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1 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
The headline from @nytimes @IKershner and then paragraph 26 ...

Israel's crimes against millions of Palestinians as usual not significant enough to mar the image of the entity that rules them without granting them the most basic rights.
Here's a report on Israel's #CovidApartheid without the hasbara, from my @intifada colleague Omar Karmi: electronicintifada.net/blogs/omar-kar…
Is it because Palestinians aren't sufficiently human that @IKershner @nytimes can consider Israel to be a stunning success in vaccinating, while denying vaccines to millions of Palestinians under its brutal military rule just because they aren't Jews?
.@IKershner does not even bother to point out that while Palestinians are denied vaccines by the Zionist occupation regime, Jewish settlers living illegally in the occupied West Bank get vaccines. nytimes.com/2021/01/01/wor…

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29 Nov 20
The foundation of an allegedly “Jewish state” in historic Palestine, by Zionist militias carrying out the systematic ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian Christian and Muslim population, and subjecting those who remain to apartheid, has always been a racist endeavor.
Zionism, the political ideology that justifies expelling Palestinians and stealing their land, is not Judaism. Israel's apartheid regime does not represent or act on behalf of Jews all over the world. Those who equate Judaism with the racist Zionist endeavor are anti-Semites.
Palestinians and Jews stand together against the violence and racism of Zionism. We must refuse to be silenced by Israel's thuggish lobby that tries to falsely implicate all Jews in Israel's crimes, and to smear even Palestinians defending their own rights as "anti-Semites"
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27 Nov 20
I support full global nuclear disarmament but the current “non-proliferation” regime was designed to give imperialist powers (and their terrorist offspring like Israel) a near monopoly on nuclear weapons while most of the world is left defenseless against their threats.
It’s precisely because Iraq and Iran did not have nuclear weapons that they have been constantly subjected to attacks and threats from the US. It’s a lesson North Korea learned well.
And when Gaddafi gave up whatever weapons research he had going on (to Tony Blair) it did not assure security but rather opened the way to the Obama-led regime change war that ended with his murder and the destruction of Libya as a state.
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18 Nov 20
I didn't mention Jews. I mention Israel lobby (the organized array of groups and individuals that advocates for a brutal, racist apartheid regime to be able to murder Palestinians and steal their land with impunity). If you equate that lobby with Jews, you're the anti-Semite.
Too many UK leftish-ists have been bullied into believing that if standing up for Palestinian rights "hurts the feelings" of Israel lobby/Zionists activists who falsely claim to speak for all Jews, then standing up for Palestinians is anti-Semitic. Rubbish
British pro-Israeli-apartheid activists have successfully weaponized the reasonable view that oppressed groups get to define their oppression. But guess what, Israel's racist regime and its supporters aren't an oppressed group. They are oppressors and their enablers.
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17 Nov 20
.@BarackObama’s liberal Zionist racism and general contempt for Arabs and Palestinians oozes from his new book, but this in particular caught me... Arabs are just an easily inflamed irrational, angry mob. The man is unremittingly awful.
Obama promotes the myth that the “conflict” is “ancient” and also he cannot see people in Gaza. It’s as if they don’t exist
Obama has discovered that there are children in Gaza, but in a careful act of triangulation equates them with children in Israeli settlements
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16 Nov 20
An understatement from @amnesty: "France is not the free-speech champion it says it is"

France is one of the most repressive, racist and intolerant of all the sanctimonious and hypocritical Western "democracies."

amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
The thuggish @EmmanuelMacron in action, per @amnesty:

"Last week, for example, French police interviewed four 10-year-old children for hours on suspicion of ‘apology of terrorism’ they apparently questioned Paty’s choice to show the cartoons."
In the French regime, protesting @EmmanuelMacron is blasphemy, while dehumanizing Muslims is "free speech." Per @amnesty:

"In 2019, a court convicted two men for ‘contempt’ after they burnt an effigy depicting President Macron during a peaceful protest."
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The fake video of “Uighur being tortured” has crossed my feed several times. Apparently it’s a Taiwanese BDSM porn video. It’s not the only fake video I’ve seen.
There’s also a whole genre of “Uighurs being forced to drink alcohol” videos circulating that are so obviously not what they are claimed to be. Check this one out.
Another example of this transparently ridiculous – but apparently convincing to many people – genre of propaganda. Does this man look like he is being "forced" to do anything?
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