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Senior editor @972mag | sometimes @_VashtiMedia | words in @guardian, @thenation, @haaretzcom
Joined August 2019
Ok this might be the weirdest story I’ve ever reported on, involving:. • A totally fabricated “exclusive”.• A suspected pro-Netanyahu influence campaign.• An author whose biography is entirely made up. What on earth is going on at @JewishChron ?.
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This video is exactly why foreign media are banned from entering Gaza. Two minutes of utter devastation.
Across northern #Gaza, there is no way of telling where the destruction starts or ends. No matter from what direction you enter #Gaza City, homes, hospitals, schools, health clinics, mosques, apartments, restaurants - all completely flattened. An entire society now a graveyard.
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Last night, Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on set fire to hay bails in the Palestinian village of Tuba, in the South Hebron Hills. This is what occupation looks like.
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Something happened last night at a small protest in Tel Aviv which illustrated Israeli apartheid in one of the most blatant ways that I’ve ever personally witnessed. 1/.
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A Palestinian woman went to pick olives from her family's trees with her husband and son, in the West Bank village of Faqqu’a. Despite receiving permission from the Israeli army to begin harvesting, a group of soldiers arrived and shot her dead.
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Israeli soldiers detained a Palestinian in the West Bank, whose phone background they alleged connected him to Hamas. They took him to a secluded place and beat him to death. Israeli security officials now say there is no information linking him to Hamas.
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'We scream, starve, and die alone': Life in the ruins of Shuja'iya. @MushtahaW reports from the besieged Gaza City neighborhood where Palestinian residents are risking death to get their hands on a bag of flour.
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The obliteration of Gaza’s multi-civilizational treasures:. Great Omari Mosque (2,500 years old).Qasr al-Basha (800 years old).Church of St. Porphyrius (1,600 years old).Hammam al-Sammara (~1,000 years old). Photos by @OmarElQattaa
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Two aid trucks entered the starvation zone in northern Gaza for the first time in a month and a half, reaching a school-turned-shelter. Israeli soldiers prevented Gazans from reaching the food then set the shelter on fire, burning the aid down with it.
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Tonight hundreds of Israeli youths are marching through Arab areas of Jerusalem chanting “death to Arabs” and “the people demand Arabs on fire”, and are now attacking the homes of Arabs in the Old City. Call this what it is: a pogrom.
צפו:.פורעים תוקפים בית בעיר העתיקה. כך נראה כהניזם
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In a truly jaw-dropping document revealed in full today by @yuval_abraham in @972mag, Israel’s Intelligence Ministry officially proposes the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents in the framework of the current war.
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Nothing in Israel-Palestine happens in a vacuum. Tonight a Palestinian killed 7+ Jews at a synagogue. Yesterday Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians in Jenin. Israel has held millions of Palestinians under military rule for 56 years, and kept them in refugee camps for 75.
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This didn’t happen in the occupied West Bank, where separate and unequal legal systems exist for Israelis and Palestinians, but in Tel Aviv. From the river to the sea, it’s one set of rules for Jews, and another set of rules for Palestinians. end/.
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Yet the sole Palestinian at this small protest, who was only present for a few minutes and did not participate in any civil disobedience, was chased into the dorm complex by police (including undercovers) and violently arrested. 9/.
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Dozens of Palestinian children and their parents are marching now in Jaffa to protest the closure of Arab schools and kindergartens in favour of Jewish ones
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Here we go again: back at Balfour with thousands of protestors demonstrating against the Netanyahu-led government. Parallel protests taking place simultaneously in Rosh Pina, Caesarea, Mitzpe Ramon, Nazareth and Jadeidi-Makr as well as on bridges throughout the country.
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We found out after that the police had arrested him. For no reason. After several Jewish Israelis had repeatedly blocked the road in an act of civil disobedience without getting arrested. 8/.
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Live from the Palestinian return march in the depopulated village of Mi’ar, whose residents were expelled in 1948 and are still forbidden from returning
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It seems that by firing Elon Perry @JewishChron is hoping to put this whole affair to bed, as if decisions weren’t made at the very top to employ a fake journalist, publish nine fake articles without verifying sources, and use the paper an active agent in a pro-Bibi influence op.
Conclusion of Jewish Chronicle investigation into Elon Perry .
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It was a protest against Israel’s policy of administrative detention, by which it detains hundreds of Palestinians at a time without charge or trial. Around 40 Israelis gathered with Palestinians flags and posters bearing the faces of Palestinian minors currently detained. 3/.
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And a video of the Palestinian man being taken away by police 👇.
#IsraeliApartheid police arresting a Palestinian-Israeli yesterday - for watching a protest. He was fined and released today. While Jewish Israelis can block a road in front of a police station, without repercussion, Palestinian-Israelis are beaten and arrested for just watching.
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Israel’s army knew exactly what settlers were planning in Huwara last night: it was organized publicly. But they stood by for hours while settlers burnt homes & cars with people inside, and threw stones at ambulances. 6(!) were arrested — already released. A state-backed pogrom.
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Anti-occupation bloc calling for “democracy for all, from the Jordan [river] to the sea”
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The protest took place in front of the Shin Bet HQ (Israel’s internal security services) which is right next to Tel Aviv University, on the lands of the depopulated and destroyed Palestinian village of Sheikh Muwannis. 2/.
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Photos of the protest here 👇.
YESTERDAY: A protest in front of the Shin Bet's headquarters in Sheikh Muwanis (Tel Aviv University), calling for an end to administrative detention and the release of Amal Nakhleh, 18, who has been under administrative detention for over a year without charge or trial.
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Protestors hold up letters spelling out “hope” in English, Hebrew, Arabic
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The protest quickly disbanded as the rest of the crowd ran after the police who were chasing the Palestinian man into the student dorms. When we arrived, the police were blocking the entrance to the dorm complex and we couldn’t see the Palestinian man anymore. 7/.
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One young Palestinian man, wearing a kuffiyeh, had happened upon the protest on his way out of the university and joined for a few minutes. He did not take part in the civil disobedience, but just stood briefly with the small crowd of Israeli protesters. 5/.
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After a while, several of the protesters started to block the road with their bodies in an act of civil disobedience. The dozens of police who were present lifted them up and threw them back onto the sidewalk. This repeated for about 20 minutes, with no arrests. 4/.
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After a few minutes, he left and headed back toward the student dormitories. One of the Israeli protesters went with him. They walked off for about 20 seconds while the protest continued, before suddenly at least a dozen police officers started sprinting after them. 6/.
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Here’s the state of play: Several people close to Netanyahu have been arrested, or are preparing to be, for sharing embellished or fabricated intel to @JewishChron & @BILD designed to scupper a hostage deal. 1/4.
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An IDF commander tells Haaretz that soldiers shoot everyone who crosses an imaginary line in north Gaza: "Bodies are not collected, attracting packs of dogs who come to eat them… People know that wherever you see these dogs, that's where you must not go."
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Overnight, activists in Israel filled the streets of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa with the faces of the children killed in the violence of the past month — 67 in Gaza, 3 in Israel. At the top of each photo is simply written “why?”
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Israeli media is now reporting that the six hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza this morning were likely killed as a consequence of army activity — confirming what Hamas stated months ago.
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It’s very revealing that in a new communique to commanders fighting in Gaza, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi needs to clarify: “We are not on a campaign of killing, revenge, or genocide.” . He also urges soldiers “not to take anything that isn’t ours” or “film revenge videos.”
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This is the future we’re building.
#SheikhJarrah: 200 Palestinian and Israeli activists celebrate the holidays tonight in a joint festive meal. Right on the street where families are fighting against displacement - .This isn’t ‘coexistence’, its co-resistance and it’s beautiful. #SaveSheikhJarrah
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This afternoon in Sheikh Jarrah — an Israeli police officer with nothing better to do than snatch tiny Palestinian flags out of the hands of peaceful protesters.
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And so it begins. The first Israeli youths descend upon Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate for the annual supremacist Flags March, after police emptied the area of Palestinians. They are singing the genocidal “revenge” chant: “May their [the Palestinians’] name be erased”. @OrenZiv_
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Incredible video of a young Palestinian catching and throwing back a tear gas grenade fired by Israeli forces today in Qaryut, occupied West Bank, captured by Abdelrahman Younis (IG: aboudyounis)
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This you?
From time to time, I hear people say that Islam and Muslims are “the problem”. This is profoundly wrong. The former is a wonderful world religion and the latter are either friends and allies or potential friends and allies. We must, however, firmly oppose to the ideology and.
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Just so we’re totally clear about what just happened: . Netanyahu launched intensive air strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, killing 13 Palestinians including several children, all so that Ben Gvir will rejoin the gov and they won’t be forced to go to new elections
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Twitter’s reporting function working just as well as you might expect then
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Every life lost — Jewish and Palestinian — is a tragedy. And every life lost is a consequence of maintaining a system of domination of one people over another, which necessitates near-daily killing and generates killing in return.
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A Palestinian flag is not an existential threat to Jewish life in Britain. A Palestinian flag is not an existential threat to Jewish life in Britain. A Palestinian flag is not an existential threat to Jewish life in Britain. A Palestinian flag is not an existential threat.
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Inside Israel's torture camp for Gaza detainees. Palestinians arrested in northern Gaza describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence. By @yuval_abraham @mekomit .
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When Israel bombed a convoy of foreign aid workers from @WCKitchen on a pre-approved route in Gaza, it rightfully made headlines around the world. It’s been two days since this @972mag investigation into a similar incident involving Palestinian technicians, and … crickets.
In January, Israeli soldiers attacked a convoy of Palestinian technicians repairing a telecoms machine in Gaza, killing two. Contrary to the army’s account, an investigation shows the workers coordinated every step of the journey along an approved route.
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Beautiful images of solidarity this morning in Burin (occupied WB), where hundreds of Israeli activists have arrived to the site of a violent settler attack 2 weeks ago on Palestinians and Israeli activists while they were planting trees. Many more trees will be planted today.
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This is what Israeli apartheid looks like. A week ago, Hafez Hureini was attacked by armed Israeli settlers who broke both of his arms while he was working on his land in the occupied South Hebron Hills. The settlers weren’t arrested, but Hafez was — accused of attempted murder.
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Haaretz analyst Zvi Bar’el: the staged ceasefire agreement is a ruse — the Israeli government has no intention of progressing to the second stage, and seeks to resume the onslaught after the first batch of hostages are released
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Another totally normal statement from a totally normal Israeli minister
״וְכָל הַבְּאֵרֹת אֲשֶׁר חָפְרוּ עַבְדֵי אָבִיו בִּימֵי אַבְרָהָם אָבִיו סִתְּמוּם פְּלִשְׁתִּים וַיְמַלְאוּם עָפָר״. ״וימלאום״ מופיע פעמיים בתנ״ך, אחד כאן ואחד לגבי ערלות פלשתים - לפי שעבר אבימלך על שבועתו ומילא הבארות בעפר, מילא דוד לשאול מאה ערלות פלשתים בכפליים ונתן לו מאתים
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“This photo is actually from a different time Israeli soldiers raided and brutalised Al Aqsa” is not the argument you think it is.
Pay attention to the fake news of Palestinians who are releasing a photo from last year to incite and ignite the tensions in the Arab world. Everything was timed and ready!
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Correction: the Palestinian survived, the soldiers left him wounded in a pile of his own blood.
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This latest development raises incredibly serious questions about the relationship between Netanyahu’s office and the owners of @JewishChron. Until those owners reveal themselves, it cannot be ruled out that the two are in league.
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HAPPENING NOW: Protest in Paris Square (outside Bibi’s residence on Balfour Street) against the Netanyahu-led government
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Here’s the kicker: No one knows who owns @JewishChron. It was taken over by an undeclared entity in 2020 that saved it from liquidation, which still hasn’t revealed itself. Might it be, as @arusbridger suggested, a pro-Netanyahu billionaire? 3/4
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Amazing designs by a Palestinian architecture student at Abu Dis University imagining the Israeli wall after it is dismantled.
סטודנטית פלסטינית לאדריכלות באונברסיטת אבו דיס, עיצבה בפרויקט הגמר שלה בתואר את גדר ההפרדה בקלנדיה לאחר שיוסר (אם בכלל) וזכתה לתגובות בינלאומיות מחמיאות דווקא.
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“I cannot sleep, not even for one minute. I am constantly haunted by the voices and screams of people under the rubble as they beg us to pull them out.”. One of the most harrowing pieces we’ve published on @972mag since the war began, by @ruwaidaamer8 .
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@JewishChron “fired” the freelance reporter who wrote their story after it was proven to be false (along with his entire biography), but never explained how he came to work there or who his supposed sources were. 2/4
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Activists in Jaffa are restoring the city’s pre-1948 street names. Today, the street names almost exclusively reference Jewish/Israeli cultural and religious figures, erasing Jaffa’s Arab/Palestinian history — which this project seeks to revive.
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*** OPEN LETTER ON HOTOVELY ***. A group of Jewish LSE students and alumni have written a statement in response to the conflation of protests against Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely with antisemitism. Please read, share and sign if appropriate! .
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It’s a beautiful thing to see the streets of Tel Aviv — days after some of the worst violence in years — overflowing with Jewish and Palestinian-Arab citizens demanding peace and an end to the occupation. ✊. Thanks @omdimbeyachad @BtSIsrael @peacenowisrael @Hadash_org
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The Intelligence Ministry is not a particularly consequential body, and the chances of the plan being put into action appear slim, but the fact that this is being discussed at all among senior Israeli policymakers should cause serious alarm.
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Shocking: experts in international law horrified by war crimes.
Judges and legal experts who advised on the International Criminal Court on the Netanyahu arrest warrant have a history of criticising Israel on social media, the @JewishChron can reveal. One judge who worked on case with Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, Iulia Motoc – who pulled out.
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Israel’s national security minister: “The right of me, my wife and kids to travel around the West Bank is more important than that of the Arabs. Sorry Mohammed, but that’s the reality.” . Anyone who’s still not calling this apartheid — what else do they have to say?.
״הזכות שלי, של אשתי, של הילדים שלי, להסתובב בכבישי יהודה ושומרון - יותר חשוב מזכות התנועה של הערבים״.
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Tonight, in response to the deteriorating situation in Israel-Palestine, 200+ British Jews gathered in London (+ dozens more across the country) to say loud and clear that there is no future in Israel-Palestine except one with justice and freedom for all. Join us. @NaamodUK
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Israeli police knew this was happening tonight. Fascists have been planning it openly. That it has been allowed to take place tells you everything you need to know about who the state protects and who it leaves defenceless.
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Hundreds of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals marching now in Sheikh Jarrah against Israel’s attempts to displace and dispossess Palestinian families here and replace them with settlers. #SaveSheikhJarrah
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What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck.
Israeli Policemen beat up a Palestinian resident of Shuafat refugee camp, covered his face, tied him up, punched him and seard a Star of David on his face. 16 police officers with 16 body cams- all malfunctioned. One Palestinian with a tattooed Star of David. I feel sick
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New investigation by @yuval_abraham in @972mag & @mekomit reveals that the Israeli army has developed an AI program known as “Lavender” to mark 37,000 Gazans as suspects for assassination, with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties.
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“Israel isn’t ethnically cleansing children, only teenagers!”.
The @nytimes emotively captions this photo: "A diary left behind by a child in an abandoned Palestinian village.". We asked a native Arabic speaker to take a look. The writing is actually that of a teenager in love, not a child. This is a deliberate misuse of a photo caption in
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This is how Israeli apartheid works:. A judge who lives in an illegal settlement is determining whether to expel 1,000+ Palestinians from Masafer Yatta, where they have lived for generations, in line with the state’s claim that they are “illegally living in an army firing zone”.
במשפט על גירוש תושבי 8 כפרים במסאפר השופט מינץ תושב ההתנחלות דולב, אמר: "המדינה טוענת שיש להם בתים ביטא". עוה"ד השיב לו: "זה לא נכון. ואם כן, אז מה? זה כמו להגיד על תושב פריז, שהוא מאבד את ביתו בפריז, אם הוא יוצא בקיץ לבית בכפר". מינץ אגב גר בהתנחלות שהוקמה ב83. נולד בבית באנגליה.
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The media storm surrounding the "Generals' Plan" is a distraction — what Israel is doing in northern Gaza is even worse. Read this meticulous piece by @idanlandau which lays out exactly how we got here and exactly where we're heading.
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Northern Gaza is being annihilated. Much of southern Gaza literally doesn’t exist anymore. We are watching unilateral Israeli annexation of huge chunks of the Strip, paving the way for Jewish resettlement.
The destruction over the last couple of months south of Gaza City has been accelerating quickly. Vegetation is being wiped out, along with swathes of homes and structures. Randomly picked a spot near Salah al-Din here to show the trend:.Via Planet. Sept vs. Oct + pre-war
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A permanent Israeli seizure of northern Gaza appears dangerously imminent. My latest for @guardianopinion.
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Shawan Jabarin, director of human rights NGO @alhaq_org, after Israeli forces raided their office this morning:. “There is no justice in Palestine… People need to open their eyes: this is an apartheid, colonial state, and this is the nature of the occupation here.”
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Israel’s new extreme-right coalition is being sworn in today. Here are some of its lesser known figures, in their own words 🧵.
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Gazans besieged in the northern city of Beit Lahiya describe seeing streets lined with decomposing and crushed corpses, and hearing the cries of those trapped beneath the rubble. With rescue personnel incapacitated, dogs are devouring the bodies.
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We are witnessing an extremely dangerous moment, in which Israel is smashing its own records for the obliteration of Palestinian life in Gaza, while settler-soldier militias in the West Bank have expelled at least 13 entire Palestinian communities since Oct. 7 (via @btselem).
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Now in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair (South Hebron Hills), under the shadow of the illegal settlement of Carmel, hundreds have joined the funeral of community elder Hajj Suleiman al-Hathaleen who was killed in a hit-and-run by an Israeli police truck. (Photo: @OrenZiv_)
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Protest now outside the Shin Bet office (Israeli security service) in north Tel Aviv, in light of the deteriorating health of Palestinian hunger striker Hisham Abu Hawash, held in administrative detention — without charge or trial — since October 2020.
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Now then. It appears that several senior Netanyahu aides have been arrested in a joint investigation by the Israeli army, police, and Shin Bet, on suspicion of leaking classified and fabricated security information to @JewishChron and @BILD in September 👀
Ok this might be the weirdest story I’ve ever reported on, involving:. • A totally fabricated “exclusive”.• A suspected pro-Netanyahu influence campaign.• An author whose biography is entirely made up. What on earth is going on at @JewishChron ?.
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The false equivalence between these two cases — antisemitic white nationalists in Charlottesville and Palestinians resisting settler colonialism in Jerusalem — is disgusting.
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It's the same story as the three hostages' bodies recovered in January. "My son was indeed murdered," the mother of one of them later wrote on Facebook. "Not by Hamas.".
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That things have gotten to this point shows starkly the extent to which international actors with the power to affect the reality on the ground have buried their heads in the sand. They must act now.
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On the same day that Israel & Zionist orgs around the world are getting hysterical about @amnesty’s new apartheid report, the J’lem court ruled to forcibly evict a Palestinian family from Sheikh Jarrah so a Jewish city council member can take over their home. It’s not complicated.
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Or maybe it’s the result of decades worth of Israel’s brutal occupation and colonization,which the world is no longer willing to let slide.
This is the result of decades worth of anti-Jewish propaganda that has penetrated deep into our academic institutions.
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From tonight’s Christmas festival in the depopulated Palestinian village of Bir’im, organised by refugees from 1948 and their families. In 1953, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled there was no reason to prevent their return. Weeks later, Israel’s Air Force bombed it to the ground.
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