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Tariq Kenney-Shawa
@tksshawa
Writer & political analyst | US policy fellow @AlShabaka, editor @ajplus | words in: @washingtonpost, @latimes, @ForeignPolicy, @thenation, etc. opinions my own
Nov 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Israel annexed the West Bank in practice long ago. Israel is the sovereign power. The official annexation of the West Bank in name will entail a formalization of facts on the ground that Israel has already been expanding and entrenching with US support for decades. 🧵 Of course, as we saw during his first term, Trump will accelerate the formalization of this process. For example, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem & recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Syrian Golan exposed reality for what it is, but it changed little on the ground.
Oct 12 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Seeing Zionists react to the NYT story about Palestinian children being shot in the head by Israeli forces has been both fascinating & maddening.

They have 3 general responses: jubilant celebration, outright denial, or “it’s just a couple bad apples.”

🧵 Firstly, the only reason they’re even reacting at all is because the doctors interviewed are American. Palestinians have showed the world the bodies of their children, shot in the head & torn apart by Israeli bombs, for months. But because they’re Palestinian, they’re never taken seriously.
Apr 29 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
So I usually don’t engage with Zionist trolls for obvious reasons and ignore comment sections altogether because Twitter is all bots now, but I wanted to share the latest strand of hilariously desperate, vapid Israeli atrocity denial: 🧵
Image No one should have to explain this, but Muhammad is a very popular Arabic name. In fact, it’s famously the most popular name on earth!

Also, like in the west and other cultures across the globe, Palestinians often name children after their parents or grandparents!
Apr 23 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Media continues to describe protests on college campuses across the country as just the latest “protests over the Israel-Hamas war.” But this obscures what these students are actually demanding.

Students are explicitly demanding their universities divest from Israel. 🧵 Image Obviously, US universities can’t intervene in Gaza or stop Israel from committing war crimes. But media coverage of the student protests make it seem like that’s what students are demanding. This framing misses the entire point & makes the protests appear aimless/unrealistic.
Apr 6 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Citing conversations with Israeli military officials, @BarakRavid says, “The orders from the commanders on the ground [in Gaza] are 'shoot every man of fighting age.'"

This is a serious allegation to make. So let’s take a look at some of the evidence that backs it up:🧵 Yesterday, Al Jazeera shared footage of Israeli forces shooting Palestinian civilians as they tried to reach air dropped aid. The video shows one man being shot & injured only to be shot again & again as he desperately tried to crawl away. They left his body to be eaten by dogs.
Mar 17 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Reports that private military contractors (PMCs) will participate in Gaza aid distribution are troubling. Not only are PMCs notoriously shady, but their deployment, bought & paid for by the US, would further reduce the costs of the war on Gaza for Israel.🧵bbc.com/news/world-us-… First, the incentive/accountability structures of PMCs are even murkier than that of the military - remember Blackwater in Iraq (PMC that massacred civilians in Baghdad)? While PMCs in Gaza probably wouldn’t be in combat roles, their presence opens up a whole new can of worms.
Feb 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
After Israeli forces killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family, & the EMTs sent to help, the Israeli military announced it would investigate itself. To the surprise of absolutely no one, they are now denying responsibility. Because why would Israel admit to committing a war crime? Image Doesn't matter that satellite imagery clearly shows Israeli tanks just meters from where they found the car Hind & her family were in, riddled with bullets/crushed. Nor does it matter that independent investigations further confirm Israeli culpability.
Jan 21 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
There’s no doubt Israel has killed thousands of Hamas fighters, which is unsurprising given they’ve dropped 65,000+ tons of explosives on one of the most densely populated places on the planet. But despite the unprecedented destruction, Israel’s objectives are doomed to fail. 🧵 First off, their claim of killing ~9,000 combatants is likely inflated because Israel regularly counts civilian men of “fighting age” as militants by default. During their 2014 assault on Gaza, Israel categorized 20% of the casualties as “uncategorized males aged 16-50.”