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The new comic by @elivalley brilliantly summarizes where things are today - a parable in 6 panels : Image
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Original source: The amazing @JewishCurrents -- which if you're not already following you should be! jewishcurrents.org/campus-in-cris…

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Mar 15
Over the past 2 yrs, and especially these days, I’ve been thinking a lot about the unquestioned assumptions that define the worldview of many Jewish Americans when it comes to the ideas of safety and vulnerability — a 🧵 (excerpted from a recent essay I wrote, link at the end). Image
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Mar 15
Celebrating Purim in Jerusalem by lynching/shooting a Palestinian and getting away with it - a 🧵

As you read this, imagine the exact same scenario if the victim were an Israeli and how differently it would play out both in Israeli court & in the world media. Image
Palestinian in downtown Jerusalem attacked — incl being shot — by mob shouting “death to Arabs” - Image
Victim attacked for being Palestinian in an area where attackers don’t want to see any Palestinians… Image
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Feb 17
Israelis' embrace of Trump plan to ethnically cleanse deliberately hides the fact that this has been an Israeli aspiration/plan for decades that was immediately energized/normalized after 10/7/23. Just a few receipts for those with short memories, covering just Oct 2023-Jan 2024:
Summary/discussion of the pro-transfer plans/support, published by the Carnegie Endowment for Intl Peace 10/31/23 -- carnegieendowment.org/sada/2023/10/s…Image
More summary/analysis 10/20/23 -- newlinesmag.com/reportage/midd…Image
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Feb 10
After Israel systematically violates Gaza ceasefire from day 1 with impunity, while in parallel opening massive front in West Bank with impunity, in response to Hamas crying foul Trump gives Bibi the green light to complete the genocide/ethnic cleansing of Gaza with impunity. 1/
As if Israel for 15 mos reducing all of Gaza to rubble — displacing & starving entire population, killing 10s of 1000s of civilians (conservative estimate), wounding 100k+ — wasn’t already “all hell breaking loose” on every man/woman/child (including hostages) in Gaza. 2/
Now, the openly shared US-Israeli goal: the total erasure of Palestinians in Gaza - death or permanent exile and for survivors, criminalization/delegitimization of Palestinian identity/history/legit demands for rights by conflating them with antisemitism & support for terror. 3/
Read 7 tweets
Jan 1
JPost sets a moral line in the sand on 1/1/25 - exhorting soldiers in World’s Most Moral Army to stop posting vids/pix documenting their morally & legally indefensible actions in Gaza.

Subtext: fine to keep doing what you’re doing, just stop handing antisemites the evidence! Image
And while the JPost piece uses as its hook an incident chosen to seem rather innocuous, let’s recall the reality:
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Nov 12, 2024
Trump has nominated Mike Huckabee as US amb to Israel. Time for a quick review of the views/agenda re: Israel/Palestine that this nomination effectively endorses 🧵
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