Was there a ceasefire on Oct. 6th 2023? A 🧵
Oct 5 2023: Israeli forces killed 3 Palestinians in the West Bank, including Abd al-Rahman Atta & Hudhayfah Fares. Israeli forces also prevented medical aid from reaching the victims & took their bodies hostage; an Israeli settler murdered Labib Dhamidi aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/5…
Feb 26 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Israel has invaded Gaza 3 times in the past 68yrs (1956, 1967 & 2023) w/ the intention of imposing a military occupation over Gaza.
In all 3 cases, within weeks of the war's end, the Israeli government tried to find a way to ethnically cleanse its Palestinian inhabitants. A 🧵
In 1956, Israel invaded Gaza. PM David Ben-Gurion setup a committee to consider proposals for depopulating Gaza of its refugees.
Source: N. Masalha, "The 1956–57 occupation of the Gaza strip: Israeli proposals to resettle the Palestinian refugees." BJMES 23.1 (1996): 55-68.
Feb 22 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A brief history of Israel's Gaza resettlement policy, 1967-1970. 🧵
On 18–19 June 1967, the Israeli government adopted this decision:
"...[the Gaza Strip] would be annexed to Israel once the number of refugees there was significantly reduced by transfer to other locations of countries."
Source: Golan. 2019. Deception & Israeli Peacemaking since 1967. Israel Studies Review, 34(1): 4
Feb 18 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Why is the US Congress so supportive of Israel's plausible genocide?
A lobbying organization (@AIPAC) w/ $100M to spend on pro-genocide candidates & no guardrails b/c of broken campaign finance law.
A short 🧵.
AIPAC offered $20 million to Hill Harper to run against against Rep. Tlaib in the Democratic primary. He said no.
AIPAC offered $20 million to Nasser Beydoun to run against against Rep. Tlaib in the Democratic primary. He said no.
AIPAC failed w/Tlaib.
Jan 23 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
A brief history of Israel’s 33-year long policy of starving Gaza. A 🧵
It’s been 5 weeks since @hrw said Israel was starving Palestinians “as a weapon of war.” 5 weeks since the @UN said >1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving; 5 weeks since the @WHO said the risk of famine is “increasing each day;” hrs since the @UN said “everyone in Gaza is hungry”
Jan 19 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
A brief history of Israel’s search for “non-hostile” Palestinian subcontractors, a 🧵
On Jan 4, 2024, Israeli Defense Minister Gallant published a 3-page document called the “Day After.” The day after the war ends in Gaza, “Palestinian bodies will be in charge,” with one condition. The Palestinian “entity controlling the territory” would be a “non-hostile actor.”
Jan 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A brief history of how mainstream media in the US has erased Palestinians, a 🧵.
A Jan 9, 2024 open-source study published by the @theintercept found that @nytimes, @washingtonpost, & @latimes “disproportionately emphasized Israeli deaths in the conflict; used emotive language to describe the killings of Israelis, but not Palestinians; & offered lopsided coverage of antisemitic acts in the U.S., while largely ignoring anti-Muslim racism in the wake of October 7." source: theintercept.com/2024/01/09/new…
Dec 14, 2023 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
A brief history of the Israeli military's use of Palestinians as human shields. A 🧵
10 Nov 2023: A video shows Israeli soldiers using a blindfolded Palestinian detainee as a human shield in the West Bank. He is seated on the ground w/ vehicles behind him using him as a shield as an Israeli soldier aim his rifle towards Palestinians middleeastmonitor.com/20231110-israe…
Nov 27, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
It's strange so many liberal Zionists are angry that @netanyahu would so openly embrace @elonmusk despite his anti-Jewish tendencies.
It's strange b/c Zionists have long embraced anti-Jewish tendencies. In fact, many of Zionism's champions were deeply anti-Jewish.
A 🧵
In 1897, Theodor Herzl published a text, "Mauschel," a derogatory term for Jewish Germans connoting cheating & insincerity. Herzl believed Jews who opposed Zionism were "Mauschels," who he described as a “distortion of human character, something unspeakably low & repugnant."
Nov 13, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Hamas has 3 co-founders
#1 Ibrahim Yazuri
Born in 1941 in Beit Dras, near Ashdod. On 21 May 1948, Israeli forces entered his village & indiscriminately slaughtered many women & children trying to flee the violence.
Yazuri survived.
source: Jawad, "Zionist Massacres," p.113
Yazuri's family fled to Khan Yunis.
On 3 Nov 1956, Israeli tanks entered Khan Yunis to "eradicate" Palestinian militant resistance.
[Recall, Palestinians picked up arms after Israel slaughtered 1000s of unarmed refugees returning home in 1949-1950. Morris, Border Wars, p.416]:
Nov 7, 2023 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free. A 🧵
Meaning of "From the River to the Sea"
In Gaza, Palestinians face starvation, thirst, displacement, siege & mass slaughter
In the West Bank, Palestinians face apartheid, ethnic cleansing & occupation
In Israel, Palestinians face discrimination, unjust arrest & unjust firing
Oct 29, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
6 🧵s to make sense of Israel/Palestine:
1) A history Palestinian non-violent resistance 2) A history of Hamas 3) A history of Israel's ethnic cleansing Palestinians 4) A history of Israel's wars on Gaza 5) A history of Gaza 6) A history of Israel’s use of disproportionate force
In this 🧵, I document many cases in which Palestinians embraced non-violent resistance.
In every case, Israel responded w/ lethal & disproportionate violence.
This helps explain why a small number of Palestinians have instead turned to violence.
Israel’s Core Military Doctrine, Explained.
In 17 days, Israel has killed ~6,000+ Palestinians in Gaza in response to Hamas’s October 7th massacre in which it killed ~1,300 people.
Israel has killed an order of magnitude more Palestinians (adj. for pop.)
This is Israel's core military doctrine: disproportionality
Oct 24, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Voices critical of the slaughter of Palestinians are being censored, fired & silenced.
So why do writers like @Bariweiss, who have made a career out of advocating for free speech, care so little when the victims of cancel culture speak up on behalf of the Palestinians?
A 🧵:
MSNBC quietly silences its top experts on Israel - Palestine exactly when their expertise was needed most: semafor.com/article/10/13/…
You've probably heard this question asked a lot over the past 2 weeks.
A short response. A🧵.
From late 1987-1988, Palestinians in Gaza rose up in a series of non-violent demonstrations, strikes, boycotts & protests. They killed 0 Israelis. They were unarmed.
In response, Israel killed 142 Palestinians in Gaza.
Source: Jean-Pierre Filiu, Gaza: A History (2014), 206.
Oct 22, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The 2-State Solution.” A 🧵
A lot of non-experts have been sharing their opinions about Israel-Palestine recently.
All of the above names have reminded us of the importance of “the 2-state solution.”
Oct 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Genocide is all about intent.
Here's the evidence (cc: @ICJ_org):
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said already a week ago ""No electricity, no water, no food. Human Animals” to all Palestinians in Gaza. 100%
Israel's awkward relationship w/ Hamas. A short 🧵
In the 1980s, Israel funded & support Hamas. It was part of Israel's classic colonial policy of divide & conquer.
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