As the meaning of normalization & decolonization is being parsed out during this Oscar discourse, it’s essential to understand that while the BNC “should” help guide this conversation, they can’t. A thread 🪡 Structurally & ideologically reliant on western NGOs, the BNC is bound to a liberal praxis to secure access to the public domain & financing. Its posture on the Mapping Project, student encampments, other BDS groups, & the Jamaal Bowman Jstreet trip are examples of this reality.

These orgs articulate a version of zionism by which the settler maintains control of the political structures, land & resources through a discourse of “equal rights”. Their demand for equal rights enshrines the rights of the settler, realized at the expense of Palestinians. 🧵

https://twitter.com/nerdeenkiswani/status/1892632588805648480

This article here demonstrates how French settlers tried to deploy the rhetoric of “equal rights” to take control of the land from the Kanaks.

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Had a conversation with a friend today, and we touched upon how foreigners, Americans & Europeans specifically, view Palestine and Palestinians. This friend expressed disgust at the idea that Palestinians are simply passive victims. This friend once joined an American group that went to Nablus, they went around his university asking him & other students questions. "What do you think of Trump?" "How do you envision peace?" "How does the occupation affect the day-to-day life?"

This is such a wild mask-off moment because actually, many who’ve studied the Holocaust always understood the Jewish specificity of this claim by zionists. For example, many Holocaust museums have a “Never Again” center that leaves out many genocides and always Palestine. 🪡 We see it in the erasure of every other group of people who were systematically slaughtered during the Holocaust, including Roma, disabled people, political dissidents. We see it in the selective application of “Never Again” over time.

For the past three days as it escalated its assault on Jenin, the zionist forces enforced the largest scale of road closures and checkpoints in the West Bank since the second Intifada 🧵 Reports from Palestinians across the West Bank indicate that in some instances soldiers are checking a car every 30 mins then closing the checkpoint. Others reported soldiers chatting, laughing, and taking selfies while thousands of vehicles remained stuck for hours.

Reports from Northern Gaza this morning:
1) Israeli forces' drones continue to target the main gate of Kamal Adwan Hospital, opening fire on it after repeated attacks on the hospital and the surrounding area. 2) Israeli forces struck Abu Tammam school in Beit Lahiya, resulting in casualties. Displaced families taking shelter in Beit Lahiya schools endured a long night of bombardment by drones and shells. Explosions detonated near these schools, sending shrapnel into them.

While we generally don't waste our time commenting on the mealy-mouthed garbage that +972/Local Call Magazine usually produces, some pieces cross the line and must be addressed. After a year of parroting zionist propaganda, Haggai Matar has found a new way to recenter Israelis.🧵
Before we get into the piece itself and the many, MANY sickening elements it presents (and misrepresents), do the following:

Close your eyes and imagine reading a piece about Nazi fears and rights during the Holocaust.

Hold onto that feeling, because it's not going anywhere.

On the 400th day of Israel's Gaza genocide, Saturday Nov 9, the Government Media Office released a summary of some of the most relevant statistics from the Gaza Strip. 🧵 - 400 days of genocide.
-⁠ ⁠3,798 massacres committed by Israel.
- ⁠53,552 known martyrs and missing persons.
- ⁠10,000 known missing individuals.
- ⁠43,552 martyrs who reached hospitals (Ministry of Health).
- ⁠17,385 known child martyrs. 1/15

Yesterday, I sat on a bench in W. Jerusalem, looked up, and realized the "shade" tree was an olive tree. The contrast between Israeli (left) and Palestinian (right) olive trees highlights the differing relationships settlers and native Palestinians have with the land 🧵
Olive tree pruning is a fundamental practice for maintaining the health and productivity of these trees. For centuries, Palestinians have pruned olive trees to enhance yield, ensure longevity, and foster a deep connection to the land that sustains them. 2/

The man opening the trunk of the car is connected to the hilltop settlement meters away and directed the arrest of the family from beginning to the end. The zionist left will frame this as “the cops working with the settlers”, which intentionally obfuscates the situation. 🧵 This analysis creates a false dichotomy that there are "Israelis" and there are "settlers," when in reality, Israelis in general are settlers. Police officers are settlers not just as a matter of class identity—they function to animate the system of settler-colonialism.

The "equal rights for all" is the NGO version of "All lives matter."

Within the context of settler-colonialism, the rights of the settler, by design, can only be realized at the expense of the indigenous population.

Statements of this form today advance colonial thought.
🧵 This critical piece highlights how French colonizers used the "equal rights" framework in an attempt to secure voting rights for the settler community to maintain the colonization of the Kanak people. 2/

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Between Oct 7 and Sept 6, Israel and Hezbollah, as well as other anti-colonial resistance groups in Lebanon, have exchanged 9,613 attacks. Israel has accounted for 82% — or 7,845 of attacks. This isn't a strategy; it's indiscriminate violence serving colonialism.

A 🧵 [ You can interact with this map and ACLED data at ]

Today alone, Israel killed at least 34 Palestinians in attacks on Gaza, including 13 in airstrikes on two homes in Rafah. In Lebanon, 12 people were killed & 66 wounded in an attack on Beirut.

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Israel's greatest asset is its ability to enact meaningless, wonton violence and scorched Earth policies.

Palestinian allies can't simply bomb Tel Aviv or Jerusalem w/o the risk of killing Palestinians: Their resistance demands a level of precision not required by Israel. 1/ When people talk about the asymmetrical nature of violence, it isn't because of technological advantages and imperial backing. It's just that zionism, as a mechanism of imperialism, doesn't have moral restrictions. Its only boundaries are those set by capitalist interests. 2/

Indulge us this thread, which responds to a quite a simple lie of a post. Let's peel back some of the layers of deception underlying these claims. A few of them might be less obvious than you think. 🧵 Shurat HaDin (SHD) is one of these Israeli lawfare groups, registered as a charity in Occupied Palestine, which works to support zionist settlement and publish (bad) propaganda in order to undermine Palestinians' claims to our homeland, and to justice. This claim is no different.

This interactive map we built on top of Unosat geo-coordinates shows Israel's widespread bombing of entrenched communities. This map is more than the logical outworkings of zionism; it is also a visualization of liberal praxis in action. A 🧵 goodshepherdcollective.org/maps/gaza_dama…
The data at the top levels of US governance is much more granular & comprehensive: They fully understand the breadth of genocide. Harris, Waltz — DSA darlings like AOC and their handlers have all signed off on this.

Very disappointing article by a generally excellent source of news. During a genocide, we don’t need feel-good, meaningless interviews to serve as free marketing for empty claims at expertise, particularly those uplifting grifters. Thread on the article below. 🪡

https://twitter.com/mondoweiss/status/1832811301527027766

Vilkomerson and Wise announced this book, presenting themselves as experts on “anti-zionist” organizing and resistance, months ago. Following wide criticism of them, their work, and the timing of the book, its release was delayed and the profits promised to We Are Not Numbers.

The Commission of Detainees' Affairs and the Palestinian Society Prisoners' Club released a statement of accounts from the commission's lawyer, Khaled Mahajna and journalists Muhammad Arab and Tareq Abed.
The following includes accounts of torture, abuse, and sexual violence. 🧵 The journalist Muhammad Arab, before being tranferred from Ofer prison to Sde Teiman camp, witnessed a sick Palestinian prisoner begging for treatment. Arab reports that the prisoner was denied treatment, and instead attacked and murdered by Israeli forces.

It's critical to remember that Zionism, as a form of settler-colonialism, is articulated in service of capitalism. As such, it models its tactics from other colonial powers, learns lessons & adapts. The US bombing of Bach Mai Hospital in 72 provided valuable lessons 🧵 Quickly, US legal advisors justified the bombing that killed hundreds. W Hays Park, who served in Vietnam and became a legal advisor and helped issue the 1986 airstrike on Libya, had this to say:

Settler-colonialism is premised on the erasure of the indigenous people. Israel is not an exception to the rule. There is not one metric that suggests that violence waged against Palestinians will subside. Home demolitions across ONLY the EJ & the WB continue to be alarming 🧵



YTD Summary:
- 210 Israeli military operations
- 595 structures destroyed
- 705 people displaced
-185 women displaced
- 333 children displaced

Daily averages:
- 1.1 military operations
- 3.7 people displaced
- 3.1 structures destroyed 2/

Liberal discourse, in service of the ruling class, deploys its many machinations to scribe the terms of the world around us but, most importantly, defines justice for the oppressed & besieged. In service of zionism, Yousef posits an ethic where the colonizers keep their spoils 🧵

https://twitter.com/jvplive/status/1810767839101604038

This colonial apologia advances settler-colonialism by arguing to the readers — mostly zionists in this case — that the Palestinian call for justice includes the settlers remaining in stolen lands & stolen homes. 2/

The destruction of Gaza is designed first to kill, then expel & finally segregate the general Palestinian population into small enclaves by selectively destroying critical life-giving infrastructure. Based on Unosat imagery on May 29, 65% of Gaza's roads are destroyed & damaged.



Here is a zoomed-in image of the Netzarim Corridor with accompanying images to show the destruction intended to bisect Gaza. This method of creating small, ethnic zones that are disconnected from each other is deployed across the West Bank as a means to create political divisions