It turns out the organization that has been bringing celebrities such as Noah Schnapp, Nikita Dragun, Michael Rapaport, Scooter Braun, Tiffany Haddish, and Debra Messing on propaganda trips to Israel is the Maccabee Task Force, a right-wing Israel advocacy group.
The new Israeli plan for the ‘day after’ is to divide Gaza into small territories with local collaborating leaders in control of some, limited aspects of their internal functioning. Very novel idea, definitely never been done before.
It turns out the likely organizer of the protests to block aid to Gaza is Andy Green, an American Kahanist and the prime suspect in a 1985 bombing that killed Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh.
אז מי עומד מאחורי חסימת משאיות הסיוע ההומניטרי?
זה סיפור על פעיל טרור יהודי אמריקאי ששמו נקשר ברצח. הוא נמלט, מחליף שם והופך לעורך דין בישראל. באורח פלא, כתובת המשרד שלו בירושלים היא גם כתובת העמותה שעומדת מאחורי חסימת מעבר כרם שלום.
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@UXHenry
@jzux
I’m sure they’re expensive, but so is a collapsing health care system and maintaining a global military presence. The reality is that the US could have mobilized production (& still can) to respond to the pandemic, but instead chose to continue business as usual and mass death.
Hasbara is truly reaching its dumbest levels, but to answer — under the 1994 Paris Protocol between Israel and the PLO, and later incorporated into Oslo II, the Palestinians are not allowed to independently introduce a separate Palestinian currency.
Palestinians may hate Israel, but they for sure love Israeli money.
Gaza, with its own Central Bank since 1995 and self-governance since 2005, continues to use the Israeli shekel as its currency.
How serious are the Palestinians about their autonomy?
Ramadan Kareem. It is currently the holy month of Ramadan. A time of fasting, reflection, and togetherness for Israel’s 1.7 million Muslim citizens. Israel prides itself on religious freedom for all. Jews, Muslims, Christians, all religions can practice equally in Israel.
That’s
In creating this ‘buffer zone’ Israel has destroyed thousands of buildings — including homes, schools, medical clinics, mosques, greenhouses, as well as agricultural lands. This widespread demolition is unlawful and constitutes a war crime.
Without providing many details, Israel is currently pursuing a massive project in the Gaza Strip – the establishment of a buffer zone adjacent to the border fence with Israel.
This is what it looks like in satellite images
Biden was just asked if the airstrikes in Yemen are working.
His response: “Well, when you say 'working' are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.”
Now that we have some idea what Israel can do to Hezbollah if so minded, we can appreciate how amazingly restrained it was of Israel to endure almost 12 months of unprovoked rocket attacks before hitting back hard.
Noa Tishby is claiming that *actors wearing pins in support of a ceasefire* is “subconscious antisemitism; at its worst, deliberate attacks against Jews.”
Combatting antisemitism is doomed as long as these people continue to make it into a mockery.
Tonight’s Oscars was a subtle and overt display of Jew-hatred. Hollywood stars including Billie Eilish, Finneas, Mark Ruffalo, Ava DuVernay, Ramy Youssef and Quannah Chasinghorse wore red pins that represent the group Artists4Ceasefire.
Ramy Youssef explained that the pin
I believe this is the first university encampment in Israel — started yesterday at Bezalel University, Israel’s most prestigious art school, by their
@omdimbeyachad
chapter
I’m begging these apartheid apologist influencers to stop filming random Palestinians existing as “proof” that it’s not apartheid. Try speaking to and learning from Palestinians, instead of using them as anonymous props without their permission.
Many diaspora Jews, including myself, had the privilege to speak with, but unfortunately never meet, Khalil. He was a teacher, a peace activist, he loved to read. He was only able to leave Gaza once in his life. Despite everything, he had hope.
This is Khalil Abu Yahiya. He was killed today by Israel in Gaza along with his whole family.
Khalil was a lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza.
He was a brilliant writer, activist and thinker who loved reading and teaching his students 🧵
The ADL and the rest of the American Jewish establishment need to realize that their own personal discomfort with hearing about Israeli atrocities perpetrated against Palestinians, whether in 1948 or today, is not antisemitism.
Too many American Jewish teenagers come to the occupied West Bank to live out their violent, racial supremacist, Manifest Destiny fantasies—not only as settlers, but as soldiers too. There’s no other way to describe it but a moral failure by American Jewish community leaders.
“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.
I truly have no words for the fact that the IDF is doing publicity tours in Gaza for random ‘celebrities,’ all while it continues to bomb and displace millions of Palestinians
Julia Haart, fashion designer and star of the Netflix reality show 'My Unorthodox Life, ' spent the day with IDF troops in Gaza following her visit to Israel's South.
#Israel
#Gaza
Over the past 18 months, the Maccabee Task Force has allegedly brought over 150 celebrities and social media influencers on fully subsidized trips to Israel, in exchange for them posting pro-Israel content during and after their trip.
I tweeted this in anger before I fell asleep, anger that my identities are being weaponized to justify this death and destruction, and I woke up to tons of people saying I should be thrown off buildings.
Without fail, after every Israeli military assault into a densely populated Palestinian city, after every forced expulsion, after every violation of human rights and international law, the ADL demands accountability for…Rashida Tlaib for tweeting about it.
Even for
@RashidaTlaib
, the level of dishonesty here is truly staggering.
For starters, it’s a complete fiction. But equally important, this was a targeted action against armed terrorists who brutally murdered innocents, recklessly hid weapons under a mosque and intentionally
The Maccabee Task Force, founded by Sheldon Adelson, is headed by the right-wing David Brog, former Executive Director of the Evangelical Zionist group Christians United for Israel (CUFI) and a “longtime protege” of Adelson
I never thought I would see democrats battling against jewish people. Schumer and Jeffries et al should be speaking up and out a lot more...unless they are ok with this
Daniel Ryan Spaulding is currently performing a “comedy” act in Tel Aviv where he, a non-Jew, seems to feel comfortable being openly antisemitic against Jews that he deems to be the ‘wrong kind of Jews,’ mocking them as “kapo Jews” and “self-hating Jews.”
I wonder if these celebrities, among them queer folks and self-proclaimed progressives, are aware their trips are organized by a right-wing, self-identified ‘national conservative’
“The way the apartheid system is built is such that Israeli Jews don’t actually have to see the reality that Palestinians live under…the daily horrors and brutality and deep denial of dignity and freedom”
@simonerzim
Co-founder of
@IfNotNowOrg
@simonerzim
says the establishment is getting “more and more desperate” to keep a new generation of Jewish Americans critical of Israel “out of public life and political life and certainly not to be legitimized as a legitimate Jewish voice.”
McCarthy cancelled Rashida Tlaib’s event commemorating the Nakba, following pressure from Hasbarists like the ADL. There’s an entire industry that weaponizes antisemitism not only to silence criticism of Israel, but to equate the very existence of Palestinians with antisemitism.
Grateful
@SpeakerMcCarthy
took rapid action. There’s room to talk about the issues — but not at an event co-sponsored by people who traffic in
#antisemitism
and
#hate
.
Einat Wilf, self-proclaimed liberal, says the only “reasonable” plan for Gaza is to occupy the north, starve the south of aid, and only allow Palestinians to return north and receive aid after renouncing their refugee status and right of return and pledging loyalty to Israel.
זה הבסיס הסביר היחידי לישראל לפעול מול עזה: הצפון בשליטה ישראלית מלאה, ששוהים בו אך ורק פלסטינים שעומדים בשני תנאים:
1) הם נמחקו מרשומות אונר״א כפליטים
2) הם מצהירים בקולם למצלמה שהם אינם פליטים מפלסטין, אין להם ״זכות שיבה״, והם מבקשים לחיות לצד המדינה היהודית ולא במקומה.
(ואם
Most Israelis holding these anti-Bibi signs don’t know that the image of red hands is associated with one horrific event imprinted on the minds of Israelis and Palestinians.
Most celebrities wearing red pins don’t know that the image of red hands is associated with one horrific event imprinted on the minds of
Israelis and Palestinians.
The 2000 Ramallah lynching of Israelis.
This symbolism isn’t a coincidence.
Israeli youth increasingly support the political right far more than their parents’ or grandparents’ generations. While Israeli politicians continue to speak of “de-radicalizing Palestinian society,” they have for years been encouraging the radicalization of their own society.
Palestinian teacher (with Israeli citizenship) Sabreen Msarwi was suspended from teaching after she attended a (police-approved) Nakba Day march. Despite her suspension, her "charming" students still organized a "protest" against her at school. In the video they can be seen
I’m very cognizant of the fact that this kind of protesting is only possible because it’s a primarily Jewish protest against changing the status quo of apartheid (with the facade of a liberal democracy), while Palestinian protests more peaceful than this are met with violence >>
The new Hasbara line being propagated against Rashida Tlaib is just the classic antisemitic trope of dual loyalty. This comes a day after 412 members of Congress found it necessary to pledge their support for Israeli apartheid.
It’s amazing that these people/organizations complain about hypothetical Zionists feeling unwelcome on college campuses, while then *applauding* censorship of a Palestinian who has lived his entire life facing ethnic cleansing and life under occupation.
These apologist influencers like Hen don’t have actual expertise and can’t even have actual debates based on facts and reality. Their entire strategy is to silence and shut down conversation — which only works online, where they attack and block anyone who disagrees with them.
Hen Mazzig: "I understand especially when you are Jewish or Palestinian or Arab why you feel so connected to this conflict and really being hurt and upset... I don't understand why you are so angry about that"
@OwenJones84
: "Because I object to genocide"
Quite.
Tiffany Haddish is not here “to learn,” she’s on a subsidized Hasbara trip with Michael Rapaport, who has become so radicalized he’s now more aligned with extreme far-right settlers (and sharing and amplifying their messaging) than with most Israelis.
Performing last night in Tel Aviv,
@TiffanyHaddish
with a message to Israelis:
“Not everybody gets to be in your space. You may have less friends but f&c! It” 🔥🔥🔥
@3lfares
this reminds me of when I was 11 and my teacher assigned a group project to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (and then later India-Pakistan)
To say that Israel “has no history of authoritarian rule” is only true if you ignore the entire history (and reality) of the Israeli regime…considering the Nakba, Israeli military rule over Palestinian citizens from 1948-1966, military occupation since 1967, and apartheid.
6/ However, Israel enjoys the privilege of its history. As a young democracy, it has no history of authoritarian rule. The Zionist movement was built upon the principles of national self-determination and liberalism, accept by both Socialist and Right wing elements.
All I see is a state where the only path to social acceptance and advancement is through militarism, nationalism, and joining a system of permanent military occupation over Palestinians.
But this kind of antisemitism won’t be condemned, because it has in fact been propagated by those in our community for years to defame and delegitimize Jews who stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
The goal here is a chilling effect — to discourage others from speaking out for a ceasefire. There’s no other reason that a celebrity calling for a ceasefire or wearing a red pin warrants a response from an Israeli government official.
What’s the difference between a permanent ceasefire and peace?
Why do none of the people calling for a permanent ceasefire with Hamas never call on Hamas to make peace?
Is it because they understand how naive and fantastical it sounds when you say it out loud?
Many of us said from the start, before a single bomb was dropped, that the only way to bring back the hostages was through negotiations and diplomacy. It was obvious this government preferred to exploit Oct 7 and the hostages to justify collective punishment and ethnic cleansing.
After a difficult talk between National Security Council head Tzach Hanegbi and the hostage families, some family members stormed out in tears. It happened after the following exchange.
One of the hostage family members said that "During a war, you shouldn't be receiving money
It not only determined the shekel would be the currency, but also that Palestinian imports and exports are subject to Israeli supervision, that Israel has sole control over external borders and collecting (and transferring) import taxes, among other economic restraints.
@OwenJones84
“obscene guilt” is the new “I refute my Jewishness being hijacked” — they have no substantive arguments anymore, just linguistic gymnastics and defamation
Antisemitism is deeply intertwined with other forms of hate—racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, the list goes on. It’s significant the Biden Admin understands this, in contrast to those pushing for it to be exceptionalized as an incomparable hatred existing in a vacuum.
Israeli police are preventing
@omdimbeyachad
’s joint Palestinian-Israeli food convoy from bringing a truck load of food to Palestinians being starved by Israel
@ZacharyBroder
It’s one regime in control on both sides of the green line. Even if Israel were a perfect democracy on one side (which it’s not), a single regime can’t be both an apartheid regime in one place and a democracy in another.
Israel made acceptance of this as a condition for allowing Palestinians to work in Israel and, while it was intended to be temporary, allows for continued economic exploitation, especially by controlling and sometimes refusing to transfer tax revenues to the PA.
These people really think Palestinians resort to violence because of UNRWA textbooks and not, idk, living as refugees occupied by a foreign army and experiencing daily violence with no political or economic future in sight
Large “pro-Israel” accounts who claim to care about Israel are creating a false narrative that saving hostages means supporting the war. Here is an ongoing thread of ‘influencers' and propagandists who are opposing a hostage deal against the demands of hostage families:
You can choose to listen to propagandists like Eylon Levy and Noa Tishby, who refuse to hold the Israeli government accountable for anything - or you can choose to listen to the Israelis on the ground demonstrating and fighting for our lives every day.
@AlonLeeGreen
Diaspora Jews don’t exist just to save some facade of democracy in a place most of them have never been. The only guarantee of hundreds of thousands of Jews moving to Israel is that hundreds of thousands more Palestinians will be displaced from their lands and homes.
Every year, settlers celebrate Jerusalem Day with an intentionally provocative and often violent Flag March through the Old City’s Muslim Quarter. This year,
@omdimbeyachad
and its Humanitarian Guard is there to try to protect Palestinians and their businesses.
אנחנו פה בירושלים העתיקה, עשרות פעילים של המשמר ההומניטרי ועומדים ביחד, מנסים להגן על התושבים והעסקים הפלסטינים מאלפי מתנחלים שמגיעים לכאן היום ביום ירושלים. המשטרה כיכבה אותנו, החרימה לנו את תעודות הזהות ומנסה לפנות אותנו מהעיר העתיקה, בזמן שמתנחלים מקללים כל פלסטיני לידם. בושה
Now known as Baruch Ben-Yosef, he’s an Israeli settler and lawyer that has long been a follower of Kahane and involved in terrorism against Palestinians.
Israel has downplayed how many civilians it has killed over the past 10 months, while inflating the number of combatants. Now it’s confirmed how it does so in practice. In this case, anyone who didn’t flee from the area lost their civilian status and was counted as a combatant.
Imagine if American Jewish organizations spent their time and money advancing justice and democracy in the US and Israel, instead of trying to frame solidarity with Palestinians and opposition to apartheid as another form of antisemitism.
“Anti-Zionism and antisemitism are closely linked and people who say the two aren’t connected are not paying attention."
Antisemitism comes in many forms.
🔴 WATCH to hear firsthand how American Jews are standing up to anti-Zionist hate.
This guy is literally obsessed with Bella Hadid, asking her to comment on everything that happens in Palestine solely because she’s Palestinian.
Don’t we say this is antisemitism when people do this to Jews?
Gallant has now removed the entry ban that forbid Israelis from entering the north West Bank since 2005, explicitly stating the aim is for “the development of settlement,” essentially giving settlers carte blanche to start establishing illegal outposts and displacing Palestinians
“Israel has a right to exist but not as a Jewish state” is the new “the Jews have a right to exist but not if they keep doing these Jewy things.” Do not trust those who think ripping out a pound of flesh to satisfy antisemites will bring us safety. It will not.
350,000+ Palestinians in East Jerusalem are refused Israeli citizenship and rights, and residency can be revoked at any time. But if that’s not apartheid enough for you, Hebron is very clearly segregated with checkpoints, “sterilized” streets, and omnipresent military control.
I’m on a Quest to find the APARTHEID?
I’m in Jerusalem right now & nobody seems to know where it is.
Please lmk where I can find this APARTHEID STATE in ISRAEL!
I’ve been walking for 3 hours & I think people are getting annoyed.
I’m sure some TWITTER GENIUSES can help!
The ADL has spent years, and especially the last eight months, dehumanizing Palestinians and equating all aspects of Palestinian culture and any form of solidarity with Palestinians as antisemitic, even genocidal, violence. This anti-Palestinian violence is the expected result.
We're horrified by reports that a Texas woman attempted to drown a Palestinian American 3-year-old after questioning the family where they were from. We are glad this incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
It’s “unacceptable” to call a state “racist,” even if it’s laws, policies, practices, and government statements are racist and discriminatory, even if it’s held millions of Palestinians under occupation for decades, even if it’s an apartheid regime.
A group of House Democrats is circulating a draft letter condemning Rep Jayapal for “unacceptable” comments that “Israel is a racist state.”
It’s written by Gottheimer, Wasserman Schultz, Landsman, Schneider, Phillips, Moskowitz and Manning, per a Democratic aide with knowledge.
He’s right, each circumstance is different.
Aysenur Eygi was shot in the head by the Israeli military in Beita while protesting an illegal settlement.
Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head by the Israeli military while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin.
Despicable response to killing of an American in the West Bank. Watch this exchange with
@Simondlewis
and StateSpox.
Lewis: A lot of people have pointed out a double standard in the treatment of this death
Patel: We’re asking partners in Israel…each circumstance is different.
Hi my name is Blake and my favorite hobbies include watching antizionist Jews try to celebrate Passover and Hanukkah without morbidly embarrassing themselves.
Not only are there no international consequences for Israeli impunity and apartheid, the Biden admin is handing the most extreme, far-right Israeli government a reward on a silver platter for absolutely nothing in return.
Israel is now the 41st member of the Visa Waiver Program. This important achievement represents a critical step forward in our strategic partnership that will enhance freedom of movement for U.S. citizens.
Relevant to this thread, Shai Davidai has spent months compromising the safety of students he is supposed to be responsible for, and now frames losing access to campus as due to him being Jewish and Israeli, rather than the natural consequence of his actions.
How hateful and racist do you need to be to not only claim that the Nakba didn’t happen, but that the “real” victims of the Nakba were the Zionist militias who perpetrated it. How hard is it to even understand and empathize that it was a catastrophe for Palestinians?
Hasbarists see Palestinian worshippers violently attacked in their holiest site during their holiest month, and decide it’s a good time to make snarky jokes. It’s dehumanization and a complete lack of empathy and morals.
“A city built completely by Jews” he says about a city built on demolished & depopulated Palestinian villages, while today Israel exploits Palestinian labor for construction, denying them workers rights & benefits while they make up around 70% of the construction labor force.
Israeli military radio correspondent calls destroying the Rafah crossing "one of the highlights of the operation.” Rafah was the only passage not directly under Israeli control, its destruction serving as collective punishment and cementing Israeli control over Gaza’s borders.
3/ והנה עוד אחת מגולות הכותרת של הפעולה - מעבר רפיח: ככה הוא נראה היום. הרוס לחלוטין, ולא כשיר לשימוש מחדש כמעבר, אחרי שחטיבה 401 כבשה אותו בלילה אחד.
בגלל קרב��ו היחסית לגבול, המעבר משמש את צה״ל כנקודת עצירה ומנוחה. חיילי גבעתי מוצאים זמן גם לגיטרה >>
Israeli immigration policy is possibly the clearest expression of apartheid: two legal systems organized around the supremacy of Jews over Palestinians. Any Jew in the world is able to obtain citizenship & rights, while Palestinians, even those born under Israeli control, cannot.
The ADL has completely abdicated its supposed mission to combat antisemitism and protect Jews. Now, it exists solely to defend Israel from any and all criticism.
They have also not said anything about Trump preemptively blaming Jews for his potential loss at the polls. These are real dangerous instances of antisemitism, but they're not criticizing Israel, so the ADL can't be bothered.
@daneasterman
When they say the “Arab world” is “interested in relations with Israel,” what they really mean to say is that Saudi, Emirati, and Moroccan dictators want to buy Israeli weapons and surveillance tech
“Tonight the Grammys were hijacked in favor of Hamas agenda, as singer Annie Lennox called for a ceasefire” is genuinely such a ridiculous thing to say
Tonight the Grammys were hijacked in favor of Hamas agenda, as singer Annie Lennox called for a ceasefire, denying Israel's right to defend itself, and also not calling for the release of the hostages. So basically giving Hamas exactly what they wanted. You know, I think that
The intentional fragmentation of Palestinian communities by the Israeli state via settlements, check points, and separate roads, thereby destroying any possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state, is apparently not as big of an obstacle to peace as..a YouTube video?
Hello
@StateDeptSpox
. I am sure you received your standard statement from others
@StateDept
. You're pretty new to this role, so I will share something with you: settlements are not an obstacle to peace. There are so many obstacles to peace. Settlements (really communities, towns
@h_lovatt
I’m not sure if ‘control’ of settlers was ever the goal. Rather, this seems to always have been the intention—the settlers and the army are two sides of the same coin used to make life hell for Palestinians
@JoeVogel_
It’s worth noting that one of Herzog’s first acts as president was to celebrate Hanukkah at a Kahanist settler event in occupied Hebron. But also worth noting,
and most importantly, he’s a representative of an apartheid regime.
Israel's President Herzog chose to celebrate Hanukkah with the Kahanists (Jewish supremacists) of the settlement in Hebron. He spoke about "complexity" and "togetherness" and "peace". So we made a short clip to show him what Hebron actually looks like.
What Lahav doesn’t mention is that Israel considers all Palestinian development (housing, infrastructure, schools) illegal, denying 99% of permits with the aim to dispossess them from their lands. Of course, this restrictive planning regime doesn’t apply to Israeli settlers.
@MorganJerkins
“Keep their windows closed” “close the door”—it’s always the same burden of ‘individual responsibility’ being placed on people in poverty, facing systemic discrimination in housing, planning, zoning, that contribute to their health inequities and mass death
The only people making this association are the ones inventing this association to smear, defame, and delegitimize Artists for Ceasefire. There is no reason, let alone proof, to think these are in any way connected.
Can someone please tell the actors who wore a red pin with a hand to protest the war that they used imagery Jews associate with the 2000 Ramallah lynching of two Israelis.
And you better believe that the person who designed the pin knows it.
Israel promoting itself as a gay safe haven after a Tel Aviv Court ruled AGAINST the Israeli Population Authority for refusing to grant asylum, all while the Israeli Interior Minister has announced he is appealing this very ruling, is peak pinkwashing.
After preventing them from praying in Al Aqsa, Israeli forces are now attacking Palestinian worshippers for the third night in a row—while, at the same time, bombing the millions of Palestinians trapped in Gaza.
One side tried to violently overthrow the US government to install an authoritarian white Christian fundamentalist state, and still has the political power to achieve it. The other side advocates for multiracial democracy. The ADL thinks these are an equivalent threat to Jews.
SJP, JVP & CAIR epitomize the Radical Left, the photo inverse of the Extreme Right. They might not have engaged in an insurrection designed to topple our government, yet they unapologetically denigrate & dehumanize Jews. Vicious rhetoric is not an abstract issue. It is dangerous.
Israeli military sources are reporting that commanders and units are acting in contravention to instructions and orders “because in the Strip, everyone does whatever they like.” Just imagine how many Palestinians this has killed and gone unreported.
🚨 New: IDF sources tell Haaretz the bombing of the convoy was not a communication mishap but commanders and units in the field ignoring instructions and disobeying orders - and not for the first time.