"If only the Zionist movement had been established earlier, millions of Jews could have been saved."

Debunking the #1 myth about Zionism. A 🧵 It's impossible to prove or disprove counterfactual history, to state the obvious.

But we can look at how the Zionist movement reacted to similar situations in which Jews faced persecution and the Zionist movement had the opportunity to rescue Jews.

What did they do?

How Zionists prolonged the suffering of Jewish Holocaust survivors, 1945-1948. A 🧵 After WWII, 250K liberated Jews found themselves in Displaced Person (DP) camps in Europe. The Zionists prevented their rescue to destinations other than Palestine, despite abysmal living conditions in the camps, despite offers of resettlement & despite the desire of many to go.

Israel’s exploitation of Jews as demographic hostages, a brief history 🧵 Zionist & Israeli leaders have a long history of going against the interests of Jews themselves, of weaponizing Jews & exploiting their J-positive blood to engineer a Jewish demographic majority in Palestine.

The last major case of intentional starvation in Palestine was during World War I. lessons from history. ⤵️ ~11-16% of the population of what is today Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon died during the war, mostly from famine or famine related diseases. About 500,000 people.

During the war, the British, Russian & French navies blockaded the Eastern Mediterranean coast for a prolonged period of time, from December 1914 until 1918.

The blockade led to economic collapse in Palestine and elsewhere in the region. Tens of thousands of people lost their means of livelihood as a result.

The blockade led a shortage of critical goods, such as petroleum, essential to cook food and heat homes. In Palestine, the price of petroleum skyrocketed to five or six times its prewar price by April 1915, just six months into the war.

Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was not a historical event or two or three that happened in 1948, 1967 or 2023. It's an ongoing process, a structure, that began in the late 19th century and has been ongoing to the present day. ⤵️ Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, Oct. 7, 2023 - the present: palestinenexus.com/articles/ethni…

Some of @PeterBeinart's best clips on the relationship between Zionism & the Jewish tradition. Trigger warning if you are a Zionist. A 🧵 How political Zionism is inherently oppressive:

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1877076468502770079

A brief history of Israeli leaders saying Iran = Nazis 🧵. June 16, 2025: “We’ve targeted their top nuclear scientists ... it’s basically Hitler’s nuclear team.” -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internati…

A brief history of Israeli Jewish support for mass murder in the Gaza Strip. A 🧵 In March 2025, a poll revealed Israeli Jewish society's support for genocide:

→ 82% support the forced expulsion of residents of Gaza
→ 47% believe the Israeli army should “act like the biblical Israelites under Joshua in Jericho—killing all inhabitants of a conquered city"
haaretz.co.il/magazine/2025-…

Zionism was unpopular among most Jews for the first six decades of its Jewish existence, 1870s-1930s.

Anyone who tells you anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism apparently believes that the overwhelming majority of world Jewry were themselves anti-Semitic from 1870-1940. A 🧵 Before WWI, the overwhelming majority of US American Jews were non-Zionist or anti-Zionist:

Breaking: the President of the International Court of Justice (@CIJ_ICJ), Julia Sebutinde, plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion (icj-cij.org/node/204162) in which she voted against all provisional measures of South African's case of Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

On p. 6, Sebutinde writes: ""The name “Palestine” applied vaguely to a region that for the 400 years before World War I was part of the Ottoman Empire."

This sentence was plagiarized word for word from a 2021 article published by Douglas J. Feith by the @HudsonInstitute titled, "The Forgotten History of the Term "Palestine," (hudson.org/node/44363) in which he writes:

"“Palestine” applied vaguely to a region that for the 400 years before World War I was part of the Ottoman empire."

It gets worse. Sebutinde plagiarized the next two sentences as well. She writes:

"In 135 CE, after stamping out the second Jewish insurrection of the province of Judea or Judah, the Romans renamed that province “Syria Palaestina” (or “Palestinian Syria”). The Romans did this as a punishment, to spite the “Y’hudim” (Jewish population) and to obliterate the link between them and their province (known in Hebrew as Y’hudah). The name “Palaestina” was used in relation to the people known as the Philistines and found along the Mediterranean coast."

These 2 sentences were also plagiarized from the same Feith piece, in which he writes:

"In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea’s second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina—that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so resentfully, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews (in Hebrew, Y’hudim and in Latin Judaei) and the province (the Hebrew name of which was Y’hudah). “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast."

Sebutinde make a pitiful attempt to change a word here or there, but this is a textbook case of plagiarism. Feith's piece is not cited in her legal opinion, even though she copied and pasted multiple sentences from the piece.

What a joke of judge. She's making a mockery of the ICJ and should be removed immediately.
It gets worse. She also plagiarized at least 4 sentences from The Jewish Virtual Library (jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-and-fact…).

Here are the 4 sentences from Sebutinde, and then the 4 sentences from the Jewish Virtual Library immediately following:

1. Sebutinde: "Prior to the establishment of “British Mandatory Palestine”, Palestinian Arabs viewed themselves as having a unified identity with the Arabs in the subregion until the twentieth century.
1. Jewish Virtual Library: "Prior to partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity."

2. Sebutinde: "When the distinguished Arab American historian, Professor Philip Hitti, testified against the Partition of Mandatory Palestine before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he remarked: “There is no such thing as ‘Palestine’ in history; absolutely not.”"
2. Jewish Virtual Library: "When the distinguished Arab-American historian, Princeton University Prof. Philip Hitti, testified against partition before the Anglo-American Committee in 1946, he said: "There is no such thing as 'Palestine' in history, absolutely not."

3. Sebutinde: "In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria."
3. Jewish Virtual Library: "In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine: "There is no such country [as Palestine]! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.""

4. Sebutinde: "The first Palestine-Arab Congress which convened in Jerusalem from 27 January to 10 February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, adopted a resolution in which it, inter alia, considered Palestine as an integral part of Arab Syria."
4. Jewish Virtual Library: "When the First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations met in Jerusalem in February 1919 to choose Palestinian representatives for the Paris Peace Conference, the following resolution was adopted: We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time.

Needless to say, Sebutinde is a pathetic excuse for a judge. If you are going to plagiarize, at least do so from a reputable source. At least, that way, you may be a dishonest person, but at least you'd get the facts right? The insanity of plagiarizing from the Jewish Virtual Library here is that she is both dishonestly representing other people's work as her own, while also spreading misinformation.

How the heck this person is the world's top judge is truly mind-blowing.

The president of the International Court of Justice (@CIJ_ICJ) is Julia Sebutinde.

She was the only judge (of 17) to vote against all provisional measures of South African's case of Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

Her dissenting opinion is replete w/lies & distortions. A 🧵 In the opinion, she includes a 785-word section on the history of Palestine before WWI. 90% of it covers the period of ancient Israelite history, 10% covers all other periods, i.e. Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusaders, Mamluk & Ottoman. here's a sample: icj-cij.org/node/204162

Why is big tech so pro-genocide? A short 🧵. Microsoft's sales of its cloud & artificial intelligence services to the Israeli army have skyrocketed since Israel's genocide of the Palestinians started in Oct. 2023. See the brilliant reporting by @yuval_abraham and @972mag

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1882421064611065975

A brief history of Israel's violation of ceasefire agreements. 🧵 In December 2024, Israel violated its 1974 Agreement on Disengagement with Syria, occupying a 235-square-kilometer demilitarized buffer zone established b/w Israel & Syria after the Oct. 1973 War. timesofisrael.com/un-slams-viola…

How Israeli soldiers disguise themselves as civilians to murder Palestinians (perfidy). A 🧵 It's a violation of international humanitarian law to feign civilian or non-combatant status during armed hostilities (i.e. when Israeli soldiers wear civilian garb, or use civilian vehicles, or dress up as aid workers or doctors to kill Palestinians). casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossar…

1. Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, overview
2. Israel's ethnic cleansing, 1949-59
3. Israel's attempts to cleanse Gaza
4. Israel's cleansing of the Palestinians, 1967-present
5. Israel's ethnic cleansing, 2023
6. Israel's ethnic cleansing, 2024 ⤵️

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1717303486344233131

Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians, 1949-1959, a brief history 🧵 Most people know about the Nakba: from Nov. 1947 - Dec. 1948, Zionist militias/Israeli military expelled 750,000 Palestinians from what became Israel. But most people do not know the Nakba continued long after 1948. It was not a historical event, it was an ongoing process. ⤵️

How Israel exploits US presidential elections in its war on Palestinians. A 🧵 Once every 4 years, with all eyes fixated on suburban voters in swing states in the US, the Israeli government does something heinous: ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes, breaks a ceasefire agreement w/ Palestinians or targets Palestinians for execution:

8 threads on Zionism:

1) Brief history of Zionism
2) Zionism & colonialism
3) Zionism & racism
4) Zionism rejected rescuing Jews from persecution
5) Doing Zionism Quietly
6) Antisemitic Zionists
7) Zionists staging antisemitic incidents
8) Jewish rejection of Zionism In this 🧵, I provide a brief history of Zionism. The 🧵 is also a response to @harari_yuval's full-throated defense of Zionism in the @washingtonpost

https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1790141852181496202

Antisemites & neo-Nazis who love Israel. 🧵 The white nationalist Richard Spencer has saluted the work of neo-Nazis & launched a journal called Radix Journal that has published many antisemitic articles. He describes himself as a ‘white Zionist,’ saying he wants a secure homeland for ‘my people’ like the Jews have in Israel. For Spencer, a white ethno-state would be an “Altneuland,” or “An old, new country,” a term he borrowed from a Theodor Herzl novel.
(adl.org/resources/arti…)
(timesofisrael.com/white-national…)
(mondoweiss.net/2017/02/semiti…)

10 examples of Israeli apartheid at work. 🧵 If u are Palestinian from Silwan (Ramzi Abbasi), Israel can imprison u for 120 days, no reason provided.

If u are Jewish in Silwan, u can ethnically cleanse Palestinians & Israel will imprison those protesting being cleansed.

Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid.

A brief history of Israel's support for apartheid, atrocities, war crimes & genocide around the world. A 🧵 In the 1970s & 80s, Israel was one of the main arms suppliers 972mag.com/investigate-is…) to Chile's military dictator Augusto Pinochet. Israel trained (haaretz.com/israel-news/20…) the country's security forces, who abducted & murdered 3,000 persons & tortured 35,000.