Time to clear up some misinformation:

Does Israel's new law, passed yesterday, which enables the deportation of those convicted of acts of terror, unfairly target Arabs and Palestinians?

Answer: no, it does not.

Here's a thread🧵 that explains why: The language of the law, which was adopted by a large majority of the Knesset—including many opposition lawmakers—is very clear: it applies to those convicted of acts of terror AND proven to have received financial rewards for those acts of terror from the Palestinian Authority.

The death of Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, shot while covering a heavy exchange of gunfire between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Jenin, is terrible. It must be investigated.

Israel has offered to conduct a joint investigation with the Palestinians, who have refused. Why? Abu Akleh was killed covering an exchange of gunfire between Palestinian militants, who had ambushed Israeli soldiers operating in the densely populated city, and the Israeli forces, who had come to arrest terror suspects in connection with a wave of terror attacks in Israel.

The @NYTimes has a heart-wrenching feature on its homepage about the children killed in the recent Hamas-instigated escalation in Israel and Gaza.

The images and the stories are painful, illustrating the heartbreaking cost of the violence, which no family should have to endure. Notably, the first two Palestinian children featured, 5-year-old Baraa al-Gharabli and 16-year-old Mustafa Obaid, were killed by Hamas.

As the Times itself tells us much further down, they were killed when a Hamas rocket fell short and exploded in Gaza.

https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1397563551439589377

As I clicked around Human Rights Watch's website after it published that report yesterday, I came across a name I recognized: @KhuloodBadawi, HRW's "Israel and East Jerusalem Consultant."

I know Badawi. Or rather, I know her background. And I played a small part in it.

(THREAD) During a round of Hamas-instigated violence in 2012, a tweet by Badawi, whom I didn't know, appeared in my feed.

She'd tweeted a disturbing photo of a small girl covered in blood, writing, "Another child killed by #Israel… another father carrying his child to a grave in #Gaza."

Let's talk about Sarah Halimi.

Sarah Halimi was a 65-year-old retired doctor and schoolteacher and a widowed mother of three children. She lived in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris. She was also an Orthodox Jew, the only one in her building.

(THREAD) On Apr 4, 2017, a Malian immigrant and neighbor named Kobili Traoré entered Halimi's apartment from the balcony, shouting "Allahu Akbar" and verses from the Quran. Witnesses heard her screaming as he beat her to death for an hour. He then tossed her body from a 3rd-floor window.

Today, November 30, is #JewishRefugeesDay.

From 1948 and on, more than 850,000 Jews were forced to leave Arab countries and Iran, where they had lived for millennia. Today fewer than 15,000 remain.

These are their stories.

(thread) More than 265,000 Jews lived in Morocco—the largest Jewish community in the Muslim world—in 1948. In June of that year, 43 were murdered in pogroms. Today only 2,000 Jews remain. One million Israelis are of Moroccan descent, 11% of Israel's total population.

#JewishRefugeesDay

The recent brouhaha surrounding @SethRogen's comments on Israel has raised questions about how American Jews—particularly young, liberal American Jews—feel about the Jewish state.

Luckily, we have @AJCGlobal to offer up some cold, hard facts.

Let's dig in, shall we?

(1/8) According to @AJCGlobal's 2018 survey of American Jewish opinion, fully 79% of Jewish Americans—roughly four out of every five—believe a thriving State of Israel is vital for the long-term future of the Jewish people (bit.ly/3idB9W0).

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This made me cry: Today at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, 92-year-old Melpomeni Dina Gianopoulou met 40 descendants of the Jewish Mordechai siblings, whom she and her two sisters hid in their home near Thessaloniki, Greece during the Holocaust. "Now I can die quietly," she said. Melopmeni is reunited with Sarah Yanai and Yossi Mor, two of the five Mordechai siblings who lived in her family's home for two years during the war. After the hiding place was discovered, the sisters helped the Jewish family flee into the mountains and provided for them there.

Some facts: The Palestinians did not "provide" Jews with a safe haven in Palestine. Palestinian leaders collaborated with the Nazis, did all they could to prevent Jews from escaping to Palestine, and drew up plans for the extermination of the Jews already there if the Nazis won. As Rommel rolled across North Africa, Palestinian leader Amin al-Husseini met with Hitler and Himmler and they developed a plan to murder the Jews of Palestine. An SS unit was stationed in Athens with the express purpose of murdering Palestine's Jews.

https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1128614378339803136

The EU has released its largest-ever report on antisemitism in Europe, surveying over 16,000 Jews in 12 EU countries: bit.ly/2G6yfUM

The results are absolutely devastating.

Here are some of the most troubling findings. (THREAD)

#No2Antisemitism An incredible 85% of European Jews say antisemitism is either a very big problem (45%) or a fairly big problem (40%) in their countries; only 15% disagree or say they don't know. #No2Antisemitism

British Jews rallied yesterday against antisemitism in the Labour Party. French Jews will be rallying tomorrow following the murder of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor in Paris. German Jews today sounded an alarm over antisemitic bullying in Berlin schools. Europe, 2018. Austrian Jews are boycotting far-right ministers in the new government. Dutch Jews are experiencing the highest number of antisemitic attacks in ten years. Icelandic Jews are concerned about legislation to ban circumcision, a fundamental Jewish practice.

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