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Israel will be studied for decades as an example of a nation overwhelmed with genocidal mania.

An Israeli peace activist shares a video of Palestinian children burning alive after an Israeli missile hits a hospital.

Let's see responses from Israelis and hit 'Translate post'. Image
This is Yair Oriel, former director of digital at Israeli TV Channel 14.

(Always bear in mind these are responses to someone sharing footage of Palestinian children being burned alive by an Israeli missile) Image
This is Dr. Rafi Kishon.

According to his bio, he is a 'multidisciplinary lecturer.'

He lists his interests as including "animals and smiles". Image
This is Lilach Leibovic. She claims to be addressed as "Her Highness". Image
Here's Ezra Yousef, a VP in Business Development. Here's an Israeli who now lives in San Francisco. Image
Their bio is "superhero". Image
Her bio is "full time mom". Image
Their bio is "absolute victory". Image
Her bio is "Mother and wife, secular and a proud Jew from the center of the country, loves Israel. I know that Kahane was not wrong." Image
According to their profile, they're a psychologist. Image
They claim to live somewhere in the "Holy Land". Image
This man claims to be "social-democratic left". Image
"Because as long as Hamas remains the ruler of Gaza, there is a moral obligation to continue the war, even at the cost of dead Palestinian children. This is clear and obvious to everyone." Image
You get the gist. Image

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Nov 9
This is a massive media scandal.

@SkyNews posted a video accurately describing what happened in Amsterdam.

It described violence perpetrated by Israeli football hooligans, and their hideous racism.

They then deleted it. This is the original.

They then posted a re-edit.

Except it's not a re-edit. It's a totally different video, which now qualifies as disinformation.

@SkyNews then posted a tweet saying their previous video didn't meet their standards for balance and impartiality.

That was deleted too. Image
@SkyNews The new video strips away crucial context, downplays anti-Arab racism, adds in testimony from a Maccabee fan but none from victims of Maccabee hooliganism, etc.

See this thread from the brilliant @marcowenjones

Read 7 tweets
Nov 8
Imagine Russian football fans in a foreign city:

- Interrupted a minute’s silence in memory of dead flood victims with chants in support of killing Ukrainian children

- Rampaged through the city

- Ripped down Ukrainian flags

- Chanted “death to Ukrainians”

- Attacked local residents

Imagine then, when local residents attacked them, they were presented as victims of a racist pogrom.
Mainstream media outlets and politicians are simply lying about Amsterdam.

This gaslighting is just insane.

We can see for ourselves what racist, genocidal Israeli football hooligans chanted and did 👇

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Mainstream media outlets constantly decry the spread of disinformation on social media.

And yet you literally have to rely on social media to correct the disinformation being spread by mainstream media outlets about what actually happened in Amsterdam.
Read 16 tweets
Oct 21
This was posted by Mohammad Magadli, journalist and Palestinian citizen of Israel.

It's a video of a girl in Gaza, maybe 7 or 8, walking barefoot with her injured sister.

“I'm tired, I have been carrying her for an hour and I can’t now”.

Brace yourself for the responses.
This is Almog Cohen.

He's an elected Israeli politician in his mid-30s, a former police officer who founded a militia force in the Negev.

His tweet has been liked 1,200 times.

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Here is an Israeli woman with 11,600 followers.

She says "There are no innocents there". Image
Read 26 tweets
Aug 18
Israel killed Hind Rajab, her cousins, her aunt and uncle.

They slaughtered the paramedics sent to save her.

If this one atrocity had been committed by Hamas against Israelis on 7th October, it would be seen as one of the most depraved acts that day 👇

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
This is one of thousands of atrocities committed by Israel.

While war crimes committed on 7th October are used to define the nature of Hamas, that does not apply to the never-ending litany of crimes committed by Israel.
"After each atrocity it perpetrates, the Israeli state has a standard modus operandi: deny, deflect, deceive, and wait for attention to move elsewhere."

Most media has collaborated with this strategy, designed to stop us joining the dots and understanding what this really is.
Read 7 tweets
Aug 6
What we are witnessing in England is a mixture of a far-right racist riot, pogrom and terrorist insurgency.

It has been whipped up by our media and political elites for decades.

Some of those decrying this horror played their part in making it happen.
As our politicians presided over crumbling public services, the trashing of secure jobs, an escalating housing crisis, and falling living standards, it was convenient for both political elites and media outlets to whip up anti-migrant hostility.
That anti-migrant hostility specifically merged with Islamophobia, which has been incessantly whipped up since 9/11 in particular.

British Muslims have been treated as dangerous and disloyal foreigners in their own land, while migrants and refugees are teated as hostile invaders
Read 53 tweets
Jul 21
Joe Biden has the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinians on his hand.

Israel would never have been able to raze Gaza to the ground without him.

I'm a non-believer, but if Hell exists, that man would have a first class ticket there.

A monster who belongs in jail.
There will be outraged responses to this, I'm sure.

But if you're outraged, you simply do not believe Palestinians are human beings, certainly not in a meaningful sense, and that should be the scandal here.
Oh, and by the way, for those saying:

"Any other president would have behaved like this."

Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both showed more outrage over Israeli crimes than Biden did, and that in no way is an endorsement of either of them.
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