Share this page!

Lara Friedman🔥 Profile picture
Twitter logo
15 Sep, 7 tweets, 2 min read
For folks celebrating the more moderate, pro-peace Israel government, here’s some selections from today’s news:
Palestinian statehood would be a 'terrible mistake' - Bennett

jpost.com/israel-news/be…
Israel's PM says no reason to meet PA president

middleeastmonitor.com/20210915-israe…
Bennett rules out meeting with Palestinian President Abbas

ynetnews.com/article/s1jbvp…
Israel FM says 'impossible' to reach an agreement with PA president

middleeastmonitor.com/20210915-israe…
DM Benny Gantz: Israel won't evacuate settlements

israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx…
This is the context for understanding discussions around “confidence building measures” — measures that are little more than a con game intended to stabilize an annexation/apartheid status quo.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Lara Friedman🔥

Lara Friedman🔥 Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @LaraFriedmanDC

Lara Friedman🔥 Profile picture
15 Sep
For the Hill obsessed: this thread will run down all of Mideast-related amdts to the House FY22 NDAA posted on the Rules website as of 4:25pm on 9/15) (deadline was yesterday but amdts keep rolling in).

It’s a long thread (for which you should blame Congress, not me).
Category 1: Israel-related amendments
Amdt. 110: Offered by Biggs (R-AZ), “Expresses a sense of Congress about the importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship.”

amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/BIG…
Read 91 tweets
Lara Friedman🔥 Profile picture
15 Sep
Backers of laws creating a free speech exception targeting critics of Israel/settlements - laws that are brazenly unconstitutional & already being used as template for targeting free speech on guns & fossil fuels - are now turning their wrath on the ACLU. freebeacon.com/courts/aclu-be…
Reminder: 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…
Reminder: Israel-focused Anti-Boycott Legislation — A Template for Quashing Free Speech on Other Issues (data table)

fmep.org/resource/israe…
Read 4 tweets
Lara Friedman🔥 Profile picture
5 Aug
Just to be clear: this is a US senator doubling down on the claim that criticizing aid to Israel - and daring to suggest the funds could be better spent elsewhere on US domestic needs - is ipso facto antisemitic.
Great example of key rule for weaponizing antisemitism against critics of Israel:

—> It’s antisemitism when critics of Israel conflate Israel & Jews;

&

—> It’s antisemitism when critics of Israel don’t conflate Israel & Jews, cuz criticizing Israel=criticizing Jews,

Get it?
Again, you can read Bush’s whole speech - and the context - here:

congress.gov/congressional-…
Read 5 tweets
Lara Friedman🔥 Profile picture
25 Jul
Dear self-professed progressives objecting to Ben & Jerry’s exiting settlements: pause in your self-congratulating to read MLK’s msg to moderates in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail (a message that - yes - applies today to you).

1/
““I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom…”

2/
“…is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;…”

3/
Read 6 tweets
Lara Friedman🔥 Profile picture
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
Lara Friedman🔥 Profile picture
23 Jul
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:
Read 5 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @LaraFriedmanDC has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @LaraFriedmanDC!

Read all threads by @LaraFriedmanDC

:(