Thread by @KitKlarenberg

🧵THREAD🧵 (or how Israel wages war on foreign universities): On November 15th @DukeU's student government rescinded recognition of campus group Students Supporting Israel after it publicly targeted another student who said the move meant "my school supports settler colonialism."

The @DukeU SSI chapter (dozens at unis across US) posted screenshot of tweet to its Instagram and attacked her for it, in blatant breach of student government rules, then apologized publicly, then deleted apology, then appealed decision, which was upheld despite "pressure"...

In response, an ACT.IL WhatsApp group, which corrals users to oppose criticism of Israel online + directs them to like/comment on/share pro-Zionist material, yesterday directed its followers to sign a petition calling for SSI’s reinstatement.

Note, the post falsely branded the student’s “settler colonialism” remark was “anti-semitic”. The change.org petition now has almost 2,600 signatures, with the website noting once that reaches 5,000, the petition “is more likely to get picked up by local news.”

We know thanks to @AntiBDSApp and @AsaWinstanley ACT.IL also involved in promoting campaign to get David Miller fired from @BristolUni. Core part of effort saw @Sabrisun_Miller post petition demanding his removal. Surely promoted by ACT.IL too…

That slanderous petition was promoted via equally slanderous misleading articles @Sabrisun_Miller wrote for Daily Telegraph, Jewish Chronicle and Times of Israel. It got nearly 10,000 signatures, which meant it was “more likely to get a reaction from the decision maker!”

David of course sacked at start of October by @BristolUni, although he’s appealing decision – given two separate legal inquiries completely exonerated him of anti-Semitism, if that fails, they’ve surely been gotten to…

Small snapshot of how Zionist state secretly mobilises assets to create synthetic backlash pressuring institutions + stifling criticism of its destruction of Palestine and genocide of its people. Existence of networks cannot be branded conspiracy theory let alone anti-Semitic.

Especially relevant to consider given IMPRESS ruling which found @skwawkbox and @TheCanaryUK completely innocent of publishing anti-Semitic content. Those smears levelled solely due to their critical reporting of Israel's illegal activity severely damaged their reach and income.