THREAD: US universities are attacking students for opposing Israel's genocide in Gaza and standing for Palestinian freedom. For over 6 months, student activists across US campuses have organized to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, defend Palestinian rights, and end their universities’ financial ties to Israeli apartheid and genocide.

THREAD: Israeli settler mobs, armed by the Israeli government, are attacking Palestinian towns in the West Bank.

Here's what you need to know. This week, mobs of Israeli settlers violently attacked at least 10 Palestinian towns across the West Bank in an attempt to drive Palestinians out of their homes and off their land.

Backed by the Israeli military, Israeli settlers killed at least 1 Palestinian this weekend, injured dozens, and burned down Palestinian homes and cars.

JOURNALISTS: 5 things to remember when covering Israel’s attack on Rafah 1. Nearly 1.5 million Palestinians in Rafah are being starved and attacked by the Israeli military and face the prospect of being killed or driven out of Gaza into Egypt.

THREAD: Israeli settlers and soldiers killed a Palestinian American teenager on Friday in the Palestinian West Bank.

Once again, the Biden admin has failed to demand accountability from Israel for killing a US citizen. Instead, it funds, arms, and emboldens Israel's war crimes. Tawfiq Ajaj, 17, was raised near New Orleans but moved to the Palestinian West Bank last year.

On Friday, he was chased and shot at by an Israeli settler and off-duty soldier.

Tawfiq is the 358th Palestinian, and 93rd child, killed by Israel in the West Bank since October 7.

Israel has been carrying out its genocidal assault on Gaza for 100 days now. In that time, Israel has killed at least 23,000 Palestinians, 40% of whom were children. Thousands more are presumed dead or dying under the rubble, unable to be rescued or buried due to Israel’s siege. That’s 100 days of indiscriminately bombing Palestinian communities.
100 days of killing more than 100 children per day.
100 days of bombing hospitals.
100 days of bombing schools.
100 days of starving an entire population, half of whom are children.

BREAKING: Tariq Habash, a senior official in the US Department of Education, has announced his resignation, citing the Biden administration’s ongoing complicity in Israel’s war crimes. “I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives, in what leading human rights experts have called a genocidal campaign by the Israeli government,” he wrote, according to NBC News.

THREAD: The men Israel is killing in Gaza deserve to live, too. Israel has killed more than 18,000 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 2 months.

While the world has focused on the women and children Israel has killed, the Palestinian men Israel is killing have been ignored at best and dehumanized at worst.

THREAD: How Israel Tests Weapons on Palestinians—And Then Turns a Profit. Backed and funded by the US, Israel has one of the world’s largest military industries.

Israel develops deadly technology and weapons, uses them on Palestinians, and then sells them to democratic and authoritarian countries alike.

Censorship of Palestinians is rampant and dangerous.

It's not just the algorithm – tech and political leaders are actively working to silence and malign voices in support of Palestine. In a closed meeting this week, @SecBlinken said he asked Qatar to “turn down the volume” on Al Jazeera’s reporting of Israel's mass atrocities against Palestinians in Gaza.

The Biden admin is manipulating journalistic coverage to decrease global opposition to Israel's crimes.

THREAD: Israel is arming extremist settlers. Now, they're killing Palestinians. As it drops bomb after bomb on Palestinians in Gaza, Israel is giving 1000s of machine guns to extremist Israelis, including settlers in the Palestinian West Bank.

There have already been reports of Israeli settlers using the weapons to attack every Palestinian they see.

THREAD: Israel’s military occupation creates violence. Israel’s apartheid regime regularly kills Palestinians.

You can’t understand what’s happening today without acknowledging the reality of Israel’s daily oppression of Palestinians.

Here are 3 crucial things to keep in mind. 1. Israel’s far-right government has intensified its violent repression of Palestinians and encouraged Israeli extremists to invade and attack Palestinian towns.

Israel killed over 250 Palestinians, including 47 children, in just the first 9 months of this year.

THREAD: Mainstream news coverage of what’s happening in Palestine and Israel needs crucial context:

Israel’s violent, decades-long military occupation and apartheid system against Palestinians. Israel—one of the world's most powerful military powers—routinely attacks Palestinians in Gaza, a largely defenseless population.

Israel has already killed at least 455 Palestinians this year, including dozens of children.

🧵Last night we held a historic event in the Senate to mark 75 years of Israel's ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people w/ @AJPaction, Project 48, @DAWNmenaorg, @USCPR_, @afsc_org, Virginia Coalition for Human Rights, @EmgageAction, @JvpAction, & special guest @RepRashida. 2/ @SpeakerMcCarthy failed to cancel our event & silence the voices of Palestinian survivors of the Nakba. McCarthy's attempts to prevent Palestinians from sharing their lived experiences under Israeli oppression mirrors Israel's attempt to erase the Palestinian people.

One year ago today, an Israeli soldier shot Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the head, killing her while she was reporting in a clearly marked press vest and helmet.

Here’s what’s happened since. Shireen dedicated her life to exposing Israel’s brutal oppression of Palestinians.

Known to many as “the voice of Palestine,” she was a household name beloved by millions across the Arab world.

THREAD: If you're a journalist writing about the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and Israel’s establishment, here are the 6 things to include in your coverage. 1. The Nakba, or catastrophe in Arabic, is the root of the problem.

Israel violently kicked 3/4 of all Palestinians out of their homeland during the Nakba in 1948. It is the historic injustice at the core of Israel’s apartheid system in Palestine.

THREAD: Bezalel Smotrich, the extremist Israeli politician with massive control over the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank, just admitted that Israel's official policy is to destroy Palestinian towns that connect large Palestinian areas.

Why? To end Palestinian sovereignty. According to Smotrich, Israel destroys Palestinian towns in order to force Palestinians to live in completely disconnected cities.

Destroying Khan-Al Ahmar would allow Israel to connect an illegal Israeli settlement to Jerusalem and cut off Palestinian access to their lands.

THREAD: Israeli apartheid serves to advance Israel’s theft of Palestinian land.

Here’s how. People often think of apartheid as segregation and discrimination – separate and unequal conditions based on people’s race or ethnicity.

But Israel’s system of apartheid works to secure its ongoing project of stealing Palestinian land.

Thread: 10 ways Israel practices apartheid against Palestinians. (1/13) Apartheid is a legal framework defined in international law that helps to identify and prosecute systems of segregation, inequality, and colonialism.

Here are 10 ways Israel's violent subjugation of Palestinians amounts to the crime of apartheid.

THREAD: This weekend, one of the most powerful politicians in Israel said that there’s “no such thing as a Palestinian.”

That kind of racism against Palestinians has deadly consequences. At an event in Paris, Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Palestinians are an "invention," denying the existence of millions of people.

He is the Israeli politician with the most direct control over Palestinians’ daily lives under apartheid.

THREAD: 7 of Israel’s most racist apartheid laws. 1. The Nation-State Law.

This law states explicitly that Palestinians have no right to self-determination on their own land.

It bakes racial segregation into Israel's highest legal order, affirming Israel's commitment to building illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land.

Israel is using the law to steal more Palestinian land – again. (1/4)

aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/… Israel is now moving to legally formalize 9 segregated, Israeli-only settlements on land stolen from Palestinian families.

This is illegal under international law – still, it has been done countless times by the Israeli government.