A few hundred metres further down King George Street, an emergency protest organised at short notice in response to the news this morning of a gang rape of a 16-year old last week in Eilat. Chants of “it’s dangerous to be a woman”.
“Women demand safety in the streets”
“When she says no she means no”
Now on the march through the city centre
“Which part of no didn’t you understand? No is no is no is no is no”
“Justice”
Now blocking the light rail
Police preparing to disperse hundreds protesting in Jerusalem against rape culture and violence against women
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Here’s the state of play: Several people close to Netanyahu have been arrested, or are preparing to be, for sharing embellished or fabricated intel to @JewishChron & @BILD designed to scupper a hostage deal. 1/4
@JewishChron “fired” the freelance reporter who wrote their story after it was proven to be false (along with his entire biography), but never explained how he came to work there or who his supposed sources were. 2/4 972mag.com/jewish-chronic…
Here’s the kicker: No one knows who owns @JewishChron. It was taken over by an undeclared entity in 2020 that saved it from liquidation, which still hasn’t revealed itself. Might it be, as @arusbridger suggested, a pro-Netanyahu billionaire? 3/4 prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/65…
NEW: Testimonies from six Israeli soldiers who recently served in Gaza describe being authorized to open fire on Palestinians — including civilians — virtually at will. 🧵
The six sources — all except one of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity — recounted how Israeli soldiers routinely executed Palestinian civilians simply because they entered an area that the military defined as a “no-go zone.”
They paint a picture of a landscape littered with civilian corpses, which are left to rot or be eaten by stray animals; the army only hides them from view ahead of the arrival of international aid convoys, so that “images of people in advanced stages of decay don’t come out.”
In a truly jaw-dropping document revealed in full today by @yuval_abraham in @972mag, Israel’s Intelligence Ministry officially proposes the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents in the framework of the current war. 972mag.com/intelligence-m…
The Intelligence Ministry is not a particularly consequential body, and the chances of the plan being put into action appear slim, but the fact that this is being discussed at all among senior Israeli policymakers should cause serious alarm.
The document explains how exactly such a move would be carried out, including with the help of varying propaganda messages targeted at Palestinians, the Arab world, and the international community writ large.
Something happened last night at a small protest in Tel Aviv which illustrated Israeli apartheid in one of the most blatant ways that I’ve ever personally witnessed. 1/
The protest took place in front of the Shin Bet HQ (Israel’s internal security services) which is right next to Tel Aviv University, on the lands of the depopulated and destroyed Palestinian village of Sheikh Muwannis. 2/
It was a protest against Israel’s policy of administrative detention, by which it detains hundreds of Palestinians at a time without charge or trial. Around 40 Israelis gathered with Palestinians flags and posters bearing the faces of Palestinian minors currently detained. 3/
A judge who lives in an illegal settlement is determining whether to expel 1,000+ Palestinians from Masafer Yatta, where they have lived for generations, in line with the state’s claim that they are “illegally living in an army firing zone”
Bristol lecturer David Miller’s antisemitism is subtle, and the whole affair provides an excellent example of why it’s so important to listen to Jews on the left when discussing antisemitism on the left. [THREAD]
The right-wing/mainstream Jewish bodies are focusing on his desire to “end Zionism”, which is not inherently antisemitic. Miller and his acolytes know that, and so they argue that the antisemitism accusations are just a pro-Israel smear campaign.
Nothing new here so far. And if that was all, Jews on the left would be coming to his defence - as we have done for a number of others. But Miller goes further than simply a critique of Zionism.