern whatsoever for Palestinian life. She is simply a
Outstanding and important rebuttal to the campaign of falsehoods and character assassination directed against
@marclamonthill
for his speech yesterday at the UN.
Quick thread on the manufactured controversy (i.e. smear campaign) regarding
@marclamonthill
โs UN speech. Let me start by addressing the competing visions of the one-state solution (1/8)
Those criticizing
#KyrieIrving
need to sit down. He's been playing great and if he is - when off the court even in front of media - more concerned about
#Gaza
than basketball, that means, unlike his critics, he has his priorities straight. We need more Kyrie in sports, not less.
๐จALERT! ๐จ House passes H.Res.894 a dangerous and, in fact deeply
#antisemitic
bill that equates opposition to Zionism with
#antisemitism
. 95
#Democrats
voted for this bill. Names forthcoming.
I've criticized Clapton a lot over the past few years. I don't regret any of it, but I damn sure feel obligated to give him a happy shout out when he does something good and right.
One more time. There is no way to claim this is legitimate warfare, self defense, or even an attempt to eliminate
#Hamas
. This is, and has been from the start, a war on the people of
#Palestine
.
#Israel
makes no secret of this. They just count on people continuing to ignore it.
Over 60% of the infrastructure in๐
#Gaza
has been destroyed or damaged.
More than 90% of the Gazan population have been displaced.
This is a staggering and unprecedented level of destruction and forced displacement, taking place in front of our eyes.
An Israeli sniper was critically injured when
#Palestinians
defended themselves by trying to stop him from shooting into the crowd of civilians at which he was aiming.
Fixed it for you.
3/
An Israeli Border Police soldier was critically injured by live fire from Gaza and is currently receiving medical treatment at a hospital.
As of right now, all the rioters have been dispersed.
This is a straight up obscenity. To compare what
#Israel
is doing in
#Gaza
to the Holocaust and D-day is spitting in the face of six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and every WWII veteran involved in turning the tide of that war.
This is, in fact,
#Antisemitism
.
#GenocideJoe
also uses the most condescending, white man's burden kind of language claiming a ceasefire would "deny Palestinians the chance to build something better."
Biden has earned his place among the worst, most murderous racists in all of history.
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@yanisvaroufakis
is mostly right until he says "the West fell for it." The US did not fall for it, they pounced on the opportunity to destroy
@UNWRA
knowing full well the Israelis were lying. Maybe some in Europe followed the US, but this wasn't a mistake in Washington
It is now official. After starving Palestinians intentionally, Israel lied about the only agency able to feed some of them to prevent it from doing so. And the West fell for it, deepening its complicity in this war crime.
Just a thought, but maybe we should be urging Israel not to attack other countries' sovereign territory, including their consulates and embassies? Maybe that is the best way to avoid escalation? Ya think?
We continue to work to prevent escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. Escalation is not in anyone's interest and countries should urge Iran not to escalate.
#Senegal
is leading in fighting
#COVID19
, keeping the spread down to one of the world's lowest rates and developing a cheap, effective test that can be mass produced and globally distributed.
Maybe we should be paying attention.
79 years old. Leading infectious disease expert during a pandemic, acknowledged as such by many conservatives.
But he now needs a security detail because the cult of the current president of the United States, who's also his boss, has threatened his life for doing his job.
Could it be clearer? This is from
@haaretzcom
today. Between confirmed deaths and those missing presumed dead, the death rate in
#Gaza
is around 43,000, including 12K children. And even
#Israel
's own claims of the combatants killed has been falsely inflated. This. Is. Genocide!
Several years ago,
@btselem
joined other
#Israeli
human rights groups in refusing to cooperate with government investigation of military crimes and human rights violations because
#Israel
was using their cooperation to help whitewash insincere investigations.
1/
Despicable statement by CUNY, as they throw a student-selected speaker at their graduation under the bus for speaking out in defense of human rights and calling out those who commit and support violations of them.
#Israel
gets its own standard.
#Palestine
#apartheid
Insane. This guy would have described the Trail of Tears as Indians moving west under the protection of the US army.
The racism is so thick, so twisted, and just abominable.
And this time, the Israelis are even bombing the places they're forcing Palestinians into.
How propaganda works.
1.
#Palestinians
object to Israelis in a future state, not Jews, because those Israelis would be settlers.
2. This sign was posted by
#Israel
.
3. The sign reflects an
#Israeli
, not Palestinian, law
But don't let facts get in the way of defending
#apartheid
Absolutely disgusting. This is the leader of House
#Democrats
gazing more lovingly at a brutal, racist, corrupt, authoritarian criminal than Juliet ever did at Romeo.
We deserve better.
We desperately need a better alternative to the fascist GOP.
Let's be VERY clear. Invoking Amalek means calling for the total erasure of every adult, every child, every pet and livestock, indeed every trace of the nation.
@netanyahu
is making it absolutely clear that the aim is the annihilation not of
#Hamas
but of the
#Palestinian
people.
Netanyahu declaring invasion: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible"
1 Samuel 15:3
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass"
Blinken and Biden have now ordered the executive branch not to discuss the manner of American deaths in
#Palestine
. They were happy to do it when the killers were
#Hamas
. Now that it's
#Israel
they don't want to mention it.
That's how you cover up genocide.
The last time Blinken provided an update on the US death count, he attributed the deaths to "Hamasโs heinous attacks.โ Now, as the death count rises to 29 & the war escalates, the State Dept. says "We are not commenting further on the circumstances of the U.S. citizen deaths."
List of cowardly
#Democrats
who voted yes on this
#antisemitic
and anti-free speech bill that stigmatizes many Jews and others who oppose the political ideology of Zionism.
So, according to
@giladerdan1
, we Jews, who were expelled or fled between 2K and 2600 years ago have a right of return, but
#Palestinian
refugees, many of whom are still in
#Palestine
and the rest of whom were expelled no more than 76 years ago don't. That's
#apartheid
thought.
The worst is how much of this hateful, murderous, racist bile is coming from children. That's what happens when rabbis & yeshivas teach the dehumanization of others.
Every bit of this is enabled with our American tax dollars and political support. We can stop it. We choose not to
โDeath to Arabs"
"The 2nd Nakba is on the way"
โA good Arab is an Arab in a grave"
โMay your village burn"
As Netanyahuโs base/ministers shout from the rooftops & implement their genocidal agenda, the US is adamant on enabling them w unconditional support.
Terrific letter here from the CUNY Jewish Law Students Association pushing back hard against the anti
#Palestinian
hate,
#Islamophobia
, and, indeed,
#antisemitism
of the CUNY Trustees and Chancellor expressed in their shameful attack on Fatima Mohammed.
Trump phone log gap, lack of urgency around
#ClarenceThomas
, many state laws robbing
#LGBTQIA
folks of their rights, attacks on abortion rights, silence on voting rights....all this and more have received less attention than
#TheSlap
Here's one piece addressing it from
@ElieNYC
"There are still a lot of people who can remember when this country ground to a halt over an 18-minute gap in Richard Nixonโs recordings of his taped conversations. Here, we have 457 minutes... but for some reason this was a one-day story."
At least the leak of the Alito opinion gives me the opportunity to plug the fantastic book, "Allow Me To Retort" by
@ElieNYC
which demolishes Alito's opinion even before Alito wrote it. It also does a brilliant job on so many other issues. Buy it here:
.
@mehdirhasan
nails it and we need some way to address this. All politicians lie, and Biden stretched the truth a few times too. But what
#Trump
does is different. He does pretty close to nothing BUT lying, and the things he says are always pernicious, vicious, and dangerous.
.
@mehdirhasan
: "The president of the United States has told more than 20,000 lies, untruths and falsehoods since coming to office nearly 4 years ago. And tonight he added to the list; oh, he added to it big time."
Biden repeats the misleading line about "Palestinians deserving a future free from
#Hamas
."
No mention at all that it was the US that put together the scheme, with
#Israel
and Fatah, to launch the coup that failed and left Hamas...
2/2
This is from today's
@nytimes
.
My story about this very same thing was published on October 27.
If you're getting news from the Times, you're not getting news.
My piece here:
We are extremely distressed by images and reports emerging from a displaced persons camp in Rafah tonight. Operations in Rafah cannot continue without adequate protection for civilians sheltering there, and those forced to flee.
...in sole control of
#Gaza
, splitting the
#Palestinian
political structure, such as it can exist at all under permanent occupation, in two, a split that lasts to this day.
#GenocideJoe
doubles down again on his absolute opposition to a ceasefire...
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I can vouch for the translation here. Israeli soldiers celebrating the destruction of a town of 13,000 former inhabitants who they call "Nazis."
#Israel
keeps telling us what they're doing, plainly and openly. Denying it is simply denying reality.
๐จIsraeli soldiers brag about "annihilating" an entire town, Khuzaa in Khan Younis, home to over 13,000 people:
"We went joyous... to annihilate the village... We blew up the ENTIRE village"
Not a single headline or even passing mention in US/EU mainstream media! NOT ONE!
Report of what Iraqi PM said to Parliament.
Not only did
#Iraq
vote to kick us out, PM said
#Suleimani
was carrying a diplomatic response after PM had been lyingly asked by
#Trump
to mediate a toning down between
#iran
and
#SaudiArabia
. So our leaders lied to us too. Again.
I've studied the history of Zionism for more than 30 years, in and outside of academia. This thread is as good a summation of Zionism's relationship with
#Antisemitism
as you can find in so brief a context.
Yet another targeted assassination of a
#Palestinian
journalist. This has reached epidemic proportions. Yet somehow it has apparently completely escaped the notice of
#GenocideJoe
and his thug henchman
@SecBlinken
#Israeli
security spraying foul smelling water, which lingers for a long time, in the neighborhood of
#Silwan
in East
#Jerusalem
tonight. For no reason other than to make the lives of
#Palestinians
there even more miserable.
This is occupation. This is apartheid.
This is a good statement on the recent events in
#Palestine
and
#Israel
from
@IlhanMN
But it is shameful that this is the only statement from any member of Congress on these events.
The unmitigated gall of
@RitchieTorres
to appropriate the history of our Jewish suffering to appease his campaign financiers and defend
#Israeli
practices that routinely cause the deaths of children, even toddlers, for which they show no remorse. Shame on you, Congressman.
Settlers have taken over a chunk of the Armenian Quarter in
#Jerusalem
.
Armenians are under direct attack. And, my fellow Americans, we are funding it.
Speak up!
UAW, the American Postal Workers Union, and the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers led a protest against
@aipac
as well as some of the NY reps it supports most, including
@RepJeffries
@SenGillibrand
and
@SenSchumer
.
1000s were there, but apparently few reporters.
It's not worth detailing the falsehoods and misleading bits in this article.
But the more the GOP waves the
#Israel
banner and lashes out at
@IlhanMN
and anyone else who speaks out for human rights, esp for
#Palestinians
the more they prove how much their case is based on
#racism
"BโTselemโs investigations have found that, like in this case, soldiers and police routinely shoot and kill Palestinians even when they pose no danger."
Israelโs Border Police spokesperson claimed that 17-year-old Palestinian Fayez Damdum hurled a Molotov cocktail during โviolent rioting.โ Our investigation found that Damdum was riding a motorbike with a friend, while some Border Police officers were driving ahead of them. >
โHereโs the problem with this data: The numbers are not real. That much is obvious to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work. The casualties are not overwhelmingly women and children, and the majority may be Hamas fighters.โ
1. State Dept panel finds human rights abuses by IDF units
2. Blinken tries to smother report.
3. Report leaks anyway.
4. Blinken suggests maybe he'll do something.
5. Headlines make it seem like Blinken will act.
6. Blinken quietly buries the report again with no action.
One bigoted dissembler after another is tweeting that
@IlhanMN
is not supporting the protesting women in
#Iran
. Actually she made her support clear before these cynical phonies knew what was going on, but why let facts get in the way of your expressions of hate?
Denying the Nakba, an abhorrent practice on par with claims that the slave trade was beneficial for slaves or Holocaust denial is woven into pro-Israel activism.
What does that mean for US policy? How is it used to defend
#Apartheid
? Answers here.
The IHRA definition of
#antisemitism
is intended to stifle and criminalize support for Palestinian rights as a new report makes clear. This piece examines that report and the impact of IHRA on the struggles for Palestinian rights and against antisemitism
There's a really simple way to avoid being painted as an
#Apartheid
state. Stop being one. Works every time.
Lapid: 2022 will see intense effort to paint
#Israel
as apartheid state
Right on cue,
#Israel
passes a blatantly
#apartheid
bill, expanding a blatantly apartheid law. That lawl was actually designed to circumvent a High Court ruling in 2010, and it worked. The Court would likely not have blocked this expansion of it anyway.
Point by point defense of
#FatimaMousaMohammed
who has faced death threats and intense harassment, not to mention vicious attacks from cynical politicians and her own school for...telling the truth about what
#Palestinians
face from
#Israel
.
Every point below is correct.
Fatima Mohammed is being called an antisemite for the following speech at
@CUNY
.
Let's break down each of her statements and see if what she said is justified...
.
@Matisyahu
claims it was
#antisemitism
that led staff to refuse to work his NM show.
Consider, perhaps that it could have been that they don't want to work a show by a man who thinks people should be killed because they are not Zionists, as I and many Jews are not.
His words:
This is madness. We have a president who doesn't know what he's doing giving the green light to genocide. This man literally holds tens of millions of lives in his hands and he makes this kind of mistake? How can we tolerate this?
This is what happens in countries, whether India or Israel, whose leaders are feted by joint sessions of Congress. It's caused by leaders that Joe Biden loves.
It's not just that we have no principles, or that we abandon those we do have. Our leader stand with violent racism.
More Muslim-owned shops are being burned by Hindu supremacists in Gurgaon-This is not happening in any corner of the country, it is only a few kilometers from Modiโs official residence!
The alleged attack on Jewish diners in LA last year turns out was more likely a group of Jewish diners, upset at seeing a
#Palestinian
flag, throwing glass and other objects at the car.
False equivalence of anti-Zionism and antisemitism harms us all.
This is an American being brutally assaulted by a pack of
#Isareli
soldiers.
Do
@POTUS
@SecBlinken
or most members of
#Congress
care? Will anyone outside of the few progressive voices speak out about this? or does being
#Palestinian
cancel out his rights as a US citizen?
A Palestinian-American from Tennessee was brutally assaulted by Israeli soldiers on Tuesday in the village of Turmusayya. Our government must take immediate action. The
@FBI
and
@StateDept
should launch a full & transparent investigation. 1/
Show me one example of
@aipac
or any of its fellow anti-Palestinian hate groups demanding such statements in response to
#Israel
killing
#Palestinian
mothers, children, and hundreds of innocent civilians. I'll wait.
Surely
@RepCori
and
@justicedems
will condemn the terror attack on this Israeli womanโฆ.
Or mourn her lost unborn childโฆ
Or speak out against the Palestinian Authority paying the family of the terroristโฆ
No? Why not?
Itโs not pro-Palestinian, itโs pure anti-Israel hate.
@JNS_org
Arikat's suspension from Twitter passed with nary a comment from any media until JNS mentioned it in passing and
@Mondoweiss
publicized it. It's actually MORE egregious than the others, because it is not personal for Musk, it's blatantly political.
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You celebrate the rioting of extremists, assaulting of
#Palestinian
civilians, the intentional desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, chants of "Death to Arabs" and of burning Arab villages... This is what
@AIPAC
celebrates. That's who they are.
From day 1 of this genocide, I and many others, incl so many Palestinians who are routinely ignored and denigrated, have said that this was
#Israel
's plan. We were called all kinds of names for saying it. Now Netanyahu has declared it. This is on all of you who refused to listen.
BREAKING: Speaking at a presser this evening,
#Israel
's Netanyahu confirmed ground operations in
#Rafah
will coincide with the forcible transfer of already displaced
#Palestinians
. He did not divulge as to whether, but I suspect his former National Security Advisor and close
๐นJeffries on why heโs taken this many trips to Israel: โUnderstand something. Iโm from Brooklyn where we consider Jerusalem to be the 6th borough [of NYC]. So Iโm just starting to catch up.โ
This tweet from last week shows an IDF spokesperson flat-out saying they're bombing Gaza indiscriminately, "making Gaza shake" as he puts it. They're just not admitting it in English.
This is what
@JoeBiden
is defending, providing cover for AND preparing to re-arm w $735 million
Targeting of Fatima Mohammed with death threats and epithets, incited by
@NYCMayor
@RitchieTorres
& other politicians and anti-
#Palestinian
hate leaders is opposed by we
#Jews
of conscience and all those who believe in academic freedom and free speech.
Not that long ago, people argued with me, often with the typical insults pro
#Israel
types so commonly use, when I said Im Tirzu were fascists.
Well, the shirt, which reads Im Tirzu at the bottom says "Dictatorship now"
So you tell me...
To be clear, this location was designated a "humanitarian safe zone" by
#Israel
. It was a place people from
#Rafah
were told to flee to by Israel. They then dropped several 1 ton bombs on it. If you believe this was a
#Hamas
target, you're either willfully blind or supremely
The fact that Anderson Cooper does not respond at all to the claim that there are no civilians in
#Gaza
- which would mean everyone is a legitimate target, just as
#Israel
has been doing - tells you all you need to know about coverage of all this in the US.
Anderson Cooper's guest tonight, former Israeli intelligence chief:
"The noncombatant population in the Gaza strip is really a nonexistent term because all of the Gazans voted for Hamas, and as we have seen on 7th of October most of the population in the Gaza strip are Hamas."
Very much looking forward to this event at
@RUCSRR
on April 19 with
@marclamonthill
and myself discussing our book, "Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics." Register at
Thanks to
@saharazizlaw
This is not in any way unique to
#Netanyahu
, the far right, or even the merely right wing in
#Israel
. This kind of theft of water and using water as a weapon to harm every
#Palestinian
man, woman, and child, is a hallmark of EVERY Israeli government in the country's history.
Watch: The Israeli occupation pours cement into the water springs in the Al-Hijrah area, south of Hebron, to block them and prevent Palestinians from using them in agriculture.
The top two recipients BY A HUGE MARGIN of "pro
#Israel
" contributions in congressional races were
@RepEliotEngel
and Anton Melton-Meaux, who lost to
@IlhanMN
tonight.
Just love seeing that $$$ spent on denying
#Palestinians
basic rights flushed down the drain. Keep it up!
I had the pleasure of meeting Rabbi
@Mivasair
recently. This sort of spurious harrassment that he's facing is typical of blind supporters of
#Israel
these days. They have nothing left but bullying tactics. David deserves everyone's support.
There is no "pro
#Israel
" source more scurrilous and dishonest than
@HonestReporting
I'm proud that the site I write the most for,
@Mondoweiss
is
#2
on their list of targets. It's a high spot, but leaves us more to strive for to bring you the accurate info these guys hate so much
This is stunning. The desperation to maintain
#Israel
as an ethnocracy is so intense that an imaginary and impossible scenario is elaborately drawn out here, one that almost totally removes
#Palestinians
from
#Palestine
. Anything to avoid
#democracy
And then he said, "But if you just can't help it, I'll give you all the weapons you could ever dream of to kill as many
#Palestinian
civilians as possible."