Like most Jews of my generation, I grew up with the phrase “Never again.” My mom is a Holocaust survivor and it resonated. But if the phrase is to mean anything it has to apply to all people.
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https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1397023731722113032
Last week was 73rd anniversary of the Israeli massacre at Tantura, a Palestinian fishing village. It was one of at least 37 massacres that took place during the Nakba (or “war of independence” as Israel calls it).
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A survivor reported:
One officer selected 40 men and took them to the village square. Each four were taken aside. They shot one, and ordered the other three to dump his body in a big pit. Then they shot another and the other two carried his body to the pit and so on.
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One officer selected 40 men and took them to the village square. Each four were taken aside. They shot one, and ordered the other three to dump his body in a big pit. Then they shot another and the other two carried his body to the pit and so on.
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Zionism was a project dependent on ethnic cleansing, and it remains so today. There’s no other way to maintain a Jewish majority on a land where most people who live there or want to return there are not Jewish.
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As David Ben Gurion, put it just days after the UN partition plan: “There are 40% non-Jews in the areas allocated to the Jewish state. This composition is not a solid basis for a Jewish state……Only a state with 80% Jews is a viable state.”
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What is happening today in Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, Yafa and elsewhere is a continuation of 1948.
#SaveSheikhJarrah
#SaveSilwan
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#SaveSheikhJarrah
#SaveSilwan
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https://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1398668016200597504
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