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Ben Reiff

16 days

Ok this might be the weirdest story I’ve ever reported on, involving: • A totally fabricated “exclusive” • A suspected pro-Netanyahu influence campaign • An author whose biography is entirely made up What on earth is going on at @JewishChron ?

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Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?

Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.

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3 years

Last night, Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on set fire to hay bails in the Palestinian village of Tuba, in the South Hebron Hills. This is what occupation looks like.

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2 years

Something happened last night at a small protest in Tel Aviv which illustrated Israeli apartheid in one of the most blatant ways that I’ve ever personally witnessed. 1/

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3 years

Loud and clear:

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'We scream, starve, and die alone': Life in the ruins of Shuja'iya @MushtahaW reports from the besieged Gaza City neighborhood where Palestinian residents are risking death to get their hands on a bag of flour.

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7 months

The obliteration of Gaza’s multi-civilizational treasures: Great Omari Mosque (2,500 years old) Qasr al-Basha (800 years old) Church of St. Porphyrius (1,600 years old) Hammam al-Sammara (~1,000 years old) Photos by @OmarElQattaa

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3 years

Tonight hundreds of Israeli youths are marching through Arab areas of Jerusalem chanting “death to Arabs” and “the people demand Arabs on fire”, and are now attacking the homes of Arabs in the Old City. Call this what it is: a pogrom.

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צפו: פורעים תוקפים בית בעיר העתיקה. כך נראה כהניזם

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11 months

In a truly jaw-dropping document revealed in full today by @yuval_abraham in @972mag , Israel’s Intelligence Ministry officially proposes the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents in the framework of the current war.

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Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov't ministry

An Intelligence Ministry document revealed by Local Call and +972 shows how population transfer to the Sinai is reaching official discussions.

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2 years

Nothing in Israel-Palestine happens in a vacuum. Tonight a Palestinian killed 7+ Jews at a synagogue. Yesterday Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians in Jenin. Israel has held millions of Palestinians under military rule for 56 years, and kept them in refugee camps for 75.

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2 years

If more of us do colonialism we can do better colonialism

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2 years

This didn’t happen in the occupied West Bank, where separate and unequal legal systems exist for Israelis and Palestinians, but in Tel Aviv. From the river to the sea, it’s one set of rules for Jews, and another set of rules for Palestinians. end/

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Rugs, cosmetics, motorbikes: Israeli soldiers are looting Gaza homes en masse Soldiers tell @OrenZiv_ how stealing Palestinian property has become totally routine in the Gaza war, with minimal pushback from commanders.

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2 years

Yet the sole Palestinian at this small protest, who was only present for a few minutes and did not participate in any civil disobedience, was chased into the dorm complex by police (including undercovers) and violently arrested. 9/

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3 years

“Out of nothing”

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2 years

Dozens of Palestinian children and their parents are marching now in Jaffa to protest the closure of Arab schools and kindergartens in favour of Jewish ones

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Ben Reiff

4 years

Here we go again: back at Balfour with thousands of protestors demonstrating against the Netanyahu-led government. Parallel protests taking place simultaneously in Rosh Pina, Caesarea, Mitzpe Ramon, Nazareth and Jadeidi-Makr as well as on bridges throughout the country.

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2 years

We found out after that the police had arrested him. For no reason. After several Jewish Israelis had repeatedly blocked the road in an act of civil disobedience without getting arrested. 8/

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Ben Reiff

2 years

Live from the Palestinian return march in the depopulated village of Mi’ar, whose residents were expelled in 1948 and are still forbidden from returning

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14 days

It seems that by firing Elon Perry @JewishChron is hoping to put this whole affair to bed, as if decisions weren’t made at the very top to employ a fake journalist, publish nine fake articles without verifying sources, and use the paper an active agent in a pro-Bibi influence op.

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Conclusion of Jewish Chronicle investigation into Elon Perry

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Ben Reiff

2 years

It was a protest against Israel’s policy of administrative detention, by which it detains hundreds of Palestinians at a time without charge or trial. Around 40 Israelis gathered with Palestinians flags and posters bearing the faces of Palestinian minors currently detained. 3/

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2 years

And a video of the Palestinian man being taken away by police 👇

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2 years

#IsraeliApartheid police arresting a Palestinian-Israeli yesterday - for watching a protest. He was fined and released today. While Jewish Israelis can block a road in front of a police station, without repercussion, Palestinian-Israelis are beaten and arrested for just watching.

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2 years

Israel’s army knew exactly what settlers were planning in Huwara last night: it was organized publicly. But they stood by for hours while settlers burnt homes & cars with people inside, and threw stones at ambulances. 6(!) were arrested — already released. A state-backed pogrom.

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4 years

Anti-occupation bloc calling for “democracy for all, from the Jordan [river] to the sea”

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2 years

The protest took place in front of the Shin Bet HQ (Israel’s internal security services) which is right next to Tel Aviv University, on the lands of the depopulated and destroyed Palestinian village of Sheikh Muwannis. 2/

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2 years

Photos of the protest here 👇

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YESTERDAY: A protest in front of the Shin Bet's headquarters in Sheikh Muwanis (Tel Aviv University), calling for an end to administrative detention and the release of Amal Nakhleh, 18, who has been under administrative detention for over a year without charge or trial.

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4 years

Protestors hold up letters spelling out “hope” in English, Hebrew, Arabic

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2 years

One young Palestinian man, wearing a kuffiyeh, had happened upon the protest on his way out of the university and joined for a few minutes. He did not take part in the civil disobedience, but just stood briefly with the small crowd of Israeli protesters. 5/

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2 years

The protest quickly disbanded as the rest of the crowd ran after the police who were chasing the Palestinian man into the student dorms. When we arrived, the police were blocking the entrance to the dorm complex and we couldn’t see the Palestinian man anymore. 7/

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2 years

After a while, several of the protesters started to block the road with their bodies in an act of civil disobedience. The dozens of police who were present lifted them up and threw them back onto the sidewalk. This repeated for about 20 minutes, with no arrests. 4/

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2 years

After a few minutes, he left and headed back toward the student dormitories. One of the Israeli protesters went with him. They walked off for about 20 seconds while the protest continued, before suddenly at least a dozen police officers started sprinting after them. 6/

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Ben Reiff

3 years

Discourse update:

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3 years

Overnight, activists in Israel filled the streets of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa with the faces of the children killed in the violence of the past month — 67 in Gaza, 3 in Israel. At the top of each photo is simply written “why?”

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Ben Reiff

1 month

Israeli media is now reporting that the six hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza this morning were likely killed as a consequence of army activity — confirming what Hamas stated months ago.

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יורם מצגר נרצח בשבי. הערכה: 5 החטופים נחנקו למוות עקב שריפה מתקיפת צה"ל

ככל הנראה, במהלך התמרון של אוגדה 98 בחאן יונס לפני חצי שנה, הותקף יעד סמוך למנהרה שממנה הושבו גופותיהם של אלכס דנציג, יורם מצגר, אברהם מונדר, חיים פרי, יגב בוכשטב ונדב פופלוול. ההערכות: פחמן דו־חמצני...

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7 months

It’s very revealing that in a new communique to commanders fighting in Gaza, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi needs to clarify: “We are not on a campaign of killing, revenge, or genocide.” He also urges soldiers “not to take anything that isn’t ours” or “film revenge videos.”

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2 years

This is the future we’re building

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Uri Agnon

2 years

#SheikhJarrah : 200 Palestinian and Israeli activists celebrate the holidays tonight in a joint festive meal. Right on the street where families are fighting against displacement - This isn’t ‘coexistence’, its co-resistance and it’s beautiful. #SaveSheikhJarrah

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3 years

This afternoon in Sheikh Jarrah — an Israeli police officer with nothing better to do than snatch tiny Palestinian flags out of the hands of peaceful protesters.

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4 months

And so it begins. The first Israeli youths descend upon Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate for the annual supremacist Flags March, after police emptied the area of Palestinians. They are singing the genocidal “revenge” chant: “May their [the Palestinians’] name be erased” @OrenZiv_

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2 years

Incredible video of a young Palestinian catching and throwing back a tear gas grenade fired by Israeli forces today in Qaryut, occupied West Bank, captured by Abdelrahman Younis (IG: aboudyounis)

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Ben Reiff

8 months

This you?

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Jake Wallis Simons

8 months

From time to time, I hear people say that Islam and Muslims are “the problem”. This is profoundly wrong. The former is a wonderful world religion and the latter are either friends and allies or potential friends and allies. We must, however, firmly oppose to the ideology and

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1 year

The editor of the Jewish Chronicle, ladies and gentlemen

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1 year

Just so we’re totally clear about what just happened: Netanyahu launched intensive air strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, killing 13 Palestinians including several children, all so that Ben Gvir will rejoin the gov and they won’t be forced to go to new elections

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1 year

Twitter’s reporting function working just as well as you might expect then

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2 years

Every life lost — Jewish and Palestinian — is a tragedy. And every life lost is a consequence of maintaining a system of domination of one people over another, which necessitates near-daily killing and generates killing in return.

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Ben Reiff

3 years

A Palestinian flag is not an existential threat to Jewish life in Britain. A Palestinian flag is not an existential threat to Jewish life in Britain. A Palestinian flag is not an existential threat to Jewish life in Britain. A Palestinian flag is not an existential threat

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9 months

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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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5 months

When Israel bombed a convoy of foreign aid workers from @WCKitchen on a pre-approved route in Gaza, it rightfully made headlines around the world. It’s been two days since this @972mag investigation into a similar incident involving Palestinian technicians, and … crickets.

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In January, Israeli soldiers attacked a convoy of Palestinian technicians repairing a telecoms machine in Gaza, killing two. Contrary to the army’s account, an investigation shows the workers coordinated every step of the journey along an approved route.

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Ben Reiff

3 years

Beautiful images of solidarity this morning in Burin (occupied WB), where hundreds of Israeli activists have arrived to the site of a violent settler attack 2 weeks ago on Palestinians and Israeli activists while they were planting trees. Many more trees will be planted today.

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2 years

This is what Israeli apartheid looks like. A week ago, Hafez Hureini was attacked by armed Israeli settlers who broke both of his arms while he was working on his land in the occupied South Hebron Hills. The settlers weren’t arrested, but Hafez was — accused of attempted murder.

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2 years

“You bring problems” says the teenage American settler colonist — protected by an occupation soldier — to @Issaamro who has lived his whole life in Hebron under apartheid.

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10 months

Another totally normal statement from a totally normal Israeli minister

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🇮🇱שלמה קרעי - Shlomo Karhi

11 months

״וְכָל הַבְּאֵרֹת אֲשֶׁר חָפְרוּ עַבְדֵי אָבִיו בִּימֵי אַבְרָהָם אָבִיו סִתְּמוּם פְּלִשְׁתִּים וַיְמַלְאוּם עָפָר״. ״וימלאום״ מופיע פעמיים בתנ״ך, אחד כאן ואחד לגבי ערלות פלשתים - לפי שעבר אבימלך על שבועתו ומילא הבארות בעפר, מילא דוד לשאול מאה ערלות פלשתים בכפליים ונתן לו מאתים

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1 year

“This photo is actually from a different time Israeli soldiers raided and brutalised Al Aqsa” is not the argument you think it is

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יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad

1 year

Pay attention to the fake news of Palestinians who are releasing a photo from last year to incite and ignite the tensions in the Arab world... Everything was timed and ready!

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4 years

HAPPENING NOW: Protest in Paris Square (outside Bibi’s residence on Balfour Street) against the Netanyahu-led government

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3 years

Amazing designs by a Palestinian architecture student at Abu Dis University imagining the Israeli wall after it is dismantled

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סטודנטית פלסטינית לאדריכלות באונברסיטת אבו דיס, עיצבה בפרויקט הגמר שלה בתואר את גדר ההפרדה בקלנדיה לאחר שיוסר (אם בכלל) וזכתה לתגובות בינלאומיות מחמיאות דווקא.

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9 months

“I cannot sleep, not even for one minute. I am constantly haunted by the voices and screams of people under the rubble as they beg us to pull them out.” One of the most harrowing pieces we’ve published on @972mag since the war began, by @ruwaidaamer8

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Gaza's rescue workers are haunted by those they couldn't save

Civil defense teams are working around the clock with minimal resources to help Palestinians trapped under the rubble. Too often, it’s a losing battle.

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Ben Reiff

2 years

Activists in Jaffa are restoring the city’s pre-1948 street names. Today, the street names almost exclusively reference Jewish/Israeli cultural and religious figures, erasing Jaffa’s Arab/Palestinian history — which this project seeks to revive.

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3 years

*** OPEN LETTER ON HOTOVELY *** A group of Jewish LSE students and alumni have written a statement in response to the conflation of protests against Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely with antisemitism. Please read, share and sign if appropriate!

We're a group of Jewish LSE students & alumni, and we say: No to Hotovely on campus

As Jewish students and alumni of the LSE who are committed to Palestinian liberation and to the fight against antisemitism, we are deeply concerned about the event that took place on campus this week...

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Ben Reiff

3 years

It’s a beautiful thing to see the streets of Tel Aviv — days after some of the worst violence in years — overflowing with Jewish and Palestinian-Arab citizens demanding peace and an end to the occupation. ✊ Thanks @omdimbeyachad @BtSIsrael @peacenowisrael @Hadash_org

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11 months

The Intelligence Ministry is not a particularly consequential body, and the chances of the plan being put into action appear slim, but the fact that this is being discussed at all among senior Israeli policymakers should cause serious alarm.

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1 year

Israel’s national security minister: “The right of me, my wife and kids to travel around the West Bank is more important than that of the Arabs. Sorry Mohammed, but that’s the reality.” Anyone who’s still not calling this apartheid — what else do they have to say?

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Noa Landau נעה לנדאו

1 year

״הזכות שלי, של אשתי, של הילדים שלי, להסתובב בכבישי יהודה ושומרון - יותר חשוב מזכות התנועה של הערבים״

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Ben Reiff

3 years

Tonight, in response to the deteriorating situation in Israel-Palestine, 200+ British Jews gathered in London (+ dozens more across the country) to say loud and clear that there is no future in Israel-Palestine except one with justice and freedom for all. Join us. @NaamodUK

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3 years

Israeli police knew this was happening tonight. Fascists have been planning it openly. That it has been allowed to take place tells you everything you need to know about who the state protects and who it leaves defenceless.

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Ben Reiff

3 years

Hundreds of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals marching now in Sheikh Jarrah against Israel’s attempts to displace and dispossess Palestinian families here and replace them with settlers #SaveSheikhJarrah

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1 year

What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

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Avner Gvaryahu

1 year

Israeli Policemen beat up a Palestinian resident of Shuafat refugee camp, covered his face, tied him up, punched him and seard a Star of David on his face. 16 police officers with 16 body cams- all malfunctioned. One Palestinian with a tattooed Star of David. I feel sick

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6 months

New investigation by @yuval_abraham in @972mag & @mekomit reveals that the Israeli army has developed an AI program known as “Lavender” to mark 37,000 Gazans as suspects for assassination, with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties.

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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local...

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1 year

“Israel isn’t ethnically cleansing children, only teenagers!”

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1 year

The @nytimes emotively captions this photo: "A diary left behind by a child in an abandoned Palestinian village." We asked a native Arabic speaker to take a look. The writing is actually that of a teenager in love, not a child. This is a deliberate misuse of a photo caption in

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2 years

Ah yes, “not apartheid”

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Ben Reiff

3 years

This is how Israeli apartheid works: A judge who lives in an illegal settlement is determining whether to expel 1,000+ Palestinians from Masafer Yatta, where they have lived for generations, in line with the state’s claim that they are “illegally living in an army firing zone”

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Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם

3 years

במשפט על גירוש תושבי 8 כפרים במסאפר השופט מינץ תושב ההתנחלות דולב, אמר: "המדינה טוענת שיש להם בתים ביטא". עוה"ד השיב לו: "זה לא נכון. ואם כן, אז מה? זה כמו להגיד על תושב פריז, שהוא מאבד את ביתו בפריז, אם הוא יוצא בקיץ לבית בכפר". מינץ אגב גר בהתנחלות שהוקמה ב83. נולד בבית באנגליה

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2 years

Shawan Jabarin, director of human rights NGO @alhaq_org , after Israeli forces raided their office this morning: “There is no justice in Palestine… People need to open their eyes: this is an apartheid, colonial state, and this is the nature of the occupation here.”

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11 months

We are witnessing an extremely dangerous moment, in which Israel is smashing its own records for the obliteration of Palestinian life in Gaza, while settler-soldier militias in the West Bank have expelled at least 13 entire Palestinian communities since Oct. 7 (via @btselem ).

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2 years

Israel’s new extreme-right coalition is being sworn in today. Here are some of its lesser known figures, in their own words 🧵

You've heard of Bibi and Ben Gvir. Meet the rest of the new government

Members of Netanyahu's coalition are coming with a plethora of radical agendas, from neutering the Supreme Court to 'deleting' parts of Gaza.

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3 years

Now in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair (South Hebron Hills), under the shadow of the illegal settlement of Carmel, hundreds have joined the funeral of community elder Hajj Suleiman al-Hathaleen who was killed in a hit-and-run by an Israeli police truck. (Photo: @OrenZiv_ )

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3 years

This is what happens to Israeli activists who stand with Palestinians against the occupation. 65-year-old Eli from @cfpeace was hospitalised today after being assaulted by an IDF soldier in the South Hebron Hills. End the occupation.

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Ben Reiff

4 years

A year ago I started taking photos of street signs in Jerusalem on which the Arabic had been deliberately covered up. 50+ photos later, here’s my piece in @972mag explaining this phenomenon and putting it in its wider context 👇

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The Israeli right is erasing Arabic from Jerusalem, one street sign at a time - +972 Magazine

A campaign by right-wing activists to strike off Arabic from signs goes hand in hand with government attempts to uproot the city's Palestinian identity.

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Protest now outside the Shin Bet office (Israeli security service) in north Tel Aviv, in light of the deteriorating health of Palestinian hunger striker Hisham Abu Hawash, held in administrative detention — without charge or trial — since October 2020.

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3 years

The false equivalence between these two cases — antisemitic white nationalists in Charlottesville and Palestinians resisting settler colonialism in Jerusalem — is disgusting

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11 months

That things have gotten to this point shows starkly the extent to which international actors with the power to affect the reality on the ground have buried their heads in the sand. They must act now.

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It's the same story as the three hostages' bodies recovered in January. "My son was indeed murdered," the mother of one of them later wrote on Facebook. "Not by Hamas."

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A hostage’s mother says toxic gas from Israeli bombs killed her son. Is she right?

Sources say the Israeli army knows weapons targeting tunnels can disperse gasses, which families fear may have killed three hostages.

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3 years

On the same day that Israel & Zionist orgs around the world are getting hysterical about @amnesty ’s new apartheid report, the J’lem court ruled to forcibly evict a Palestinian family from Sheikh Jarrah so a Jewish city council member can take over their home. It’s not complicated

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Ben Reiff

2 years

Or maybe it’s the result of decades worth of Israel’s brutal occupation and colonization,which the world is no longer willing to let slide

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Blake Flayton

2 years

This is the result of decades worth of anti-Jewish propaganda that has penetrated deep into our academic institutions.

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Ben Reiff

3 years

From tonight’s Christmas festival in the depopulated Palestinian village of Bir’im, organised by refugees from 1948 and their families. In 1953, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled there was no reason to prevent their return. Weeks later, Israel’s Air Force bombed it to the ground.

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1 year

In mere months, entire Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho have been chased out by settler violence and state policies — paving the way for a total Israeli takeover of thousands of acres of land. Read @OrenZiv_ ’s report from the ground:

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‘It’s like 1948’: Israel cleanses vast West Bank region of nearly all Palestinians

Entire Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho have been chased out by settler violence, paving the way for a total Israeli takeover.

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Ben Reiff

2 years

Yoseph Haddad is so Zionized he’s now claiming Palestinians are being antisemitic *to him* 😂

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1 year

Settler colonialism isn’t a slur, it’s a structure.

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1 year

We condemn the use of inflammatory language by @pietragallahora the Argentinian Secretary of Human Rights calling into question the legitimacy of the State of #Israel by invoking false claims including that, Israel is a colonialist enterprise.

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(For those wondering, the Omari Mosque is believed to stand on the site of a Philistine temple, which was then converted into a Byzantine church, before being converted into a mosque)

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11 months

An alternative option — reinstating Palestinian Authority rule in Gaza — is described as the least desirable, because “the division between the Palestinian population in [the WB] and Gaza is one of the main obstacles today preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.”

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Ben Reiff

2 years

Today, the “Jewish and democratic” state of Israel is voting for its new government. Except, “Jewish and democratic” is an oxymoron. Look what happens when a Palestinian party in Israel proposes a law to make Israel a “state of all its citizens” (you know, a democracy)

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11 months

The document explains how exactly such a move would be carried out, including with the help of varying propaganda messages targeted at Palestinians, the Arab world, and the international community writ large.

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3 months

NEW: Testimonies from six Israeli soldiers who recently served in Gaza describe being authorized to open fire on Palestinians — including civilians — virtually at will. 🧵 @OrenZiv_ for @972mag & @mekomit .

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‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza

Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please.

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Ben Reiff

4 years

Bristol lecturer David Miller’s antisemitism is subtle, and the whole affair provides an excellent example of why it’s so important to listen to Jews on the left when discussing antisemitism on the left. [THREAD]

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Ben Reiff

3 years

BoD: Israel is a state of all its citizens Israel:

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3 years

We have seen a copy of a report due to be released by @AmnestyUK tomorrow. We are shocked but not surprised by the content given the history of AI UK’s one-sided positioning on Israel. @bodpres and @JLC_uk Chair Keith Black have issued the following statement:

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Ben Reiff

3 years

In May 2021, Israeli settlers re-established an illegal outpost on the land of Beita, calling it Evyatar. Palestinians have protested every week since then, and *8 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers*. Now, the attorney general has green-lighted its legalisation.

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Haaretz.com

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'They want a war': Attorney General's approval of West Bank outpost spurs on Palestinian protests

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Ben Reiff

3 years

Today in Israeli apartheid, the government authorized four new Jewish-only communities in the south, while a few kilometers away soldiers raided the Palestinian village of a-Tuwani to issue stop work orders for a house and electricity towers. (Photo via @YouthOfSumud )

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Ben Reiff

4 years

Sign in Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic: “breaking institutionalised racism - unity of the struggles, justice for all”

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3 years

On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, students in London reject the far-right

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The Jewish Chronicle

3 years

On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, a Jew hunting mob on the streets of London - The Jewish Chronicle leader

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Ben Reiff

6 months

Israel claims that 9,000 of the 32,000+ Palestinians it has killed in Gaza over the past six months are terrorists. In reality, Israel posthumously defines as “terrorists” anyone killed in the areas where it’s forces are operating 👇

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Israel created 'kill zones' in Gaza. Anyone who crosses into them is shot

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Ben Reiff

11 months

The expulsion of Gazans to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is the most desirable plan on the table, the document states, because it “will enable the creation of significant deterrence in the entire region.”

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Ben Reiff

3 years

Right now, some 200 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists are marching in the South Hebron Hills against the occupation and in solidarity with the local Palestinian residents who have faced heightened IDF and settler violence in recent days & weeks. Solidarity.

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Ben Reiff

6 months

In Israel’s torture camps for Gaza detainees, “inmates are fed through straws, defecate in diapers, and are held in constant restraints … Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which … is a routine event.”

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Doctor at IDF field hospital for detained Gazans: 'We are all complicit in breaking law'

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Ben Reiff

3 years

The JNF is so normalised in the Jewish diaspora that you’ll find a donation box in almost every synagogue. But this is the reality of the JNF’s role in Israel-Palestine for over a century and to this day: to cleanse the land of its indigenous Palestinian population.

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Activestills

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TODAY: Palestinian Bedouins try to stop Israeli bulldozers being used in a tree-planting program carried out by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) on the land of the #Naqab desert, also known as #Negev .

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NOW: Hundreds of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals are demonstrating in Sheikh Jarrah against state-settler attempts to Judaize the neighborhood. Co-resistance works — the court has delayed the planned eviction of the Salem family, but the order can still be activated.

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