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Ben White
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Feb 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Once again, Israel's ambassador @TzipiHotovely lies to British media.

Kay Burley: "There was someone shot at a checkpoint, & he was unarmed, in front of his child."

Hotovely: "That, actually, it's not correct."

But it *is* correct - and even the Israeli army had to admit it... Before returning to the horrific killing referred to by Burley, a reminder that this isn't the first time @TzipiHotovely has openly misled journalists - like this absurd example last December.

Dec 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some 200 Palestinians have been killed this year - including around 150 shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.

Two weeks ago, Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely claimed *95%* of Palestinians killed this year were "terrorists".

This is dehumanising disinformation.

🧵 Contrary to Israeli authorities' claims, a *clear majority* of those killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank this year - likely some two-thirds - have been *unarmed*. Protesters, those participating in collective confrontations against soldiers invading their towns, bystanders.
Nov 3, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
As the Israeli election results are digested, Ben Gvir is dominating a lot of coverage.

He is accurately portrayed as a racist, far-right nationalist, his success a disturbing new development.

In that context, here is a qiuick quiz of ‘Who said it?’

🧵 "I do not think that the Arabs want peace...What I want is not a new Middle East, but to be rid of them" & "to maintain a Jewish majority in the Land of Israel".

Ben Gvir or Yair Lapid?
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Answer: Yair Lapid.
Nov 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Israeli elections.

Approx. 1 in 3 of all the people living under Israeli control *can't* vote.

🚫 Palestinian residents of annexed Jerusalem.

🚫 Palestinians in the militarily occupied West Bank & Gaza Strip.

#Israelex22 is an expression not of democracy but the lack thereof. "but they're not Israeli citizens of course they can't vote"

That's...sort of the point?

They're not citizens - and yet Israel has ruled them and colonised their land for decades. Curious!
Oct 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Israeli settlers' attacks on Palestinians in occupied West Bank surging this year - 2021 total will easily outstrip 2020 (which itself was up from 2019).

Such violence only possible thanks to Israeli authorities' complicity, support.

data via @ochaopt

ochaopt.org/poc/21-septemb… "[The army] did not report the incident, nor was a complaint filed against the settler.

...Palestinian eyewitnesses said that they saw the soldier give his gun to the settler".

haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…
Jul 22, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Why would one ice cream company's decision to stop selling produce in Israeli settlements prompt such a extraordinary reaction from the Israeli gov't?

The smears are shameless, and the absurdity is amusing.

But the reaction of Israeli leaders is not random & merits reflection. Three main things going on here.

1. Israeli state & its institutions, + mainstream Jewish Israeli political opinion, views *& in practice treats* the West Bank as belonging to Israel. The reaction to even a v.specific boycott of settlements can only be understood in this light.
Jul 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ben & Jerry's to stop selling ice-cream in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Israel's 'change' gov't reacts just like a Netanyahu-led one would have done - accuse B&J's of 'antisemitism' & claim the whole West Bank belongs to Israel.

theguardian.com/world/2021/jul… five weeks apart ImageImage
May 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In reporting/analysis, there is not nearly enough attention being paid to twin Israeli crises - of political leadership & military strategy - which shape both the current offensive & deeper context re Gaza.

Let's start with this piece, published y'day.

haaretz.com/israel-news/.p… "serious military & diplomatic failure"

"major deficiencies in the army’s prep & performance & in the leadership of a confused & helpless gov't"

"military hadn’t amassed enough quality targets in Gaza"

"military has no idea how to paralyze Hamas’ forces & throw it off balance"
May 17, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Significant development tomorrow - & certainly unprecedented in its scope, reach, politics, & character.

Apr 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
One of the most striking aspects of Israel's refusal to respect its obligations re vaccines for Palestinians is that we are watching in real time as a rejection / rewriting of international law is "normalised" - both in terms of Israel's conduct & how it's being reported. The latest figure for number of Israelis who've received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine is 57%.

57%.

But. This excludes Palestinians.

In fact, the number of people living under Israeli rule who've received at least one dose of vaccine is 39%.

The honest figure is 39%.
Apr 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Overnight, Israeli forces killed father-of-five Osama Mansour (42) & wounded his wife Sumaya, when soldiers sprayed their car with bullets at a "surprise" checkpoint in the occupied West Bank northeast of Jerusalem. There will be no accountability.

report reuters.com/article/uk-isr… ImageImageImage The couple were on their way home (in Biddu) when they came across the so-called "flying" checkpoint set up by Israeli occupation forces. As Sumaya recounts, her husband was fatally shot right next to her.

english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/…

wattan.net/ar/news/337383…

Jan 1, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
An absolutely horrendous microcosm of apartheid in the West Bank today. Palestinian man - Harun Abu Aram - desperately tries to rescue his electric generator which Israeli soldiers have seized. So a soldier shoots him. Harun is now in critical condition.

haaretz.com/middle-east-ne… Raids like these - to destroy homes, shelters, water pipes etc. - happen all the time. On this occasion, Israeli forces returned to a Palestinian community in the southern West Bank targeted for a demolition just five weeks ago.

Dec 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Fantastic report on @Channel4News right now about what it's like to be British and Palestinian. includes Britain's historic role, and the current efforts to impose IHRA definition of antisemitism on universities
Nov 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
An Israeli court has backed a municipality's refusal to provide Arabic language education for school children, saying it would encourage Palestinian citizens to move to what is a "Jewish city" and "alter the demographic balance".

adalah.org/en/content/vie… In it ruling, the court cited the Jewish Nation State Basic Law, passed by the Knesset in 2018 - specifically, Article 7: "The state views the development of Jewish settlement as a national value, and will act to encourage it and to promote and to consolidate its establishment’".
Nov 16, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Israel's laws & policies have been described as, & deemed to be, a form of apartheid for decades, by scholars, rights experts, & activists. Here is a selection of sources from just the last few years - beginning with those who experience Israeli apartheid directly: Palestinians. Dozens of Palestinian civil society orgs - human rights NGOs, trade unions, cultural centres etc. - were signatories to this July 2020 open letter urging accountability for an "apartheid regime of racial discrimination, segregation & territorial expansion" alhaq.org/advocacy/17049…
Sep 16, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Over the summer, Israeli officials met to discuss what can only be called a war on the very existence of Palestinians in 60% of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian construction - homes, agriculture - was called a "virus", "territorial terror", "cancer".

haaretz.com/israel-news/.p… The Brigadier General heading Israel's occupation authority in the West Bank proudly told the Knesset how the military has uprooted 42,000 trees planted by Palestinians in the past 20 years - including 7,500 just in 2019. Not in military operations. For being "illegally" planted.