Europe’s Most Provocative Far-right Politician Is Looking to Israel for Answers
haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
Wilders “has right-wing fans the world over...Netanyahu’s eldest son, Yair, has called Wilders a ‘true friend’ of the Jewish people, & wished him success ahead of the 2019 European parliamentary elections. Netanyahu Sr. didn’t distance himself from his son’s endorsement.”
“He reiterates to Haaretz that the Netherlands ‘should learn from Israel when it comes to dealing with radical Islamism. We should adopt administrative detention...’ The practice is widely criticized by human rights organizations...”
“...though Israel says it uses it to prevent future terror attacks by arresting and holding suspects without trial for up to 6 months.  
‘I would rather have a few people jailed, even if later proven to be innocent, if it means our streets & families are safe,’ Wilders sums up.”

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13 Dec
Israelis have long had no issue ignoring terrorist past of fellow Israelis, while they impose 6-degrees-of-terrorist-contamination standard on Palestinians. Shurat HaDin exemplifies this, but Exhibit A has to be political commentator/journo Haggai Segal

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagai_Seg…
“In 1980, while part of the group Jewish Underground, Segal planted and planted a bomb that blew off the leg of a Palestinian mayor. He served a prison sentence and later wrote about his experiences in the book Dear Brothers: The West Bank Jewish Underground.”
But bygones, right?

haaretz.com/opinion/israel…
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22 Oct
Another quick thread re State Dept plan to label human rights orgs “antisemitic”:

Key thing to understand is that such labeling is a feature, not a bug, of efforts to promoting definition of antisemitism that focuses NOT on hatred/threats to Jews, but on criticism of Israel.

1/
This re-definition is at the core of the IHRA definition of antisemitism’s “contemporary examples.”

And make no mistake: these examples - which conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism - are the ONLY parts of the IHRA that backers of this effort are interested in.

2/
So rather than focus on real lethal antisemitism surging around the world, the massive effort focuses on promoting this definition, so that today they can say, “hey, it’s not us labeling them antisemitic, it’s this definition that everyone accepts, and who can argue with that” 3/
Read 13 tweets
22 Oct
A State Department Memo Suggests It’s About to Accuse Prominent Human Rights Groups of “Anti-Semitism” – Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
“‘Certain non-governmental organizations (NGOs) regularly participate in and promote the Global BDS Campaign or engage in other activities that meet the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of anti-Semitism,’...”
“... reads a memo produced by Carr’s office, which Mother Jones obtained, that urges Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to permit the release of its report...”
Read 11 tweets
21 Oct
New Menendez (D-NJ)/Feinstein (D-CA) bill, S4814, "to ensure that sales, exports, or transfers of F-35 aircraft do not compromise the qualitative military edge of the United States or Israel, and for other purposes”

congress.gov/bill/116th-con…
Read 5 tweets
20 Oct
And the lawfare continues, with David Abrams’ latest case targeting Christian Aid (UK).

facebook.com/ZionistAdvocac…
This is another False Claims Act lawsuit, per Abrams’s previous post:

facebook.com/ZionistAdvocac…
I wrote about this Abrams’ creative legal tactic— weaponizing the False Claims Act by linking it to a US contract certification signed by NGOs -- back in Jan 2019 — forward.com/opinion/417058…
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31 Aug
U.S. pro-Israel groups failed to disclose grants from Israeli government

forward.com/news/israel/45…
"More than half of all American states have passed laws designed to combat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel…"
"No advocacy group was more important to this push than the Israel Allies Foundation, an American non-profit that supports a network of pro-Israel legislators across the globe.” 3/
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