Thread by @IfNotNowOrg

Polls just closed in Israel, its fourth election in two years. We send our love and support to the Palestinians and Israelis in the long-term struggle for a future of freedom & dignity.

We know that whoever is the next Prime Minister, today's winner is: Israeli apartheid. (1/5)

Today, 5 million Palestinians watched as an electorate of the other 9 million people in the region voted for a government that runs their lives.

Contrasting it to May's Palestinian election is farcical: the PA is a subcontractor for the occupation, not an autonomous state. (2/5)

Netanyahu has led Israelis through four elections to escape his political and legal problems. Still, like Trump, his cult of personality will persist.

That Netanyahu could stay in power shows that Israel is not a beacon of democracy, no matter how many times you say it. (3/5)

Sadly, US Jewish and political leaders are complicit in Israel's right-ward tilt and Netanyahu's political stranglehold.

We only have to look to their outright rejection of the ICCs investigation into Israeli war crimes as their latest act to normalize Israeli occupation. (4/5)

We know this is a long-haul fight.

No matter who the next Prime Minister is or what the final Knesset majority is, we and our allies — across the world and in Israel/Palestine — will continue to organize for the freedom and dignity of all Palestinians and Israelis. (5/5)