🧵 Why Israel’s economy is bleeding out UP TO 60,000 ISRAELI BUSINESSES TO CLOSE IN 2024

“The economic fallout from the ongoing war was most immediately felt by businesses active in the construction, agriculture, tourism, hospitality, and entertainment sectors, according to Amir.
That’s as 85,000 Palestinian workers have virtually disappeared from Israel’s construction industry since the war’s start, as they have not been allowed into Israel to work due to security concerns, while many foreign workers working at building sites left the country. This has caused many building sites to shut down completely due to a lack of workers.
‘Agriculture but especially the construction industry suffers from a severe shortage of manpower causing significant delays of projects and in the handover of apartments,” said Amir. “We are seeing some influx of foreign workers who have returned to Israel, but the low supply has also led to an increase in salaries and higher costs of hiring.’”

See: timesofisrael.com/up-to-60000-is…

The Guardian journalist @manisha_bot, who authored the “investigation” into Israel’s bombing of Al Ahli Hospital killing 471 Palestinians which shamefully concludes that Palestinians were responsible, is now attacking me for dismantling her sham investigation in the thread 🧵 below

She needs to be sacked immediately and the Guardian need to issue an apology and a retraction: Also, retweeting yourself over and over again and tagging the librarians in my university is bizarre behaviour. How is this person allowed to run investigations?

1/10 🧵 The Guardian’s fallacious investigation into the Al Ahli Hospital explosion

The Guardian still have not published a correction and apology for its October 18th “investigation” into Israel’s October 17th bombing of the Al-Ahli Hospital that killed 471 Palestinians and injured 342.

The Guardian’s conclusion supported Israel’s contention that it was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) missile not an Israeli strike — based entirely on a “fairly shallow crater size”. This was the first hospital Israel destroyed, and became a test of global and media responses. The Guardian’s sanctioning of it helped pave the way for Israel to bomb and destroy every hospital in Gaza.

It represents serious journalistic malpractice theguardian.com/world/2023/oct… 2/10 The Guardian’s investigation claims it’s based on a “forensic reviewing” of “open source information”. There’s little evidence of this. Rather the investigation hinged on a single interview of widely discredited former pentagon official and defence contract Marc Garlasco. Garlasco has no academic credentials as a weapons expert. In the Guardian he claims “the crater is not consistent with an airstrike” which is what the Guardian’s conclusion relies on

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BREAKING: Japan's Itochu Corporation, one of the world's largest companies, just announced it is ending its partnership with the largest Israeli weapons company, Elbit Systems, citing the ICJ’s ruling as the reason for cutting ties 2/3
They stated they’ve already suspended new activities which end at the end of February.

The decision comes following a series of protests over several months in front of Itochu's Tokyo headquarters due to its dealings with Israel and calls to boycott the company

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BREAKING: Israel faces a complete blockade from all sides as Iran threatens to block the Strait of Gibraltar likely via Iran-backed rebels Polisario Front. This would shut goods out from Israel’s only functioning port at Haifa, adding pressure on Israel to stop bombing Gaza 2/6
99% of Israeli goods arrive via waterways. Attacking Israel-bound ships in Strait of Gibraltar raises liabilities significantly. Risk averse shipping firms would likely refuse transport to Israel as they’ve done in the Red Sea. The only land access to Israel now is via Jordan

🧵 1/4 USA RED SEA COALITION OF THE UNWILLING (update)

🇨🇦 Canada will send a total of 3 officers
🇳🇱 The Netherlands will send a total of 2 officers
🇩🇰 Denmark will send 1 officer
🇳🇴 Norway will send 10 officers

*8 countries* declined to be publicly named - and wont send troops. 2/4
🇪🇸 Spain rejected US claims it had joined the coalition. Spain’s Defence Ministry: "We will not participate unilaterally in the Red Sea operation”

🇫🇷 France withdrew from US Command Structure said it already operated in Red Sea and it’s ship would stay under French command

🧵1/5 BREAKING: Norwegian Wilhelmsen shipping and logistics company halted its activities in the Red Sea. Wilhelmsen is ranked among the top 10 global shipping companies by fleet size and revenue

The 11 biggest shipping and logistics firms have now halting all Red Sea transits🧵 2/5
CMA CGM
French shipping giant halted Red Sea container shipment (Dec 16)

EURONAV
Belgian oil tanker firm ended Red Sea transit (Dec 18)

YANG MING MARINE TRANSPORT
Taiwanese shipping firm said it would divert ships from Red Sea and Gulf of Aden via Cape of Good Hope (Dec 18)

1/7 🧵 The AWL “Israel-Palestine” statement that everyone is mocking and the world’s worst liberal imperialists are signing is textbook AWL. Here’s a little 🧵 on the AWL “the alliance for workers liberty” 2/7 On Palestine and all liberation struggles, AWL has stood with the occupier. They oppose the right of Palestinians to return (guaranteed by the UN and international law), they oppose both armed resistance as well as peaceful means against colonialism such as the BDS or