“[The Israeli soldier] secured my legs and tried to rape me with a stick.”

THREAD: Systemic weaponization of sexual violence against Palestinian political prisoners is not an aberration—the Zionist regime has long used rape, torture as a means to forcibly extract confessions. “[the most difficult moment] was when they stripped me naked and brought my father [into the interrogation room] and tried to force him to sleep with me”

This is a courageous testimony from Rasmea Odeh who, like Aisha Odeh (in the above clip), was incarcerated in the 1960s.

🧵: Today is the 75th commemoration of the Nakba—a term used to denote the catastrophic creation of the Israeli state, when Zionist militias ethnically cleansed Palestine & rendered us refugees outside of the borders of our homeland. It should be a household name, but it's not. I'm tempted to riddle the next tweets w/facts & figures detailing the Nakba's cruelties: the names of the terrorist militias that formed the Israeli military that terrorizes us today; the massacres, refugees, and stolen lands; the pregnant bellies split open in Deir Yassin...

THREAD: Liberal Zionists are protesting to save the Supreme Court, which they consider a ‘beacon of democracy.’

But is it?

You can find the Supreme Court’s fingerprints on virtually all of the Israeli government’s settler-colonial enterprises & apartheid regime. 🧵 📌 It ruled that the Nation-State Law, which enshrines “Jewish settlement” as a “national value..to encourage,” doesn’t negate the state’s “democratic” character.

📌It repeatedly supported the legality of a law preventing the unification of thousands of Palestinian couples.