Born in 1941 in Beit Dras, near Ashdod. On 21 May 1948, Israeli forces entered his village & indiscriminately slaughtered many women & children trying to flee the violence.
Yazuri survived.
source: Jawad, "Zionist Massacres," p.113
Yazuri's family fled to Khan Yunis.
On 3 Nov 1956, Israeli tanks entered Khan Yunis to "eradicate" Palestinian militant resistance.
[Recall, Palestinians picked up arms after Israel slaughtered 1000s of unarmed refugees returning home in 1949-1950. Morris, Border Wars, p.416]:
So, on 3 November 1956, when Israeli forces entered Khan Yunis, they rounded up all men 15+, lined them against a wall & executed them.
Yazuri was 15 years old at the time. He survived the massacre.
This is one account of what Yazuri witnessed:
source: Filiu, Gaza, p. 271
#2 Abdulaziz Rantissi.
Born in October 1947, in Yibna, near Jaffa. Israeli forces attacked Yiba in June 1948. His family fled to Khan Yunis.
Rantissi was 9 years old at the time of the Khan Yunis massacre cited above. His uncle was one of the victims.
#3 Ahmed Yassin
Born in al-Jura in 1936. When he was 13, he was expelled from his home in al-Jura, near Ashkelon.
His family settled in al-Shati (the beach refugee camp) in Gaza. These were the conditions in the camp:
Source: source: Filiu, Gaza, p. 79
Then, during the same 1956 operation in which Israeli forces slaughtered hundreds of men in Khan Yunis, they also executed people in the beach refugee camp, where Yassin lived.
source: Filiu, Gaza, p. 100
Violence breeds violence. In the past month, 1.7M Palestinians in Gaza have been forcibly uprooted. Many r dehydrating in real time. ICU patients are dying in real time b/c no electricity. Babies born pre-maturely are dying in real time. 11,000+ Palestinians have been slaughtered
If history teaches us anything, it's Israel is in the process of destroying itself, ensuring it will have more enemies in the future than it ever had in the past. Israel, for your own sake, stop the killing. stop the genocide. stop this total madness and insanity.
From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free. A 🧵
Meaning of "From the River to the Sea"
In Gaza, Palestinians face starvation, thirst, displacement, siege & mass slaughter
In the West Bank, Palestinians face apartheid, ethnic cleansing & occupation
In Israel, Palestinians face discrimination, unjust arrest & unjust firing
Gaza: 2.3 million Palestinians.
Since Oct 7, Israel has uprooted 1.5M people & killed 10,000+
Prior, Israel had waged 5+ wars on Gaza, killed 3,000+ innocent Palestinians & imposed a strangling siege that left 90% of people w/out safe water & 80% dependent on food aid
1) A history Palestinian non-violent resistance 2) A history of Hamas 3) A history of Israel's ethnic cleansing Palestinians 4) A history of Israel's wars on Gaza 5) A history of Gaza 6) A history of Israel’s use of disproportionate force
In this 🧵, I document many cases in which Palestinians embraced non-violent resistance.
In every case, Israel responded w/ lethal & disproportionate violence.
This helps explain why a small number of Palestinians have instead turned to violence.
In this 🧵 I show how Hamas sought a truce w/Israel in '88, '06, '08, '12 (& '17).
In each case, Israel preferred war to peace, since peace meant a challenge to Israel's Jewish demographic domination & withdrawal from the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Voices critical of the slaughter of Palestinians are being censored, fired & silenced.
So why do writers like @Bariweiss, who have made a career out of advocating for free speech, care so little when the victims of cancel culture speak up on behalf of the Palestinians?
A 🧵:
MSNBC quietly silences its top experts on Israel - Palestine exactly when their expertise was needed most: semafor.com/article/10/13/…
Biologist Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of the prominent open access journal eLife, has lost his job for publicly endorsing a satirical article that criticized people dying in Gaza for not condemning the recent attacks on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas.
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.
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…