1/ Jewish Ukrainians who are fleeing war in Europe to Israel are likely to be settling on land currently being ethnically cleansed of Palestinians. The tragedy of one people is carried by the colonisation & erasure of another & so history repeats itself jpost.com/diaspora/artic… 2/ For example, the Jordan Valley & the Naqab have recently been targets of extreme violence by the Israeli Apartheid regime. Families have had their homes demolished and are forcibly displaced. The international community has done absolutely nothing to stop this from happening.

1/ Lifta encapsulates the historical continuum of Israel’s erasure of Palestinians. On the outskirts of Jerusalem, it was ethnically cleansed in 1948. For 73 years, Palestinian homes stood as a reminder of that horror, but now Israel seeks to build a settlement on that memory. 2/ Lifta shows us that erasure is not an immediate, singular act but an incremental, meticulous process with the aim of making something - in this case us, a people - obsolete. The soil of Palestine buries hundreds of Liftas, along with the lives and memories of millions.

1/ For those who don’t understand the context, Israel has deliberately & forcibly engineered our geographic, social and political fragmentation as Palestinians since 1948 through segregation, displacement and expulsion - that is why we say the Nakba never ended. 2/ This has caused immense inter generational trauma and suffering for our people. It is a colonial policy with one aim: to subjugate, oppress and erase Palestinians. We have seen it in Sheikh Jarrah and all over Palestine on a daily basis for decades.

1/ The apartheid system we live under is propped up by a narrative that has been dominant for 70+ years. The story the world was told helped inoculate Israel from accountability. It’s starting to crack. Make no mistake there is a narrative war & the media coverage is complicit. 2/ Current headlines, framing & opinions are recycling these myths & stereotypes which end up perpetuating the longevity of this system. Why? They don’t address the inherent structures of power & supremacy that define this reality. No story is complete without that context.

A @rabetbypipd thread. 8 things you probably weren’t told today:

1/ I have chosen a life of advocating for Palestine. It is the work I do & enjoy. Every now & then I reflect on what that means and some of the situations I encounter.

Fighting your own dehumanization really highlights the global structural inequalities we face. It takes a toll. 2/ The crux of every conversation is: I am a human too and deserve to be free.

That is the fundamental principle.

Often those conversations are amongst people from the same generation who are free, with rights just based on where they are born or where they live.

My cousins Fatuta and Mimi. They are siblings but Israel has imposed on them different IDs, legal statuses & as such different rights. Although born in Jerusalem, Fatuta has a WB-ID and wasn’t able to visit his mom on her deathbed because of Israeli restrictions on movement. For 8 months, their mother Hind was in the hospital in her hometown of Jerusalem. Fatuta & his father Ahmed couldn’t go at all because Israel didn’t issue permits to green WB IDs at the time. Mimi, Khalil and Samah, the other children could go because they had blue Jerusalem IDs.

1/ Two powerful reads that dismantle this myth of Israel having two regimes: democracy at home & occupation over the green line.

@btselem's pivotal position paper calls out one regime of Israeli Apartheid and Jewish supremacy from the river to the sea.

btselem.org/sites/default/… 2/ More from @btselem: fighting for a future based on human rights, liberty and justice is especially crucial now.
There are various political paths to a just future here, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, but all of us must first choose to say no to apartheid.

1/ Love under Israeli apartheid.

Israel segregates Palestinians across different legal statuses to divide & rule:

- Citz. of Israel
- Res. of Jerusalem
- West Bank / Gaza
- Refugee/diaspora (+ foreign passports)

The category you belong to impacts who you can be with. 2/ Israel does this to geographically separate Palestinians from one another, break social, cultural & political cohesion & undermine a collective Palestinian identity.

Localizing each community or "status" is meant to undermine a connected NATIONAL movement for liberation.

A German art school stops funding the project “School for Unlearning Zionism” by Jewish Israelis because a right-wing journalist complained that it's anti-Semitic. It is terrifying and ironic that white Germans dictate what is anti-Semitic & which Jew qualifies as “good"/ "bad”. This is a project in the spirit and tradition of anti-racism and intersectionality, seeking to promote a brighter future for all built on progressive values. Why did the journalist complain? Because some of the Jewish Israeli speakers promoted BDS.

I was 11 when I first watched the footage. Mohamed Dura shielded by his dad from Israeli bullets. One moment they were pleading for their lives, the next they were dead. He was 12, we belonged to the same generation. The horror in his eyes still shakes me to my core 20 yrs later. Those were the first day’s of the Second Intifada. TV channels aired the footage over and over again, and reported on other deaths ever hour. Israeli tanks patrolled our streets and helicopters were bombing our cities. Gunfire became our lullabies and lockdowns were our reality.

“You can BDS...but I will condemn and demonise you for it.” Because how dare us want to hold a country accountable for its oppression of an entire people? It’s oppression of us. I can see how legally this might be a step forward but the phenomenon of shrinking space to advocate for Palestinian freedom and rights is a normative one as well. The fear of being smeared, attacked or have hate weaponised against you is a very powerful way to silence.

Israel put us into fragmented territorial enclaves that serve as prisons. They control every aspect of our lives & land. When we demand freedom and right to movement, they say well we can’t visit Ramallah. The jailer is telling the prisoner they can’t visit the jail cell. That’s the twisted logic of this apartheid system - it promotes the illusion that the oppressed and the oppressor are equal. Settlers live and roam our lands with more rights than we do and the Israeli military is in our cities every day arresting people. Yet we are being unfair.

1/ Let me start by saying, welcome @PeterBeinart, it's great to have you. I appreciate the overall message of the piece - although I disagree with some of the points used to get there - among them the role of violence in Palestinian politics and society.

jewishcurrents.org/yavne-a-jewish… 2/ I understand the target audience, the nuance in framing the argument and the importance of moving the conversation forward, which this piece does. But we need to be very careful from feeding ugly preconceived notions regardless of whether the end is desired and noble.

1/ Jericho is my hometown. This was my daily view of the Jordan Valley growing up from my grandparent’s house. The Barahmeh’s are one of the indigenous Jericho clans and their roots in the Jordan Valley go back centuries. 2/ From the moment I grew conscious of the world around me, I realized the valley didn’t belong to “us”. I’ve had the privilege of traveling the world but there are places few KMs away from home that I’ve never been too because I’m not allowed. That applies to the blue on the map

If your foreign policy and foreign aid to Palestine are about tweaking around the edges and rearranging the deck chairs of a sinking titanic rather than addressing the systematic and structural oppression and supremacy, then you are part of the problem, not the solution. In a time where paradigms are shifting, old solutions failing and political project crumbling. It is time to be humble, honest and self critical. Ask yourself: How do I help dismantle a system than make it cosmetically and superficially digestible so I can sleep at night.

These figures on Israeli youth from @haaretzcom put into perspective Israeli society, explain the last three elections and give glimpse into future:

69.9% identify as right wing

40.2% support annexation while 34.5% oppose

29.6% support the two-state solution In these elections majority of Israelis have voted for right-wing parties - whether Likud or Blue & White or others - that are identical on Palestine:

Rejection of two-state solution

Support of legal annexation

Permanent occupation, discrimination and displacement

Majority of those engaged in the “peace process” industry have consistently made the same mistake: they misunderstand and underestimate the Palestinian national psyche and how it informs our politics. Because of the asymmetry of power, they think we can be coerced or delivered. In the face of oppression and loss, we are not desperate but resilient. This miscalculation is rooted in many -isms and -phobias but it is made over and over again. Then they are surprised when the Palestinian people does not capitulate.

For progressives all around the world, let this be your lesson: The Israeli regime, settler movement and the global far right didn't take your permission to carry out their vision of Greater Israel - they just did it. Many thought it was unthinkable, but here we are They shaped the reality and forced the world to follow. There was no "international consensus" for their vision yet not once were they challenged. Now they have a US Administration as extremist and supremacist as they are that legitimized what has become Greater Israel.

RANT: The @realDonaldTrump Administration has been implementing it’s plan for years:

- Legitimizing Israeli claims over all of Jerusalem through US embassy move there.
- Not recognizing illegality of Israeli settlements to facilitate and further annexation. - Attacking status of Palestinian refugees to abolish right of return and defund UNRWA to pressure millions of vulnerable people.
- Going after issue of Palestinian political prisoners
- Closing Palestinian embassy in DC
- Recognizing Israeli claims over Golan Heights

There is no difference between @gantzbe or @netanyahu. They are part of the same regime that wants to annex more land and deny a people their freedom and rights. This reflects where the majority of Israeli society stands today. These are the leaders and parties they elect.

https://twitter.com/saritm0/status/1217109767946219521

Failing to recognize that and what it will take to put pressure on this regime to change is what got us to this point of entrenched oppression, discrimination and displacement. Until when are we going to keep playing global theatre when people’s lives are at risk every damn day.