Right: the 830-year-old Moroccan neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Left: Same area today cleansed of its Arab inhabitants, where even Palestinian Jerusalemites aren't allowed to walk without a special permit!
On June 10 1967, #Israel bulldozed the entire area, inc. mosques & school🧵
2\ David Ben-Gurion visited occupied East Jerusalem as soon as it fell & went to the Western wall.
He got "upset" to see a sign Arabic, asked for a hammer & ordered it destroyed, then he said:
"This is the greatest moment of my life since I came to #Israel".
3\ The next day, the #Israeli army brought sledgehammers & bulldozers to the Moroccan quarter in occupied Jerusalem to destroy 135 homes, 2 ancient mosques, an old school & local shops.
They gave the 650 residents about 15 minutes to leave without discussion & become refugees!
Meet the #Israeli right's new hero:
Orian Ben Khalifa was convicted of unjustifiably beating up a young Palestinian woman, knocking her to the ground, dragging her to a police station, grabbing her by the neck & shaking her..
Israel's Security Minister reinstated her immediately
2\ #Israel's Security Minister reinstated Orian Ben Khalifa back at Israel's border police right after an Israeli court convicted her of unjustifiably assaulting a Palestinian.
Israel's Minister for Advancing Women's Status is calling her a Heroin for being up an unarmed Arab!
3\ Right wing #Israelis are in love with the Magav officer Orian ben Khalifa precisely b/c she mercilessly assaulted a Palestinian who did nothing to her.
Orian is known for violently assaulting Palestinians on a regular basis in East Jerusalem.
2 weeks ago, I was asked to explain to the UN the Nakba's impact on Palestinians today, so I told my family's experience of the Nakba's dispossession & displacement 3 times.
The last being the siege that's forcing young Palestinians to choose between displacement or slow death!
2\ The 1st Nakba my grandfather lived through was when he had just bought a farm with all his savings in Hamama.
He refused to leave when #Israel was founded, so 167 days later, the IDF depopulated & looted his village, then razed it to the ground. He became a refugee in Gaza!
3\ 19 years after the IDF forced my grandfather out of his ancestral village, he experienced a 2nd Nakba in 1967, when Israel occupied Gaza & he was kicked out again, to Egypt. A penniless refugee for the 2nd time.
He returned to Gaza in 1994 with the Oslo accords.
EVERYTHING #Israel accuses Palestinians of doing (often falsely), it had openly done way worse to establish & maintain the Israeli state:
e.g. blowing up cafes & buses; human shields; celebrating civilians' death; glorifying terrorists; hiding weapons in civilian areas...Quick🧵
2\ Terrorism was a tactic Zionist militias openly used to establish #Israel
Blowing up cafes, buses & crowded markets was 1 of their favorite strategies. This list only shows Irgun terrorist bombings in 1937-39👇
Irgun became part of the IDF & their leader Shamir became PM!
3\ Even 3 decades after #Israel was founded, the Israeli Defense Ministry continued to use terrorism for combat
Defense Minister Ariel Sharon (later Prime Minister) used to blow up cars, bikes & booby-trapped donkeys in crowded civilian areas in Lebanon ONLY to sow chaos & fear!