Tonight Na’amodniks disrupted the Zionist Federation’s annual Balfour Lecture. @ZionistFed dedicates itself to defending, denying & distracting from the 🐘 in the Room. So we came to tell them: the occupation is a moral crisis, and we won’t let you ignore it. 
@ZionistFed The @ZionistFed claims to promote “the real face of Israel”. To them, this face doesn’t doesn’t feature the millions of Palestinians living under military occupation—except, that is, when they can be cast as terrorists. 2/8
@ZionistFed The @ZionistFed happily defends the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, and acts as a mouthpiece for some of the nastiest and most brazen anti-Palestinian activists in the UK. 3/8 bit.ly/3220v0s
@ZionistFed The @ZionistFed claims to champion peace & coexistence through their Pledge for Peace campaign. In reality, this is a cynical ploy to draw attention away from Israel’s human rights violations 4/8 bit.ly/2PxNVU3
@ZionistFed Last month, the @ZionistFed hosted an event supporting the demolition of Palestinian villages in the “so-called West Bank”. The ZF sees the mere existence of Palestinians as the sole obstacle to peace 5/8
@ZionistFed In April, the @ZionistFed congratulated Netanyahu on his successful election campaign, a campaign in which Netanyahu claimed that Israel is "not a state of all its citizens", put cameras in polling stations to deter Arab voters, and helped far-right Kahanists to get elected 6/8
@ZionistFed ...as well as promising voters that he would annex all Israeli settlements in the West Bank. 6/8
@ZionistFed At the end of our action, we took a moment to mourn the death of Othman Helles, a 15 year-old, unarmed boy who killed by Israeli forces while protesting at the Gaza fence. The soldier who shot him was sentenced to just one month of community service 7/8
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@ZionistFed Helles is one of the many victims of an unjust system which continues to deny Palestinians their liberty, and their lives. We refuse to stand by while groups like the
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whitewash the daily violence and indignity of the occupation. 8/8
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whitewash the daily violence and indignity of the occupation. 8/8
