“We pretend to be innocent victims. Of course the Arabs attacked us. Since they have no armies, they could not obey the rules of war. They perpetrated all the barbaric acts that are characteristic of a colonial revolt.”

This was written in 1929. By a Zionist.

1/19 The full version of this thread is available on @_VashtiMedia :



2/19vashtimedia.com/hans-kohn-resi…

To most people, the idea of killing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of innocent civilians to free 4 hostages is absurd. How could anyone who has any respect for life celebrate such an operation?

Here are the mental gymnastics that allow so many Israelis to justify so much killing:

1/ Justification #1:

We can't trust the number of deaths, they are released by Hamas and Hamas cannot be trusted.

2/

On Oct 7th, my Israeli cousin was camping close to areas attacked by Hamas. The thought of her being kidnapped, or worse, still haunts me. A college acquaintance lost family in the attacks of his kibbutz.

But I don’t write much about the victims of Oct 7th or the hostages.

1/17 The full version of this thread is available on my blog for easier reading:


2/17onesmalldetail.blog/why-i-dont-tal…

Once again, the issue is portrayed as a bunch of extremists who took over Israel.
This is not untrue, but it hides the fact that before these extremists were anywhere near power, Israel was already systematically dispossessing, colonizing, and brutalizing Palestinians.

1/10 Every Israeli I know hates Netanyahu, Israel's messianic far right, settlements, and settlers. And I mean HATES them.

But Israeli society is still overwhelmingly supportive of the war.

2/10

I was at UCLA at the exact same time as Ahmed. The entire post goes from clueless naivety to misinformation to straight up lies.

Let's start:

https://twitter.com/afalkhatib/status/1786181045890744602

1. He introduces the post by saying he was on campus "before the police dispersed the encampment". As we all know, the police didn't "disperse" the encampment. They violently attacked the encampment, and used armed force to dislodge students, injuring many.

Since October 7th, I've joined protests, fundraising events for Gaza, and students on campuses.

As a Jew and someone who has a ton of friends and family in Israel, I want to share some thoughts on claims of antisemitism in the movement and student encampments:

1/29 The full version of this thread is available on my blog for easier reading:

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Just came back from the UCLA campus. A few quick thoughts:

1. The encampment is not very disruptive. It occupies a tiny part of UCLA's massive campus. Though it's been there for days, I saw a lot of students discovering it for the first time and asking "what's going on?"

1/10 The main disruption is that students have to walk around it (maybe 5 extra minutes) to go from one side to the other. The main path that is closed is actually closed by campus security, not protestors

So not exactly the riot we are told makes the students' lives impossible

2/10

Many Jews and Israelis (including my own relatives) defend Israeli actions no matter the evidence of massacres and horrendous violence. Why?

For one simple reason: ultra nationalism.

1/7 That ultra nationalism has a name. It’s called Zionism. Even “liberal” or “progressive” Zionists think of the “Jewish state” as an end in itself. Support for a “Jewish state” has become a form of idolatry. Religious or secular, right wing or left wing, Zionism is a religion.

2/7

The @torproject just published an insightful report on how Israel's defense and surveillance industry, which is marketed as "field-proven" on Palestinians, exports to the rest of the world and threatens privacy and human rights everywhere.

Here are some examples 🧵⬇️ Israel's pervasive surveillance technology "doesn't end in Palestine, but it often starts with it": theintercept.com/2019/08/25/bor…

J’écrivais récemment que le désir de paix des Israélien·nes ne serait jamais suffisant pour mettre fin au conflit.

Mais pourquoi est-ce que tant de juifs continue d'ignorer la notion de justice, comme je l'ai fait pendant si longtemps ?

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https://twitter.com/RaphMim/status/1756763394890408438

Ce thread est un resumé du texte disponible sur le site de @TSDKcollectif:

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tsedekdecolonial.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/pou…

I didn't believe it so I checked Google's AI (Gemini) myself.

🧵 A case study in erasure and dehumanization

Actuellement, les Israélien·nes sont sur le pied de guerre : la droite appelle ouvertement au nettoyage ethnique et au génocide à Gaza ; le centre et la gauche affirment que les morts de civil·es sont malheureuses mais inévitables .

Mais cela n’a pas toujours été le cas:

🧵1/30 Ce thread est un resumé du texte disponible sur le site de @TSDKcollectif :


2/30tsedekdecolonial.wordpress.com/2024/02/07/de-…

Let's put this myth to rest once and for all:

Israel didn't withdraw from Gaza in 2005 as a move towards peace. Israel withdrew to prevent peace. It's not me saying it; it's one of the Israeli leaders who led the withdrawal.

1/5

https://twitter.com/KerenZelwer/status/1753973701647999071

This is Dov Weisglass, senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in an interview to Haaretz in 2004. Weisglass was one of the initiators of the disengagement plan.

"The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process."

2/5

Based on my conversation with Israeli friends and relatives--including many who call themselves "progressive" and "pro-peace"--this cartoon perfectly sums up how they see things.

This shows, more clearly than ever, that only external pressure can end violence & apartheid.
1/6 To them, slogans like "from the river to the sea" or "Free Palestine" are the same as "kill the Jews" or "more October 7th!".

To them, asking for freedom and equality for all between the river and the sea can *only* mean genocide of the Jews.

2/6

Israelis say Israel must wage this murderous war to:
1. free the hostages
2. destroy Hamas
3. restore deterrence

But even if we ignore morality and historical context, none of these reasons justify the level of violence unleashed in Gaza. There were alternatives.

1/25 For easier reading, here is a blog post version of this thread:



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The Washington Post just released an in-depth investigation on Israel’s assault on the al-Shifa hospital.

The Post analyzed open-source visuals, satellite imagery and all of the publicly released IDF materials.

Highlights from the investigation:

1/5 The Washington Post examined Israeli claims about al-Shifa as well as the evidence Israel presented to the world after it took control of the hospital.

It looks like other than a few PR videos, Israel presented almost no evidence to back up its claims.

2/5

When Israel waged war on Gaza in 2021, I wrote that a just peace could not come from inside Israel. Since then, some have called my take arrogant and condescending toward the Israeli left.

I want to explain, because I feel very connected to Israel's anti-occupation left:

1/18 When I wrote it in 2021, I said that peace could not come from inside Israel because the vast majority of Israelis (and Zionists around the world) know a parallel history that erases the Nakba, apartheid & a litany of injustices against Palestinians.


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Right now, most Israelis are in full-fledged war mode: on the right, people are calling for outright ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza; those on the center and left say that civilian deaths are unfortunate but inevitable.

But it wasn't always like this:

1/22 When I lived in Israel, I was a "progressive" Zionist, and I was largely surrounded by progressive Zionists who had moved from Europe, the US, and Latin America.

We were secular, we were against settlements, we despised Netanyahu, and we wanted "peace in the Middle East".

2/22

This war is showing (again) that Palestinians have to audition for our empathy.

But in the past week, I've had difficult conversations with relatives who say "4,000 dead children, but can we trust these numbers? They come from Hamas".

So I want to address it heads on:

1/19 As of this writing, the latest numbers I could find, reported by the BBC, are that 11,240 people, including 4,630 children, have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched the assault on October 7th:



2/19bbc.com/news/world-mid…

In 1946, a reporter asked Richard Wright his thoughts on the “Negro problem” in the US. Wright replied, “There isn’t any Negro problem; there is only a white problem.”

The same is true in the Middle-East. There isn't a "Palestinian problem":

1/6 There isn't a "Palestinian problem".

There is a state with one of the world's most advanced military forces in the world that has control over the lives of 5 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

2/6

This thread illuminates the extreme horror, fear & pain Israelis went through on October 7th.

It also shows how "progressive" Zionists justify Israeli war crimes and why they will never be a part of a just solution to the conflict:

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https://twitter.com/amirtibon/status/1721764689053467110

Amir says he doesn't want revenge & he is sad to hear about civilian deaths in Gaza. But he immediately blames Hamas for these deaths

When an Israeli missile launched from an Israeli plane by an Israeli soldier kills a family of innocent civilians, it's not Israel's fault

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