Thread by @HillelNeuer

Ken Roth doesn't like good news about Israel's vaccinations, so he's trying to twist it into an act of racism.

Here's how he deceives:

1/ Law. He says "as occupying power," Israel "has not vaccinated a single Palestinian." But the PA is responsible for health & vaccinations.

https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1345501594654277634

2/ See Oslo Accords, 1995 Interim Agreement, Annex I, Art. 17:

Powers and responsibilities in the sphere of Health...will be transferred to the Palestinian side...

...the Palestinian side shall continue the vaccination of the population...

mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpol…

3/ PA Ministry of Health: “We are working on our own to obtain the vaccine from a number of sources. We are not a department in the Israeli Defense Ministry. We have our own government & Health Ministry, and they are making huge efforts to get the vaccine.”jpost.com/israel-news/pa…

4/ In other words, "The Palestinians have not approached Israel for help in obtaining COVID-19 vaccines and are planning to purchase them on their own with the help of the international community, Palestinian and Israeli officials said on Sunday." @KhaledAbuToameh

5/ "A senior official with the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health said that the Palestinians do not expect Israel to sell them, or purchase on their behalf, the vaccine from any country."

6/ "The official told The Jerusalem Post that the Palestinians will soon receive nearly 4 million Russian-made vaccines against COVID-19. The PA, with the help of the World Health Organization, has managed to secure the vaccine from other sources, the official added."

7/ "Israel’s vaccine operation has run in predominately Arab areas in Israel from day one. Out of a concern that not enough eligible Israeli Arabs have been showing up to vaccination sites, Prime Minister Netanyahu visited two Arab cities in recent days."
jpost.com/diaspora/antis…

8/ Contrary to Ken Roth's libel, "there isn’t some kind of policy of ethno-religious discrimination. The opposite is true; the government is actively trying to encourage the minority population, Arabs in Israel, to get vaccinated."
@LahavHarkov

9/ Ironically, while Ken Roth's position has been to argue that the PA has so many powers that it's even legally a state—and so can join the ICC & sue Israel—he pretends not to know about the legal power the PA actually does have, per the Oslo Accords, over Health & Vaccinations.

10/ This pretty much sums up Ken Roth's modus operandi:

https://twitter.com/EinatWilf/status/1345789318699352065

11/ Now read this thread on those “suffering under the intense stress of watching Israel do something good & not knowing how to reconcile that with the burning theological commitment they have to the proposition that everything Israeli is touched by sin.”

https://twitter.com/ShMMor/status/1346091232871796738