Thread by @BtSIsrael

The extreme right wing pro-occupation group Ad Kan are at it again. Yesterday they filed a defamation suit against us and a former soldier, shamelessly claiming that testimonies we published in our booklet on Gaza (bit.ly/3a6XWR5) amount to 'libel'.

You may remember our previous posts about Ad Kan (see below). Every one of their suits against us has been thrown out: no court could find anything wrong with what we do. And we have no doubt, not an ounce, that this time will be no different.

https://twitter.com/BtSIsrael/status/1316411831007744002

But they'll continue trying. Because from their point of view, every utterance against Israel's continued control over the occupied territories amounts to blasphemy. Anyone who speaks out is a danger. And they'll do whatever it takes to smear us.

We go to extraordinary lengths to protect the anonymity of our testifiers—because the testifiers themselves aren't the story. As IDF soldiers they were part of a system, one which has for 53 years controlled the lives of millions of Palestinians in the oPt and continues to do so.

But Ad Kan are again framing this as if the occupation's existence hinges on the words of individual witnesses. Together w/ Yediot Aharonot (the newspaper that 'broke' the story) they seem to believe that if they bring dissenters into disrepute, the occupation won't be a problem.

What they fail to understand is that as long as soldiers are sent to maintain the occupation, there will be those who come back and speak out against it. This brazen attempt to intimidate us and all those who talk about what the occupation actually looks like simply won't work.

Every now and then, the right try to drag us away from our work and force us to waste time in court or talking about ourselves instead of talking about the occupation. Today's suit is an attempt to silence the debate about the Gaza War of 2014, AKA 'Operation Protective Edge'.

Ironically, they're likely to achieve the very opposite, as the conversation surrounding Israel's Gaza policy is reignited. And to be honest, that's fine with us. It's about time we had a frank conversation about what happened that terrible summer, six and a half years ago.