Thread by @Tracking_Power

There seems to be some confusion about who the occupation for Palestine began. Jonathan @Freedland appears to believe it started in 1967. But it didn't.

Here's a quick thread🧵

https://twitter.com/Freedland/status/1525049564008423424

So did the occupation begin in 1948 - the #Nakba - when thousands were massacred and 750,000 expelled? No, not then either.

https://twitter.com/epiplexis_/status/1525084329625407490?t

Did the occupation begin in 1909? That was when the first ‘Kibbutz’ was created in Umm Juni, by Arthur Ruppin, the head of the Zionist Organization office in Palestine. He was a devotee of ‘racial purity’ who was sympathetic to Nazi racial thinking.

An amusing bit of his racial purity obsession was that he thought that the Jews supposed reputation for avarice was because their racial stock had been diluted by mixing with Semitic people ie Arabs. He thought that the Jews were not Semites! Anyway, back to the occupation…

The kibbutz was given a Hebrew name a year later: Degania. The founders: ‘We have proceeded to establish an independent settlement of Jewish workers in the national homeland – a Commune.’ The clues are there if we wish to see: A Jewish only settlement. No Arabs allowed.

No, not 1909: what about 1878? ‘Petah Tikva’, often described as the ‘Mother of settlements’, was created then with financial help from Baron Edmond de Rothschild. but, it did not begin then, either.

What about 1815 when a settlement was created in Hebron by the extremist Chabad-Lubavitch sect (which originated in Russia/Ukraine)? Today it is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City. Here is what it says about Hebron: chabad.org/library/articl…

But no, it may have been earlier: Russian Chabadniks had created settlements in Safed from 1777. safed.co.il/chabad-in-tzfa…

Things you should know about Chabad-Lubavitch: It's a supremacist organisation at the extreme end of the settler movement. According to Shin Bet ( Israeli intelligence agency) it’s responsible for about 80% of ‘price-tag’ revenge attacks on Palestinians.

https://twitter.com/PDeclassified/status/1514908693757845508

So, in conclusion: The settlement and occupation of Palestine has been a long time coming. The descendant's of the earliest settlers are still there continuing the #Nakba through violence and land theft. Time to end the occupation.