Quick thread of videos showing what Palestinians are facing right now:
Here, Palestinian children (citizens of Israel btw) break down crying as an Israeli mob tries to break into their home in Haifa:
Here, another mob of Israelis are destroying Palestinian-owned businesses:
Here, a crowd chant "death to the Arabs" as they assault a Palestinian driver as he frantically tries to get away
Here, Israeli police break into a Palestinian home in Nazareth & attack the residents:
Here, a mob of Israelis in Ramla is checking vehicles passing by -- ones with Jewish drivers/passengers are allowed through unharmed, while ones with Palestinians are violently attacked with rocks:
Here, an Israeli fanatic is asking the mob for the addresses of Palestinian citizens in his city: "Give me the addresses of Arabs in Netanya"
Here, an Israeli mob viciously beat a Palestinian man unconscious. They continue beating him as he's out cold.
Here, Israeli soldiers joke on video about selling the Palestinian children they've kidnapped ("arrested" in Palestinian areas where the soldiers don't belong) for a hundred shekels:
Here is a mob in Bat Yam going on a rampage of Palestinian-owned businesses:
Here is a driver repeatedly reiterating to the mobs in the streets that he's Jewish (a different answer to this question would've made this a very different night for him):
Here, the daughter of a Palestinian man brutalized & beaten unconscious by Israeli mobs under Israeli police protection in Akka (Acre) rushes to check if he's alive:
Missing from this list are the videos of the torn bodies of Palestinian children in Gaza from Israeli bombardment. I won't be sharing them, but I will remind you that Israel killed more than 550 children in the span of 6 weeks in 2014 (17 children killed in the last 3 days).
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THREAD: As the Israeli military invades Gaza on Eid, there are 5 things to keep in mind:
1) Israel isn't "responding" to violence, Israel is the initiator of violence, by virtue of being an occupying power over the Palestinian territories, including Gaza.
Before a single rocket was fired, Palestinians in Gaza were already suffocating under a brutal siege.
2) This particular round of violence was provoked by Netanyahu, who sought to distract from the ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem by provoking a violent response from Palestinian militants. That's what the sustained assault on Al Aqsa was about.
THREAD -- Confused by the dramatic images & media reports of "clashes" in Jerusalem? That's because most outlets report without setting CONTEXT!!!! Here are 3 pieces of information that are critical for understanding the context of what's happening:
1) Foreign Occupiers vs Rightful Inhabitants:
What's unfolding right now is happening in East Jerusalem, which is occupied (stolen) Palestinian land that Israel has NO legitimate claim to. A mountain of UN Security Council resolutions demand Israel withdraw from East Jerusalem.
2) Ethnic Cleansing in Action:
Despite having no right to E Jerusalem, Israel nonetheless is carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign in the city. The latest is an effort to evict Palestinian families from #SheikhJarrah & hand their homes to settlers. & this isn't the 1st time:
THREAD: You may have seen the claim that #AOC has somehow sold out her progressive principles on Palestine in order to pander to the Israel lobby. This is a quick thread explaining why this conclusion is wrong and baseless (1/14)
This ^ claim is made by comparing a bold 2018 tweet correctly accusing Israel of committing a massacre against Palestinians & saying we can’t be silent about it, to an incoherent answer she gave to a recent question on how to achieve peace between Israelis & Palestinians (2/14)
Allegedly, the contrast between one tweet & one bad answer to a question proves she was progressive in 2018 while now choosing to be a vapid centrist by comparison. Can you spot the logical fallacy in this conclusion? (3/14)
Saturday Night Live just took a dig at Israeli apartheid: #SNL
This 👆 is their 2nd best dig since the un-aired Chuck Hagel confirmation parody where they skewered US politicians for over-the-top pandering to Israel:
& as the replies show a concerted effort to deny Israeli apartheid, here is a mountain of evidence proving it:
THREAD: Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made several awful remarks on CNN tonight, making abundantly clear how infuriatingly biased towards Israel the admin's policy will be. Here are 3 quick video highlights:
Blinken explicitly endorses Israel's unlawful & widely-condemned declaration of Jerusalem as its capital. Asked whether he'd support a Palestinian capital in occupied East Jerusalem (from which Israel is obligated to withdraw under int'l law), Blinken becomes non-committal:
When asked about Israel's illegal annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights, Blinken again provides cover for land theft, refusing to criticize Trump's endorsement of such annexation & using security as a pretext to excuse it:
QUICK THREAD on the Israel/UAE normalization of relations: 1) There is nothing "historic" or "groundbreaking" about this agreement: Israel & the UAE have been strong allies under the table for many years! This is merely making that friendship public (which is still interesting).
2) Israel didn't "halt" the annexation for the West Bank (annexation is ALREADY a de facto reality on the ground). Israel merely "suspended" its announcement of a reality it has already illegally imposed on Palestinians. It is FALSE to say Israel suspended it at the UAE's request
3) Israel suspended (put off) its annexation announcement after realizing it was going to be costly to Israel, with many US Democrats threatening for the first time to cut off military aid to Israel. The suspension came long before this UAE deal was reached.