Earlier today, @POTUS signed an agreement with Israel that yet again throws Palestinians under the bus, enabling more Israeli war crimes against Palestinian families.
In response, Palestinians and allies are speaking out. Here’s what they’ve had to say:
“While people and governments around the world are increasingly recognizing that Israel is an apartheid state brutally oppressing Palestinians, President Biden remains firmly in denial of reality." - @DrHananAshrawi, prominent Palestinian scholar and human rights advocate
"The Jerusalem Declaration is sorely out of step with the progressive base that ushered Biden into office as well as the global social movements resisting fascism and climate doom." - Palestinian American human rights attorney @4noura
This week @POTUS is visiting the apartheid state of Israel to meet with Israeli war criminals. Biden just signed a new agreement with Israel that once again throws Palestinian rights and freedoms under the bus. Let’s break it down 🧵
Biden bragged about sending billions every year to fund Israel’s brutal military, well-known for its gross violations of human rights and daily violence against Palestinians. @POTUS even tossed Israel another billion this year after it spent 11 days bombing Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel’s apartheid government has long sought a partnership with Saudi Arabia’s authoritarian rulers. Now, the US is trying to bring these two infamous human rights abusers together, cutting out Palestinians from a say in their own future. tl;dr Apartheid 🇮🇱🤝🇸🇦Authoritarianism.
It’s day 2 of Joe Biden’s trip to Israel. Instead of demanding accountability for Israeli war crimes, @POTUS is meeting with Israel's most racist leaders today, including:
Israel’s new prime minister Yair Lapid. Lapid has said of Palestinians: “What I want is [...] to be rid of them and put a tall fence between us and them.”
Israeli president Isaac Herzog. A former leader in an Israeli spy unit that blackmails Palestinians and violates their rights, a Herzog campaign ad said that he “understands the Arab mentality.”
THREAD: Joe Biden arrived in Israel today, normalizing Israeli apartheid as support for Israel plummets.
Biden’s trip to Israel continues a dark legacy: The US’ unconditional support for Israeli apartheid and occupation against Palestinians.
The trip is an affront to the freedom of Palestinians and those, including American citizens, who Israel continues to kill with impunity.
At any moment, Biden has the power to change course, to push the US to stand for the freedom and safety of all Palestinians.
Instead, he has chosen to encourage Israel as it violates the rights of the entire Palestinian population daily and flagrantly breaks international law.
THREAD: Documents recently discovered by @AdalahEnglish have revealed that the US is planning to build its new Jerusalem embassy on stolen Palestinian land.
Israel stole the land in question from several Palestinian families in 1950 in violation of international law.
The US is already complicit in Israeli war crimes.
If it goes forward with the plan, the US will be actively participating in Israel's illegal theft of Palestinian land, violating the internationally established right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands.
Now, the original Palestinian families who owned the land, including residents of Jerusalem and US citizens, are demanding that the US halt its plans to move forward with the embassy.
It has been 74 years since the Nakba, when Zionist militias massacred 1000s of Palestinians in order to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land, forcing more than 75% of all Palestinians to flee their homes.
Here are 6 crucial points to remember about the Nakba:
In 1948, armed Zionist militias massacred thousands of Palestinians, forcing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian out of their homes in order to establish Israel on top of stolen Palestinian land.
Palestinians call this the Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic.
The Nakba was a deliberate, pre-planned act with the goal of ridding Palestinian land of an entire ethnic group—Palestinians—in order to steal the land they had called home for generations.