If you don’t follow pro-Greater Israel twitter, you’re missing right now a campaign of character assassination against Ben & Jerry’s Board of Directors Chair — one that looks a lot like previous campaign against the ICC prosector (both of whom happen to be non-white women).
These mirror effort in Israeli press — eg:
And this blockbuster in Hebrew in Yediot Ahronoth:
And in the Free Beacon:

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23 Jul
Latest @ochaopt update -
West Bank demolitions and displacement | June 2021

ochaopt.org/content/west-b…
@ochaopt Highlights:

- Sevenfold increase in demolished and seized Palestinian-owned structures, compared with May.
@ochaopt - 113 per cent increase in the targeting of donor-funded structures in the first six months of 2021, compared with equivalent period in 2020.
Read 5 tweets
23 Jul
Zeldin (R-NY) is demanding that NY sanction Ben & Jerry’s/Unilever for exiting settlements.

But reminder: the New York anti-boycott statute refers only to Israel (not territories under its control, etc).

zeldin.house.gov/media-center/p…
Here is the NY exec order (conveniently linked by Zeldin)

governor.ny.gov/sites/default/…
What this means - and likely it won’t be just in NY - is the normalization of a new baseline definition of Israel to mean “Israel + the occupied territories”.
Read 5 tweets
21 Jul
People are suddenly paying attention to laws in states quashing free speech critical of Israel.

What most people don’t know is that these laws are being used as a template for legislation quashing free speech on other topics.

A quick thread.

1/
I warned back in 2018 - U.S. Politicians Are Backing a Free Speech Exception for Israel — & Creating a Template for Broader Assault on the First Amendment.

medium.com/@LFriedman_FME…
I warned: "this template could be re-purposed to bar contracts with individuals or groups affiliated with or supportive of any political cause or organization...that the majority in a legislature or the occupant of a governor’s office deemed undesirable.”

3/
Read 25 tweets
19 Jul
Fascinating list of countries.

Bahrain, Morocco, UAE, & KSA speak for themselves.

As for the rest, here’s some context, for folks who maybe don’t follow Israeli global foreign policy as carefully….

1/
> Azerbaijan🇦🇿

Why you won’t hear criticism of Israel in Azerbaijan

responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/18/why…

2/
> Hungary🇭🇺

Netanyahu greets Hungary’s Orban as ‘true friend of Israel’

apnews.com/article/israel…

3/
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15 Jun
In conjunction with his intro of an outrageous res bashing @Ilhan @AOC & @RepPressley, Waltz (R-FL) has helpfully compiled a doc containing what he apparently sees as the evidence of their anti-Israel, antisemitic ways. Let’s review!

waltz.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
@Ilhan @AOC @RepPressley Ocasio-Cortez, Pocan & Tlaib Lead Joint Resolution to Block Weapon Sales to Netanyahu

omar.house.gov/media/press-re…
Rep. Ilhan Omar Statement on Proposed Arms Sale to Israel Amidst Gaza Airstrikes

omar.house.gov/media/press-re…
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15 May
To people who today are either staying silent or arguing that they - as Jewish Israelis or Jewish Americans - just want peace:

Too many “we-support-peace people have for years kept their heads in the sand about the clear intentions behind Israeli policies... 1/
... & about the constant and ever-escalating violations of their basic rights and dignities these policies that inflict on Palestinians. 2/
Good intentions, loving peace, holding on to “hope” - it has long been clear that without turning these into actions, they are just stories people who are privileged by the status quo tell themselves... 3/
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