Raphael Mimoun
@RaphMim
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I write about Zionism from a Jewish perspective at https://t.co/vbqI6IMncX
Joined June 2009
This is still the best place to get/share info but Twitter is dying so let's connect elsewhere. For thoughts on Zionism, subscribe to my blog: https://t.co/jnzgx85WhR And I'm on: -Mastodon: @raph@social.coop -Bsky: @raphmim.bsky.social -IG: @raphmim_ -Email: social@raphmim.com
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Exploring the incompatibility of Zionism with a just peace in the Middle-East
I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived 4 years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the IDF. When that is your world, it's hard to see apartheid when it's happening. 1/16
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If after 80 years and dozens of right-wing, centrist, and left-wing goverments, at no point in time Israel *ever* treated Palestinians with dignity & justice, then believing that Israel will one day become just is... delusional. Zionism wasn't a good idea. Let's move on. 11/11
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And of course, Israel wasn't just to Palestinians when it stranded Gaza under an economic blockade, repeatedly launched murderous wars, and eventually committed genocide against the Palestinian people. 10/11
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Israel wasn't just when it let settlers launch pogroms against Palestinian villages. 9/11
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Israel wasn't just to Palestinians when it built a separation wall and fence that cut through hundreds of West Bank villages, communities, and families. 8/11
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Israel wasn't just to Palestinians when it has continuously and with no interruption since 1967 seized Palestinian land to build settlements. 7/11
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Israel wasn't just to Palestinians when, under the Oslo Accords in the 1990s, it added *more* restrictions to Palestinian movement between the West Bank and Gaza and to go abroad. 6/11
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Israel wasn't just to Palestinians when it crippled the Gaza economy, starting in 1968, by heavily regulating all imports and exports. Israel wasn't just to Palestinians when it responded to a youth uprising in 1988 with a break-their-bones policy. 5/11
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Israel wasn't just to Palestinians when it occupied the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, and set up a military government to rule over them--military government still in place half a century later. 4/11
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Israel wasn't just to Palestinians when it kept all Palestinian villages and towns who remained under Israeli control under martial law until 1966. 3/11
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Israel wasn't just to Palestinians when it was founded, in 1948, and expelled 700,000 Palestinians & refused to let them come home after the war. 2/11
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Liberal Zionism means believing that Israel must remain a Jewish state *and* that Israel can and should be just to Palestinians. In many ways, being liberal Zionist in 2025 is being delusional: 1/11
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Theodore Herzl, 1896: the Jewish State should be "an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism" Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak, 1996: Israel is a "villa in the jungle" Israeli president Isaac Herzog, 2025: "We’re actually defending the West. We’re defending Europe.”
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Back on this website just to say: please help us out. We've built privacy tools used by activists, human rights defenders, journalists in some of the world's most repressive places. The Trump admin is threatening the whole thing. We need your support🙏🏻
Horizontal has built vital tools to support those facing surveillance & repression. Now, the Trump administration’s funding freeze threatens everything we've built. To help us survive & continue our work, we are looking for 250 monthly donors. Support us: https://t.co/Hr8Cp9ObFr
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Tella has been downloaded over 50,000 times. We're on Android, F-Droid, and iOS. And we're working on a ton more privacy-preserving features. But everything is at-risk of collapsing. Help us out 👇
Horizontal has built vital tools to support those facing surveillance & repression. Now, the Trump administration’s funding freeze threatens everything we've built. To help us survive & continue our work, we are looking for 250 monthly donors. Support us: https://t.co/Hr8Cp9ObFr
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Horizontal has built vital tools to support those facing surveillance & repression. Now, the Trump administration’s funding freeze threatens everything we've built. To help us survive & continue our work, we are looking for 250 monthly donors. Support us: https://t.co/Hr8Cp9ObFr
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@RaphMim These images actually look a lot like... Gaza.
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Images from the book "Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History" by D. John Klier and Shlomo Lambroza.
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Morgue in the city hospital for victims of the Ekaterinoslav pogrom of 1905
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