@vonderleyen
You should be the last person on this planet earth to call on anyone to 'cease attacks' given that you never called upon Israel to 'cease' its genocide. Shame.
@DutchMFA
All you do is issue empty rhetoric while you maintain your diplomatic relations, your trade relations, your military cooperation with Israel, which basically means you just don't care. You also expect the Palestinians to accept their status as colonial subjects and you do not
@AssalRad
CNN at it again: obfuscating, deceiving, insinuating, lying....and giving a human face to the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. This network should be called "GNN," Genocide News Network
@NickKristof
US mainstream media is barely paying attention. Mass graves are not news worthy unlike the "unsafe" and discomfort few students feel in response to peaceful protests on our campuses.
@USAmbUN
Correction: The United States continues to strongly oppose Palestinians' rights to self-determination.
I know you don't respect your audience but probably you should have some self-respect! Shame
Could anyone with access to the International Criminal Court's vacation schedule kindly inform me when Prosecutor Karim Khan is expected to end his Christmas break and return to work?
@HalaJaber
But ethnic cleansing is done in the open, in broad daylight, streamed live! Not much could be hidden. I don't think we need any more evidence of the US complicity in Israel's crimes against humanity, its mass slaughter of the Palestinians, their ethnic cleansing and the
@mondowitz
I don't think I used the term "white supremacy" before but, honestly, after reading this statement, I am about to change my mind. How could this statement ignore the nearly 25,000 Palestinians killed, the 2 million "starved by Israel" Palestinians and their displacement. It truly
@nc_swe
@katewillett
This is silly and offensive, deeply offensive. If Biden loses, it is on the Democrats, not on those who refuse to support a pro-genocide president. The Democrats have got their answer in the uncommitted vote and it is obvious (for those who want to see or hear) that the young,
@tksshawa
@Columbia
It must be noted that no matter what Israel does, and now matter how powerful the pro-Israel lobby is, and no matter how much unwavering, unconditional support the political establishment gives to Israel, there has been no comparable student support for Israel. That support goes
@bernstein_ariel
American officials heard such calls. Biden and Blinken approved Israel's plans and have consistently supplied it with the needed munitions and the needed protection and moral cover up. But, then, dare a student at a US university chant Free Palestine? The Congress is out there
@thrasherxy
It seems USC us willing to shut down the university itself if this helps suppress pro-Palestonian activism.
University administrations are totally beholden to their donors and are part and parcel of the various power structures dominating and managing US politics
No, she was not starved by Israel. This is so untrue. She was starved to death by Israel, the US, Germany, the UK, France, Canada...and the entire Genocide axis along with every cowardly country that defunded UNRWA.
@ori_goldberg
Thoughtful and insightful and heartfelt. Ori, your words are the most passionate and authentic I have heard from an Israeli citizen. Soul-searching is very tough and challenging and not many individuals, leave aside societies, are capable of engaging in it. You took an essential
@MarkRuffalo
But public opinion matters in a real democracy, not in the US type of democracy where the elites in the two parties monopolize the conduct of all policies, foreign and domestic.
@stephenWalt
Biden is worse than Trump, especially for those like us who believed in him and voted for him. He betrayed us. He deceived us. He fooled us. We really didn't know the man. He is a fraud. Never Biden.
@YousefMunayyer
Blinken's report that Israel is not violating international and US laws was a massive, bright, glaring Green Light to go ahead with the genocide.
@ZahiraJaser
Still would have been more accurate to say, "As Israel is destroying Gaza, it is mercilessly killing dozens of innocent Palestinian children in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. "
@aaronjmate
This is truly a very powerful explanation of this exceptional US reaction to simple campus solidarity movement that has clear and simple objectives. Swiftly mobilizing the US coercive apparatus to brutally suppress students' protests exposes underlying panic. Framing this
@andrewrsorkin
Another thought experiment:
"Controversial thought experiment: What would happen if companies told universities that they wouldn’t hire ANY of their students unless the schools take decisive action to end blatant anti Palestinian racisn on campus. "
@ChrisLynnHedges
Censorship in the open. A campaign, an organized campaign to silence any critics of the current administration and its Middle Eastern policies. What is next? We all should seriously get worried about what's happening. This sounds like soft/selective authoritarianism.
@ianbremmer
Now, if this is how Netanyahu addresses his allies who protected Israel during the Iranian retaliation and who granted his genocidal army $17 billion in additional US military aid, imagine how he talks to the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Lebanese or
@PowerUSAID
@UN
I am sorry but isn't your administration supplying the weapons? The moral cover-up? The political protection? The funds? The silence?
It is not a Problem from Hell. It is a problem from your very administration.
@jeremyscahill
Something sinister is brewing. This consensus among political elites, both Republicans and Democrats, and the mainstream/corporate media, university administration, think tanks, and other power structures that there is a scourge of antisemitism engulfing our campuses is scary and
@JustinTrudeau
Let me give you an explanation: it happened because you provide moral cover-up for Israel, because you provide Israel with impunity, because you provide Israel with all the support it needs to perpetrate a live streamed genocide...because you have been silent and even complicit
@MarkRuffalo
It is kind of too late for Sanders to say so! He refused to call for a ceasefire from the beginning and effectively supported Israel. He changed his mind later on.
@4noura
@washingtonpost
@nytimes
@ForensicArchi
I think many missed the point behind the Al-Shifa hospital. We all knew there was no command center--silly to even think that Hamas will have its command center in a bunker under the hospital, especially when Israeli soldiers were few feet away from the hospital. The point was to
@mattyglesias
You acknowledge that Palestinians' attachment to their lost homes is sincerely felt but then you say that it is "a huge barrier to peaceful diplomatic settlement." This is food for thought: if the right of return, which is simply justice for the Palestinians, is a barrier to a
@tparsi
I never, not for a shred of a second, believed that Biden has any policy differences from Netanyahu's. No daylight between the two. Biden supported Israel's genocide of the Palestinians. Biden supported Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights. Biden supported Israel's strike on
@JakeWSimons
"the core of the problem has always been that Palestinians are taught to be allergic to a Jewish state…" This is not the core problem. The core problem is that Israelis rejected the very existence of Palestinians as a nation entitled to self-determination. This is how it All
@mehdirhasan
@POTUS
@SecBlinken
No.
@Potus
and
@SecBlinken
will not cut aid to Israel. They will actually increase the aid and they (through actions not words) support Israel's policy of mass slaughter of the Palestinians, their ethnic cleansing, and the demolition of Gaza and extending Israel's sovereignty
@RnaudBertrand
The EU lightly condemned the attack. But this is only rhetorical. Action speaks louder than words. Had it been Iran that bombed the Israeli consulate in some country, the EU would have called for sanctions and NATO might have intervened.
@ianbremmer
No. You don't. Just a reminder: no matter what you think of the Iranian leader, he is not the one committing an ongoing,livestreamed genocide against the brutalized, incarcerated, starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Look at the numbers here. There is not a single group in which a majority favors continued fighting in Gaza.
50% of Jewish Americans favor a ceasefire, only 34% oppose.
58% of White Evangelicals want a ceasefire, only 23% do not.
Biden and the Democrats betrayed us. No. they deceived us. They lied to us. The wound is much deeper than what the Democrats and the so-called liberals think. We will not vote for Biden.
#AbandonBiden
@mehdirhasan
Netanyahu is above the law. Biden is above the law. The Empire is above the law. Bush is above the law. Cheney is above the law. All empire managers are above the law. The law is made for us, for Africans, for Middle Easterners. for the weak, for small weak states, not for Great
@drcarlhart
@Columbia
Where is this going? I really did not anticipate this level of 'audacity,' in suppressing students and professors. This is deeper than what we thought.
@NGrossman81
For your information, there is an ongoing Genocide that he completely backs up from day one.
Progressives do not hate him; they hate what he turned out to be after Oct. 7th.
Even though he might not be 'doing' the genocide himself, this ongoing, live-streamed genocide could not
@tparsi
The absolute vast majority of Arabs and Muslims and progressives will NOT vote for Biden. If he loses, and I hope he does, it is on the Democrats, not on us. Maybe they should learn not to support and endorse genocide, anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia. We are not even sure
@Jonathan_K_Cook
"Western media appear to have missed the story that a mass grave of Palestinian bodies has been found in northern Gaza, handcuffed and with signs that the victims were tortured, then executed. Busy news weekend presumably."
They "missed" it (hid it really) as they were busy
@SecDef
@rustem_umerov
How disgraceful? How hypocritical? How dishonest? How brutal? So, we also assume that during your two visits to Israel, you approved their mass slaughter of Palestinians, their ethnic cleansing, and the demolition of Gaza. What a brave (I meant depraved) soul you are! Shame is
@caitoz
"Imagine how the western political-media class would be acting if Russia or China was bombing and starving a walled-in population of two million, half of them children. Seriously, imagine it. Imagine the rage and vitriol. Imagine the nonstop media coverage."
@BarakRavid
Did Israel 'secretly' accept the deal? I don't understand your point. Did Hamas reject the deal?
Based on what we know so far, it the quite the opposite. Hamas is willing to accept the ceasefire but Israel rejected it.
@mehdirhasan
This just confirms what we knew all along, just as other public opinion polls have repeatedly shown. Israeli society has really drifted towards violent ultranationalist, ultrareligiuos politics. Israel's current right wing government is a reasonable reflection of Israeli
@amalsaad_lb
I wouldn't say that those exceptionally provocative and escalatory acts are done without unwavering and firm US support. The idea that Israel is trying to drag the US into a broader war is unfounded. The US could simply tell Israel NOT to do so, privately. But I believe it is the
@AOC
@POTUS
You call that, "holding the Israeli gov to the same bar we hold all our allies" a historic shift. That speaks to your low standards.
By the way, this does not make "our values clear." Our values (Biden's values) were on display for the last seven month, livestreamed in broad
@jeremyscahill
Another game. Propaganda. Had the US known Sinwar's location, it would have provided the info to Israel right away. No daylight. Just right away.
Now, think of it for a moment: The US is withholding such sensitive intelligence from Israel! I don't think so. They would share it
@FranceskAlbs
Why not share this information now?
I plead with you to provide this information now, on this platform, or any other platform. This is so pertinent now. It could help save some women as well, besides exposing those journalists or their institutions that cover up Israel's crimes.
Ideology blinds just like power corrupts.
Biden is a hard-core Zionist fanatic who resents Palestinians and genuinely believes they don't deserve to live in their own homeland. He came out in full support of Israel's plan to mass slaughter the Palestinians, to ethnically cleanse
When Biden was told in a secret meeting that his poll numbers in Michigan & Georgia had dropped over his support for Israel, he began to shout and swear.
He genuinely believes that supporting Israel's was "the right choice."
And THAT'S the problem...
@mehdirhasan
Oh, seriously you expect those Israelis and their allies who lied and denied to feel foolish or to realize they are nefarious liars. Nop. They will go on lying and denying they lied and then they will lie and deny and so on and so forth. The Lie and Deny folks.
@jacobkornbluh
Those countries that supported Israel tonight never, not for a shred of a second, denied Israel their support. All they did was issue some silly statements about the need for Israel to respect civilian lives (translate into plain English: you are killing too many civilians and
@UssamaMakdisi
I never imagined that University Administrations would actively participate in a silencing, censoring and surveillance campaign against pro-Palestinian speech. It seems that racism and an imperial/colonial mentality are deeply entrenched in the West, including in academia
@RaphMim
Profound analysis but the "outside pressure" is exactly the problem. Those 'outside' forces that could actually 'pressure' Israel to stop its war on the Palestinians are actually the ones who either intentionally or unintentionally are actively enabling and empowering Israel to
@WajahatAli
It is called a preemptive strike. It is policing speech. It is a strategy pursued intentionally to intimidate and silence other students, sending a message on the limits of free speech.
@SenWarren
@WCKitchen
And where were you the last six months? Voting to cut UNRWA funding? Voting to provide Israel with the weapons it needs to Massacre Palestinians? Senator Van Hollen did a much better job and was way more vocal than you and we thought you are the PROGRESSIVE one?
@mohamadfakih8
I doubt it if he cares. He is probably busy promoting his career. He is a politician interested in office. That's all. Starvation in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in Gaza, mass slaughter of children in Gaza...do not matter. What matters is his future political career.
"Like World Central Kitchen, the heroic Palestine Red Crescent first responders who went to rescue 6-year-old Hind Rajab also received clearance from the Israeli military to get her. They were killed by the Israeli military anyway and so was 6 year old Hind."
But no Western
Like World Central Kitchen, the heroic Palestine Red Crescent first responders who went to rescue 6-year-old Hind Rajab also received clearance from the Israeli military to get her. They were killed by the Israeli military anyway and so was 6 year old Hind.
@mehdirhasan
Democrats and Republicans are very similar in substance when it comes to the Palestine question.
On another note, if Israelis chant from the River to the sea Israel is all you see, would this be considered anti-palestinian racism?
Rashida Tlaib must introduce such a resolution.
What's wrong with him? Does he ever look in the mirror? Does he ever watch a clip of himself? Doesn't he have any friends, any concerned family members, any friendly colleagues to tell him he has made himself a joke, a clown. This guy needs psychiatric evaluation.
@PeterHarling
You got it right. Israel is testing to see how far it can go in its genocidal war. They left the scene filled with mutilated bodies for all to see. The US nodded in approval. Israel could go on. Nothing will stop it.
@MarkRuffalo
@chefjoseandres
@POTUS
We have been calling upon Biden to call for a ceasefire for over five months now but, truth be told, Biden apparently is enjoying the show. Calling, pleading, asking, demanding....won't work. "Uncommitted" voting did work a bit but much more work needs to be done. Probably, a
@tparsi
@nytimes
At the altar of Israel's ethnic cleansing, Biden and the entire US political establishment are willing to sacrifice US interests, allies, principles. There are priorities in life: Israel is their priority.