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Remi Brulin

2 years

40 Years Ago Today December 31, 1981 Lebanon. A packed stadium. Bombs are positioned where PLO leaders will be seated. Bigger bombs are outside, ready to kill panicked survivors This is Olympia 2, one crazy operation in the Greatest Terrorist Campaign You Never Heard About THREAD

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6 months

CNN reporting in Gaza…

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NEW: Internal CNN directives force all Israel news through the Network's Jerusalem Bureau, subjecting it to oversight by the IDF censor. CNN also hired a soldier out of the IDF Spokesperson Unit to cover the aftermath of October 7th.

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Remi Brulin

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“We tortured some folks” is pretty bad “We tortured some folk so we could destroy a huge relief organization that’s indispensable in dealing with a huge humanitarian crisis that we created in the first place” is…. something else

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“Agency staff members have been subject to threats & coercion by Israeli authorities while in detention & pressured to make false statements vs the Agency, including that it has affiliations w/Hamas & staff members took part in Oct 7,” the report says

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“For example, when IDF snipers shoot and kill Palestinian civilians who are waving a white flag: that’s on Hamas! And when IDF soldiers torture Palestinian civilians: that’s on Hamas too!” Good stuff….

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“I grieve for any innocent Palestinian, Israeli or Israeli soldier…anyone! It’s all tragic and there is a lot of blood…. But every drop of it belongs on the hands of Hamas—AND ONLY HAMAS” - @SenFettermanPA

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Remi Brulin

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I know it’s obvious but if victims had not had foreign passports & not worked for famous chef, no one would have known of their deaths, Israel would not have said a word or simply claimed that they were terrorists (& counted them as such!) & there would have been no investigation

Aviva Klompas

@AvivaKlompas

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IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Hagari: Last night, an incident took place in Gaza that resulted in the tragic death of World Central Kitchen employees as they fulfilled their vital mission of bringing food to people in need. As a professional military committed to international

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Remi Brulin

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I am so old I remember this, from Nov 14, 2023: (the goal posts, they are a-moving)

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

8 months

BREAKING: A senior Israeli official said that the purpose of the IDF operation at the al-Shifa hospital wasn't to rescue hostages but to locate and expose a Hamas tunnels hub that connects the hospital with other parts of the Gaza strip

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Remi Brulin

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@yashar In the videos you link to, I am not seeing anyone saying that they suddenly think 9/11 or terrorism is justified. They talk about being told that terrorists hate us for our freedom and say they learned that maybe there is more to it than that… which isn’t wrong, right?

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Remi Brulin

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I am so old I remember THIS Israeli strike vs a car allegedly containing “several terrorists.” It took place last November, in Lebanon. It killed 3 girls aged 10, 12 and 14, their mother & their grandmother. They were following a car driven by the girls’ uncle, a journalist

Kenneth Roth

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8 months

Credibility: The Israeli army said it had targeted “a suspicious vehicle containing several terrorists” The only people in the car were three girls, ages 14, 12, and 10, their grandmother, and their mother. All were killed except the mother.

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Remi Brulin

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Doonesbury, Aug 26, 1982. By then Israel had been indiscriminately bombing Beirut for a year. The IDF had just sent Lebanese Forces into the Sabra & Shatila refugee camps (in search of “terrorists” of course) where LF massacred 1000-2500 civilians, women, children, old people etc

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Remi Brulin

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5 years

Today in class I played 3 mins of @IlhanMN 's CAIR speech incl "some people did something" passage & asked students to discuss They agreed w/ her, saw nothing wrong w/wording & were STUNNED & ANGRY when I showed them Tweets & NYPost front page This campaign v Omar is SHAMEFUL

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Remi Brulin

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7 years

What’s that « the definition of insanity... » line again?

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Remi Brulin

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4 months

@zei_squirrel It gets worse: that Tweet was mentioned by South Africa in their application to the ICJ as an example of INTENT to commit genocide!!!! Page 66 of the report

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Remi Brulin

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7 months

I have to say, the amount of minimizing-how-bad-the-Nazis-really-were-in-order-to-dehumanize-Hamas-even-more-and-justify-killing-more-Palestinian-civilians is getting a little out of control....

Barbara Kay

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Also, Nazis "only" wanted Jews of Europe dead. Hamas's exterminationist ambitions are global.

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Remi Brulin

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5 years

Tom Friedman 2011: "I hope that Israel’s prime minister understands that standing ovation he got in Congress this year wasn't for his politics. That ovation was bought & paid for by the Israel lobby." Was that an "anti-semitic trope"? Or is it so only when @IlhanMN says it?

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“Agency staff members have been subject to threats & coercion by Israeli authorities while in detention & pressured to make false statements vs the Agency, including that it has affiliations w/Hamas & staff members took part in Oct 7,” the report says

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Remi Brulin

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8 months

So.... apparently @CNN has, without any Editor's note to let its viewers know, edited its videos about the @IDF tour of the al-Rantisi hospital and has cut out all references to the "guarding list" that (infamously) turned out to be a ... calendar!

CNN Quietly Cut Disputed Israeli Military Claim From Some Video Reports

Controversial claims by a military spokesperson were cut, without an editor’s note, from versions on CNN’s website, YouTube channel and some on-air reports.

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Remi Brulin

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7 months

For decades scholars like Said, Khalidi, Chomsky, Finkelstein have insisted Israeli leaders have always opposed 2-state solution. Regev the other day stated Israel’s CURRENT opposition to it. Today Netanyahu clearly stated he has opposed it FOR 30 years!!!

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Yesterday Today

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I asked an IDF spokesman if Israel plans to investigate the mass graves found in Khan Younis. “Investigate what?” he replied, after calling the reports “fake news.”

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This is scary stuff: 1 Calls to curtail speech are clearly aimed at enabling state crimes 2 Censoring history books is clearly aimed at erasing past examples of state crimes 3 This erasure, in turn, strengthens the discourse that justifies state crimes And, back to square 1

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

7 months

The French publishing house Fayard withdraws "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by the Jewish historian Ilan Pappé. According to Edistat, a statistics site specializing in book sales in #France , 203 out of the 307 copies of the book, which were sold this year, were sold after

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Remi Brulin

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5 years

Dear Bret. I do "spot the problem." As I am sure many others do. But the problem lies not with Omar's words, but with the ridiculousness of your "argument." Let me help you out. Very short Thread

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Remi Brulin

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6 years

The "Overlooked" @nytimes project is absolutely REMARKABLE. HOWEVER: Sins of NYT were NOT SIMPLY that it "overlooked" these amazing women's DEATHS at the time. In the case of Ida B. Wells & lynchings, NYT did all it could to DISCREDIT & FIGHT her. THREAD

Remarkable People We Overlooked in Our Obituaries

The poet Sylvia Plath and the novelist Charlotte Brontë. Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching activist. These extraordinary people — and so many others — did not have obituaries in The New York Times....

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“Israeli soldiers subjected Palestinian detainees to electric shocks, burned their skin w/ lighters, spat in their mouths, deprived them of sleep, food, access to bathrooms until they defecated on themselves.” Joe Biden on torture by Russia, 2022:

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Inside Israel's torture camp for Gaza detainees Palestinians arrested in northern Gaza describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence. By @yuval_abraham @mekomit

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Remi Brulin

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Videos of Hamas members bringing injured hostages to a hospital show Hamas members using a hospital as a hospital NOT Hamas members using a hospital for terrorist purposes ie they do not show anything that would remove IMMUNITY from that hospital

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Remi Brulin

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7 years

@tanehisicoates "63% of Whites think all demonstrations are harmful" (Opinion Poll, The New York Times, 16 August 1966)

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2 years

Fascinating to me that the guy making this video actually thought “yeah, I should make this public: I am obviously the hero here, and this old, kind librarian is clearly a cartoonish villain, everyone will see this & applaud me & thank me for my service right? Right??”

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Illinois librarian holds her ground as an antimasker films himself throwing a tantrum after being asked to wear a mask.

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Remi Brulin

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@julienbahloul Julien: vous suggérez donc que des citoyens français qui commettraient des crimes de guerre à Gaza ne devraient PAS être traduits devant la justice?

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Remi Brulin

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6 years

Dear journalists: Not to “defend” that guy & his disgusting comments, but, how about “shaming” powerful elected leaders or pundits who lied us into various wars (instead of hiring them as commentators)? Or (crazy thought) people who engaged in torture, an actual war crime?

NBC New York

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The lawyer who threatened to call immigration enforcement on workers at a Manhattan cafe earlier this week sprinted away from an NBC News reporter earlier today

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Remi Brulin

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Note: most of what Israel says re: Gaza, France said in Algeria in 50s. The discourse is, at its roots, colonial http://t.co/XMeIMFtBWA

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Feb 6, 1983: @nytimes Front Page:"18 Die in Bombing at PLO Center in Beirut" by @tomfriedman Bombing claimed by mysterious group, the FLLF. Feb 2018, Ronen Bergman published book revealing that ISRAEL created the FLLF. Since: US media has remained SILENT about revelations THREAD

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10/01/1981: 40 years ago TODAY: Massive car bomb explodes in front of PLO offices in Beirut. 83 are killed. The street is mangled with body parts. Other bombs are defused. A mysterious group called the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners claims responsibility 1/

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Everybody is Hamas Everybody is a terrorist Everybody is antisemitic Everything is a blood libel

John Podhoretz

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I know Andres a saint and all, and hates Trump and stuff, but he can go fuck himself with this disgusting blood libel.

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Btw Sept 17 & October 2, 1981, over 300 people were killed in a series of car bombs in Lebanon Palestinians were the victims, not the perpetrators Israelis were the perpetrators, not the victims This "terrorist" campaign has been fully forgotten It has been erased THREAD

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This by @mehdirhasan is absolutely spot on. But let's be clear: the REAL issue w/ the discourse on "terrorism" is that the term is used solely to refer to non-state actors, whereas the violence of states (especially "ours": US, Israel, France, GB etc) is NEVER called "terrorism"

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"A non-Muslim terrorist has to kill on average 7 people more than a Muslim terrorist to get equal coverage as a Muslim terrorist" - from my interview with @JoyAnnReid on @msnbc today. Full intv, on #Christchurch , media Islamophobia, Palestine, guns, here:

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A thread about the assassination attempt against the US Ambassador to Lebanon, Gunther Dean, in August of 1980; about new revelations that might finally help reveal who was behind this attack; and a call on US journalists to investigate

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Remi Brulin

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I’m so old I remember Israeli officials repeatedly comparing the PLO to the Nazis, calling them barbarians & savages, invading Lebanon & indiscriminately bombing Beirut… All that without Hamas/tunnels/human shields etc… but with the same “we are the victims here!” righteousness

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Remi Brulin

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1982. Israel is bombing Beirut indiscriminately. For months, it has put forth ridiculously low numbers of casualties. But thousands upon thousands of civilians have been killed. The world knows. No one believes the IDF's numbers anymore. So, what does Israel decide to do?

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Doonesbury, Aug 26, 1982. By then Israel had been indiscriminately bombing Beirut for a year. The IDF had just sent Lebanese Forces into the Sabra & Shatila refugee camps (in search of “terrorists” of course) where LF massacred 1000-2500 civilians, women, children, old people etc

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We cannot fully understand the rise of Islamophobia without a radical critique of a discourse on "terrorism" that has, since 1980s, de-humanized & other-ized Palestinians, Arabs & Muslims while justifying massive uses of force vs them. My latest:

‘Terrorism’ and antisemitism

A radical critique of the discourse on terrorism and, specifically, of repeated Israeli and US claims to moral superiority in the fight against “terrorism,” is long overdue.

africasacountry.com

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Remi Brulin

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Note: Israel sold weapons to the Serbian army DURING the Bosnian genocide & its Supreme Court rejected a petition that would have shed light on these weapons sales.

Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura

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‘It’s not just Israel on trial’: Bosnian war survivor’s support for genocide case The Guardian has published our Open Letter to the ICJ, which has garnered over 1,000 signatures of Bosnian Genocide survivors demanding provisional measures be implemented.

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In 1981 two @YediotAhronot journalists investigated remarkable story: senior @IDF officers had created & were running #terrorist group that was behind bombings in Lebanon. Israeli military censor killed story Terrorist campaign continued for years THREAD

How the Israeli military censor killed a story about ‘terrorist’ bombing campaign in Lebanon in...

A terrorist bombing campaign in Lebanon in the early 1980s that killed 100s has now been confirmed as an Israeli operation, suppressed by a military censor.

mondoweiss.net

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The remarkable disappearing act of Israel's car-bombing campaign in Lebanon or: What we (do not) talk about when we talk about 'terrorism'

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@BriannaWu Wow. No mention of the Nakba. Of ethnic cleansing. Of dozens of massacres that can only be described as clear examples of terrorism (including rapes etc?) And Israel is “not occupying anything”??? Not even the West Bank? Or East Jerusalem??? And so much more…

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@michaelharriot @AnneMarieKinnin Great thread! I would also recommend Fellman's "In the Name of God & Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History," specifically his chapter entitled "The Counterrevolutionary White-Terrorist Destruction of Reconstruction." I use it in class all the time, real eye-opener

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May 4, 1972: Nixon to Kissinger, advocating for some good old genocidal state terrorism craziness against a "sh##-### country"

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“The IDF are systematically targeting healthcare facilities, healthcare personnel and really dismantling the whole healthcare system,” Prof. Nick Maynard said.

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For those who still think Israel’s assault on Gaza is about self-defense or even Hamas… US and UK doctors in Washington to warn of IDF’s ‘appalling atrocities’ in Gaza

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Remi Brulin

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Torture is a war crime How do we call torture that is used to destroy a humanitarian agency in a time of extreme humanitarian crisis though? ie, torture that is used to provide a rationale for a policy aimed at hurting an entire civilian population? Terroristic torture?

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@HensonJames11 Here:

Read Let This Radicalize You

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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."

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Both Jake Tapper & Ritchie Torres lied about UN Sec General Guterres not condemning the Hamas attacks until a couple days ago (he did so on Oct 7 & repeatedly since) &, when called on their lies, simply deleted their Tweets, w/out comments or excuses. Liars and Cowards both

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these guys will pounce on you if you don’t preface every criticism of the Israeli offensive with a condemnation of Hamas, and will then turn around and leverage those consistent condemnations for disinformation

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Remi Brulin

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Everything we know about Olympia (&all quotes above) come fm @ronenbergman “Rise & Kill First,” book published in 2018 & based on first-hand accounts by Israeli officials involved in or who knew about the op at the time. I wrote about this here: 10/

The remarkable disappearing act of Israel’s car-bombing campaign in Lebanon or: What we (do not)...

Ronen Bergman’s book Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations tells that story of how from 1979 to 1983 very senior Israeli officials conducted a large-scale…

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@JakeWSimons This is a lie. There is absolutely no mention whatsoever of a Palestinian state in Oslo. Read the accords. The word state isn’t there. Israel was & remains (as Netanyahu re-stated very clearly just last week) opposed to the idea of a Palestinian state.

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@bungarsargon @jeremycorbyn @AOC Hi. It looks like the author is a Research Assistant for Alan Dershowitz &, before that, was the Director of Media Relations at the Embassy of Israel in DC (June 2015 - Feb 2017). Relevant information that could have been mentioned somewhere maybe?

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I called it a few days ago, and it didn’t take long: Here is a propagandist for Israel arguing that Israel had the right to bomb the Belgian Agency for Development & Cooperation because some of its members supposedly “supported terrorism” This is simply insane….

Lahav Harkov 🎗️

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Was not at all surprised when a simple google search turned up support for terrorism by their employees in Gaza

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Don't mean to overstate this, but here @elonmusk is tweeting that "Kids are programmed to hate from the moment they can understand words" to express AGREEMENT WITH an author whose Thread explicitly argues for ethnically cleansing Palestinians!!!

Richard Hanania

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Some people say that Israel should fight a less aggressive war to avoid creating more terrorists. This view reflects a deep misunderstanding of the conflict and Palestinian society. If anything the opposite is more likely to be true. Here's why🧵

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A clearer example of the shameful weaponization of accusations of antisemitism is pretty hard to imagine: Israel’s ex-Ambassador to the UN insists that Solidarity for the Palestinian people is antisemitism

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10 points from Gryffindor for being an antisemite. @EmmaWatson

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On Jan 1, PLO will celebrate anniversary of its founding. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon sees opportunity: get rid of entire leadership in one fell swoop. On Dec 20, agents recruited by Meir Dagan place remotely controlled explosive devices in the stadium. But that's not all 2/

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@AzmatZahra Amazing work once again!!! Reminds of those truly psychopathic exchanges between Nixon & Kissinger from April 25 & May 4, 1972 (from Nixon's secret tapes.)

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@Moms4Liberty @wu_wenyuan @ParentUnionCPC @CaliforniaPare2 @PACTstopcrt Hi. A Prof here. So you are saying that my role is NOT “to suggest to a child in any way that he has a right to develop his own value system”??? Clearly what you want IS teachers who indoctrinate kids: you just want to control the content of the indoctrination. Amazing….

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This is the West Bank. To Israel, six men throwing explosive devices at IDF SOLDIERS are terrorists. A reminder that the discourse on terrorism is pure PROPAGANDA. Whatever Palestinians do is terrorism, including using force vs combatants from an occupying force

Marian Houk

@Marianhouk

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Six Palestinians were killed by ISR Army's drone strike in the Nur Shams Refugee Camp near Tulkarem, West Bank [accused of "throwing explosive devices at forces"]. Palestinian Red Crescent: another six Palestinians are injured, three of them seriously.

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@bungarsargon 1: idea is to raise taxes on super wealthy (so it wouldn’t be the working class that pays for it) 2: tons of people w: student debt are poor, working class & would greatly benefit 3: your definition of elite is ridiculous: adjunct profs make $30,000 but you consider them “elite”

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Here is full speech. I played it fm min 13.08 to 15.55. My students were unaware of controversy around it. I tried to push them to look for words or ideas that might be "shocking" or problematic. They could not find any. Then I showed them Post Front Page

Rep. Ilhan Omar Speech - 4th Annual Valley Banquet 2019 | CAIR-LA

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar speaks at the CAIR-LA 4th Annual Valley Banquet, Saturday March 23rd at the Hilton Woodland Hills.For the latest, follow our Socials...

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This is sooooo disgusting…. What Glazer actually said: “We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”

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. @Variety should really correct this this. This is not at all what Jonathan Glazer said. It's missing some key words.

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They were frankly DISGUSTED. They were STUNNED. They could not believe how the people who sent the first tweets could get away with it. How so many people could RT & like those tweets. And how the editors at the NY Post could print such a disgusting & BLATANTLY UNTRUE Front Page

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These videos are SO problematic: Short snippets out of context & neatly packaged to generate buzz make it EVER HARDER to have the serious, reasoned discussions about terrorism that we NEED: About terrorism/resistance Terrorists/freedom fighters Non-state & state terrorism Etc 🧵

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Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction…

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The picture is from Rashid Khalidi’s “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine,” p 158

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Really hoping someone somewhere is documenting the insanity of the "minimizing-how-bad-the-Nazis-really-were-in-order-to-dehumanize-Hamas-even-more-and-justify-killing-more-Palestinian-civilians" craze... This sh #t is so insanely disturbing (and dangerous!!!)

Remi Brulin

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I have to say, the amount of minimizing-how-bad-the-Nazis-really-were-in-order-to-dehumanize-Hamas-even-more-and-justify-killing-more-Palestinian-civilians is getting a little out of control....

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Remarkably, Bergman reveals that in late 1981 Ariel Sharon used the FLLF & its car bombs (ie "terrorism") to provoke the PLO into using "terrorism" against Israeli civilians, so that Israel would have an excuse (the fight against "terrorism"!!) to invade Lebanon 16/

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Olympia 2 was canceled. However, Bergman’s book ALSO reveals that the FLLF, the group that would have parked the car bombs in front of stadium, was created & run by senior Israeli officials & did conduct dozens of “terrorist” attacks that killed hundreds of civilians 11/

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As Bergman’s book makes quite clear, the Palestinians were right all along. The FLLF was in fact a creation of very senior Israeli officers (Ben-Gal, Dagan and Eitan) and, after August 1981, would repeatedly be used by Ariel Sharon to sow chaos in Lebanon 15/

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The State of Israel explicitly calling US students terrorists. Which, for Israel, means that they can be killed, their families can be killed (acceptable collateral damage in an existential war vs the evil terrorists), they can be tortured, etc… Completely normal stuff…

Israel ישראל

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(a) Terrorism is an ideology. (b) They are openly supporting terror. (c) They are terrorists

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A secret Israeli unit has also prepared “three vehicles - a truck loaded with a ton and a half of explosives and two Mercedes sedans with 550 pounds each.” On Jan 1, members of the FLLF (more about the FLLF below) will drive & park the vehicles in front of the stadium. 3/

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You know which Newspaper of Record REPORTED on the Pope's speech about the killing of 2 women in a church in Gaza by an Israeli sniper, QUOTED fm that speech but ERASED the passage where the Pope called it TERRORISM? The New York Times, of course

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Nobody knew who the FLLF were, but Palestinians & Lebanese leaders repeatedly insisted that the group was fictitious, and used by Israel to hide its hand. Israeli officials rejected such claims & insisted that the bombings were a form of “Arabs vs Arabs” violence 13/

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"Four or five terrorists were killed. Who drives around in Lebanon in a Mercedes at 2 am? Only terrorists." Avigdor Ben-Gal, Head of Northern Command, Lebanon, June 1981, after an Israeli car bomb killed women & children in their car

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

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Credibility: The Israeli army said it had targeted “a suspicious vehicle containing several terrorists” The only people in the car were three girls, ages 14, 12, and 10, their grandmother, and their mother. All were killed except the mother.

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A year ago, Desmond Tutu called on Biden to apply US law & stop all military aid to Israel because of its possession & proliferation of nuclear weapons. Tutu also reminded everyone that Israel collaborated w/ the Apartheid regime’s efforts to get nukes!!!

Joe Biden should end the US pretence over Israel's 'secret' nuclear weapons | Desmond Tutu

The cover-up has to stop – and with it the huge sums in aid, says Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu

www.theguardian.com

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These bombings were repeatedly covered in the US press at the time, including on the Front Page of the New York Times (by Thomas Friedman & others) or the Washington Post. I wrote about this in a number of Threads, for example this one 14/

Remi Brulin

@RBrulin

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Btw Sept 17 & October 2, 1981, over 300 people were killed in a series of car bombs in Lebanon Palestinians were the victims, not the perpetrators Israelis were the perpetrators, not the victims This "terrorist" campaign has been fully forgotten It has been erased THREAD

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The vehicles will “be detonated by remote control about a minute after" the first bombs, when panic was at its height &survivors were trying to get away.” Acc to a Northern Command officer, death & destruction are expected to be “of unprecedented proportions, even for Lebanon” 4/

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It also appears that, in 1980, two Israeli journalists did investigate the possibility that Israeli officials were behind the FLLF bombings. Their story was killed at the time by the Israeli military censor. I wrote about this here: 18/

Remi Brulin

@RBrulin

4 years

In 1981 two @YediotAhronot journalists investigated remarkable story: senior @IDF officers had created & were running #terrorist group that was behind bombings in Lebanon. Israeli military censor killed story Terrorist campaign continued for years THREAD

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Dec 31, 1981: Tomorrow Beirut stadium will be bombed, PLO leadership decimated, Arafat dead. Along w/ countless civilians This is the story of the kind of #terrorism we never hear about: where Palestinians are victims, not perpetrators. Israelis perpetrators, not victims THREAD

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Most remarkable of all perhaps? In August 1982, Ariel Sharon took to the pages of the NYT to denounce the absolute immorality of the "Palestinian terrorists." By then, he had, through the FLLF, been conducting his OWN murderous campaign of "terrorism" for one full year 21/

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This is a very secret operation. But word of it gets leaked to General Saguy & Deputy DM Zippori, who take the matter to Prime Minister Menachem Begin. 40 years ago today, on December 31, 1981, an emergency meeting is convened, just a few hours before the planned operation... 5/

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I have written about this silence for nearly 4 years. I have also highlighted the remarkable case of @tomfriedman , who personally covered several FLLF bombings in 1983 yet remains SILENT, to this day, about Bergman's (his NYT colleague!) revelations 24/

Remi Brulin

@RBrulin

5 years

Feb 6, 1983: @nytimes Front Page:"18 Die in Bombing at PLO Center in Beirut" by @tomfriedman Bombing claimed by mysterious group, the FLLF. Feb 2018, Ronen Bergman published book revealing that ISRAEL created the FLLF. Since: US media has remained SILENT about revelations THREAD

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Remarkably, this (absolutely insane) Tweet that the NYT’s Anat Schwartz “liked” was mentioned by South Africa in its application to the ICJ as an example of INTENT to commit genocide… See page 66 of the application

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@zei_squirrel

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oh my god. One of the three authors of the New York Times' "mass rape" atrocity propaganda hoax is Anat Schwartz. She liked posts calling for Gaza to be turned into a "slaughterhouse". This the person the NYT hired to write about Palestinians and frame them as sub-human monsters

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THIS is never "news" in the US. Yet it happens day after day after day. It is the background for everything else. In the US, "news" is Palestinian rockets: that is where everything is said to "start," thus framing Israelis solely as victims who have the right to defend themselves

Abier

@abierkhatib

3 years

I’m having a breakdown watching this… Jewish settlers taking over a house of Palestinian old woman. This is hell on earth istg #Palestine

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Crazy suggestion: If a team of armed Iranian operatives had covertly entered Israel & killed its top nuclear weapons scientist, world leaders would not be "mum" In fact, every single Western leader would have denounced it as a despicable, evil act of terrorism Oh well...

The Times of Israel

@TimesofIsrael

4 years

US, world leaders mum on Fakhrizadeh killing; ex-CIA chief calls hit ‘reckless’

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Later, Saguy explained: "I told Begin it was impossible to kill whole stadium like that. What would happen next day after such massacre? Whole world would pile on top of us. It would make no difference if we never admitted responsibility. Everyone would know who was behind it” 7/

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For clarification, the “antisemitic chants” & views mentioned in this piece are: - “free from the river to the sea” chant - signs with the message “end Israeli state terror” - one peer in a seminar talking about “Israeli Apartheid & Israel’s agenda as a genocidal state”

Karen Pollock 🎗️

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6 months

Worrying and depressing to read this ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩ Defence Secretary’s daughter felt unsafe at university after anti-Semitic chants

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@BluegrassRabbi He did not refute his Jewishness. Here is the full quote: "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people"

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@BriannaWu Again: there has been terrorism on all sides in this conflict. Attacking the left for supporting “literal terrorists” while being silent about Israeli terrorism is to adopt the terrorism discourse that was created by the right, more specifically by Netanyahu himself in 1980s…

Remi Brulin

@RBrulin

3 months

@BriannaWu @Nir_Kahn @EinatWilf But of course, all sides in this conflict have resorted to terrorism. Palestinians undoubtedly have. Hamas most definitely have, on Oct 7 & before. But Israel has used terrorism too, supported & armed & trained terrorists too, for decades…

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@m7mdkurd Fun fact: up until mid-1980s the Jerusalem Post would change all Associated Press reports from Beirut: every reference to “guerrillas” became “terrorists.” The Post continued until AP officially called JP’s editor & asked him to stop this practice

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@RBrulin

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"It's happening already. They're shifting the story. They're making this about Slavery, hoping you'll forget what happened just 1 week ago. 50 civilians —men, omen, children—were massacred by Nat Turner. That's the story. Everything must be seen through that lens"

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At the meeting, Sharon, Ben-Gal & Dagan defend the operation: it represents a unique opportunity to get rid of the PLO once and for all!! Zippori & Saguy object, and note that there is a high likelihood that the Soviet Union Ambassador would be in the stadium. 6/

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Between 1979 and 1983, a mysterious group calling itself the Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners (FLLF) would call the media and claim responsibility for dozens of car bombings that killed hundreds of civilians 12/

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After hearing everyone, Begin “took the danger of a Russian threat seriously” and orders Sharon to abort the mission. Israel agents remove the bombs. As it turned out, Russian Ambass would not be in the stadium & Meir Dagan clearly regretted Begin’s decision to abort 8/

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Ariel Sharon's OpEd can be read here: … Note that all the arguments at the heart of Israel's discourse on "terrorism" today are already present here ("they" are entirely evil, "we" only defend ourselves, "we" respect human life whereas "they" don't, etc…)

Opinion | GAINS FROM THE WAR IN LEBANON (Published 1982)

www.nytimes.com

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Latest entry in our never-ending “Everything is Terrorism!!!!” series….

Jacob N. Kornbluh

@jacobkornbluh

6 months

👀 A NYC Democrat, Councilman Robert Holden, calls the blocking of tunnels and bridges in protest of the war in Gaza “terrorism.”

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Bergman’s book was published in 2018. It received raved reviews. Bergman was repeatedly interviewed & gave talks about his research. Yet his revelations about FLLF (ie about huge campaign of “terrorism” conducted by senior Israeli officials) have NOT BEEN MENTIONED ONCE since 23/

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@OwenJones84 To be fair, Oren amended his position to “not every single one of them, just 70-80%” …

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Because of this act of censorship, the Israeli people remained unaware that several of the most senior IDF officers (&, later, Sharon, the Defense Minister!) were engaged in a deadly terrorist campaign. And the FLLF car bombs continued to kill & maim for 2 more years 19/

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Then again there is THIS:

Dima Khatib

@Dima_Khatib

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Journalism is committing suicide after this interview

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Years later he said: “In the end it turned out that I was right & there was no Soviet Ambass or any other foreign diplomat there.”“But what could we do?” he lamented. “The PM said abort so we abort.There was a very complicated business afterward, getting the explosives out.” 9/

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