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Mar 28, 2025 13 tweets 8 min read
"Hamas started the war on October 7th." A 🧵 Well, not really. Contextualizing actions matters, which is NOT the same as a justification. The broad context is that of continuous ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to make place for a Jewish homeland, starting with the mass expulsion during the Nakba.
Dec 22, 2024 26 tweets 9 min read
Genocide in Gaza🧵

A growing number of institutions, organizations, scholars, and legal experts have either warned of a potential genocide unfolding or asserted that Israel is actively committing genocide in Gaza. Raz Segal—Israeli historian and associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies—says that "Israel has loudly proclaimed [genocidal] intent" and is committing a "textbook case of genocide". (13/10/2023) jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-cas…
Nov 8, 2024 26 tweets 20 min read
🧵 Exploring why Israel's actions in Gaza meet the definition of genocide. We'll examine the "ten stages of genocide" to show how they apply in this context, along with insights from numerous genocide scholars who now argue that Israel is committing the "crime of crimes." In 1996, the founding president of Genocide Watch, Gregory Stanton, created a list of 8 stages (since updated to include 10 stages) according to which genocides generally unfold. The key takeaway is that genocides are part of a larger process. Image
Oct 22, 2024 25 tweets 17 min read
"Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children" said UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder in October 2023 - a place where 3/4 of all children were so traumatized 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 October 7th they needed "mental and psychosocial support".

A 🧵 on 🇮🇱 war against Gaza's children. Image
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Oxfam: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 figures show Israel has killed over 11,000 children in Gaza in a year - a rate higher than in any conflict in the last two decades. This doesn't include the nearly 20,000 people who are either unidentified, missing or buried under rubble. (1/10/24) Image
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Oct 14, 2024 17 tweets 7 min read
"If Hamas would just release the hostages, the war would be over tomorrow"... A 🧵 Netanyahu's government admitted they're not interested in a hostage deal - they want ethnic cleansing and annexation of Gaza. Image
Aug 9, 2024 32 tweets 12 min read
A 🧵 on the destruction of Gaza by 🇮🇱.

"Gaza [...] has been subjected by Israel to [...] one of the "heaviest conventional bombing campaigns" in the history of modern warfare [...] The destruction wrought by Israel is so extreme that "Gaza is now a different colour from space". Image Just three weeks after October 7th, Israel's plan should have been obvious to everyone - to collectively punish all Palestinians by destroying the entire Gaza Strip. To make it uninhabitable. The Guardian illustrated it with satellite images 👇 google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…