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Historian of Palestine | Ph.D @Princeton | Palestine Newsletter ↓
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Jul 19 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The 8 Tiers of Israeli Apartheid, A 🧵 Tier 1: Jewish citizens of Israel (7.2 million people) Image
Jul 5 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
A brief history of how Israel responds to unarmed Palestinian protestors. A 🧵 Oct. 19th, 2023: Ahmad Khalifa & Mohammad Abu El Taher Jabareen organized a peaceful protest against the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza. They were arrested & imprisoned for 110 days in a torture dungeon. adalah.org/en/content/vie…
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Jun 19 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
A brief history of Israel's policy of torturing Palestinians. A 🧵 Oct. 7-present. Israel tortured 4,000+ Palestinians at the Sde Teiman prison: systematic beatings, sexual violence, electric shocks, electric sticks up anuses, sleep deprivation, psychological torture. 35 have "died" while in the prison since Oct. 7. nytimes.com/2024/06/06/wor…
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Jun 14 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
A Brief History of Israel's Use of (Israeli) Human Shields. A 🧵 In 1919, the Zionist militia, HaShomer declared “the need to begin widespread settlement close to the existing boundary lines for the purpose of defending the country.” The idea was to establish new colonies in the border areas, to put civilians in harm’s way. Source: p.45 ⤵️ Image
Jun 10 • 25 tweets • 13 min read
A brief history of Israel's use of human shields, a 🧵. June 2024: Israeli soldiers used an aid truck to enter central Gaza, killing 276 Palestinians & releasing 4 hostages. A survivor of the massacre reported: the aid truck stopped in Nuseirat, Israeli soldiers got out of the truck & sprayed him w/3 bullets.
Jun 6 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Antisemitism is on the rise.

But much of the antisemitism is being perpetrated Zionists, who are increasing posing a grave threat to Jewish safety & security. A 🧵 In this video, Jewish protestors are being harassed & attacked by Zionists. (video shared today by @YousefAlhelou on IG).
May 20 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
"There is no moral equivalence between Israel & Hamas."

This talking point has been regurgitated ad nauseam by Israel's supporters since the @IntlCrimCourt has begun the process of issuing arrest warrants for Israeli & Hamas leaders.

But is moral equivalency argument true? 🧵 International humanitarian law boils down to 3 principles:

1 No targeting civilians
2 No indiscriminate attacks, even if there are combatants nearby
3 No disproportionality: the incidental harm caused to civilians must not be excessive relative to the military advantage gained
May 19 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The most popular form of Holocaust-denial seems to be the attempt to dispute the # of Jews murdered by the Nazis.

The most popular form of Israel's-genocide-in-Gaza denial seems to be the attempt to dispute the # of Palestinians murdered by Israel. A 🧵 Image Initially, the denial came from @POTUS himself, who said on Oct. 27 he had “no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using,” even though the US, Israel, the UN & every major human rights organization agreed their numbers have historically been accurate. Image
May 15 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
May 15th is Nakba Day.

76 yrs ago, Zionist forces ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.

A key tactic to incentivize flight was mass murder.

Here is a summary of 5 of the most gruesome massacres during the Nakba (via @Srjassi). A 🧵
jacobin.com/2024/05/ethnic… A brief account of the most infamous massacre of the 1948 War in Deir Yassin (narrated by @Srjassi) Image
May 13 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Yuval Harari just published a piece on Zionism in the @washingtonpost. He argues:

"Nothing in this Zionist idea implies that Jews are superior to others, whether they are Greeks or Poles — or Palestinians." @harari_yuval

A short🧵. Image Zionism was a ideology that said: let's build a Jewish state in a land that is 90% non-Jewish.

Until 1948, the "Zionist idea" was to buy land from Arabs & evict them. By 1931, 20,000 Palestinian Arab families had been evicted by Zionists.

That must be b/c the 'Zionist idea' says Jews & Palestinians are equal, that's why the Arab farmers had to be evicted, right?
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May 2 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Israel is an apartheid state.

If you wave an Israeli flag, you are waving an apartheid flag, a flag that symbolizes bigotry & jewish supremacy.

A 🧵on how Israeli apartheid works.
Mar 8 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
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…
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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. Image
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): 4Image
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.
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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”


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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.” Image
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." Image
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 Image 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]: Image