Hey look everyone a new story about Israel right up at the top of the BBC News website by Imogen Foukes with the claim that a "UN panel says Israel is operating a 'de facto policy of torture'". But like all BBC articles about Israel one must delve a bit deeper to find out what's going on 🧵 First let's be aware that members of the nobly titled UN Committee against Torture are some of the worst human rights abusing countries in the world, is the British public really supposed to be putting much stock in what Turkey, Russia or China have to say about torture?

Bear in mind that Hamas is able to operate freely in Turkey.

Let's delve deeper

I knew this was going to happen. The @BBC's @LucyWilliamson has just done a puff piece showing the distress felt by the sister of 'Murad' at the fact that after 20 years in Israeli jails he's not being released to Ramallah but deported. Guess what they don't mention 🧵
In 2006 'Murad' despatched a suicide bomber to Kedumim junction dressed up as an Orthodox Jew who blew himself up inside the car of the people nice enough to offer him a lift killing them all.

I'm a Jewish British Israeli citizen I lived in Israel for roughly 10 years after the age of 18 and now reside in the UK. Recognition of Palestine and indeed Palestinian independence is something I've hoped to see for a very long time...

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1969849725353418803

I'm not alone. Support for a state of Palestine used to be an election winning platform for Israeli political parties such was the desire to see it happen among Israeli voters. Hamas put a stop to that, quite literally murdered it.

I have devoted my life to fighting antisemitism. Here are 10 things I have learned.

1. People recognise the swastika and Hitler as symbols of evil but often people who identify as anti Nazis spout Nazi ideology about Israel and Zionism. The left has no idea how to fight this. 2. The only principle in antisemitic movements is that Israel and Zionism must die. They don't care if they contradict themselves and they don't care if they support regimes that are antithetical to their own values so long as their objective is attacking Jews.

The Socialist Workers Party have written a pamphlet entitled Palestine Resistance, Revolution and the Struggle for Freedom. It's as much about Israel and Jews as anything else and features a litany of problems.

Let's take a look 🧵 I know it was naive of me but I really thought we were done with this "antisemitism is hatred of Jews as Jews" nonsense.

Antisemitism has always been justified as being for the most moral reasons; hatred of Jews as Christ killers, as child murderers, as socialists, as capitalists, as back stabbers, as money lenders, as money grabbers, more recently for bringing immigrants into the United States and for perpetrating a Holocaust against Palestinians...but not for being Jews.

Five things about Zionism that you're arguing about wrongly!

1. Indigeneity

You might think Jews are indigenous to the Middle East, you might be right but it's not relevant. The anti Zionist wants to make it relevant so that they can defend what they see as the 'natives' under attack by colonists however it's a strawman.

No one would seek to impose the test of indigeneity on anyone living in the UK or the USA save the local Nazis for whom blood line is all important, second only to murdering the Jews. By attacking Jews on this basis the anti Zionist exposes their own fundamentally racist position. 2. Colonisation

Zionist Jews came to colonise Palestine. It's written in their posters and their literature, Zionism was a colonial movement in that it advocated Jews to move to Palestine to establish settlements in a largely deserted backwater of the Ottoman Empire.

The difference between this colonisation and that of eg the British Empire is that these Zionists were not part of an empire seeking to mine a country for its raw materials and send them back to the home country. This was colonial in the sense that people would move there with the object of building a national home.

This means that many of the negative implications as understood by terms like colonise and settlements are irrelevant to the point anti Zionists attempt to make.

Jews fled the towns and cities of their birth for Palestine. Why?

Zionism was attractive because of the abject failure of the nation states of Europe to assimilate their Jews. The onus shouldn't be on Jews to explain why it was necessary to flee persecution to build their own nation state but on the persecutors to explain why they were persecuting the Jews.

Much of the arguments surrounding Israel on Twitter are a re-litigation of the UN debates on partition. Here are five statements made by the people of the day during those debates about the need for a Jewish state 🧵 1. "It may sound quite plausible to argue that if the right of the Jews to return to Palestine is admitted on the grounds of ancient history, then the whole map of the world would have to be remade and chaos would ensue. But does the question really arise? Do the descendants of the Romans, for example, claim entry into England? Do they need England? Does their future, their very existence depend on settling there? Or do the Arabs, for that matter, press to return to Andalusia in Spain? Is it a matter of life and death for them? The analogy is fallacious and misleading."

Moshe Sharrett
May 12 1947

There are so many claims that Einstein was an anti Zionist that I felt compelled to say something about the great scientist's Zionist activism. 🧵

https://twitter.com/xIsraelExposedx/status/1889986803769438424

On November 16 1945 Einstein wrote a public letter calling for 100,000 Jewish refugees to be allowed to move to Palestine ASAP. The letter was written in German and published on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. thefhm.org/pressroom/albe…

5 things you need to know about the pro Palestine movement in the UK 🧵 1. The Palestine solidarity marches which have swept through the UK since October 7th are led by 6 organisations including Ismail Patel's Friends of al Aqsa. Watch his comments on Hamas made before their UK proscription.

https://x.com/MarcGoldberg111/status/1878816626512187459/video/1

Here are 5 things you might not know about the pro Palestine movement in the UK 🧵 1. The Palestine solidarity marches which have swept through the UK since October 7th are led by 6 organisations including Ismail Patel's Friends of al Aqsa. Watch his comments on Hamas made before their UK proscription.

https://x.com/MarcGoldberg111/status/1878816626512187459/video/1

After over a decade working against antisemitism here's 10 thoughts about Jew hatred.

1. Zionism was a response to antisemitism, If there were no antisemitism there'd be no Zionism. 2. Zionism was a minority Jewish movement. Secular Jews preferred to put their faith in their brothers and sisters in the workers movement to build a utopian heaven.

It's not that Jews changed their minds during the Holocaust it's that Jews were murdered during the Holocaust and no one who was left fancied living with the murderers.

Thread about a 1944 massacre of American Prisoners of War by the SS and a Jew from Vienna called Willy Perl.

Dec 17, 1944, the 1st SS Panzer Regiment captured 113 American soldiers and machine-gunned them in a field. 84 American POWs were killed, some survived.🧵 Their bodies would remain in the field where they were massacred until mid-January '45 when American war crimes investigators recovered their remains and gathered evidence, news trickled out to American soldiers and to the American public via survivors.

People have been asking me about whether people are facing consequences for antisemitism. Let's take a look 🧵

This man was arrested before the demonstration even started last week apparently due to the antisemitic banner he was waving This woman is being investigated by Police according to the Daily Mail. The image of a swastika intertwined with a Magen Dovid is one that has a bit of a history on the antisemitic left and Police seem to have realised that.

Isaac Deutscher passed away in 1967 depriving us of a Jew whose life bridged the Jewish world pre and post Nazis.

He grew up an orthodox Jew in Poland and died a Marxist 'non-Jewish Jew' in Rome.

Some quotes: "The world has compelled the Jew to embrace the nation - state and to make of it his pride and hope just at a time when there is little or no hope left in it . You cannot blame the Jews for this ; you must blame the world."

In 1939 as the clouds of war loomed, in fact as Nazi Germany was creating its justification for invading Poland the World Zionist Congress met in Geneva. Distributed at the event was a memorandum to delegates the contents of which may surprise people... "Today's need, without which we face only bloody self-destruction, is Arab-Jewish cooperation. It cannot be "impractical." It is necessary for our life."

This raises interesting questions about justice in the wake of the Holocaust and how Jews were often treated more harshly than their Nazi tormentors. 🧵

https://twitter.com/historycalendar/status/1586853773334437895

There were Jews who were used by the Gestapo in WWII to lure Jews out of hiding in order to send them to the camps. These were Jews who were compelled to work with the Nazis or die at their hands. Often they were also financially rewarded in a grim carrot and stick approach.

This month marks 20 years since I joined the @IDF. It's a period of my life where I put personal wellbeing to one side and became, effectively, an instrument of govt policy. I saw everything from the ground floor, the perspective of a grunt.

Some thoughts 20 years on... I worked mainly in Nablus and Balata areas but also operated in the Jenin area. The IDF basically spent the 2nd Intifada forcing the lid back on the pressure cooker of Palestinian rage against Israel. During training I couldn't wait for the privilege of being sent on operations.

Stunned that @Amnesty platformed Miko Peled in Geneva. Peled has attended a conspiracy conference in Tehran where he sat next to a German NAZI & spoke to Holocaust denier Nick Kollerstrom's KT group in London.

What does it take to convince Amnesty to see antisemitism? What more do I need to do than show him sitting at an antisemitic conspiracy conference in Tehran next to a German Nazi to convince @amnesty's Philip Luther not to share a platform with Peled?

https://twitter.com/MarcGoldberg111/status/1534542157159272448

The Gen Sec of Amnesty Intl discussing "accusations of being antisemitic it's really a way of silencing us". This matters because "there were the Holocaust...because Jews are dying, they died in the United States...when they do that they don't tackle antisemitism that kills" Jews are also being murdered by antisemites in Tel Aviv and shelled by them in the South of Israel (mostly)

Purely coincidentally Amnesty UK has been found to be institutionally racist amnesty.org.uk/amnesty-uk-rac…

This December 1947 House of Commons debate on Palestine is extraordinary.

Come along friends as I regale you with the words of MPs you've never heard of but who guided us thru turbulent historical events like the partition of Palestine...
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hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1947-1… Note these comments from Jewish Independent MP Daniel Lipson where he praises the British Empire for facilitating the growth of the Jewish populace at a time when GB was the shame of the world for sending illegal Jewish immigrants back to Germany. He is rebutted with 6 words: