The Genocide Libel was born in 2001, not 2023.

This is the story of a 22-year campaign by NGOs to criminalize Israel's self-defense, turning human rights tools into lawfare again democracies and their citizens.
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2/The campaign began at the UN Conference on Racism in Durban, Sept 2001.

Hundreds of “human rights” groups declared Israel a racist, apartheid state guilty of war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

It was the first time these charges had all been used together.

This antisemitic wave is far from over.

People think antisemitism comes from ignorance of the masses.

But history’s worst antisemitic campaigns were driven by educated elites who exploited it to satisfy envy and eliminate rivals.

We’re in the midst of an anti-Zionist purge. 🧵 2/ Antisemitism of the mob can be contained as long as elites abstain.

But when their interests converge in what Hannah Arendt called a “temporary alliance of the mob and the elite,” a purge begins.

While the mob is raging, the elites are much more calculating.

Here are seven democracies with citizenship laws that favor a particular ethnic/religious group. Like Israel, each has its reasons.

I won’t bother listing the Arab states that will gladly restore citizenship to a Muslim emigrant but deny it to a Jew. Since 1950, Germany has granted citizenship to 4.6 million ethnic-German “resettlers” whose ancestors lived outside Germany for centuries. It did so on the grounds that they faced discrimination as Germans abroad.

Why isn't Mamdani offended when he’s called a communist? And why is he smiling when asked?

Because the West remains ignorant of the colossal crimes of communism —still treating it as a rival economic philosophy, rather than an insidious ideology like fascism & jihadism.🧵 2/ Communism insists human nature is malleable, that with the right tools & enough coercion, it can be reshaped to build a perfect society.

When the promised transformation fails, communists invoke their lofty goals to justify repression, brutality and every illiberal excess.

Denounce Zionism all you want. Without it, the Jews would share Armenia's tragic fate.

In 1914, both nations stood on the same precipice before their twin cataclysms. The starkly different outcomes owes everything to the very movement the world still condemns.

A comparative🧵: 2/ In 2025 Armenia is the mirror opposite of Israel: weak and dysfunctional, occupying a landlocked fraction of its historic land.

Armenia has one of the highest emigration rates in the world, making the diaspora its financial & cultural lifeline.

Why the divergence?

Ethnostate, racist, occupier, terrorist, genocidal.

Armenia doesn’t get nearly enough attention by those who wield these labels with fury at Israel.

Ana "I-know-genocide" Kasparian (co-host of the Young Turks show🤣) doesn’t know much about Armenia.

A special🧵for her. ETHNIC CLEANSING. Armenia is one of the world’s purest ethnostates with 98% of the population ethnically Armenian. It’s not due to carefully crafted borders, but the result of the mass displacement of its native Azeri and Kurdish minorities.

🧵1/ Haaretz has a serious problem. Online antisemitic influencers are smitten with the Haaretz English Edition that produces a steady stream of pithy headlines and radical opinion pieces that confirm their seething hatred of Jews and Israel. 2/ Unlike its news-focused Hebrew version, Haaretz English is used to elevate opinions & editorials that make generous use of terms like “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” “genocide” & “fascism.”

And unlike Al Jazeera, Haaretz carries the imprimatur of a serious news source.

That TikTok protestor wasn't wrong. Greece🇬🇷 and Israel🇮🇱 have much more in common than their blue-and-white flags. Both were born of a European intellectual awakening, strong diaspora, bloody territorial battles, and mass displacement. But no one questions Greece’s legitimacy.🧵 Over the centuries, Greeks & Jews migrated extensively, maintaining a connection with their ancient homeland through religion, tradition, education & language. The success of the Greek Revolution in 1830 inspired Zionists to believe their nation could also be resurrected.

Refugees are a result of both war & treaties, but only in one case have refugee descendants embraced violence to reclaim their great-grandparents’ homes.

Below are 10 forgotten instances of catastrophic mass depopulation, where refugees chose a peaceful path despite the pain. 1. Until 1912, Turks made up 35% of the population of Selanik (Thessaloniki, Greece), having arrived in 1456. Following Greece’s annexation, 50,000 Turks, including Atatürk’s mother, fled. No Turks remain in Thessaloniki today.

Harmful truths sting in ways lies cannot. Israel knows how its detractors use this tactic, and now its Ireland’s turn to hear the truth told with deliberate, foul intent. This mean-spirited thread should upset everyone from self-righteous progressives to puritanical priests. 1. Ethno-state. For most of its existence, Ireland was a homogenous, Catholic regime. It criminalized abortion, blasphemy, divorce & homosexuality, made Gaelic compulsory, and limited immigration to those of Irish descent, closing its doors to refugees fleeing the Nazis.

I am going to treat Spain like Israel is treated and deliver a version of the truth with deliberate, foul intent. It’s an example of how news media and influencers choose to focus on a country’s worst attributes, while ignoring unique historical and cultural circumstances. 1) Spain has colonial possessions in North Africa. That’s right. Ceuta and Melilla are two Spanish cities in what should be Morocco. They took them after the Reconquista, when Spain pushed out the Muslims and Jews from Hispania. They should be given back to Morocco immediately.

Six times the Palestinians rejected a state

1. In 1947 the Palestinians rejected the UN Partition Plan that would have created two states, and instead promised "bloodshed." Palestinians today will say it was an unfair split, but they didn’t agree to any split. 2. In 1949 after the Armistice Agreement the Palestinians could have built a state on the West Bank with Jerusalem as its capital, but instead resolved to remain stateless refugees until Israel was finally defeated. They had the pre-'67 borders, but chose UNWRA instead.

10 Common Misconceptions on Israel/Palestine

“Palestine” is what Zionists called Israel before 1948. All references to Palestine before 1948 refer to the proto-Jewish State and Zionism, not a pre-existing or proposed Palestinian Arab state. Jewish migration is not "colonialism." Colonialism is settlement on behalf of a home country, which Jews never had. Jews migrated as they sought refuge from persecution and massacres in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The Jews kicked out the British Empire.

The history of the conflict in 5 tweets.

The Jews said "yes" to every state they were ever offered. The Palestinians said "no" to every state they were offered because the Jews still would still have a state.

The result is that Israel exists, and Palestine does not. Israel gave citizenship to every Jewish refugee from the Islamic, African and communist worlds. Arab states (ex Jordan) didn't give Palestinians citizenship.

The result is that great-grandchildren of Palestinian refugees are still "refugees", but not those of Jewish refugees.