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A short 🧵 on people who maligned/defamed/slandered @RepRashida now trying to pretend they didn't.
CNN's Jake Tapper saying he "misspoke" when he said Tlaib "is suggesting" that Nessel is only prosecuting Palestine protesters "because she's Jewish and the protesters are not. That's quite an accusation."

9/22:
9/23: cnn.com/2024/09/22/pol…
On 9/23 (bw 6:30 & 11:30pm) @J_Insider quietly edited its 9/22 article, changing "Tlaib has also claimed that Nessel is only charging the protesters because she’s Jewish" to "Tlaib has also suggested..."

Original:
Edited: web.archive.org/web/2024092318…
web.archive.org/web/2024092323…
At some point @JGreenblattADL quietly deleted his X-post claiming Tlaib "accuses the attorney general of prosecuting protestors simply because she’s Jewish"

Screenshot of original post:
Now: reddit.com/r/TheMajorityR…
@JGreenblattADL And the clarification that isn’t a clarification…
@JGreenblattADL And another faux clarification that is neither a walk back nor an apology, but really is just doubling down…

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Nov 12
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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Oct 31
This week @axios reported Sen Schumer will pass the hugely controversial Antisemitism Awareness Act during lame duck. Axios presents the controversy as an intra-Democratic issue. This is FALSE. House passage of the AAA in May also catalyzed opposition from GOP & Libertarians. 🧵
Don't believe me? Let's go to the receipts! 🎺
Erwin Chemerinsky & Howard Gillman in the Wall Street Journal - A Bill to Police Campus Speech Senate legislation aimed at anti-Semitic speech runs afoul of the First Amendment

wsj.com/articles/a-bil…
Read 28 tweets
Oct 24
The anti-UNRWA campaign continues in Washington, now using as its hook the (alleged) UNRWA ID doc (allegedly) found with or on the body of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. And as always with these attacks, facts don't seem to matter.

A 🧵.
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Most notably this week: an article in The Hill (the paper aimed at members of Congress & staff) by a longtime UNRWA antagonist & a letter to the Biden Admin from longtime UNRWA antagonist Sen. Cotton (R-AR).

Links:
- thehill.com/opinion/494734…
- cotton.senate.gov/news/press-rel…

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The hook for both the article & letter is Israel's claim it found an official ID document linked to UNRWA on Sinwar's body.

First: this is NOT AN UNRWA-ISSUED DOC. It is clearly a PA-issued passport that (among other things) lists the holder's occupation as "UNRWA teacher"

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Oct 5
A year into Israel’s war to erase/annihilate Palestinian existence in Gaza, read/share the letter to Biden/Harris from 99 US medical professionals documenting what the US is supporting/enabling. Let nobody say they didn’t know.

Excepts in thread
Letter: gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct…
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Sep 28
Observations on the current the moment - a 🧵

Israel used 10/7 to manufacture US consent/collaboration to undo what Bibi & his Greater Israel/neocon fellow travelers (incl in US) have long viewed as historic errors forced on Israel by weak leaders & intl appeasers of terror.

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These are: Gaza disengagement (viewed as capitulation to Hamas), the Oslo Agreement (viewed as capitulation to the PLO), and withdrawal from southern Lebanon (viewed as capitulation to Hezbollah).

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Along the way the Biden Admin & Congress acquiesced to new Israeli-authored rules of war that, among other things, define every human being as a legitimate military target - a terrorist, a terrorist supporter or sympathizer, or a “human shield” -

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Aug 17
Love it or hate it, pressure is ramping up on Schumer/Senate Dems to pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act (massively controversial bill conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism via adoption/enforcement of IHRA definition) after summer recess.

A quick thread w/ receipts.
First, from my Round-Up of Mideast stuff on the Hill published a couple of days ago:

fmep.org/resource/fmep-…
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Reminder re: why it is fair to call the bill “massively controversial”:

fmep.org/resource/state…
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