1\ Activists daring to raise the Palestinian flag at the #Israeli pro-democracy demonstrations tonight were at risk of assault by both the police & fellow protesters who think that "democracy to all" is too controversial & outrageous.
2\ Here, a pro-democracy protester blocks the Channel 14 cameraman from filming the Palestinian flag in #TelAviv. The protester then accused the cameraman of assault.
3\ Israeli pro-democracy protesters were forcefully preventing a protester from waving the Palestinian flag at the Azrieli Junction #TelAviv.
4\ Another Israeli pro-democracy protester is yelling at a fellow protester who dared raise a Palestinian flag.
The demonstration's slogan was "Freedom. Equality. Probity of governance," but maybe equality is not for all!
5\ In #Jerusalem, the #Israeli police rushed to confiscate a tiny Palestinian flag from an activist at the Israeli pro-democracy demonstration, then escorted him to the police point.
6\ The Israeli police assaulted the activist who raised a tiny Palestinian flag at the Israeli pro-democracy demonstration in #Jerusalem to call for "democracy to all."
7\ In #TelAviv, the protest organizers brought hundreds & hundreds of Israeli flags to make sure they flood any Palestinian flags raised at the pro-democracy demonstration.
The demonstration calls for "Freedom. Equality. Probity of governance"!
PS. Per @grapesofwhat & @TribunusPlebei, the 2nd footage shows the protester in yellow preventing a cameraman from the extremely right-wing Channel 14 from filming the activist with a Palestinian flag. She's confronting him for being a propaganda channel.
🚨Israel's demand of disarming Hamas is a red herring designed to sabotage any ceasefire talks🧵
Hamas has virtually no offensive weaponry left (e.g. rockets, tunnels crossing into Israel)
They have light weaponry (e.g. rifles & anti-tank missiles)
Another Oct 7 is impossible!
2\ Hamas currently does NOT have the capacity to threaten Israel itself (e.g. rockets)
But they DO have the capacity to maintain a long insurgency *inside* Gaza against the IDF (not Israel itself)
Any serious Israeli analyst would tell you the chances of another Oct 7 are zero!
3\ Israel & Hamas share an interest in exaggerating Hamas' remaining capabilities. Israel wants to falsely portray Hamas as a major "existential threat" to justify continued genocide
Hamas wants to present a victory image that it's still in good shape after everything Israel did alwatanvoice.com/arabic/news/20…
Getting many questions about the demonstrations in Gaza
So here's my full assessment of the protests; their potential & limitations; genuineness & spontaneity vs outside influence; motives & goals; & their ability to actually challenge Hamas or bring the war close to an end🧵
1\ The protests seem to have started spontaneously in small numbers & limited areas. Their grievances are genuine; people are tired, desperate for the genocide to end at any cost, many want Hamas to step down from gov to take away Israel's pretext for the siege & killing
But...
2\ The protests quickly drew the interest & influence of external actors, keen to exploit Gazans' despair & pain, & this may end up undermining the movement instead of helping
e.g. Israel demanding Gazans take to the street or face death, land theft & forever war will backfire
"Pay for slay" is a deeply racist Israeli trope that Palestinians are so deplorable, they'd want to get killed or imprisoned for life only for a few pennies!
The collaborationist Palestinian Authority NEVER paid anyone to attack Israel!
Israel has an identical prisoner fund🧵
2\ The PA paid financial support to Palestinians maimed or detained by Israel & families of those killed
Israel has an identical fund: "Prisoners of Zion & Families of Martyrs". It gives benefits to those imprisoned or killed for "Zionist activity" abroad or in mandate Palestine
3\ Why did the PA need this fund?
Because Israel has detained over 1 million Palestinians since 1967. All either tried in kangaroo military courts with a conviction rate of 99,7% (conviction rate of settler attacks on Palestinians is 1.8%) or never even put on trial or charged!
🚨🚨Netanyahu violates the ceasefire deal & declares Israel won’t allow displaced Gazans to return to the North today
The agreement👇 clearly says Israe should allow this unrestricted return of 1 million Gazans on day 7 (today) after the release of 7 female hostages (4 today, 3 last Sunday)
2\ Netanyahu is asking now for an additional female hostage, Arbel Yehoud, to be released today before allowing people back to the north
It’s unknown if Arbel is even alive. If she’s dead, it means her body would only be released at the end of phase 1 (as Israel itself demanded)
3\ Netanyahu claims Hamas was supposed to release female civilian hostages (I.e Arbel) today first before the 4 female soldiers
But if that’s the case, then why did Israel say nothing yesterday? Why only object now after the 4 soldiers returned to Israel?
2\ It became a Tiktok challenge during the genocide for Israeli soldiers to kidnap Palestinians, torture & humiliate them & force them on camera to wave the Israeli flag &/or sing Israel's national anthem
3\ More of the Israel Tiktok challenge of kidnapping, torturing & humiliating Palestinians:
Just read the "research" cited here by an org whose own co-founder called it "a far-right, deeply anti-Muslim racist organisation, run in the most dictatorial, corrupt & undemocratic fashion & utilized as a propaganda outfit".
As expected their report is a fraud🧵
1\ Author's main assumption is Gaza's causality figure is impossible b/c that'd mean Israel is targeting civilians & there's "no evidence" of this.
The ICC prosecutor literally charged Netanyahu with the Crime against Humanity of extermination for deliberately killing civilians!
2\ The author claims he found an error whereby 103 entries of killed men were mistakenly registered as women in a database of 44,000 causalities
That's his main "evidence" that the number of Gazan women killed by Israel has been widely inflated by a whopping 1%