Thread by @HonestReporting

Twisted new op-ed in the @nytimes seeks to abuse Martin Luther King Day to attack Israel - a country he proudly defended.

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@nytimes The article is a smear, rife with omissions, inaccuracies, and devoid of context. It's hard to know where to start. With the imagery of an ominously powerful Israel lobby? With the patently false claim of Jewish-only roads?

@nytimes The latter in particular is demonstrably false and utterly lamentable. The roads are divided on the basis of nationality. Palestinian residents of Israel have the same right to go there as Jews have. We demand a correction, @nytimes.

@nytimes Then there's the claim that Gaza is occupied. It's not. 8,000 Israeli citizens were withdrawn from 22 settlements in Gaza in 2005. Israel has totally removed itself from Gaza. There is no occupation there, period.

@nytimes The article includes another bizarre, debunked claim - that over 50 Israeli laws discriminate against Palestinians. The list the article refers to includes proposals which never passed into law, and deems Jewish symbols as somehow discriminatory.

@nytimes The article calls to "Break the Silence on Palestine". If only that were the case. Then it would have tackled:

- Palestinian #terrorism
- Palestinian #corruption
- Internal Palestinian violence
- The fact that P.A. President Abbas is in his 15th year of a four-year term.

@nytimes CC: @Mishtal and @DavidHirsh for your excellent research. @GeraldNGOM and @NGOmonitor your work on Adalah is featured too.

@nytimes @mishtal @DavidHirsh @GeraldNGOM @ngomonitor By the way, Israel is the only country in the Middle East with a road named after Martin Luther King. Notable that the author of this article doesn't even seem to be aware of this.