When it comes to Israel (and, well, many other things), the Democratic Party is in trouble. Nearly 50% of Democrats now sympathize with Palestinians as opposed to 38% who sympathize with Israel. 1/ As Israeli apartheid grows even more brazen, and as the Israeli gov't continues to go after the country's judicial system, those numbers will only swell. The masks have come off entirely and, barring some unforeseen change, liberal Americans won't tolerate it much longer. 2/

The IDF portrays itself as a 'moral army' that takes extreme measures to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza. @yuval_abraham spoke to a number of former soldiers from the Intelligence Corps who exposed horrific practices that shook me to my core. Here's a thread: @yuval_abraham The Israeli army knows ahead of each military operation that it will be killing non-combatants, often children. There is an "allowed" number of children that is permissible to kill. As long as this amount is not exceeded, the killing can be approved in advance.

Look, mom! We made the cover of The Nation! What an honor to be part of this incredible collaboration between @972mag @mekomit and @thenation to bring readers two rich, analytical long reads on the death of the Green Line of the Green Line and what comes after it. @972mag @mekomit @thenation The first comes from +972's @aj_iraqi, who writes about how Israel's consolidation of a single regime enabled Palestinians to rebuild their national fabric. Now, he writes, despite their physical dispersal, Palestinians have never been more connected.

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This is a wild one: back in the 1980s, an Israeli anthropologist named Yaakov Havakook published an ethnography on Masafer Yatta. This is the area of the occupied West Bank that the High Court recently ruled can be ethnically cleansed of its Palestinians. 1/ As part of its case against the 1000+ residents who are now under direct threat of expulsion, the state used Havakook's book proves that there were no “permanent dwellings” in Masafer Yatta in 1980, the year the army declared it a live firing zone. 2/

BREAKING: Defense Minister Benny Gantz declares 6 Palestinian human rights groups “terrorist organizations.” List includes some of the most vital groups working in the occupied territories, such as @alhaq_org, @Addameer, @DCIPalestine and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees One of those organizations is @UAWC1986. Read @alexbkane and @MariamBarghouti’s report on how Israel lobby groups targeted its funding sources — by dubiously claiming it has ties to 'terrorists.'

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Israel's High Court upholds the Jewish Nation State Law, which constitutionally enshrines Israel as the exclusive nation-state of the Jewish people and demotes the status of Arabic.

Most importantly, it codifies an existing reality of supremacy that has existed here since 1948. Read Orly Noy's report from the hearing on the law in December 2020, when the justices saw no problem with demoting the status of Arabic and argued that the idea of 'equality' is something that should be discussed in the future: 972mag.com/jewish-nation-…

1. Want to understand how little the lives of Israel's Bedouin citizens mean to this country's leaders? Prime Minister Netanyahu just apologized to Yacoub Abu al-Qi'an's family for labeling him a 'terrorist' after he was gunned down by police in 2017. Stay with me real quick. 2. Abu Al-Qi'an was shot dead on January 18, 2017 during a police raid on the village of Umm al-Hiran in the Naqab/Negev, where they were demolishing several homes. Umm al-Hiran was under threat of total destruction. Israel had planned to replace it with the Jewish town of Hiran.