1/ As you read news about Israel's "judicial overhaul", here's some apartheid context: today the Knesset approved the Admissions Committees Law expansion. How much media coverage is this getting? almost none. This law allows for housing segregation against Palestinian citizens. 2/ Initially legislated in 2011, the law will now be in effect in more communities: up to 700 housing units (old limit: 400) and expanded to be in effect in more areas all over Israel. All this on public land.
adalah.org/en/law/view/494

1/ Carolina Landsmann's interesting review of "Who Do You Think You Are?" also mentions - and diagnoses - @btselem (and me personally, perhaps thanks to the comprehensive and generous interview she conducted with me 5 years ago). So, I wanted to respond 🧵
haaretz.com/israel-news/.p… 2/ The thread weaved throughout Landsmann's @haaretzcom critique is the Zionist left's grief over its defeat. But in doing so, if I may, @carolinalandsm1 is writing about herself, while projecting onto the rights organizations that "lost,"...

Brilliantly analyzed and vividly articulated, the recent apartheid report by U.N. Special Rapporteur @MichaelLynk5 is a document you should read. Following are a few highlights 🧵 ohchr.org/en/press-relea… 2/ While acknowledging the growing number of reports looking at apartheid in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory *together*, this report -- consistent with the mandate of the Special Rapporteur -- only addresses Israeli rule over the oPt. btselem.org/apartheid

When @RepRashida speaks of Israel's apartheid regime, she not only echoes her family's lived experience -- but is also articulating the growing consensus of Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights groups, including @alhaq_org, @btselem and @HRW. /1

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1441097908372197379

For @RepTedDeutch to try and dismiss this factual description of reality as "anti-Semitism" is as disgraceful as it is hollow. In fact, Israel is neither Jewish nor democratic: it is a bi-national reality with full rights given only to the Jewish half. That is apartheid. /2

1// So, speaking of schools and human rights: I actually happened to be in a few schools recently – schools whose students know a thing or two about human rights. haaretz.com/opinion/editor… 2// For example, in Ras a-Tin (east of Ramallah) there is an elementary school with about 50 students. btselem.org/video/202010_s…

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אז אגב זכויות אדם ובתי ספר, האמת שדווקא יצא לי במקרה להיות לאחרונה בכמה בתי ספר שהתלמידים שלהם יודעים דבר או שניים על זכויות אדם.
haaretz.co.il/news/education… 2//
למשל בראס א-תין (ממזרח לרמאללה) יש בית ספר יסודי שלומדים בו כ-50 תלמידים
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"a coordinated Israeli-American campaign to threaten the ICC so that it’ll be unable to realize its mandate... The messaging from Jerusalem has been a cocktail of equating the ICC with terrorism, anti-Semitism, or both" | @btselem | @FMEP webinar: Israel-Palestine @IntlCrimCourt full "Israel-Palestine at the International Criminal Court" webinar online at @FMEP's website: fmep.org/resource/israe…

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"I think the Arab culture around us is the jungle... they have not reached the evolutionary stage where there are human rights... I feel that I have nothing that's racist... I have no hatred for anyone and I have personal relationships with Palestinians" --MK @YoazHendel1 2//
MK Hendel is a prominent member of the "moderate" Blue & White party. The above quote is from his interview with @ravithecht yesterday in @Haaretz (no English version yet, link below to original Hebrew text)
haaretz.co.il/news/elections…

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What the Palestinians are being "offered" now is not rights or a state, but a permanent state of Apartheid. No amount of marketing can erase this disgrace or blur the facts. 2//
The reality on the ground is already one of full Israeli control over the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and everyone living in it. It is a reality of one, inherently undemocratic, state.

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A few thoughts following this morning’s HCJ ruling, to deport a dear and valued colleague, @hrw's @OmarSShakir. From a personal perspective, it’s shocking and unsettling, to see Omar ordered to leave within 20 days. haaretz.com/israel-news/.p… 2//
But from a professional/legal perspective, there’s nothing in the ruling which isn’t in line with earlier rulings by Israel’s HCJ. The only novelty is the application of current Israeli legal dogma in order to deport Omar.

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For the past year, Israel has implemented an unlawful open-fire policy towards Palestinians protesting near the #Gaza perimeter fence, which permits live fire at unarmed protesters who pose no danger to anyone. 2//
Mere days after the protests began, in response to an international outcry over the dozens of fatalities, Israel employed its tried-and-true tactic in such situations and swiftly announced it would “investigate exceptional incidents”.