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May 14, 2021, 16 tweets

[THREAD] How does 🇮🇱 and its Lobby in 🇺🇸 ensure complete impunity for its crimes? How does the Israel Lobby work to control the media narrative on Palestine?

I spent 5 months undercover in DC’s Israel Lobby – we made a documentary series all about it. What did we learn?

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In part one, we learn how @JoshBlockDC’s now dead ‘Israel Project’ sought to create a “pro-Israel echo chamber” to control the narrative around Palestine in the western media.
@DavidHazony taught me how they create an artificial “sense of crisis” around pro-Palestine activism.
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In part two, we see how Israel Lobby group @AIPAC appears to be facilitating illegal fundraising activity for aspiring US politicians…

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… and how the organisation of former Trump appointee @KlMarcus knowingly lied about antisemitism in Tennessee to push through anti-BDS legislation in the State.

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Part 3: we expose the funder @AdamMilstein and collaborator @JacobBaime of the notorious anti-Palestinian hate site @CanaryMission - this is one part of a broader campaign of Israeli espionage on American citizens.

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These Israel Lobby operatives, with millions of dark-money $$$, using high level Israeli spyware to surveil the activities of law-abiding American citizens. What sorts of things do they say when they think nobody is listening?
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And how safe and secure do they feel destroying the reputations of pro-Palestine activists from behind their (now-destroyed) veil of secrecy?
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There’s the @FDD, ostensibly a front-group for the interests of the Israeli and Emirati governments, working hand in glove with Israeli intelligence to spy on and smear pro-Palestinian activists.

What does @JSchanzer think about the fight against antisemitism?
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In part 4, we see how @NoahPollak forced unwilling protestors to an ‘astroturf’ demonstration, harassing participants of a conference for Students for Justice in Palestine (@NationalSJP).
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We also take a deep dive into the Israel Project, how they paid for helicopter trips for CNN reporters, and how they push fake news on Israel onto social media and how they co-opt South African voices to defend Israel from the apartheid label.
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The links to all four episodes:

hyperurl.co/LobbyUSA1
hyperurl.co/LobbyUSA2
hyperurl.co/LobbyUSA3
hyperurl.co/LobbyUSA4

And the final word to Israel’s quasi intelligence agency, @4ILorg

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