Thread by @TaliShapiro

1| Americans should contemplate long and hard why one of Trump's most burning tasks, right before he leaves office, is the targeting of a #HumanRights movement lead by an #indigenous people on the other side of the globe 👇
amnesty.org/en/latest/news… #USA #Israel #Palestinians #BDS

2| Let's first recall that the Palestinian-lead global BDS movement has already been designated by the @UN as a #HumanRightsDefenders movement, whose speech is protected.

https://twitter.com/TaliShapiro/status/1217780681230704641

#hrd

3| @amnesty chimes in with a bit of uncharacteristic & very welcome political analysis:
"This is simply the latest attack from a US government determined to undermine the universality of human rights and the global fight against racism and discrimination, including antisemitism."

4| The reason the UN, Amnesty international and other organisations have to reiterate the obvious- that #racism is bad and people trying to stop it should be empowered- is because the growth of support for the BDS movement..

5| ..and the strengthening of civil society allegiances across different (yet never as separate as they may seem) issues, has been met with Israel's wrath, promoting its own #impunity by outlawing human rights defenders.
legislation.palestinelegal.org

6| The danger in silencing human rights defenders is not only in the "shrinking of the #democratic space", but that the mere existence of #WhistleBlowers indicates a whole iceberg of death & destruction underneath the surface of liberal language about #FreeSpeech & human rights.

7| In other words, while we're fighting for our right to speak out, we can't neglect the reason we are speaking out to begin with. So who is mostly impacted by Trump's targeting of a human rights movement lead by an indigenous people on the other side of the globe?

8| Celebrities, stand with human rights defenders, stand with the indigenous Palestinian people. Stand against racism. #BoycottIsrael!

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*| "I want the American people to interrogate where their tax dollars are going and what they are funding. I want them to think: Do I really want to be sending $3.8 billion a year in military aid to fund home demolitions and home takeovers?"

https://twitter.com/theIMEU/status/1329848081366519814