If you’re outraged by Kanye’s antisemitism but were silent about Netanyahu’s friendship with Victor Orban, you’re part of the problem. 🧵 If you’re outraged by Kanye’s antisemitism but have been silent about Ben-Gvir, you’re part of the problem

Pre-election analysis had postulated that a Netanyahu win would be the fault of low turnout among Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. With 85% of the vote now counted, let’s unpack that:

Rather than the razor thins that have characterized the last many Israeli elections 1/10 What gave Bibi this win— 65 seat lead— was a massive gain from the Kahanist Jewish Power party (think rabidly anti-LGBTQ Jewish equivalent to the KKK). Once a fringe party banned from Knesset and registered as a terrorist organization by the US state department 2/10

Let’s review 🧵: last year, before worries of Russian invasion, Israel, fearing injury to their relationship w/Russia, blocked a US sale of the Iron Dome system to Ukraine—Iron Dome is a joint Israeli-US project, so sales of it cannot take place w/out both countries’ approval
1/ Israel’s relationship w/Russia: Russia is the de facto ruler of Syria & Russia allows Israel to use Syria’s airspace to bomb Iranian proxies in the country. For example, on March 7, during Russia’s war in Ukraine, Israel’s Air Force struck sites near Damascus. 2/

A 🧵about the history and present-day operations of the Jewish National Fund (@KKL_JNF @JNFUSA) which is right now trying to ethnically cleanse Palestinian Bedouin communities from their homes & agricultural lands in the Negev/Naqab (Southern Israel). Protests are ongoing.
1/17 The JNF was founded in 1901 via a motion by Theodore Herzl at the Fith Zionist Congress to establish a fund to purchase land in historic Palestine — then under Ottoman empire rule — so as to remove the indigenous Palestinian population and create a Jewish state
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An🧵explainer of my absence from Twitter for the past 4 days:
Beginning in Jan 2021, @Twitter began flagging random tweets of mine such as me celebrating a 5-mile morning run during Hanukkah, me advocating for $2K stimulus checks, shoveling my driveway after a big snowstorm,
1/6 2/ & opposing mansplaining.
On Feb 24, Twitter suspended my account.
I filed an appeal that I hadn’t violated any rules & on March 1, 2021 they reinstated it.
≈ 6 months later it started again. On Aug 22, account was again suspended—my most recent tweets that time were:
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🧵What’s happening in Gaza: Palestinians are protesting bc, ya know, they live in an unlivable prison. Israeli snipers fired live ammo & Ruger bullets used hit legs that will then need to be amputated. 41 people were wounded, including a 13-year-old child in critical condition. According to Israeli military sources, they refrained from “heavy fire” for sake of women & children. The Ruger bullets were used as “non-lethal crowd dispersal” because they are more likely to maim than kill. If you aren’t sickened enough yet, I can keep going ☹️

🧵 1/7 Thread describing & instructing you on how to report @AIPAC's dishonest, Islamophobic, dangerous paid @Facebook ads attacking @IlhanMN
The ads which put the congresswoman's life at risk are running currently. 2/7 Omar's communications manager @jeremyslevin stated, "baselessly linking Muslim-Americans to terrorism is *the* textbook example of Islamophobia." The ads use "virtually identical to the language used in death threats she gets.

https://twitter.com/jeremyslevin/status/1425479000487571466?s=20

Yesterday Israel voted down one of its most racist laws which had prohibited Palestinians w/Israeli citizenship from having their West Bank or Gaza spouses to live w/them

Stop, 🛑 wait, don’t applaud or get excited. Read the full 🧵1/7 The apartheid law, which was up for renewal, did not fail bc there was an increase in support for equality & Palestinian rights thanks to the new “change” govt. It failed bc Netanyahu wanted to humiliate the new PM & show that Bennett’s govt is weak. 2/7

🧵Naftali Bennett may in the next few days replace Netanyahu as Prime Minister. As this is being widely applauded, even on the left, here are some choice Bennett quotes to give you pause:

2013: “I’ve killed many Arabs in my life and there’s no problem with that” 2016: “We [Jews] must give our lives" to annex the West Bank to Israel.”

This quote evokes the Kahanist (Jewish KKK) ideology that violence & terrorism should be used to secure Israel as an etho-nationalist state. For context/history, see my previous thread👇🏼

https://twitter.com/arielelysegold/status/1398956490141089794

🧵in 1994, Dr Baruch Goldstein, a settler & follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane, burst into the Ibrahimi mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron. Goldstein, opened fire, massacring 29 Palestinian Muslims in worship & injuring 125 before being wrestled to the ground & killed.
1/5 Kahanism, from Meir Kahane’s teachings, is a Jewish supremacist ideology promoting violence & terrorism against Palestinians to secure a Jewish ethno-state.

Kahanism (Israel’s Kach party) is alive & flourishing today & represented by members of Knesset
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🧵You can’t make this sh*% up! @NatGeo is having @GalGadot, self-designated defender of Israeli genocide, host a series about indigenous people being displaced. Watch the video and sign @CODEPINK’s petition Tell @NatGeo to boot @GalGadot off @NatGeoTV show IMPACT codepink.org/natgeo