3 days before the UK 2019 elex, Israeli mainstream media published a "major bombshell" that Hamas ran a propaganda op to support the Labour leader Corbyn
The 100% made up story was deleted from its original source shortly after the elex..
2\ ~A week before the UK 2019 elex, a young Gazan, Walid, got a call from an #Israeli Lt. Colonel who "used to hold a senior position in the IDF"
He asked Walid in Arabic why he was an admin on the "We Support Jeremy Corbyn" FB page with 72K followers & used a threatening tone..
3\ Walid explained that he was invited to simply write about his daily life in Gaza & that he had no relations to the Labour party or Hamas.
Days & Israeli media & propagandists widely circulated the lie that "Hamas officials" were running an "influential" page to support Labour
4\ A British journalist from a top publication called Walid, who proved to him that he had no relations to Hamas or the Labour party & that he'd been unjustly detained by Hamas in the past
The journalist published nothing to expose this as Walid's reputation was being destroyed!
5\ The night before the UK 2019 elex, the source of the smear claimed that his outlet was being attacked by hackers to burry this "bombshell" (likely to draw more attention to the smear).
PS. the author of the other piece in JPost is a Breitbart contributor & UKIP member.
6\ Only 5 days AFTER the 2019 UK elex were over, Israeli media published Walid's refutation of the smear against him.
The Israeli source of the libel quietly deleted the false story & so did many Israeli propagandists. Walid was left with a shattered life of fear for months...
7\ What prompted me to write this is that I continue to see that Israeli Lt. Colonel who fabricated the story being cited as a "top expert" on Palestinian & Arab affairs. He was never called out for this.
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Quick🧵debunking the #Israeli myth of the 5 Arab armies' unprovoked aggression to annihilate Israel:
Arab regimes were forced in ONLY after Israel committed the Deir Yassin Massacre. The Arab armies goals were to stop the flood of refugees to their states, secure their borders..
2\ Jordan's king, who had the strongest of the 5 armies, met with Zionist leaders regularly & had promised to endorse Jewish statehood & partition
After Deir Yassin, he proposed a Jewish canton in an expanded Jordan. His troops refrained from attacking Israel's own territories👇
3\ Egypt's king went to war to prevent a flood of refugees; protect his borders; gain territory in South Palestine & prevent Jordan's king from claiming leadership of the Arabs.
His army were told they were "merely a punitive expedition against the Zionist gangs" NOT liberation
Khader Adnan was NOT a militant & wasn't involved in any attacks
#Israel detained him 10 times without trial or charges for ~9 years
His only way to out was hunger strikes
Israeli gov was alerted he was about to die after 86 days of hunger but refused to send him to a hospital
2\ #Israel accuses Adnan of being a PIJ spokesman but has never put him on trial or charged him!
Ironically, Israel's Security Minister Ben-Gvir, who's in charge of the prison where Adnan died, was the spokesman of the terrorist Kach movement & was convicted of terror support!
3\ Khader Adnan's "imminent death" was made clear to the Israeli gov. They refused to transfer him to a hospital.
Ever if he was a PIJ combatant, this cruel & deliberate medical neglect is unjustifiable as well as his detention without trial or charges for ~9 years in total.
Left: Al-Majdal, a thriving agricultural & industrial Palestinian village
Right: Al-Majdal today as a Jewish-only #Israeli city
After Israel's founding, the military spent 2 years depopulating the village. They locked up the residents in a Ghetto, then shuttled them on trucks..
2\ Al-Majdal's Palestinian population refused to leave their coastal village after #Israel's founding on May 14, 1948.
174 days later, the Israeli military invaded them, expelled 1,000 residents. General Yigal Allon ordered the expulsion of the rest, but they refused to leave...
3\ The #Israeli military locked up al-Majdal's 2,500 remaining residents in a confined Ghetto surrounded by barbed wire, raided them repeatedly at night to "cause panic" & offered them bribes to leave, but they didn't...
Israel's gov eventually forced residents on trucks to Gaza
My ancestral village, Hamama, was violently depopulated by #Israel's army 167 days AFTER Israel's founding when its residents refused to leave!
The ~1,600-year-old village was literally obliterated from existence.
IDF did the same to 22 Palestinian villages in Operation Yoav🧵
2\ Hamama (dove) was a thriving agricultural village known for producing citrus, bananas, cereals & fishing.
5,000 Palestinians Muslims lived alongside 60 Jewish Palestinians in peace until a settlement "Nitzanim" was built by the Jewish National Fund in 1942. Then terrorism...
3\ In early 1948, before the Nakba, Zionist settlers from Nitzanim launched multiple terror attacks on the village to frighten its residents; wounding 17 & killing one.
The residents refused to leave even after Israel was founded in May 1948 & opened their homes to refugees...
Quick 🧵on how #Israel reacted when the Palestinian leadership recognized its right to exist, accepted a 2-state-solution & renounced violence in 1988:
Israel's gov went into full panic mood; rejected the statement; tried to bury the news; & pressed the US to deny Arafat a visa
2\ Israel's Prime Minister Rabin immediately rejected Arafat's move deeming it "crazy & dangerous." He vowed that Israel "will never permit the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the occupied territories."
Defense Minister pledged to use “an iron fist” to crush it.
3\ Israeli journalist, David Grossman, was sacked for refusing to bury the news that the PLO accepted peace!
"They were so nasty to me. It was a little scary. I found myself in the middle of this very public affair, my name on the front pages. It was talked about in the Knesset"
Quick🧵debunking #Israel's talking points on Apartheid:
1\ "Israel's nothing like South Africa's Apartheid"
That's IRRELEVANT! Apartheid is a well-defined crime under int. law that Israeli practices meet, namely: 1- Intent to dominate 2- Systematic oppression 3- Inhuman acts
2\ "What apartheid? #Israel has an Arab supreme court judge & Arab MKs"
So what? South Africa's Apartheid had colored & Indian ministers & reps in the Tricameral Parliament for a decade (1984-1994). They were tokens in the system of white-domination & systematic oppression!
3\ "The Apartheid label singles #Israel out for criticism. That's antisemitic"
No it doesn't! Human rights groups accused Myanmar of committing the crime of apartheid as well after it fulfilled the criteria of the Rome Statute & the Apartheid Convention (like Israel does).