THREAD🧵1/ Thanksgiving is marketed as a time for gratitude, but its roots lie in genocide. As Americans celebrate on stolen Indigenous land, their taxes fund another genocide abroad—in Gaza, where Palestinians are being slaughtered by Israel. 2/ The holiday myth erases the reality: Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the brutal genocide of Native Americans—massacres, land theft, and forced displacement that paved the way for the so-called American Dream.

THREAD: In 1984, Ronald Reagan won 49 out of 50 states. His presidency openly backed apartheid South Africa. But just two years later, activists forced Congress to sanction the regime, and apartheid began to fall. What can we learn from this for the Palestinian movement under Trump? 🧵 2/
Reagan’s “constructive engagement” policy meant working with South Africa’s apartheid regime rather than opposing it. Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu famously called Reagan “a racist, pure and simple.” Sound familiar to today’s politics?

🧵 BREAKING: The U.S. House has just passed HR 9495, a bill that dramatically expands the Treasury’s power to revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits it deems to be “supporting terrorism.” Here’s what this means for Palestinian rights organizations and free speech in the U.S. 1/ This bill was passed in the wake of widespread protests against Israel’s genocide on Gaza, with Palestinian solidarity groups already facing bad-faith accusations of being “pro-Hamas.” Critics warn that this legislation is designed to silence dissent, not combat terrorism.

THREAD Eco-apartheid: Gaza is currently experiencing the largest slaughter of men, women and children in decades and a destruction rate that has produced over 40 million tonnes of rubble that will take over a decade to clear.👇 The near 100,000 tonnes of bombs dropped on the Gaza Strip since October 2023  surpasses the World War II bombings of London, Dresden, and Hamburg combined. Gaza is the site of one of the largest engineered mass starvations this century.

🧵 Israel’s Genocide Key Developments:

In Gaza:
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49 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes on Sunday and 50 on Monday, mostly in the north of Gaza, says Palestinian health ministry.

Israel commits a new massacre in Jabalia, killing 36 Palestinians including children.
Israeli artillery shelling on Nuseirat kills 40 Palestinians as tanks invade Nuseirat and demolish buildings adjacent to the Netzarim corridor.

Israeli daily Haaretz accuses the Israeli government of committing ethnic cleansing in the north of Gaza.

Haaretz says Netanyahu is responsible for war crimes in Gaza aiming at resettlement. In the occupied West Bank:
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says that 2025 will be the year of “extending Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank”, saying he hopes to work with the incoming Trump administration on the plans.

Israeli forces raid the Jalazoun refugee camp north of Ramallah and arrest several Palestinians.

Israeli settlers attack a mosque in the village of Burqa east of Ramallah, destroy four trailer houses and force families out in Sair, near Hebron, and stone houses and burn olive trees in Yasuf, near Salfit.

Israeli settlers cut down 40 trees in Nahalin near Bethlehem. The village council says settlers have destroyed 120 trees in the village in recent months.

The Palestinian commission for settlements’ affairs say that Israeli settlers have destroyed 1,490 trees in Palestinian farmlands in October alone, 740 of them in Hebron, 193 in Nablus, 178 in Ramallah, 160 in Bethlehem,100 in Salfit, and 30 in Qalqilya.

Who’s Going to win the election?

We know. 👇🧵 1/3) As Americans go to the polls, one truth stays the same no matter who wins: the U.S. consistently backs Israeli colonialism in Palestine. Under both parties, policies continue to enable the genocide, apartheid, and systematic dehumanization of Palestinians.

🧵 BREAKING: The Israeli Parliament just approved a bill to ban UNRWA from operating in Gaza and the West Bank. Here’s what this means for millions of Palestinian refugees who rely on UNRWA’s support for survival. ⬇️ 1/ What is UNRWA? The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was created over 70 years ago to provide essential services—education, healthcare, and emergency aid—to Palestinian refugees across Gaza, the West Bank, and neighboring countries.

🚨URGENT THREAD: What is happening in Northern Gaza?

The Israeli military is attempting to forcibly displace at least 400,000 Palestinians who are the last to remain in northern Gaza, effectively carrying out ethnic cleansing.

Source: UN Official. Recent reports indicate that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been considering a strategy to besiege northern Gaza and forcibly remove Palestinians from the area.

This strategy, referred to as the "Generals’ Plan," was promoted in an Israeli television campaign in September.

Source: Drop Site News.

🚨5 Ways Israel Uses Propaganda🚨

How Israeli propaganda shapes perceptions and narratives on Palestine. 🧵 1. Delegitimizing Palestinians

Israel portrays Palestinians as fictional people without a national identity or history, aiming to deny verifiable facts and Palestinian claims to the land.

THREAD: Israel is entering the final phase of the Gaza genocide.

Israel has started bombing Rafah, where Palestinians are trapped with nowhere left to go. A ground invasion is expected next. For the last 7 months, Israel's brutal genocidal campaign in Gaza displaced more than 1.2 million Palestinians, over half of Gaza’s total population. Most of them took refuge in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Over the last several hours, Israel ordered these displaced Palestinians to move again.

THREAD: Health workers and civil defense personnel discovered a mass grave with more than 300 Palestinian bodies in the Nasser Medical Complex in the Gaza city of Khan Younis, amid Israel's ongoing brutal genocide campaign. Palestinians returned to the Nassar Hospital complex after the Israeli military withdrew from it earlier in April after laying siege to it.

ZAKA is one of the leading organizations alleging Hamas atrocities on October 7. But the organization’s volunteers have systematically given false testimonies, and continue repeating them to journalists on behalf of the Israeli government.

bit.ly/41G8ErQ ZAKA was founded by Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, who was previously the leader of “Keshet,” an ultra-Orthodox Jewish terrorist group that targeted forensic pathologists and used explosives against shops selling “secular newspapers.”

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An Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a report on October 17 promoting the "unique and rare opportunity" for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”

bit.ly/47kmVwf On October 17, the Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy published a position paper advocating for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.” The report advocates exploiting the current moment to accomplish a long-held Zionist goal of moving Palestinians off the land of historic Palestine. The report’s subtitle makes it clear: “There is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government.”

Many details of what transpired on October 7 continue to be shrouded in mystery, including how the 1,400 Israelis who died that day were killed. A growing number of reports indicate the Israeli military was responsible for some of those deaths.

bit.ly/3S4CeVi Some reports are beginning to appear, including documentation of the killing of Israelis by Palestinian fighters, but there are a growing number of reports that indicate the IDF was also responsible for Israeli civilian and military deaths on October 7 and the days after.

Keep my stories alive, so that you keep me alive. Remember that the world that pretended to be the savior of humanity participated in killing it.

bit.ly/3ZTqA1v From @Tareqshajjaj in south #Gaza:

"I’m not a fighter. I have never held a gun or engaged in a fight. I don’t believe I’m a threat to Israel or anyone else — I’m just a writer who tells people’s stories. But I’m wrong.

For an occupying power, I might pose more of a danger to Israel than a fighter."

.@JGreenblattADL thinks its "bewildering" and "inflammatory" to acknowledge the Palestinian lives that Israel ended last year. To him they don't seem to be actual human beings. @yumna_patel put together a record of their names, faces, and stories.

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2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in decades. In the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem specifically, the year marked the highest number of killings of Palestinians in the territories since the UN began recording fatalities in 2005.

The family of slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is holding a press conference in DC right now. We will be live tweeting some the event. The family has repeatedly demanded accountability following an inconclusive US investigation mondoweiss.net/2022/07/abu-ak…

Mondoweiss recently published an interview with Miloon Kothari, a member of the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. 1/4 In the interview Mr. Kothari described efforts by governments and other organizations to discredit the commission. Some groups, individuals, and media outlets have deliberately distorted his statements in a dishonest effort to accuse him of antisemitism. 2/4

According to data gathered by Mondoweiss, there were at least 25 reported incidents of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians since the unofficial July 1st deadline to annex the West Bank passed. bit.ly/39PeGeY #Israel #Palestine Almost every day since July 1st has seen reports of settler attacks and incursions on Palestinian communities across the West Bank. A significant portion of the incidents relate to settlers attempting to seize new pieces of land or establish new outposts in the West Bank.

Rashid Khalidi on why a century of settler colonialism with American support has failed to defeat Palestinians bit.ly/2LkVKZV #Palestine #Israel Rashid Khalidi’s latest book caps a long career of chronicling Palestinian political life in the era of Zionism...

A decade in review: the moments that shaped the past 10 years in #Israel/#Palestine

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Photo: A'ed Abu Amro at the Great March of Return, Friday October 26, 2018. (Mohammed Asad) Another decade of the Israel-Palestine conflict ends and a peaceful and just solution for the Palestinians seems further out of reach. Look back at the moments that shaped history in Palestine and Israel, and will continue to shape the future of the region for years to come.