🧵in 1994, Dr Baruch Goldstein, a settler & follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane, burst into the Ibrahimi mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron. Goldstein, opened fire, massacring 29 Palestinian Muslims in worship & injuring 125 before being wrestled to the ground & killed. 1/5
Kahanism, from Meir Kahane’s teachings, is a Jewish supremacist ideology promoting violence & terrorism against Palestinians to secure a Jewish ethno-state.
Kahanism (Israel’s Kach party) is alive & flourishing today & represented by members of Knesset 2/5
In 2016, Naftali Bennett, who is likely to replace Netanyahu this month as prime minister of Israel said: “We [Jews] must give our lives" for the cause of annexing the West Bank to Israel. 3/5
In the US (where both Kahane & Goldstein were from) Kahanism founded the Jewish Defense League, classified by FBI as a "terrorist group." The JDL carried out many bombings & violent attacks, including firebombing @jjz’s office in DC, Their violence continues today 4/5
IT MATTERS that false “blood libel” accusations r being made by @FoxmanAbraham & supported by journalists
IT MATTERS that @WSJ & prominent Jewish-Am establishment figures @mdubowitz@JGreenblattADL recently shared Kahanist/JDL images in a supposed fight against antisemitism 5/5
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Pre-election analysis had postulated that a Netanyahu win would be the fault of low turnout among Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. With 85% of the vote now counted, let’s unpack that:
Rather than the razor thins that have characterized the last many Israeli elections 1/10
What gave Bibi this win— 65 seat lead— was a massive gain from the Kahanist Jewish Power party (think rabidly anti-LGBTQ Jewish equivalent to the KKK). Once a fringe party banned from Knesset and registered as a terrorist organization by the US state department 2/10
Kahanists will now be the third largest party in Knesset. While past incarnations of Prime Minister Bibi have tacked center after an election, this time he will have a secure coalition with a lot of pressure from extremists to follow through with 3/10
Let’s review 🧵: last year, before worries of Russian invasion, Israel, fearing injury to their relationship w/Russia, blocked a US sale of the Iron Dome system to Ukraine—Iron Dome is a joint Israeli-US project, so sales of it cannot take place w/out both countries’ approval
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Israel’s relationship w/Russia: Russia is the de facto ruler of Syria & Russia allows Israel to use Syria’s airspace to bomb Iranian proxies in the country. For example, on March 7, during Russia’s war in Ukraine, Israel’s Air Force struck sites near Damascus. 2/
Why does Ukraine want the Iron Dome: unlike a no-fly zone that would require US/NATO jets to shoot down Russian planes, starting a US-Russia (likely nuclear) WWIII, the Iron Dome is a battery operated system that uses radar to identify & destroy incoming missiles 3/
A 🧵about the history and present-day operations of the Jewish National Fund (@KKL_JNF@JNFUSA) which is right now trying to ethnically cleanse Palestinian Bedouin communities from their homes & agricultural lands in the Negev/Naqab (Southern Israel). Protests are ongoing.
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The JNF was founded in 1901 via a motion by Theodore Herzl at the Fith Zionist Congress to establish a fund to purchase land in historic Palestine — then under Ottoman empire rule — so as to remove the indigenous Palestinian population and create a Jewish state
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.@jjz1600, in his book Invisible Victims, describes the blatant exclusivity that the JNF was founded on. Charter declares: “all land taken in the name of the JNF shall be… held as the inalienable property of the Jewish people.” Only Jewish labor was to be used on the land.
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An🧵explainer of my absence from Twitter for the past 4 days:
Beginning in Jan 2021, @Twitter began flagging random tweets of mine such as me celebrating a 5-mile morning run during Hanukkah, me advocating for $2K stimulus checks, shoveling my driveway after a big snowstorm, 1/6
2/ & opposing mansplaining.
On Feb 24, Twitter suspended my account.
I filed an appeal that I hadn’t violated any rules & on March 1, 2021 they reinstated it.
≈ 6 months later it started again. On Aug 22, account was again suspended—my most recent tweets that time were: 3/6
This time, Jan 6-7, 2022, Twitter flagged the following tweets for posting private media???
I deleted 1st tweet w/out thinking but appealed 2nd in hopes of avoiding another suspension.
By evening of Monday Jan 10, @Twitter@TwitterSupport still hadn’t responded to my appeal 4/6
🧵What’s happening in Gaza: Palestinians are protesting bc, ya know, they live in an unlivable prison. Israeli snipers fired live ammo & Ruger bullets used hit legs that will then need to be amputated. 41 people were wounded, including a 13-year-old child in critical condition.
According to Israeli military sources, they refrained from “heavy fire” for sake of women & children. The Ruger bullets were used as “non-lethal crowd dispersal” because they are more likely to maim than kill. If you aren’t sickened enough yet, I can keep going ☹️
In case you forgot, 2 million people are trapped in Gaza. 97% of the water is undrinkable. Electricity is intermittent. In May, Israel bombed homes, medical centers, infrastructure. It’s been 3 months w/out reconstruction aid. 50% of Gaza’s population are children under 15.