Yair Wallach @YairWallach Twitter profile

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Yair Wallach

1 year

The Israeli cabinet is set on sacrificing the hostages for a bombing campaign that will kill civilians and do nothing to remove Hamas from power.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

Parents of hostages, who are protesting in Tel Aviv, have been physically attacked, spat at and abused by Netanyahu's supporters since this morning.

Yosef Yisrael

@yosefyisrael25

1 year

לירי אלבג נחטפה ממוצב נחל עוז. אבא שלה, שהגיע למאהל משפחות החטופים מול הקריה הותקף הרגע באלימות (אפשר לראות את הסימנים ביד שלו). התוקף לא הסתפק בזה וקרא לעברו: ״שמאלני בוגד שהבת שלך תמות ביחד איתך״. אין מילים.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

2 years

"This land belongs to me. You know why? Because I'm a Jew" says the settler to the Palestinian land owner. South Hebron hills

yasmin eran- vardi

@Yasmineranvardi

2 years

לא כי קניתי אותה, לא כי זכיתי בה, לא כי ירשתי אותה, כי אני יהודי.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

If you retweet this - and you should - you should know that the director of Yesh Din, Ziv Stahl, was in Kfar Aza on 7th October, hiding with her family an entire day as her neighbours were murdered. She continues to stand for humanity.

Yesh Din English

@Yesh_Din

11 months

[1] Under the cover of war: These are the Palestinian communities that were attacked by Israeli settlers between Oct. 7-22. Settlers have attacked Palestinians in more than 100 incidents in at least 62 towns and villages in the West Bank, at times accompanied by soldiers.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

9 months

Similar statements were made by several ministers, but none of them had direct involvement in war policy. Now it comes from Netanyahu and should be seen a statement of intent.

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין

@MairavZ

9 months

Netanyahu said today he is actively working to ethnic transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza in a Likud meeting today. The problem, he said, is which countries will take them.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

"If there would be a Gaza." To avoid any doubt: Rotman (architect of the Judicial Coup) does not talk about a Jewish kid visiting Gaza under Palestinian rule. He is talking about Israeli rule over Gaza, Israelis settling in Gaza, and replacing Palestinians there.

Muhammad Shehada

@muhammadshehad2

1 year

Extremely important: senior Israeli lawmaker Simcha Rothman admits the main goal of the assault on Gaza is that "a Jewish kid can walk freely in Gaza. If there would be Gaza." They're openly admitting this all about ethnic cleansing, forcible transfers & re-colonizing Gaza.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

5 years

The Rachel Riley T-shirt is the best visual illustration of the staggering myopia which characterises some of the response to antisemitism. A thread with some thoughts.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

9 months

Israel's Prime minister and finance minister are now both on record saying they aim for mass removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין

@MairavZ

9 months

Smotrich agrees with @mashagessen that Gaza is a ghetto: "If we act strategically they will emigrate and we will live there. We won't let 2 million stay. With 100-200K in Gaza, the 'day after' debate will be diff. They want to leave, they've been living in a ghetto for 75 years."

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

Locking up 2 million people in an open air prison for 15 years is a horrendous thing, and it engenders horrendous things. It is not surprising that people with nothing to lose will sometimes do terrible things.

Marwa Fatafta مروة فطافطة

@marwasf

1 year

Israel has been committing unspeakable war crimes, crimes against humanity, and illegal collective punishment against Palestinians in Gaza for 15 years. 15 years. Any comment or analysis that doesn’t take this fact into consideration today is hollow, immoral, and dehumanizing.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

According to the veteran Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea, the deal was ready for approval on Tuesday night. 50 Israeli hostages (children, women, elderly), 5 day truce, Palestinian women and child prisoners. Netanyahu decided to stall

Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

Reports of immanent ceasefire and hostage release deal

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

Public statements (so many of them) which do not mention the the 7th October massacre are cowardly. I'm all for context and root causes, but pretending this thing never happened is just not serious.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

This is for the Jewish/Israeli anti-Apartheid left. If it's not you - scroll on. I also (for the first time ever) locked for replies. On our priorities now, a thread. ---------------------------------

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

4 years

Saying Israel does shitty things - not antisemitic Saying Israel is the origin of all evil shit - antisemitic Thank you for coming to my talk, various caveats apply

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

Last night, settlers invaded the village of Susya (South Hebron hills) and ordered its residents to leave within 24 hours - otherwise they would all be killed.

Omer Arvili

@OmerArvili

11 months

לא יודעת אם יעזור אבל אולי לא יזיק. חייבים לעשות משהו. מתנחלים פלשו הלילה לסוסיה ואיימו לרצוח את תושביו תוך 24 שעות. מתחילת הלחימה בעזה מתנחלים מסלימים את האלימות וכבר 9 קהילות נסו על חייהן. הצטרפו לקריאה לקבינט ולצבא להציל את סוסיה ולעצור את הטרנספר בגדה

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

2 years

The activist who was grabbed from behind, thrown to the ground and punched in the face is now under house arrest on suspicion of assaulting the soldier. Yes, that's right

Breaking the Silence

@BtSIsrael

2 years

On Friday, Israeli activists (mostly religious Jews) paid a visit to Hebron to express support & solidarity with Palestinian families who were attacked by settlers the previous week. Clearly, the IDF soldiers posted there to protect the settlements didn't appreciate their visit:

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

I, for one, take inspiration from my Palestinian friends who - despite having lost homes, family members, friends - continue to see the humanity in Israelis, in everyone. They are the people with which we can build. /End

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

9 months

1930s hot take: Jews in Europe are actually not Europeans, they should all go to Palestine 2023 hot take: Jews in Israel are actually Europeans, they should all leave Palestine

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

I feel physically sick

BBC News Africa

@BBCAfrica

11 months

1/The Tanzanian government has confirmed the death of Clemence Felix Mtenga, one of two citizens who was taken hostage by the Palestinian group Hamas during the 7 October raid on Israel. A thread.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

A colleague in Israel has been suspended from their academic job after voicing their opposition to the bombing of Gaza

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

ADL: OK, we can live with the Nazi stuff. Thank you Mr Musk for going after Palestine supporters.

Jonathan Greenblatt

@JGreenblattADL

11 months

This is an important and welcome move by @elonmusk . I appreciate this leadership in fighting hate.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

2 years

If your argument is "most Jews consider anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism, therefore it is" you have to consider that virtually all Palestinians consider Zionism a form of racism against them.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

The attacks on Emma Watson's tame solidarity message reveal that there are those for whom it would always be wrong to support Palestinians or criticise Israel. This effectively means that *whatever* Israel does - it should be beyond criticism. 1/

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

The persistent denialism of 7th October suggests a QAnonisation of some subsections of the left. Not entirely new yet now with ever more effective means of dissemination. This should worry anyone who believes the current global polycrisis requires radical left answers.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

The question who hit the hospital matters. But there have been so many civilian buildings attacked by Israel in Gaza, dozens of families obliterated, so many children killed. The enormous harm to civilians is clear and is undeniable.

Abdalhadi Alijla عبد الهادي العجلة

@alijla2021

1 year

The largest bakery in the Mid-Gaza governorate was attacked last night. As a result, over 100,000 people who relied on this bakery are now without bread. Is a bakery a target? How can this be real?

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

A policy paper from Misgav thinktank - headed by Netanyahu's former national security advisor: Israel now has an "rare and exceptional opportunity to remove all Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt"

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

9 months

80 days later. Still true

Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

The Israeli cabinet is set on sacrificing the hostages for a bombing campaign that will kill civilians and do nothing to remove Hamas from power.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

The reports from today are harrowing. We know that at some point the US will force a cease fire. How many deaths will it take? Will 30,000 be enough? 40,000? 50,000?

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

Describing SS men almost sympathetically as tormented people. It feels as if Murray can imagine himself in their shoes.

Sunder Katwala

@sundersays

11 months

The average member of Hitler's SS killing squads had a real sense of conscience and regret when they shot Jews in the head or participated in the worst genocide in human history. Very few were committed antisemitic murderers, Douglas Murray tells the Jewish Chronicle readership!

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

A key Netanyahu surrogate calls for expulsion of Palestinian citizens. "It's all very simple actually. If Arabs rioting are expelled to Gaza It will end very quickly Hello 1948, We're back"

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

Haaretz reports that so far 116 Israeli citizens were charged with rioting. All of them are Palestinians.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

Those who have said almost nothing for three weeks - despite repeated warnings that Israeli policies in Jerusalem are leading to a major blowup - and now wake up to condemn the rockets and call for peace, are proving Hamas right: apparently only this kind of violence registers.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

This is a call for expulsion/genocide. Silence in the face of this threat amounts to green light

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

1 year

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

Not just in London or New York: Netanyahu supporter in Jerusalem taking down posters calling to bring the hostages back.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

TW: executions. That's what 56 years of military occupation look like. Total impunity. No consequences for killing civilians.

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

@btselem

10 months

Original security camera footage obtained by B'Tselem captures two short-range executions of Palestinians in al-Far'ah R.C. on 8 December 2023.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

Putting aside the question why hate a 12 year old hostage so much: the hostages' families are currently the main moderating voice in Israel, and a hostage deal is the only route to truce/ceasefire. But the people defacing these don't really care about ceasefire, or Gaza.

Yair Rosenberg

@Yair_Rosenberg

11 months

12 years old. Right now at Amsterdam and 95th in New York. No words.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

It's striking how some commentators, who are very attentive to anti-Jewish racism, particularly around its Israel/Palestine manifestations, somehow manage not to hear the "Death to the Arabs" chants in Jerusalem.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

I remain aghast by the failure in some progressive spaces to recognise the 7th October atrocity for what it was and call it by name. I remain opposed to the bombing of Gaza. One crime does not justify another. Cease fire. Free the hostages.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

There are structural reasons why Palestine solidarity can sometime overlap with antisemitism, and these reasons have nothing to do with Palestinians, and everything to do with the pervasiveness of antisemitism in Western culture. Denying that risk is harmful and unwise.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

8 months

Mere two days after the Hague ruling, a third of the Israeli government participated in this event, in which gencoidal visions for the Gaza strip were openly advocated.

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

8 months

12 Israeli ministers (including from Netanyahu's Likud party) participated at a conference today about rebuilding Isrseli settlements in Gaza & encouraging displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. Ministers Ben Gvir, Smotrich and several others from Likud gave supportive speeches

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

So let me get this right: Tzipi Hotovely, proud supporter of Unequal One State between the river and the sea, walks briskly to her car (past some protesters with flags) after uninterrupted talk at LSE - and this is just like kristallnacht.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

Reports of more than 40 Palestinian citizens of Israel - Bedouin - killed by Hamas. Read one account of a woman, wearing the Hijab, shot and killed at close range in her car. Her injured husband managed to escape

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

I said in class about two weeks ago that we would soon see a settlement nucleus in Gaza. Anyone who is familiar with the history of the settlement movement knows: this is how it starts.

ᴅʀ ʜ.ᴀ. ʜᴇʟʟʏᴇʀ 🖖🏾 ⚜️

@hahellyer

10 months

Times of Israel reports: "Several religious IDF soldiers establish ‘first Chabad House’ in Gaza Strip" - .

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

2 years

No Israeli government in the last 15 years has offered any mid or long-term prospect for Gaza beyond the continued siege, imprisonment and occasional bombing of 2.2 million people.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

So the Zionist movement built what they called colonies, for colonists (their terms), funded by the Jewish Colonial Trust, and their efforts of *colonization* were proudly celebrated e.g at the Paris Colonial Exhibition 1931, but how dare anyone use the c word to describe zionism

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

@ArielleLAngel Just a correction - it's a government decision - not a bill that passes in the Knesset.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

300 Palestinian prisoners are slated for release. 17 were convicted of attempted murder 283 for less serious, often far less serious charges 123 are under 18y old, most of them in prison for stone throwing.

Avi Mayer אבי מאיר

@AviMayer

10 months

Remember this: The Palestinians who will be released in the impending deal are convicted terrorists who are in prison because they tried to murder Israelis. The Israelis who will be freed are innocent civilians being held hostage by terrorists. There is no equivalence. None.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

4 years

A reminder that 40% of Jerusalem residents cannot vote today.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

Not only - as many pointed out - this reductive view does not reflect the fact that there are light skinned Palestinians and dark skinned Israeli Jews - it does enormous injustice to early 20th century Palestinian society, which welcomed people from diverse backgrounds. /1

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

8 months

More than twice the number of Palestinian refugees in 1948. More than twice, probably, number of homes destroyed in 1948. Three or four times the number of casualties. An unmitigated catastrophe that will cast a shadow for generations. What will it take to stop it?

Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

The reports from today are harrowing. We know that at some point the US will force a cease fire. How many deaths will it take? Will 30,000 be enough? 40,000? 50,000?

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

5 years

I don't think Boris Johnson believes in anything other than Boris Johnson. But if he does believe in something, it's this racist social Darwinism.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

2 years

In 2010, Itamar Ben Gvir was the attorney of Haim Perlman (centre), arrested on suspicion of murdering Khairi al-Qam. Perlman was never charged. Yesterday al-Qam's grandson, who was named after him murdered seven Israelis. Ben Gvir is the Israeli minister of National Security.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

Netanyahu's decision to escalate the bombing of Gaza despite the presence of Israeli hostages and prisoners there sends a devastating message to Israelis. Far more dangerous to Israeli cohesion and sense of security than Hamas's atrocious attack. 1/

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

Shouting "free Palestine" randomly at Jews in the UK is antisemitic, in the same way that shouting randomly anti-China slogans at East Asian people would be racist.

Hannah Rose

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3 years

Sat outside a kosher restaurant in Golders Green with a friend. Someone driving past leans out the window and screams “free palestine”. We’re a bit shaken. British Jews are not responsible for a foreign conflict.

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Yair Wallach

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4 years

I want to explain something that perhaps isn't clear to some people. Jews deported to Auschwitz were told they were sent to a work camp. The "Arbeit Macht Frei" was part of that deception. The sign pretended to say "work hard and you'll survive". But this was a lie. 1/

Owen Jones

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This is a genuinely despicable tweet, belittling the seriousness of the industrialised mass murder of six million Jews. Anyone who speaks like this has no place in the left whatsoever.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

2 years

The former opinion editor of the Forward recommending to "always read" a Nazi whose twitter handle has reference to Heil Hitler (88). That's where we're at.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

Guys, better sit down, I have some things to tell you about the United States of America

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

Seven weeks after the 7th October, PM Benjamin Netanyahu has still not found time to meet with survivors and refugees from the Kibbutzim that were attacked - but he does have time to meet with Elon Musk tomorrow.

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Yair Wallach

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3 years

Deeply moved to see a dear colleague - one of the brightest and most original historians of the Middle East I know - detained in a military jeep, his eyes covered, for the crime of delivering water to Palestinians in the south Hebron hills.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

Danny Danon, former Ambassador to the UN (Likud, coalition), and Ram Ben Barak, former deputy head of Mossad (Yesh Atid, opposition) demand that the world help Israel expel Palestinians from Gaza by accepting them as refugees. Monstrous, brazen, stupid.

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1 year

There are obvious parallels between the current attack and the 1973 war. In both cases, Arab leaders had reached out to Israeli leadership, and were rebuffed. Sadat to Golda's government, and Sinwar to Netanyahu (he even sent him a note in Hebrew) 1/

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Yair Wallach

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1 year

But for now, we should focus on the ongoing catastrophe. We know this fascist government for what it is, we know the underlying forces. We understand that, especially with the Kahanists in power, genocide is entirely possible. Stopping that should be our priority. /4

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

1/ Yesterday we saw forceful and vocal response from Palestinians worldwide to incidents in which people waving the Palestine flags targeted Jewish neighbourhoods in London with vile antisemitic harassment and threats. The response below is one of many.

Jehad Abusalim جهاد أبو سليم

@JehadAbusalim

3 years

Antisemites are never welcome in the movement for justice and peace in Palestine. Pass it on.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

My view on the settler-colonial framework in Palestine/Israel: it is an absolutely vital lens for understanding history and present; it is essential yet insufficient to explain Zionism; and, as we've seen, much of its current political use is disastrous and hyperbolic.

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11 months

People think that acknowledging Zionism's settler colonial dimension leads inevitably to a one state solution or even Hamas-style "decolonisation". In fact, the settler-colonial impulse is what, more than anything, killed the two state solution. 1/

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@YairWallach

6 years

Corbyn and Munich-gate: Why is everyone getting the facts wrong? I mean, everyone??? =======>>>>>>>

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

4 years

If you, a white English person, are talking about the systemic racism as a global issue, and the only example you come up with is "Israeli secret services taught US police how to kill black people", then it doesn't sound like you want to understand global systemic racism 1/

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1 year

You're not a legitimate target just because of where you were happened to be born. Is this so difficult to understand

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1 year

We have little power or influence and we should use it for preventing the killing of tens of thousands. The Israeli government has been given carte blanche to act, the cries for revenge are deafening, and unthinkable horrors could unfold. 5/

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@YairWallach

1 year

95 year old Ezra Yachin did, in fact, participate in the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

"Stop the occupation, stop the bombing, and the casual antisemitism will soon disappear". NO. Diaspora Jews are not accountable for the occupation and the bombing. Stop the occupation. Stop the bombing. Fight antisemitism. These things do not, must not, depend on each other.

Adam Langleben 🇺🇦

@adamlangleben

3 years

This sounds to me like a justification for antisemitism, potentially even incitement. I mean I can't even begin... these are supposed leftists and anti-racists whose usual mantra is that racism is never justified...Apart from now obv.

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Yair Wallach

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3 years

2 million people have been living in the penal colony of Gaza for 16 years now, noticed by the world once every few years, only when the bombs start falling. What kind of a world is this.

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Yair Wallach

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1 year

Most of us are devastated by the failure of so many people - progressives, people we know and appreciate - to say anything about the Hamas's 7 Oct atrocity, to acknowledge it for what it was - even with a word. Worse are those who endorse the attack, or even celebrate it. 2/

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

If you are looking for people shouting "from the river to the sea", you can start with the Israeli government, which not only says such things but is also implementing them daily.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

When is an antisemitic caricature not an antisemitic caricature? When we like the person behind it.

Campaign Against Antisemitism

@antisemitism

3 years

Our statement on suggestions that JK Rowling's portrayal of the goblins in the Harry Potter series is antisemitic

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

6 months ago, Smotrich called to wipe out Huwarra - and was met with universal outrage and condemnation. In the last 3 days, five neighbourhoods in Gaza were very literally wiped out, without condemnation. Outrage over Hamas's atrocity does not justify staying silent now.

Combatants for Peace

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Israel's Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, calls for the erasure of the Palestinian village of Hawara. "The village of Hawara needs to be wiped out. I think the state of Israel is the one that needs to erase it." #HuwarahPogrom @POTUS @StateDept @SecBlinken

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Yair Wallach

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Everyone is overwhelmed by enormous pain and grief and cannot see, hear and believe the stories from the other side. And it's not surprising. What I can't take is people mocking accounts of atrocities as "obviously false". Nothing is obvious now and the mocking is disgusting

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Yair Wallach

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1 year

The 1940 anti-Nazi manifesto of Palestinian leftist intellectual Najati Sidqi, in which he argued that Nazi ideology goes against the principles of Islam.

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10 months

"Saying that Israel kills children in Gaza plays into a modern blood libel" "Saying Hamas murdered kids and raped women plays into the racist depiction of Arabs as barbarians" Both arguments are made and both are terrible. You don't fight dehumanisation by denying reality

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

8 months

Sociologist Yagil Levy, Haaretz: "Israel embarked on a campaign of vengeance devoid of either military or diplomatic logic. This campaign of vengeance is fueled as much by anger at ourselves over our failure as it is by anger at the Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip." 1/

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

2 years

Israel's government is moving fast to eliminate the judiciary, public broadcasting, and academic freedom, and remove the civic rights of Palestinian citizens. It is completely acceptable to describe these measures as fascist.

Adam Bienkov

@AdamBienkov

2 years

Keir Starmer's spokesman says that Labour MP Kim Johnson's description of Israel's government as "fascist" at #pmqs was "completely unacceptable" and the Labour chief whip will be demanding she withdraw her comments.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

Israeli activists, who accompanied Palestinian shepherds in the West Bank, viciously attacked by settlers.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

I regret to inform you that Bezalel Smotrich's roots in Palestine go back to the 18th century. Regardless, the problem with Smotrich is not that he has a name that ends with the slavic "ich", but that he is Jewish supremacist committed to ethnic cleansing.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

If you have Palestinian or Israeli friends, colleagues, employees, if you know anyone with loved ones there - check on them. We're terrified, shocked, worried sick, in pain. We need to know you see us.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

The term Apartheid, as a shorthand for a system in which some people have full political rights and most people have no political rights - is pretty much a common-sense way to describe the West Bank. To call it "antisemitism" is gaslighting.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

A devastatingly detailed reporting from @yuval_abraham demonstrating the manner in which civilian houses and residential blocs in Gaza became military targets, resulting in the horrendous death toll of the last 8 weeks. Please read.

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an AI system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza.

www.972mag.com

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

I am sharing this, reluctantly, to point to the song they're singing. It's a Kahanist revenge song, words from the biblical story of Samson: "O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes" (Yimach Shemam, may their name be effaced, the youths chant)

איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh

@AyOdeh

3 years

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

1 year

I'll say this again, if you use your public voice to cast doubt on unverified accounts of atrocities, but have absolutely nothing to say on abundant verified accounts of atrocities, not even a tiny word, you are an apologist and I don't want you anywhere near my feed

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

8 months

There is ample documentation of looting in Gaza, in videos posted by Israeli soldiers. It's an indication of the weakness of IDF's high command; looting is a symptom of a military force with poor discipline, and it's indicative of much more serious issues.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

2 years

Itamar Ben Gvir (here kicking a Trans woman, 2008), the new Israeli minister for national security, would be in charge of: Police Border Police in the West Bank "Green patrol" (against Beduins) And his party in charge of: heritage and archaeology "Negev and Galilee development"

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

Azmi Bishara, 2005: "The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians isn't between the good guys and the bad guys, it's between justice and injustice. There are good and bad people on both sides. Occupation is evil, not people." 1/

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

I'll say this again: the debate on Jewish "indigeneity" is entirely a North American obsession and a conversation conducted in English. In Israel, the only people who refer to themselves *in Hebrew* as indigenous are Palestinians.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

Remarkable consistency from the Israeli right, insisting that "there was no expulsion in 1948, it's all a lie" and then threatening "watch out or we'll do it again".

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

Anti-Zionism does not "slip over into antisemitism". It's not a sliding scale. Rather, views on Zionism (hostile or supportive) can overlap with (and articulated through) antisemitism.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

2/ Antisemitism in the Palestine activism scene in the West almost never comes from Palestinians, almost always comes from non-Palestinian activists. We should acknowledge the heavy burden this places on Palestinians, especially in this moment.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

4 years

Ladies and gentlemen the Free Speech Champions celebrating a fantastic win

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

It's striking that many people seem to think that harassing, threatening and excluding Jews who live outside Israel is a way to fight Israel, when in fact this is doing (accumulatively) the exact opposite

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

11 months

A ground invasion of Gaza is directly at odds with prioritising the safe return of the captives.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

10 months

2023 and 1948: when does forced displacement become ethnic cleansing? Thread.

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Yair Wallach

@YairWallach

3 years

PM Bennet today: I'm against Oslo. I will not allow a Palestinian state. I will not allow negotiations with the Palestinians. Strangely some people are completely sanguine about this version of "From the River to the Sea"

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