B'Tselem argues that violence by settlers is part of an Israeli government strategy, because the state permits and assists it, and "does not take action" against its perpetrators. Before you blindly recite this claim, check if it's backed by evidence. I did, and it's not.
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https://twitter.com/btselem/status/1460208570809606146

To be clear, I do not doubt there's more Israeli authorites can and should do to prevent such violence. But that doesn't make it "a form of government policy" any more than other types of crime those authorities fail to address adequately (and there's quite a few of those).
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If Israel is inherently an "expansionary project of land grab", why did the Jews accept partition? Withdraw from Sinai (twice)? And from Gaza? Why did Barak offer over 90% of the West Bank for peace? And also nearly all of the Golan? How could Olmert have won in...

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https://twitter.com/YairWallach/status/1409992456700051468

2006 on a platform of unilateral withdrawal from 90% of the West Bank? Why do most Israelis still say they support a two state solution? How come the Palestinian population in Area C and East Jerusalem is growing much faster than the "expansionist" Jewish one? How could it be...

I saw people here attributing high credibility to the HRW apartheid report mainly because it's very long (217p) and has 865 footnotes. Someone even said it's "impossible to refute"!

So I made a quick analysis of those footnotes. Here's what I found out.
>> The report's #1 external source of info by far is Btselem, with 87 references. Anyone still considering it a credible source on Israel is welcome to explore my extensive fact-based debunking of their recent "Israel apartheid" paper and reconsider. Next.
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https://twitter.com/InqNative/status/1373716325399465985?s=19

Haven't read the new @hrw's Apartheid report that will come out tomorrow but from the title it's clear it will once again show that today's real debate on Israel isn't on whether it's good or bad, but whether it's getting better or worse.
>> The Aparteheid case hangs on 2 arguments:
1. Israel's treatment of Palestinians & Arab citizens deteriorated constantly, esp in recent years.
2. That deterioration is driven only by Israel's inherent racism and supremacism.
Those are made using two manipulations systematically:

Check out how the disinformation flows from @btselem through @AJEnglish to @CrisisGroup in one tweet, or: "how to present a decline as a surge with a simple statistical manipulation".
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https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1372679709620805633

Let's look at those numbers. Previously, Btselem claimed that between Dec 21 and Jan 24 (34 days) they counted 49 attacks, which means that in the remaining period until Mar 13 (48 days) they counted 45 more. In statistical terms, that's a 35% decline, certainly not a "surge". /2

As promised, here's a 2nd thread on Btselem's claim that between the River and the Sea Israel is currently "coralling Palestinians into crowded enclaves" to "judaize" the area. After debunking the West Bank/EJ part, I'll look at the remaining area. /1

https://twitter.com/InqNative/status/1350780966877483011?s=19

Sovereign Israel is new territory for Btselem, and they dedicate much of their argument to it, but in a very misleading way, devoid of any historical context. Let's look closer at some of their main claims, starting with this paragraph on zoning: /2

Reporters, pundits, activists. Before you echo the notion that Palestinians are being "corralled into small, crowded enclaves", which is in vogue in some circles, here are some facts that you won't find in @btselem's new position paper. Read and decide for yourself.

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https://twitter.com/btselem/status/1349674027133108224

Starting with the West Bank, specifically Area C from which allegedly Palestinians are being systematically pushed into the enclaves of Areas A and B, and replaced by Jewish settlers. If so, we should've seen the demographic balance in Area C shift in the Jews' favor. Has it? /2

Sad but not surprising that @CrisisGroup chose to launch its new podcast with this unabashed BDS propaganda, falsehoods and very weak analysis by an "expert" who's main paradigm just collapsed colosally. Here are some nuggets so you don't need to listen to this stuff.

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https://twitter.com/CrisisGroup/status/1301888305353629698

Let's start with the lies. @NathanThrall unabashedly recycles one of the vilest and most extensively-refuted lie that Israel builds seperate roads for Palestinians in the West Bank "so they're removed from the main roads for Israeli settlers" (14:30). /2
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Dear journalists, politicians, media pundits, activists and anyone else who considers this report on #Gaza published yesterday by @CrisisGroup a reliable source, please read this thread and think again. It will require a deep dive into some details and numbers, so bear with me.

https://twitter.com/CrisisGroup/status/1245344144962265090

2. The report's main conclusion is that to deal with #COVID in #Gaza Israel should "lift the blockade", Hamas should just carry on what it's doing and the Palestinian Authority... well, there's nothing it's asked to do. How detached this is from reality? Let's start with Israel.

1. This article has been circulating in recent days. Written by an "expert", seemingly well-researched, yet sloppy with facts and highly misleading. This (long) thread explains why. It's for anyone genuinely interested in reality, not in exploiting it for anti-Israel propaganda.

https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1243964829955743744

2. First, some numbers. The claim Gaza has only 200 COVID19 test kits links to 13 March article about ONE shipment out of several reported since (see link). By last week there were well over 1k kits in G. Palestinian Authority (PA) got 3k more, inc for G. m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C…