Israel occupies everything from the Jordan to the Mediterranean. They’re committing genocide in Gaza, seizing land & terrorizing West Bank Palestinians, & subjecting its Arab citizens to discrimination. So when we say “from the river to the sea…” we mean stop this oppression 1/5 For Congress to condemn the expression saying it’s antisemitic, is racist & insulting to Israel’s victims. It says Palestinians have no rights & should not speak out. It’s like telling the black community in the Jim Crow south that it’s anti-white to sing “We shall be free” 2/5

Thread on “All Palestinians are Hamas:”

1. I’ve heard too many comments from Israeli leaders saying all Palestinians are legitimate targets because they support Hamas or that they voted for them & therefore are guilty. This is bigotry & sheer nonsense. Let’s look at the facts: 2. In our last poll in Gaza (2021) only 11% identified as Hamas supporters - as opposed to 32% who said they were w/ Fatah. Back in 2006, the Fatah margin over Hamas in Gaza was 34% to 29%.
If that’s the case, then how did Hamas win the 2006 legislative elections:

An Israeli minister called #Farha antisemitic. That’s a lie. It’s a disgrace. It’s also racist. 1. Not only Palestinian oral history establishes that atrocities occurred, Israeli historians & researchers also report massacres Israelis committed against Palestinian civilians 2. Saying that the provable horrors of the ethnic cleansing that defined the Nakba is antisemitism degrades the term by using it as a cudgel to silence legitimate criticism of Israeli policy, past & present. Antisemitism is real & abusing it in this way cheapens its real meaning

Observations about the “Two State Solution”: 1. There are nearly 700,000 settlers in the West Bank & East Jerusalem connected by bypass roads & infrastructure that, by design, cut the territory into pieces making a contiguous state impossible. So what are we even talking about… 2. It’s unfortunate but true that those who still hang on to a “two state solution” do so because of an implicit racism - i.e. “too many Arabs & it won’t be a Jewish State anymore,” or “Arabs are the demographic time bomb that will overrun the Jewish population…”

1. It’s apartheid when when Israel has two systems of law - one for Arabs & one for Jews; when they’ve expelled 750,000 from their homes & refuse to let them go back to their properties; when they’ve demolished 500 Palestinian villages, seized their land & businesses;…

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2…when they have laws that provide that the Arab land they’ve seized & turned over to Jews can never be sold to Arabs; when they continue to seize Palestinian land to build Jewish-only housing & infrastructure, while Palestinians struggle to get permits to build;…

1. It’s Nakba Day commemorating Israel’s forced expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes to make Israel, in the words of David Ben Gurion, “larger & more Jewish.” Israel then refused to comply w/ a UN Resolution guaranteeing refugees the right to return. 2. To ensure that Palestinian refugees couldn’t return: Israel gave their homes & businesses to incoming Jews & also demolished 400+ Palestinian villages - classic “ethnic cleansing.” And shot to kill any Palestinians crossing the border to return to their homes & properties.

I’ve been catching up on Israeli press over the last week. I’ll scream if I read another article referring to “quiet in the West Bank,” “Israel’s success in squashing Palestinian attacks,” or evidence that the Palestinian issue is dead since no world leaders talk about it. 1/4 The West Bank is not quiet. Violence is being done to Palestinians every day in the form of settler attacks, settlement expansion, night raids & brutality by the IDF. 2/4

.@zogby_research conducted a nationwide poll of Lebanese. Results revealed the extent of their hardships, their attitudes toward their institutions, & what they want.

1. Almost all Lebanese have been impacted by the economic collapse. They say they’re are worse off & hurting… 2. More than 1/3 go w/out food sometimes & 1 in 5 of the poorest Lebanese “very often go w/out meals.”