Last year, The View's @JoyVBehar ignorantly claimed "we'll move on" from genocide in Gaza by New Year's day.

This week, she returns with another hateful false prediction.

🧵 @JoyVBehar Here was @TheView's Joy Behar last year.

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https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1745468432068288869

I don't know how many times this has to be said to so called democratic politicians.

When you say a Jewish state in Israel, it's like saying a white Christian state in the US.

That's what you're endorsing.

🧵 And in order to maintain Israel as a Jewish state, they must expel non Jewish voters.

Which is what Gaza is. Palestinians in Gaza used to live all across what is Israel today, and were removed to change the voting demographics.

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This Passover, many of my Jewish family members will place an additional empty chair at the Seder table.

It’s one chair to keep attention on 133 remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.

🧵 At that proportion, one might even do another chair for Israeli children killed.

That would be one chair to remember 38 children.

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Dear US zionists uncomfortable in left spaces:

Imagine how uncomfortable to non Jewish Queer, Black, brown, trans, disabled, immigrant, poor folks that your plan B is to flee to Israel?

What you're saying is if white supremacy takes hold here, you're abandoning all of them.

🧵 Like, we thought we were in this together?

Not, in this together until I bounce.

And, it's not just a 2nd home, it's the 2nd home based on a possible prospect of oppression, at the expense of a Palestinian's first and only home, and the cost of their daily oppression.

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When you tell non Jewish Black, brown, queer and disabled friends you need Israel to be your backup nation in case there’s a genocide here, you do know you’re telling them that you’re going to abandon them right? Like, instead of staying to fight with them for their lives right? And when you tell people your backup plan is a state that practices apartheid, that your backup plan to avoid ethnic cleansing at home is to make room with ethnic cleansing elsewhere, right? You do see that?

You know how tone deaf and self defeating Israeli hasbara is when they go after @johncusack who is one of the most beloved actors in our culture.

But there is more to Stop Antisemitism than how dumb they are.

🧵 Stop Antisemitism's business model is to go after people who have not been antisemitic, but who have criticized the government of Israel. Including me and many fellow Jews.

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Imagine thinking saying AIPAC is “all about the Benjamins” fuels antisemitism but the largest, most rapid mass killing of babies in modern history in the name of “Jewish” safety does not. 🧵 Imagine thinking every person should have a vote from “the river to the sea” fuels antisemitism but bombing one of the oldest living churches in the world, for Christmas, in the name of “Jewish” safety does not.

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This is 13 year old Malik Jaffal, a Palestinian American child whose mother is from Flatbush, Brooklyn.

He was kidnapped by Israeli forces in the West Bank and is now inside the infamous Ofer military prison all alone.

Join me in telling @usembassyjlm to #freemalik jerusalemACS@state.gov @usembassyjlm He is in military prison, without access to lawyers or his parents, on a flimsy charge of throwing stones. There is no evidence of this, so he is under immense pressure to "admit" it, and had said interrogators have threatened him with an arrest of his parents if he didn't.

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No matter how many billions of dollars pro-Israel propaganda has behind it, its fatal flaw is that it always accidentally reenforces Palestinian rights.

If we Jews have a right of return after thousands of years...

It must also be true Palestinians do after 10-75 yrs.

🧵 If we Jews require borders to be safe and sovereign from the whims of majoritarian nations...

It must also be true that Palestinians require borders to be safe and sovereign from majoritarian, including Arab nations which oppressed them.

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Remember when Israel’s own newspaper of record debunked more than half the claims around Oct 7th?

🧵 #ceasefirenow 2) 40 babies killed and beheaded?

False. But Israeli bombs are currently doing that to thousands of Palestinian children and babies.

While many of us support any/all actions that save lives, this so called ceasefire statement is mired in politician weasel words, racism so casual that they don't even notice it & utter inhumanity that history will not be kind to.

And it needs an entire thread to break down 🧵

https://twitter.com/bradhoylman/status/1727450805517586867

The statement begins w "we care deeply about Israel, and are strongly committed to its Jewish and democratic future".

A gift to ethnonationalists who don't believe in a multifaith, multiracial democracy, borrowing very much from Israel's new, racist Nation State law.

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They promote unproven stories of beheaded babies, and ask what monsters can do that, then send proven rockets to incinerate proven thousands of proven babies.

🧵 They promote the horrific reality of hundreds of hostages, while maintaining tens of thousands for decades. For poems. For stones. For being in a settler’s way in a segregated road. Gaza itself is 2.2 million hostages.

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When you tell me to trust the testimonies of Zionist forces, as a Mizrahi Jew, I say pass.

Zionism had Israeli Jews dress up as our Iraqi neighbors and friends to massacre us, fellow Jews. Why? So that Mizrahi Jews would flee Iraq and help settle Palestinian homes cleared of Palestinians.

middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-jews… As a Mizrahi Jew, you can skip me with Zionist government testimonies about anything.

The same ideology that took in my Yemeni Mizrahi cousins for good press, then had their "savage" babies stolen at birth and given to white Jewish families.

jewishstudies.washington.edu/israel-hebrew/…

The Jewish left’s ability to instrumentalize our oppressed history & current privilege to stand with others is jaw dropping.

🧵 The Jewish right’s ability to instrumenalize our oppressed history & ignore our current privilege to step on others while playing the victim is jaw dropping.

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Israeli soldiers continue to expose Hamas presence in all the schools and hospitals they’re bombing 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 Brave Israeli general locates Hamas car before bombing another housing complex 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 🙏🏽

I’m 2014, like many, I went rapidly from a “progressive” pro Israel Zionist to 💯% stand with Palestinians after that year’s attack on Gaza, killing 2310. Today Palestinians are among my best friends, and Zionists have given me the honor of their blacklists, doxxing & threats 🧵 Today, when I raise money for bail support and commissary funds for fellow Jews suffering in pre trial jails, zero Zionists contribute, saying that if they were arrested they deserve nothing.

Palestinians contributed.

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Children of Free Palestine March on Washington. #CeasefireNOW 🧵 Interviewing some of the kids for the radio show, and learned how they’re holding both fear of what’s happening and joy that people came to stand by their side. 2/x

The whole world holds Hamas accountable for unspeakable crimes of Oct 7. Good. Even if ignoring Israeli apartheid that powers it.

But do you want to know how Jewish terrorist groups who colonized Palestine were held accountable?

They became Israeli Prime Ministers and IDF 🧵 Irgun, whose terror attacks in opposition to British occupation of Palestine, today is the DNA of Likud Party, leading Israel since the 70s. Their most infamous attack was Deir Yassin massacre of 117 Palestinian civilians, some they paraded through Jerusalem.

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My heart aches not just for Palestinians and Israelis killed, but for the soul of my Jewish people.

So many of my people who had principles and our revolutionary history in their heart, are giving way to the right. To war. And naked, unashamed vengeance. The far right had put out a trap for you and you are walking straight in. What a shame. What a crime. And what a great loss.

Fascists don't see root causes.

Kid misbehaves. He's not examined. He's hit.

Poor person steals. She's not fed. She's caged.

Migrant risks their life at a border. Western foreign policy that made their home dangerous is ignored, and they're dehumanized and deported. Fascist leaders rely on villains to maintain and grow power. When there aren't any, they manufacture them out of nothing.

Apparently the whole shoplifting “crisis” was completely manufactured by police and repeated with zero fact checking by press. Who is surprised. So even the “shocking” numbers they cite, which are lies, amount to 7 cents per 100 dollars in losses. Lol.