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Technical Writer and Software Developer. I mainly tweet about coding/technology and Israel/Palestine. "Condensing fact from the vapour of nuance” - Snow Crash.
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Never forgive or forget.
Every single one of those policemen swinging batons should be sitting behind bars right now.
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Israel is one of the only countries in the world that sentences children in military courts.
But y’all keep on parroting the propaganda that Israel is a “shining beacon of hope”.
“I will never stop speaking out about how dirty it is out there until someone cleans it up.”- Tupac.
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Israel has made the bet that every time they "mow the lawn" in Gaza as they say in their sadistic language, the world will not care.
I swear that as long as I'm still breathing, I will do everything in my power to make sure they don't get away with this.
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Beinart: “I’m an American Jew. My children go to Jewish day school. Judaism is at the centre of my life.
The first time I went to the West Bank it was a shattering experience. The only thing like it would be for an American today to visit the Jim Crow South”.
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Just passed Qalandia checkpoint. These kids spend all day in the baking sun selling juice, fruit and water to passing cars.
But despite all this they offered to share their food with me while I waited. Don’t listen to the media, these kids are raised with amazing values.
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Israeli border official: “Your American citizenship is not valid in Israel, because you are a Palestinian. You don’t have rights.”
This is not a one-off, this is official policy.
Those claiming Israeli state is not practicing apartheid should be ashamed of themselves.
If you're a U.S. citizen of Palestinian origin, that's the kind of welcome you get in
#Israel
A hot mic captured a verbal exchange as Israeli deport an American woman of a Palestinian origin
Listen
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Looking back Palestinians will realise that one of their greatest weapons was the smartphone camera - capturing casual moments of cruelty like this:
قوات الاحتلال تنتقم من كل شيء في طريقها .. خلال اقتحام مدينة جنين اليوم
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Palestine is still a pan-Arab issue. Leaders of the region take note.
Morocco celebrate their win against Spain with a Palestinian flag. Every North African and Middle East team has made sure that the Palestine issue is prominent at every game
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At the same time in the university campus not too far from this station a supposedly “educated” Israeli student will tell me not to drink from a water fountain because “an Arab could have drank from it”.
The apartheid in people’s hearts is sometimes the most vicious one.
A picture disproves a million lies, such as the lies about "Israeli apartheid"...🇮🇱
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I’m sure some parts will be difficult to watch, but important to see this:
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In the midst of despair, these are the young Israeli voices we need to amplify and elevate to the world.
It will be up to them, together with their Palestinian counterparts, to build a new future after the fall of the Zionist system.
No-one is going anywhere.
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Thou shall not murder.
Thou shall not steal.
Thou shall not lie.
Thou shall not covert thy neighbour’s house.
Thou shall not have any other gods before me.
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Israeli policy in the West Bank is: “kill, exonerate, repeat”. - Daniel Levy on Al Jazeera.
I have never heard a former Israeli official speak in such stark terms (in English to a foreign audience) about current Israeli policy.
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1/5 Standard Zionist talking point is basically: "There was no Palestinian state before 1948 so we could take what we like by force and there's no occupation."
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You really expect us to believe ANYTHING the Israeli military says after Shireen?
#GazaUnderAttack
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I don’t accept this discourse that diaspora Jews should shut the hell up about Israel cos we don’t live there.
Every single Israeli PM claims to act on behalf of the WHOLE Jewish people. We must stand up and say NOT in our name!
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I don’t care what it is, I will never trust any material from the IDF or Israeli government sources ever again; unless it is independently verified by a neutral 3rd party.
They deliberately put out false information in order to gain any PR advantage. They call it “media war”.
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Zionist ideology twisted Jewish identity so much that most Israelis think it’s literally impossible to be Jewish and Arab at the same time.
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They don't hate us because we are Jews. They never did.
They hate the settlers and Israeli authorities which enable this kind of humiliation, and worse to happen.
If you were Palestinian, wouldn't you?
Too many people are caught up on what language makes them uncomfortable.
The reality should make you more uncomfortable than words: daily, brutal and racist oppression by violent settlers who treat Palestinians like this and then wonder why they hate us.
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Why the hell is a racist pro-Israel group which receives direct funding from Israeli foreign ministry involved in the issue of antisemitism in UK schools?
This should be a non-partisan issue. Not something to be exploited by the pro-Israel lobby and the agenda of a foreign govt.
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The situation in Israel-Palestine can be summed up on 3 lines:
1948 Israel is the Jim Crow South.
The West Bank is Apartheid South Africa.
Gaza is hell.
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From political violence to political office.
The tried and tested career path for Israeli politicians since 1948 and earlier.
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Israeli army now carrying out orders to remove Palestinian flags in town of Huwara, near Nablus in northern Occupied West Bank.
This part of Huwara is classified as "Area B" giving Palestinians full "civil control" while maintaining Israeli military rule.
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So proud of London students today who came out to demonstrate in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters.
As for Haddad, despite all his bravado he left via the back entrance and was not brave enough for his usual theatrics. A hypocrite and a coward.
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In just one generation, Zionist ideology severed Arab Jewry from its Arab cultural roots dating back to the 6th century.
They spoke Arabic, sang in Arabic, wrote Judeo-Arabic (Arabic written in Hebrew script) and composed Arabic poetry.
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This framing of Israel as “surviving” is deeply problematic and feeds into the state’s victimhood narrative.
The Palestinians are the ones “surviving” despite impossible odds.
Peak gaslighting courtesy of
@TheEconomist
In the year Israel has been hailed an apartheid regime by legacy human rights org, Id imagine a more appropriate cover.
Palestinians surviving apartheid, maybe?
#Fail
#Apologist
#Racist
#Colonial
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Reposted: original was deleted as it incorrectly translated the word “kitah” as "classroom" when it should have been (military) "squad". The two words are spelt + sound identical in Hebrew.
The rest of the translation was accurate.
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Sorry, I really don’t feel bad at all about the hurt feelings of Israeli journalists in Qatar. (Most of them are approaching Arab nation + Iranian fans for click baity reasons anyway).
Did these journalists ever speak out once about their government’s bombardments of Gaza?
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The way Israeli authorities treat British Muslims visiting the country is an absolute disgrace and must change.
The level of abuse + humiliation they receive from Israeli airport staff goes far beyond any valid “security” considerations.
It is pure discrimination.
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Going to say the truth now even though it’s not polite.
Every time there is an earthquake or humanitarian disaster, Israel immediately tries to exploit the tragedy to gain political capital and improve it’s international image.
The cynicism makes me sick.
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The conviction rate for Palestinians in Israeli military courts is 99.7%.
Think about that.
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase: “No Justice. No Peace”.
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There is so much Nakba denial and disinformation out there now, it is important to get the truth out.
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Confirmation of a hasbara false flag op by the Israeli far right and their one foreign supporter.
No background fact checking at all by
@TimesofIsrael
before running this story on this fake "tourist".
Meet Gerald Hetzel, a German national who spends his time with the far-right anti-democratic movement Im Tirtzu.
Today he is in Hebron with a group of Im Tirtzu staff disrupting and harassing a
@BtSIsrael
tour.
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Interesting but depressing statistic from Israeli academic Baruch Kimmerling:
- Zionist orgs like JNF were only able to purchase 7% of the land during British mandate.
- So 93% of the rest was taken by force in 1948 War and remains nationalised to this day.
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So today at the checkpoint taught me Israeli soldiers will lose their shit if they find out you are Jewish and have just been visiting Ramallah.
Damn they really, really don’t want us to meet each other. The airport should be real fun now.
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These Israeli soldiers are sadists, deriving pleasure from inflicting pain and humiliation.
Any army in the world that occupies for this length of time will descend to this level of moral depravity.
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True fascist propaganda. But Israeli style.
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You can claim an ancient historical connection to the land, but to claim that you are “indigenous” is a gross distortion of the truth, and frankly just makes you look like an idiot.
Despicable appropriation of the discourse of the REAL indigenous people - the Palestinians.
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Zionism is a failed practical ideology. Much like Communism.
It is riven by too many internal contradictions. Namely the conflict between democracy and Jewish supremacism.
And it appears that it must kill innocent civilians on an annual basis in order to sustain itself.
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Also, during the Holocaust the only European country to ensure the safety and survival of all its Jews was Albania which is over 80% Muslim.
So don’t tell me there is an age-old hatred between Jews and Muslims.
@Rabbi_Debbie
A funeral passed by the Holy Prophet Mohammad (saw) and he stood up.
It was said to him: “It is a Jew.”
The Prophet (saw) said: “Was he not a Human soul?”
Love for All, Hatred for None ❤
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This World Cup has really exposed the gulf between the regimes of the Middle East and their people.
The Abraham Accords are a hollow sham. You can’t have peace without justice.
مشجع سعودي يرفض الحديث مع مراسل إسرائيلي "ليس هناك إسرائيل هناك فلسطين فقط" …. "انت ليس مرحب بك هنا"
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“There is no political relationship between Jerusalem and the Jewish people. It is only a holy city. We never had a capital. Countries have capitals. Judaism is a religion, not a country.”
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@BenzionSanders
@duolingo
One of the most depressing things I hear from young Palestinians is how they want to learn Hebrew so they can understand what soldiers are saying about them at checkpoints.
(And therefore potentially saving their lives).
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Explain "the situation" in Israel-Palestine to any Black South African in 5 mins, they get its apartheid straight away. Crazy.
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The one thing you can do for Palestinian families who were impacted by the Nakba is to watch Farha and other films / docs about the events of 48. And then speak out.
We hear you. You are not alone.
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Since pro-Israel activists are so keen on making the Mufti-Nazi connection:
Worth remembering that the Lehi met with Nazi reps in Beirut in 1940 - suggested taking an "active role in the war alongside Germany".
Source:
Lehi was a Zionist military gang that murdered hundreds of innocent civilians during the 1940s. They brought terrorism to Palestine.
One of its operatives () who murdered innocent civilians just got a park named after him
source:
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Former Oslo negotiator, later Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin stresses in this video: “the Palestinians’ greatest mistake was believing us”:
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In the early 2000s, my synagogue in the UK taught us how Israel saved the Ethiopian Jews during civil war. But they did not utter a word about Palestinian dispossession.
This lie of omission did us a huge disservice and stored up many problems for later. This needs to change.
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Israel’s racial profiling of anyone with a darker skin tone and Arabic accent is humiliating and utterly unacceptable in the 21st century.
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The only “cesspool” is the trash this guy spews forth on Twitter on a regular basis.
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Shireen Abu Akleh Street at dusk earlier this evening in Ramallah.
May her memory always be a blessing.
And may we honour her memory by never giving up the fight for justice.
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This was not an isolated incident as this eyewitness implies.
Even right-wing Israeli historian Benny Morris admitted in his book "Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem" that at least "20 massacres" took place during the 1948 War / Nakba.
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1/2 It’s kinda ironic that Zionists on Twitter make the simplistic argument that if you condemn the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, this means you must automatically support Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
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**Correction: the Hebrew word "kitah" can mean both "class", "classroom" but also (military) squad. So he might have meant the latter in this case (but not clear).
In any case, the mass killing of enemy soldiers who've already surrendered is a war crime.
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No observer status at the African Union for a state carrying out apartheid policies.
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Amazing. This immigrant from New York joining the Israeli Border Police doesn’t even say his mission is to protect Israel.
Rather he sees his top priority to “protect the settlements of Shomron” (one of biblical words for West Bank favoured by settlers).
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4/5 ...In what universe can it ever be acceptable to rape + massacre the indigenous people (of any land), thus causing the inhabitants to leave their homes and land which has been in their family for generations?
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5/5 Don't let the Zionist propagandists set the terms of the debate.
This is a deeply personal and humanitarian issue first and foremost.
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This is really the best argument some supporters of Israel can come up with.
They’ve completely lost the moral case so grown men like this guy have to resort to this childish nonsense.
Quite pathetic really.
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Norwegian sovereign wealth fund reportedly looking to withdraw “100s of millions” from Israeli banks.
They already divested from 2 Israeli construction companies in West Bank.
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The very definition of believing that one life is worth more than another.
Pure racism spelt out in black and white terms.
Israel is set to be ruled by its most far right government ever… amidst escalating violence this new MP was shockingly blunt about what to expect:
“If it's (a choice between) 1 Israeli mother crying, or 1,000 Palestinian mothers crying... 1,000 Palestinian mothers will cry"
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Prisoners in their own homeland.
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Strong words from a former Israeli soldier in Hebron:
"I will break the silence on every stage I can so that the Israeli society wakes up from this national project which poisons everything here."
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Imagine the frustration and anger you must feel to have your traditional food stolen by those who occupy and oppress you.
And then for them to turn around and tell the world that it belongs to them!
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Israeli checkpoints have absolutely nothing to do with security.
I just went thru Qalandia checkpoint on Palestinian bus from Ramallah to Jerusalem.
The only ID they checked was mine, probably because I look like a foreigner.
This is only about land grabs + humiliation.
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“We are outraged. We are horrified. But we are not powerless”.
- Palestinian popular resistance supported by Jewish solidarity,
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Where you stand on the future of Israel / Palestine will be the defining moral issue for Jews around the world this century.
Especially American Jews, you cannot run from this.
The time for silence is over.
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Scumbags like Hebron settler spokesman Yishai Fleisher have imported the worst of the US to the Holy Land.
His ideological bedfellow Itamar Ben Gvir wants to increase gun permits by 5x. In Dec 2021 he pulled a handgun on Palestinian security guard over a trivial parking dispute
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These acts against Christians in the Old City take place multiple times on a daily basis as the religious Zionist and Haredi camps view Christians as “idol worshippers”.
(Based on first hand testimony from a defector from that world)
Israeli settlers spitting against nuns is a reflection of the daily reality for our people living under occupation, victims of the institutionalized racism of an apartheid regime. Zionist radicals encouraged by the Israeli government acting with full impunity.
Simply outrageous.
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The juxtaposition between these images and what Hamas is putting out with their own release of hostages is quite damaging to Israeli PR efforts.
Now in East Jerusalem police force media and family members out of the house of prisoner Israa Jaabis before her arrival
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Just another normal "real estate dispute" in the Holy Land. Nothing to see here.
Watch: Israeli Jewish settlers take over the Gaith-Sub Laban home in Aqabet Al-Khaldiye, the Old City of Jerusalem, after Israeli occupation forces forcibly expelled the Palestinian family from their 70-year home this morning.
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If this is the reaction to Farha, imagine the lengths the Israeli government will go to block the release of the documentary Tantura..
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“I have never seen such hatred in the eyes of the Israeli forces as in that moment” - Palestinian pallbearer.
We spoke to some of Shireen Abu Akleh’s coffin carriers to hear about their firsthand experiences and why they kept the slain journalist’s coffin raised high while they endured Israeli beatings.
#JusticeForShireen
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"[Israel] wants to take a so-called [Arab] and make him prominent. Build him up. Publicise him. Make him a celebrity".
- Exact quote from Malcolm X, except exchanging the words Israel and Arab.
Could have been written today about Haddad.
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This is one of the most egregious lies I have seen about Israeli airport security on Twitter.
There is absolutely 0 chance an Israeli passport holder with a Israeli-Jewish name like Gilad will ever be questioned.
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Utterly disgusting behaviour. These are all “Haredi” ultra-religious extremist Jews.
A good example of what happens when you mix extreme religious ideology with ethno-nationalism.
WATCH: France24 correspondent Laila Odeh was heckled and verbally assaulted by Israelis in Jerusalem for speaking Arabic.
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No, saying the “Israel lobby” is not an antisemitic trope. This is how the American system works.
There is also a Saudi lobby. Is it anti-Arab to say that?
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2/5 But this issues goes way beyond nation-states which is a relatively new concept in human history (political Zionism itself only emerged in the mid-to-late 19th century).
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Maybe the most despicable thing about the soldiers today was how inconceivable it was for them to believe that a Jew and Palestinian might be friends and trust each other.
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According to the “Political Terror Scale”, Israel ranks among some of the worst countries in the world in “political imprisonment, summary executions and torture”.
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She said the “events” in Huwara last night were “surprising”.
It’s not surprising to me that these vacuous propagandists live in a dream world where they don’t understand the reality 45 mins away from their house.
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Palestinian voices have been saying this for years and years, and for the most part were ignored in the West.
Maybe it’s time to trust Palestinian voices?
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Photos I took while working with Palestinian olive farmers from the villages of Burin and Madama, just outside Huwara. (Oct 2014).
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Madness. This is what a brutal authoritarian state looks like:
Israeli police in Jerusalem are now stopping schoolchildren, searching their bags and confiscating books with Palestinian flags in them.
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FWIW, I'm against both Fatah + Hamas.
But I keep seeing Zionists tweet: "we made peace in 90s, got suicide attacks in return".
Check historical record: 1st Hamas bus bombing was in 94, in response to Goldstein massacre - worst mass murder by non-state actor in Israeli history.
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Today in London we shared our anger and pain over the occupation and the killing of
#ShireenAbuAkleh
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But we also shared our love of Palestinian culture, food, and the Arabic language. I won’t forget that.
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3/5 Let's assume for a moment there was limited Palestinian national consciousness in the early 20th century. (Which I know some Palestinians / academics would dispute)..
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Back when we were all Habibis. It wasn’t perfect, but it was better.
Then Zionism came and wrecked everything.
In the coming weeks:
🕌 Muslims -> Ramadan
⛪️ Christians -> Easter
🕍 Jews -> passover
On this festive occasion, let's recall a time in late Ottoman Palestine, early 1900s, before the rise of Zionism, when Jews, Christians & Muslims celebrated each other's holidays together!
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Shouldn’t we try to shape the endgame of Israel-Palestine to be more like South Africa rather than Algeria?
Hasn’t enough blood and tears been shed over the past 75+ years?
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It’s not up to me to tell Israelis and Palestinians whether to have a one state, two state or one thousand state solution. That’s for those that live there.
But I know right from wrong. And I know racism when I see it. My Jewish and secular education taught me that.
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We better study-up hard on the history of how Apartheid ended in South Africa.
Cos you can bet that Israeli “security”officials have been closely studying the same history in order to prevent the fall of Apartheid in Israel.
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Quite incredible that all the main English-language Israeli media like:
@TimesofIsrael
@haaretzcom
@Jerusalem_Post
@i24NEWS_EN
@ynetnews
sat on this clip for over 4 months and never posted or translated it to English.
Do your damn job.
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Let’s be under no illusions. Like earlier settler-colonial states (ie. US, Australia, S. Africa). Israel was born in sin. And the violence is devastating and ongoing.
We must address the sins of the past in order to break the endless present day cycles of violence.
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He claims that “a whole nation is responsible”, meaning all Palestinians are responsible and will pay the price.
This is genocidal talk from Israel’s figurehead and official head of state. The man is utter scum.
BREAKING: Israeli President says there are no innocent citizens in the Gaza Strip
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