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Nov 27, 2024 13 tweets 6 min read Read on X
10 examples of Israeli apartheid at work. 🧵
If u are Palestinian from Silwan (Ramzi Abbasi), Israel can imprison u for 120 days, no reason provided.

If u are Jewish in Silwan, u can ethnically cleanse Palestinians & Israel will imprison those protesting being cleansed.

Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid. Image
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If you are Palestinian in the West Bank & you throw a stone, you face arrest & 20 years in prison.

If you are Jewish in the West Bank & you throw a stone, the Israeli military will arrest the people you throw the stone at.

Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid. Image
If you are a Palestinian & you live on Shuhada Street in Hebron, u must climb onto your rooftop to an adjacent street to leave your house, b/c you aren't allowed on the street.

If you are Jewish, you can come & go as u like.

Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid. Image
If you are Jewish & arrested in Adora, Israeli law requires you be informed of the reason.

If you are a Palestinian & arrested in Fer'a (200 meters away), Israeli law does not require u be informed of the reason.

Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid. Image
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If you are Jewish & move to Israel, you are given subsidized housing.

If you are Bedouin & lived in Israel before the country existed, your home may be demolished b/c u are the incorrect ethnicity.

Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid.
If you are a Jew & you kill a Palestinian in the West Bank, you will likely face no consequences.

If u are a Palestinian & you kill a Jew you will likely be killed on the spot. Image
If you are a Jew in Jaffa, Israel will build Jewish-only buildings for you.

If you are a Palestinian in Jaffa, Israel will issue eviction + demolition orders on your house (in 1 out of 10 cases).

This is in Israel "proper". Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid. Image
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A Jew born on Road 3157 who organizes 11 people for a pol. purpose w/out a permit faces 0 yrs in prison.

A Palestinian born on Road 3157 who organizes 11 people for a pol. purpose w/out a permit faces up to 10 yrs in prison.

Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid. Image
If you live in (Jewish) West Jerusalem, your water runs 24hrs/day, 7 days a week.

If you live in (Palestinian) East Jerusalem, your water runs 1-2 days/week or 4-9hrs/week in some cases.

Not so complicated after all. It’s called apartheid. haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…Image
If you are a Jew, you CANNOT be arrested w/out charge or trial & be held in an Israeli torture dungeon forever.

If you are a Palestinian, you CAN be arrested w/out charge or trial & be held in an Israeli torture dungeon forever.

Not so complicated after all. It's call apartheid Image
This is why every major human rights organization has described Israel as an apartheid state:

"it's apartheid" (@HSRCza, 2009)
"it's apartheid" (@ICAHD, 2010)
“It’s apartheid” (@YWCAPalestine, 2014)
"it's apartheid" (@UNESCWA, 2017)
"it's apartheid" (@YeshDin, 2020)
"it's apartheid" (@AdalahCenter, 2020)
"it's apartheid" (@btselem, 2021)
“it's apartheid" (@hrw, 2021)
"it's apartheid" ( @fidh_en, 2021)
"it's apartheid" (@alhaq_org 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@Addameer 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@AlMezanCenter 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@cacalqudsuni 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@AdvocacyJlac 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@miftahpal 2022)
"it's apartheid" ( @UN 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@amnesty 2022)
it's apartheid" (@ICJ_org 2022)
"it's apartheid" (@DAWNmenaorg 2022)
“It’s apartheid” (@DisciplesNews 2023)
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Breaking: the President of the International Court of Justice (@CIJ_ICJ), Julia Sebutinde, plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion (icj-cij.org/node/204162) in which she voted against all provisional measures of South African's case of Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

On p. 6, Sebutinde writes: ""The name “Palestine” applied vaguely to a region that for the 400 years before World War I was part of the Ottoman Empire."

This sentence was plagiarized word for word from a 2021 article published by Douglas J. Feith by the @HudsonInstitute titled, "The Forgotten History of the Term "Palestine," (hudson.org/node/44363) in which he writes:

"“Palestine” applied vaguely to a region that for the 400 years before World War I was part of the Ottoman empire."

It gets worse. Sebutinde plagiarized the next two sentences as well. She writes:

"In 135 CE, after stamping out the second Jewish insurrection of the province of Judea or Judah, the Romans renamed that province “Syria Palaestina” (or “Palestinian Syria”). The Romans did this as a punishment, to spite the “Y’hudim” (Jewish population) and to obliterate the link between them and their province (known in Hebrew as Y’hudah). The name “Palaestina” was used in relation to the people known as the Philistines and found along the Mediterranean coast."

These 2 sentences were also plagiarized from the same Feith piece, in which he writes:

"In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea’s second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina—that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so resentfully, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews (in Hebrew, Y’hudim and in Latin Judaei) and the province (the Hebrew name of which was Y’hudah). “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast."

Sebutinde make a pitiful attempt to change a word here or there, but this is a textbook case of plagiarism. Feith's piece is not cited in her legal opinion, even though she copied and pasted multiple sentences from the piece.

What a joke of judge. She's making a mockery of the ICJ and should be removed immediately.Image
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It gets worse. She also plagiarized at least 4 sentences from The Jewish Virtual Library (jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-and-fact…).

Here are the 4 sentences from Sebutinde, and then the 4 sentences from the Jewish Virtual Library immediately following:

1. Sebutinde: "Prior to the establishment of “British Mandatory Palestine”, Palestinian Arabs viewed themselves as having a unified identity with the Arabs in the subregion until the twentieth century.
1. Jewish Virtual Library: "Prior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity."

2. Sebutinde: "When the distinguished Arab American historian, Professor Philip Hitti, testified against the Partition of Mandatory Palestine before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he remarked: “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history; absolutely not.”"
2. Jewish Virtual Library: "When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not."

3. Sebutinde: "In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria."
3. Jewish Virtual Library: "In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.""

4. Sebutinde: "The first Palestine-Arab Congress which convened in Jerusalem from 27 January to 10 February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, adopted a resolution in which it, inter alia, considered Palestine as an integral part of Arab Syria."
4. Jewish Virtual Library: "When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted: We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time.

Needless to say, Sebutinde is a pathetic excuse for a judge. If you are going to plagiarize, at least do so from a reputable source. At least, that way, you may be a dishonest person, but at least you'd get the facts right? The insanity of plagiarizing from the Jewish Virtual Library here is that she is both dishonestly representing other people's work as her own, while also spreading misinformation.

How the heck this person is the world's top judge is truly mind-blowing.
Correction: In the first tweet in this thread, I should have noted, the dissenting opinion (w/the plagiarism) was with regard to the "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem." I incorrectly implied it was on the genocide opinion. My apologies.
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