Thread by @lizburgh

A few months ago, Sunrise Movement's national account tweeted out some "educational" resources about the fundamentals of Israel-Palestine.

So, I clicked on those links because I wanted to see exactly what messaging Sunrise was pushing to their teenage supporters.

It's bad.

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This is the where the first link in Sunrise's tweet takes you.

"introduction:

Palestine is a country...being occupied by the state of Israel, a Jewish ethnostate established by Zionists in 1948".

No wonder these kids no nothing about what's actually happening.

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Here are the "Basics" of what Sunrise wants their followers to learn about Israel-Palestine:

•That it has little to do with religion

•That antizionism is NOT antisemitic (& anyone who says it is is islamophobic)

•That a Palestinian one-state solution is the only option

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Sunrise wants its supporters to believe....

that Israel colonized Palestine & that's the primary issue at play.

I am not remotely qualified to discuss this history but this is a deliberate misrepresentation of the entire conflict.

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Sunrise wants its supporters to believe...

That anti-zionism is in no way antisemitic.

They claim that the term antisemitism is weaponized against Palestinians to shut them down when asking for human rights and to shut down their allies.

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Sunrise wants its supporters to believe...

"One Palestinian State would mean Palestinian liberation & the complete abolishment of the State of Israel.

This is the only way towards justice"

And that a Palestinian state is only way to prevent the ethnic cleansing of one side.

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Sunrise wants its supporters to believe...

That Israel is ethnically cleaning Palestine and that Palestine would welcome Israeli Jews with open arms.

I already wrote a long thread about how Hamas, the Palestinian gov't, was founded with a goal of exterminating all Zionists.

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This website -THAT WAS PROMOTED BY SUNRISE- just goes on and on like this.

It continues to recommend other resources that back up the same false claims.

And at the end of the day, all these claims are aiming to promote extreme antisemitism in young people. And it's working.

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And of course this website (that Sunrise told its supporters to read) wraps up with

From the river to the sea...

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Here's the link to my thread on Justice Dems & Hamas.

And to anyone still reading this- please feel free to use this thread as a starting point and expand on it!!

In a better world, someone more knowledgeable than me would have written it.

There's a lot more there that I simply didn't know enough about to address.