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May 18 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
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 screenshot of a New York Times Magazine article with the headline "The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over" and the subheadline "Israel After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law." 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.

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May 3 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
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: 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.
May 2 • 29 tweets • 6 min read
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 Two tents with a banner in between that reads "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" The full version of this thread is available on my blog for easier reading:

If you like it, please subscribe so we stay connected once Twitter has been fully destroyed 🙏🏻

2/29onesmalldetail.blog/campus-protest…
May 1 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
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

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Apr 24 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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.

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Apr 14 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
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 🧵⬇️ Screenshot of an article titled "Surveillance as a Service: The Global Impact of Israeli "Defense" Technologies on Privacy and Human Rights" by Esra'a Al Shafei, Falestine Saleh, and dated April 8, 2024 Israel's pervasive surveillance technology "doesn't end in Palestine, but it often starts with it": theintercept.com/2019/08/25/bor…
Screenshot of an article by The Intercept with the headline "THE U.S. BORDER PATROL AND AN ISRAELI MILITARY CONTRACTOR ARE PUTTING A NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATION UNDER “PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE”" and the subheadline "Elbit Systems, which touts its products as “field-proven” on Palestinians, was contracted to build a high-tech surveillance system on Tohono O’odham land."
Mar 3 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
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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Ce thread est un resumé du texte disponible sur le site de @TSDKcollectif:

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tsedekdecolonial.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/pou…
Mar 3 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I didn't believe it so I checked Google's AI (Gemini) myself.

🧵 A case study in erasure and dehumanization
Screenshot of an AI conversation showing the question "Who are the Israelis?" and the answer "Israelis are the citizens of the modern State of Israel, regardless of their ethnicity or religion. The majority of Israelis are Jewish, but there are also significant Arab, Druze, and Christian populations. Israel is a diverse country with a rich cultural heritage."
Screenshot showing the question "Who are the Palestinians?" and the answer "If you'd like up-to-date information, try using Google Search."
Screenshot of an AI conversation with the question "what is Israel?" and the answer "Israel is a country located in the Middle East, on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It's a land considered holy by three major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jerusalem, its claimed capital, is home to sacred sites like the Temple Mount complex, the Western Wall, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Tel Aviv, Israel's financial hub, is known for its beaches and Bauhaus architecture."
Screenshot of an AI conversation with the question "what is Palestine?" and the answer "If you'd like up-to-date information, try using Google Search."
Feb 11 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
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-…
Feb 4 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
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 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 Screenshot of a 2004 Haaretz article with the title "Top PM Aide: Gaza Plan Aims to Freeze the Peace Process" and the subheading ""The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser Dov Weisglass has told Haaretz."
Jan 13 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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 Cartoon showing on one side protestors with signs saying "more 7.10!", "kill the Jews", and "from the river to the sea" and armed militants holding a bloody ace and machine gun, on the other side a seemingly clueless Israeli soldier, and in the middle a judge with a magnifying glass directed at the soldier and asking the protestors "Quiet I am looking for genocide". 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 Cartoon showing on one side protestors with signs saying "more 7.10!", "kill the Jews", and "from the river to the sea" and armed militants holding a bloody ace and machine gun, on the other side a seemingly clueless Israeli soldier, and in the middle a judge with a magnifying glass directed at the soldier and asking the protestors "Quiet I am looking for genocide".
Dec 27, 2023 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
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:



2/25onesmalldetail.blog/justifying-the…
Dec 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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 Screenshot of a Washington Post article with the headline “The case of al-Shifa: Investigating the assault on Gaza’s largest hospital” 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.

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Dec 10, 2023 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
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 Screenshot of a Tweet by Talia Ringer (@TaliaRinger) that says "But I mostly disagree with him on his other threads where he claims justice will never come from within. I find this condescending and inaccurate and actually a dangerous perception. There is a left that knows justice and needs to be empowered, not further marginalized." 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.


2/18onesmalldetail.blog/zionism-cannot…
Dec 4, 2023 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
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".

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Nov 20, 2023 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
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…
Nov 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
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.

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Nov 12, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
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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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

2/11 Screenshot of a tweet by Amir Tibon that says "I don't want revenge in Gaza. I don't feel any satisfaction upon hearing that civilians are killed there now. I'm as sad as one can be over their deaths. But I know that when Hamas came into my community on that morning, it knew EXACTLY what would happen in Gaza the next day."
Nov 1, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
If you think that violence started on October 7th, this report, written by 18 Israeli human rights organizations just 3 months ago, may help clarify.

Here is the executive summary. It's a quick read and a great overview of the harms of occupation:

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yesh-din.org/en/state-of-th…
Screenshot of a the cover page of a report that says "June 2023 - State of the occupation - Year 56: a joint situation report" The report is divided into four sections:
- Israeli security forces' violence
- Annexation
- Displacement
- Attacks on NGOs

It's a perfect primer on the breadth and depth of the abuse that take place routinely, for people who are unfamiliar.

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Oct 30, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Many people argue that Israeli atrocities against Palestinians reflect the ideology of Netanyahu & the far-right, and that we shouldn't blame Israel as a whole.

So to clarify: ethnic cleansing has been going on since Israel's birth in 1948—regardless of who led the country

1/15 During the civil war that led to the establishment of the state of Israel and 700,000 Palestinians refugees (Nakba), ethnic cleansing was ordered directly by Ben Gurion, Israel's founding father and a leader of the left-wing Mapai party.

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nytimes.com/1979/10/23/arc…
Screenshot of an article that says: "We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Alton repeated his question: 'What is to be done with the population?' B.G. waved his hand in a gesture which said, 'Drive them out!'
May 12, 2021 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF.

When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening.

1/16 I grew up in France, in a Jewish community where the norm was unconditional love and support for Israel. Zionism wasn't even named because that's all we knew. Jews were nearly wiped by pogroms and repeated holocausts, and a Jewish state was the only way to keep us safe.

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