Historian of Palestine | PhD | Founder of Palestine Nexus ↓
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6 🧵s to make sense of Israel/Palestine:
1) A history Palestinian non-violent resistance
2) A history of Hamas
3) A history of Israel's ethnic cleansing Palestinians
4) A history of Israel's wars on Gaza
5) A history of Gaza
6) A history of Israel’s use of disproportionate force
The ancestral homeland of Gadi Eisenkot, who will likely become Israel's next Prime Minister, is Morocco.
That's at least what his parents' & grandparents' generation felt when they arrived in Israel ⤵️ Most wanted to return home -- Morocco.
A Moroccan Jew who moved to Israel in the early period of statehood wrote in a letter back home telling his family that antisemitism was worse in Israel than it was in Poland. The antisemites were the Ashkenazi Jews, who were more racist towards Moroccan Jews that whites were racist towards blacks in 1950s in the United States.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021…
A Moroccan Jew who moved to Israel in the early period of statehood wrote in a letter back home telling his family that antisemitism was worse in Israel than it was in Poland. The antisemites were the Ashkenazi Jews, who were more racist towards Moroccan Jews that whites were racist towards blacks in 1950s in the United States.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021…
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I can confirm that the Michigan Jewish community — which I grew up in — has been largely & still is largely all in on apartheid & genocide.
If this data is accurate — which it likely isn’t given the small sample size — then the Jewish community of Michigan is a stain on humanity
Hello World,
Monica Marks is a toxic jewish supremacist.
Sincerely,
A human being
The Israeli journalist Aryeh Gelblum wrote this in 1949 in describing the Arab Jews from North Africa. They had a "lower level" than even the Palestinians!!! haaretz.com/israel-news/2021…
Hakeem Jeffries is bought and paid for by the genocide & war lobbies.
“Hakeem Jeffries has been bought… he’s the biggest threat to the victory we just won. Give me 4 minutes and I’ll show you the receipts.” #Palantir #Aipac
From @byalphajalloh: instagram.com/reel/DflrJk9Ah…
In Apartheid Israel, if there might be an ancient Jewish cemetery somewhere, but you have no proof, you can destroy the lives of Palestinians near it to protect it.
In Apartheid Israel, if there an ancient Muslim cemetery, and you can prove it because all the tombstones are still there, you can destroy it to build a “Museum of tolerance.” I kid you not.
Not so complicated after all. It’s called Apartheid Israel
Some fun facts about Israel from the 1950s & 1960s:
- supported the far-right fascist French Secret Army Organization in Algeria
- voted repeatedly in the United Nations against Algerian independence
- supported Congo’s General Mobotu, who carried out a military coup deposing the country's democratically elected government in 1960
- supported the landing of U.S. & British troops in Lebanon and Jordan in 1958.
- supported King Hussein of Jordan during Black September 1970, when he massacred thousands of innocent civilians.
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Why would Benjamin Netanyahu sign a peace deal with Syria that allows Israel to annex the Golan?
That would deprive him of his primary mission in life, which is a state of forever war, forever genocide and forever death and destruction.
On Israeli podcast, Elizabeth Tsurkov says current Syrian officials have told her they would agree to a peace deal with Israel that effectively cedes the occupied Golan (paired with some declaration ostensibly suggesting otherwise): youtube.com/watch?v=w4jVrQ54… (from ~1:11:05)
You have no clue how hard it is to be a privileged white male citizen of the United States of America.
Sincerely, -Zionism.
The single most important thing
A preview of where Israeli Jewish society is going: if you call it a genocide, you will be ostracized, marginalized & incentivized to leave the country.
What will remain? The most genocidal society on earth, just without the non-genocidal ~3%.
השחקנית והבמאית עינת ויצמן מגלה שבעוד מספר ימים היא עוזבת את ישראל לאתונה, בראיון שקיימתי איתה ל״הארץ״. זאת אחרי שהסוכנת שלה סילקה אותה לאחר שהעלתה סטורי שבו כתבה על רצח עם בעזה, מוסדות שבהם לימדה משחק פיטרו אותה לאחר שתלמידים שלה סירבו להכנס לשיעור שלה, רמי הויברגר המנוח הדיר אותה מעיבוד הבימתי שתוכנן לסרט ״מבצע סבתא״, וחברים וקולגות הפנו לה עורף.
״המרחב שלי הולך ומצטמצם. לא יכולה להישאר במקום הזה, להיות חלק מהטירוף הרצחני", אמרה לי ויצמן. ״אני לא יכולה לשבת בבית קפה ולשתות יין מבלי להיות כל הזמן מודעת לכך שאנשים מגורשים מבתיהם ורעבים בעזה. אני שומעת את הצרחות של האנשים שמעונים בבתי הכלא. המציאות פה נהיתה לי בלתי נסבלת". לפני עזיבתה, תעלה ויצמן מחר ומחרתיים שתי הצגות חדשות העוסקות בעזה מנקודת מבט פלסטינית. את המאבק למען הפלסטינים היא תמשיך מיוון.
עוד בכתבה: אני מספר איך בריאיון קודם שלי עם ויצמן, שפורסם בוואלה בנובמבר 2015, נשלחה מטעמו של ראש הממשלה נתניהו דרישה לצנזר שורה שבה אמרה לי שנתניהו הוביל את ההסתה המטורפת לפני רצח רבין. לתדהמתי, המנכ״ל והעורכים נענו להוראה - והשורה צונזרה. המקרה הגיע לנספח בכתב האישום נגד נתניהו בתיק 4000. מוואלה לא התקבלה תגובה
FDD, seen here running point on US foreign policy.
MORE: Before Task Force Iron Gate was announced by CENTCOM on November 7th, Brad Bowman, the Senior Director of the Center on Military and Political Power for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, went on C-SPAN earlier that day where he stated:
“So I do think you’ll see a CENTCOM announcement this morning, maybe even as we’re speaking, to go after efforts not just to sustain the naval blockade, but to see what we can do about some things that will be coming into Iran via land routes.”
Why does FDD have access to this information? Why do they have it down to the DAY that CENTCOM will be making this announcement? Why does this strategy directly seek to escalate the war despite the American people clearly proving in the midterms they want it over?
How many times can FDD tip their hand that THEY are running the show… and failing miserably?
"If there were a button you could press that would make all the Arabs here disappear... I would press that button." -@MatanKahana, June, 2022, soon to be Speaker of Israel's Knesset.
Matan Kahana is about to become Speaker of Israel's Knesset. Gadi Eisenkot's bloc picked him this week. This is what he has said about Arabs and Palestinians"
1) In June 2022 he was a deputy minister. He told high school students in Efrat (a settlement): "If there were a button you could press that would make all the Arabs here disappear... I would press that button."
2) In the same talk he called the Palestinian account of 1948 "nonsense." His apology was for an "unsuccessful choice of words." He never took back the wish.
3) A month before that, he wrote about a dream in which "all the Arabs decided one morning to emigrate to Switzerland."
4) In July 2021 he backed the law that bars Palestinian spouses of Israelis from citizenship. He said whoever votes against it "wants to flood Israel with thousands of Palestinians."
4) In December 2020 he wrote that "it is madness to legislate the equality law."
5) During the May 2021 unrest in Lod he wrote that the police should "protect the Jews from Arab rioters" instead of separating the sides.
6) In February 2021 he called the Arab MKs Heba Yazbak, Sami Abu Shehadeh and Mansour Abbas "supporters of terror" who have "no place in the Knesset."
7) In 2025, asked about the bid to expel MK Ayman Odeh, he said: "We must not build on Arab seats." On election night, October 28, 2026, he repeated that there would be no government that relies on Arab parties.
8) In September 2022 he said Ben-Gvir "loves the State of Israel." In the same breath he called the Arab party Balad "full-on terror supporters."
9) In February 2025 Trump proposed moving Gaza's population out. A radio host called it forced transfer. Kahana answered that it was "voluntary emigration" and said "we need to embrace this solution."
10) The day after, he called humanitarian aid to Gaza "aid to murderers."
This is the man the bloc that ran against Netanyahu chose to preside over Israel's parliament, including over its Arab members. He is an unrepentant racist and will lead the Knesset despite that.
On July 28, 2014, amidst an Israeli mass murder campaign in the Gaza Strip, in which Israel slaughtered 2,300 Palestinians, including 550 children, @RepJeffries gave the following address:
"Brooklyn stands with Israel ... The New York Congressional Delegation stands with Israel ... the House of Representatives stands with Israel, the United States of America will continue to stand with Israel.
Israel is here to stay and it will remain foreover. Israel should not be made to apologize for its strength.
Israel faced aggression in 1948 and Israel prevailed. and then you faced aggression in 1967 and Israel prevailed and then you faced aggression in 1973 and Israel prevailed.
then you had to deal with the first intifada and Israel prevailed and then israel had to deal with the second intifada and it prevailed. And missiles were flying in December 2008 and Israel prevailed. and missiles were flying in November 2012 and Israel prevailed.
Israel today, Israel tomorrow, Israel forever. God bless you."
source: vimeo.com/101967450