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Jan 14 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
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.

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Jan 14
In 1908, the Palestinian magazine al-Nafais al-Asriyya [Modern Gems] was founded by Khalil Beidas, 12 yeas before the British mandate.

It was the most important literary journal in Palestine & was distributed widely, as far a field as the US, Australia, Europe & Brazil. Quick🧵
2\ Beidas founded the magazine to bring the World to Palestine & Palestinians to the world.

Al-Nafais translated Tolstoy & Pushkin & amplified Palestinian poetry, novels & culture.

Beidas refused to work for the British Mandate as the Education Ministry's Arab Department Chief.
3\ In 1911, al-Nafais published an openly nationalist poem entitled "Palestine & the Foreign Colonization," signifying a deep-rooted Palestinian identity & belonging to the "homeland."

"This is your homeland, wake up *** Don't give it up to foreign intruders" it read.
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Dec 22, 2022
In 1911, the national #Palestinian newspaper "La Palestine" was founded by Issa El-Issa (9 years before the British mandate)

One of the most influential dailies in Palestine & the fiercest & most consistent critic of the Zionist movement

Albert Einstein published a letter in it
2\ The oldest newspaper published in #Palestine was "Al-Quds Al-Sharif" in 1867 headed by the Palestinian poet Ali Al-Rimawi.

But "La Palestine" or "Falastin" was the first nationalist & anti-Zionist outlet, which is why it was censored & suspended by the Ottomans & British.
3\ In 1914, Falastin newspaper was suspended for "sowing discord between the elements of the [Ottoman] Empire."

El-Issa said in court "when we said 'Zionists' we referred to the political organisation with its headquarters in Europe which aims for the colonisation of Palestine."
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Dec 18, 2022
Today, you're going to hear a LOT of talking points to justify #Israel's forcible deportation of Palestinian lawyer @salah_hamouri from occupied East Jerusalem, which is possible war crime!

A quick🧵debunking these arguments & why his deportation sets a very dangerous precedent:
2\ First talking point: "Hamouri is a terrorist accused of plotting to assassinate a Rabbai."

In 2005, Hamouri was detained in prison for 3 years WITHOUT trial. He was given a choice in a MILLITARY TRIBUNAL: admit guilt & get 7 years, or maintain innocence & get 14 years!
3\ The 2005 indictment against Hamouri lacked physical evidence, weapons, intercepted letters, plan or phone taps. The only proof the prosecution could introduce consisted of testimonies, later retracted, given by other Palestinians that saw Hamouri walking past the Rabbi's home!
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Dec 17, 2022
Left: Hanna Basharat with his family in front of the villa he built in Talbiya in #Jerusalem in 1926.

The Zionist Haganah militia took the villa in 1948

In 1960s, Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir lived in the villa.
In 1969 she said "There was no such thing as Palestinians"
2\ Hanna tried to reclaim his house in Israeli courts, but to no avail!

In the villa, lived #Israel's labor minister Mordechai Namir, then Foreign Minister Golda Meir, then Knesset Speaker Kadish Luz, Supreme Court Judge Zvi Berenson, & Finance Ministry official Shlomo Arazi.
3\ In 1977, Hanna's grandson Prof. George Bisharat attempted to visit the Jerusalem villa were his father Dr. Maurice was born.

He rang the doorbell & explained the story to the old Israeli woman that answered.
She shrugged "Your family never lived here."
His pain was compounded
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Dec 16, 2022
Netanyahu's casually saying here "We have... a record strong Jewish Lobby on our side."

The very term that @FranceskAlbs is now being accused of anti-Semitism for having used once a decade ago, although she recently said it was "analytically inaccurate & unintendedly offensive."
2\ Chuck Hagel, US secretary of Defense, once said "The political reality is… the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here."

Veteran diplomat Aaron Miller said the use of the term was "mistaken" but Hagel was not not antisemitic.

Major pro-Israel groups stayed neutral.
3\ During Chuck Hagel's nomination hearings, the @ADL's director wrote a piece explaining why the term "Jewish Lobby" is "so offensive" without calling Hagel biased or anti-Semitic a single time.

Contrast this with the way @FranceskAlbs is being treated!
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Dec 14, 2022
Left: Abla Dajani, 18, at her home in #Jerusalem in 1948

Right: Abla, now 92, walks past her old home like a stranger. It's been taken over by Israelis since 1948

"A lifetime of beautiful memories hit me with a force that took my breath away... [but] I was not allowed to enter" ImageImage
2\ Abla's family fled to Egypt in 1948, thinking they would return in a few days.

Her father was allowed into the neighborhood a week later with a special permit he got through the Belgian ambassador, but only to visit, not return.

He found another family in their home. Image
3\ "All furniture & family belongings had been stolen, including the jewelry that my mom hid in the window shutters." Abla recalled, "The only things surviving the robbery were the family albums that I cherish till this day."

#Israel never allowed the family to claim their home. Image
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