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Zachary Foster Profile picture
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Oct 23, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Why don't Palestinians embrace non-violent resistence?

You've probably heard this question asked a lot over the past 2 weeks.

A short response. A🧵.
From late 1987-1988, Palestinians in Gaza rose up in a series of non-violent demonstrations, strikes, boycotts & protests. They killed 0 Israelis. They were unarmed.

In response, Israel killed 142 Palestinians in Gaza.

Source: Jean-Pierre Filiu, Gaza: A History (2014), 206. Image
In 2005, Palestinians organized a non-violent movement, Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS)

In response, Israel:
1. said the movement's true goal is to destroy Israel
2. called BDS supporters antisemitic
3. Punished its founder w/threat of displacement haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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In 2008 & 2009, the residents of Ni'lin, in the West Bank, protested non-violently every week against the expansion of the separation barrier that was confiscating their land.

In response, Israel killed Ahmed Moussa on 29 July 2008; Israel killed Yousef Aqel Srour on 5 June 2009 Image
In 2003, unarmed Palestinians in Bil'in organized weekly protests against the separation barrier that was confiscating their land.

In 2009, Israel killed Bassem Abu Rahmah w/a shot in the chest; in 2010, it killed Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who died from tear gas inhalation. Image
Beginning in March 2018, tens of thousands of Gazans marched to the fence, unarmed, demanding the right of return. Israel killed 223 Palestinians & Israeli snipers left 6,106 Palestinians with life-changing wounds. Not a single Israeli experienced any major physical harm. Image
These incidents represent a tiny fraction of Palestinian non-violent resistance.

In the vast majority of cases of Palestinian non-violent resistance, Israel responds w/ lethal & disproportionate violence.

And you wonder why a tiny number of Palestinians have turned to violence?
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Sep 24
"If only the Zionist movement had been established earlier, millions of Jews could have been saved."

Debunking the #1 myth about Zionism. A 🧵
It's impossible to prove or disprove counterfactual history, to state the obvious.

But we can look at how the Zionist movement reacted to similar situations in which Jews faced persecution and the Zionist movement had the opportunity to rescue Jews.

What did they do?
The deadliest pogroms during the period 1870-1939 by an order of magnitude were the 1918-1920 pogroms in Ukraine.

It was a holocaust before the holocaust: 50,000-100,000 Jews killed, 120,000 orphaned children, hundreds of thousands of impoverished refugees seeking a safe haven.
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Sep 11
How Zionists prolonged the suffering of Jewish Holocaust survivors, 1945-1948. A 🧵
After WWII, 250K liberated Jews found themselves in Displaced Person (DP) camps in Europe. The Zionists prevented their rescue to destinations other than Palestine, despite abysmal living conditions in the camps, despite offers of resettlement & despite the desire of many to go.
The British gov. accepted 1,000 Jewish children survivors in the late summer 1945, but only about 300 of them made it.

The British army flew the children to England & “did everything they could to ease up matters...It is possible that no other group of immigrants ever entered this country with a more favorable welcome.”

They settled into dormitories in the UK w/beds of “crisp white sheets” & “little bowls of sweets…placed on the nightstands.”

Sources: archive.org/details/inshad…
historyextra.com/period/second-…Image
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Aug 11
Israel’s exploitation of Jews as demographic hostages, a brief history 🧵
Zionist & Israeli leaders have a long history of going against the interests of Jews themselves, of weaponizing Jews & exploiting their J-positive blood to engineer a Jewish demographic majority in Palestine.
This began after WWII when 35,000 Jews in Palestine applied for repatriation home, to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany & Poland. Zionist leaders instigated foreign consular officials to block their exit visas. palestinenexus.com/articles/zioni…Image
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Aug 6
The last major case of intentional starvation in Palestine was during World War I. lessons from history. ⤵️
~11-16% of the population of what is today Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon died during the war, mostly from famine or famine related diseases. About 500,000 people.

During the war, the British, Russian & French navies blockaded the Eastern Mediterranean coast for a prolonged period of time, from December 1914 until 1918.

The blockade led to economic collapse in Palestine and elsewhere in the region. Tens of thousands of people lost their means of livelihood as a result.

The blockade led a shortage of critical goods, such as petroleum, essential to cook food and heat homes. In Palestine, the price of petroleum skyrocketed to five or six times its prewar price by April 1915, just six months into the war.
But Palestine is fertile and can produce its own food. Here, the problem was:

1) A massive locust attack in 1915 destroyed a lot of food.

2) the Ottoman government requisitioned the animals & took over the railways for military use.

Thus, it became prohibitively expensive to ship food via donkeys, camels or railways. The Ottoman State sabotaged the food delivery system.
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Jul 10
Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was not a historical event or two or three that happened in 1948, 1967 or 2023. It's an ongoing process, a structure, that began in the late 19th century and has been ongoing to the present day. ⤵️
Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, Oct. 7, 2023 - the present: palestinenexus.com/articles/ethni…Image
Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1968-1993: palestinenexus.com/articles/israe…Image
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Some of @PeterBeinart's best clips on the relationship between Zionism & the Jewish tradition. Trigger warning if you are a Zionist. A 🧵
How political Zionism is inherently oppressive:
How the institutional American Jewish life can no longer be considered Jewish:
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