Richard Goldwasser
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Sometimes, on a good day, I think that the very starkness and horror of the occupation will eventually bring it to an end. (David Shulman)
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Good morning from America to my dear friends in Israel. Please understand that a country so moved by the poetry of Amanda Gorman will not long countenance democracy for Jews and military rule for Palestinians however branded. 1/4
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Is this also antisemitic?
"LET GAZA LIVE"
Hundreds of Jewish activists gathered at Grand Central Station in NYC to demand life for people of Gaza.
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A made for Twitter moment if ever there was one.
The correct answer is Palestine btw.
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That the US can’t walk in aid through the front door while paying for this war is an embarrassment for the ages.
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“There will be a demonstration. I know there’s going to be a demonstration because I’m going to organize it.”
Stolen West Bank settlement homes are being sold in America to Jews. An real estate event at a synagogue was set up, and this fine gentleman (a Jewish man) was having none of it.
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So does Palestine.
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No apologies, no sugar coating, just the truth.
Bernie Sanders calls Israel’s government “racist.”
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Because no one asked me, I figured I’d weigh in on the River to the Sea debate. 🧵
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We’re about to find out how far “believe women” applies. Well a lot of us already know.
Palestinian women and girls are being raped and sexually assaulted by Israeli soldiers.
This is now from the UN Press Release, February 19.
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Let’s not kid ourselves. The purpose here is to stop other celebrities from doing the same. Because people like Danon know once opposition to the occupation breaks through into popular culture in a significant way, its days are numbered.
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Fact: You cannot be a progressive and support apartheid.
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Israeli annexation of the West Bank is wrong because it’s a violation of Palestinian human rights. The rest is commentary.
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Let’s see them call Ami Ayalon a self-hater or antisemitic or a Hamas spokesman. What he’s saying here is nothing short of heroic in this moment. It shouldn’t be, but it is.
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But the point is Palestinians have been told they can’t resort to international bodies like the ICC, they can’t boycott Israel, and that they must support Zionism or be branded antisemitic. (Still can’t believe this is a thing.) 6/x
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So from the River to the Sea, Israel free. Palestinians, no. Why is that ok? Seems worse than a chant. 2/x
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Since 1967 there has been one group — Israelis — in control of the territory between the River and the Sea, with that group enjoying freedom and another group — Palestinians (in WB and Gaza) — living under occupation, without freedom. 1/x
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What’s left? How will Palestinians win their freedom? 8/x
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And now, people want Palestinians to stop chanting River to the Sea. If they stop will Israel end the occupation? 7/x
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Answering
@IlhanMN
’s question about where Palestinians can go to seek justice,
@SecBlinken
answers, “[The US and Israel] have mechanisms to make sure there is accountability…”
How he survived the shame of his own answer is anyone’s guess.
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Do Palestinians have the same right?
Israel is right to protect its citizens from terrorism.
🇺🇸🇮🇱 Allies stand together
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Until someone steps forward with some proof of this unsubstantiated claim you should treat it as just another attempt to delegitimize support for Palestinians. Remember the person making the claim has the burden of establishing it.
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Antisemitism is a real thing. What this clown is doing is making it harder to fight it.
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Yet people and their supporters are telling Palestinians and their supporters that calling for Palestine to be free from the River to the Sea is not okay. More than that, it’s genocidal, they say. 3/x
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Who’s willing to walk in Palestinians’ shoes?
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They attribute a meaning to the phrase that is not evident from the words. I suppose we could ask people who are chanting it what they mean and I’d guess you’d get a lot of different answers, including some pretty ugly ones. 4/x
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This is a sickening inversion of reality. Palestinians are the ones who are being denied the same rights as all other people by the State of Israel. That's discrimination against Palestinians by the Jewish state.
Conversely, saying you're an anti-Zionist means you believe Jews don't have the same rights as all other people.
That's discrimination against Jews.
And it has another name.
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A vibrant democracy where any fascist can incite an assassination and grow up to be a minister.
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Israeli settlers beat an Palestinian-American citizen on his own land. It's time the
@USAmbIsrael
speaks out.
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How to dehumanize people to make it okay to oppress and kill them.
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These are the people Ben & Jerry’s didn’t want to sell ice cream to. Boycotting them is not antisemitic. It may be the most Jewish thing you can do.
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This a particularly vile tweet even from this man. It’s a day of remembrance of our darkest time and he’s pointing a finger at “the Palestinians” who suddenly exist as a people if only to impugn them. The subtext here is Palestinians have earned their life under apartheid. Vile.
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Some folks say it’s bad messaging because it’s not clear to people on the outside. That may be so, but perhaps it’s not directed to “us” and it’s a rallying cry for them. Again, I don’t know. 5/x
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There's no nuclear warhead on it. Which is the point of the agreement.
Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel.They are also working with North Korea.Not much of an agreement we have!
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25% of US Jews believe Israel is engaged in apartheid. It is not antisemitic to believe this or say so. It’s disgraceful that with growing antisemitism in the US, Greenblatt focuses so much on Tlaib and weaponizes the charge of antisemitism against critics of the Israeli gov.
In one sentence,
@RepRashida
simultaneously tells American Jews that they need to pass an anti-Zionist litmus test to participate in progressive spaces even as she doubles down on her
#antisemitism
by slandering Israel as an apartheid state. 1/2
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“Ceasefire actually means lynching Jews” is as close to “war is peace” as you’ll ever see.
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A movie addressing the Holocaust and dehumanization won the Oscar for best international feature. In his acceptance speech the movie’s Jewish director drew a straight line to the ongoing dehumanization of Palestinians. And now the usual suspects are usually suspecting.
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“Jewish and Arab citizens enjoy equal protection under the laws, including an equal right to vote in Israeli elections.”
Six million Pals are denied citizenship and the right to vote. By excluding them, the vote of the two million Arab citizens is virtually meaningless.
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There should be new rounds of condemnations after Israel forced Rashida Tlaib, a US Congresswoman, to submit a plea on ‘humanitarian grounds’ and surrender her right to free expression in order to see her grandmother. 1
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She linked to a site stating, “Zionism is a racist settler-colonial ideology that advocates for a Jewish ethnostate built on Palestinian land.”
Meanwhile Israel’s basic law:“The right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”
USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students”
‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement
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Hope they had a good laugh. 35,000+ Palestinians are dead.
Some of Biden's senior advisers laughed when they heard Netanyahu's new stated reason for canceling the trip after the UN Security Council vote was that he wanted to send a message to Hamas
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MTG is a coward and should stop using Jews to attack Muslims.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene just said this on Hannity:
“Ilhan Omar is another example. She’s antisemitic and she should not be on foreign affairs.”
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I believe they call this Klansplaining
Trump campaign response re: campaign ad: "The ADL should focus on real anti-Semitism and hatred, and not try to find any where none exist"
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What the hell is wrong with us.
“Death is better than this.”
Shocking images of starving, emaciated children from inside Gaza are laying bare the desperation inside the strip, as
@nadaabashir
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A Palestinian who lost their home, livelihood, family and has lived under occupation for decades as a result of the realization of the Zionist dream is antisemitic if they oppose Zionism? This is obscene. It’s an attempt to silence Palestinians and delegitimize their resistance.
At
#VNLS2022
today, I made it clear that antizionism is antisemitism. And ADL will act against antizionist extremists just as we have against other extremists from the right and the left.
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Pro-tip, get your pens ready.
AIPAC, AJC, ADL are no longer major Jewish orgs, at least not in the sense that they speak for American Jews. They don’t. They speak for a small number of wealthy mostly right-wing donors.
You want an org repping American Jews, that’s J Street.
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Two things that are not antisemitic:
1. Acknowledging the Nakba
2. Stating that Israel has imposed an apartheid regime over Palestinians
Something this is anti-Palestinian:
Trying to silence people engaged in 1 and 2.
It is disgraceful that
@SenSanders
allowed this event by
@RepRashida
to be held in our nation’s Capitol. Real conversations are needed around a path to peace, but not with groups & individuals who espouse antisemitism. We call on the Senate to condemn this event.
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Apartheid is like the horizon. The closer you get, the farther it recedes.
Truly bewildering to see a Member of Congress use inflammatory rhetoric & spread disinformation about the Jewish state. Using the terms “apartheid” & “ethnic cleansing” is both offensive & wildly inaccurate, &
@RepRashida
’s source is biased. More on JVP:
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These images will haunt us forever and we are seeing them in real time. A complete failure of humanity.
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BDS’s strongest advocate.
Itamar Ben Gvir does not apologize for his Jewish Supremacist comments when he said that Jews rights are more important than Arabs’ rights. In fact he doubles down and repeats exactly what he said last night. Ben Gvir is a prize to BDS.
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Remember when politicians who lost just left office?
Shin Bet warns against rising incitement; Rabbis urge followers to do “everything” to thwart new government; Bennett assigned security detail following death threats; And what does Netanyahu do? Tells his supporters “do not be afraid to lay into them”
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Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees
Was there anything more predictable than this?
Paraphrasing
@michelleinbklyn
, supporters of the war can pretend they are supporting some other war but this is the war they are supporting.
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Can you imagine the level of chutzpah it takes for the FM of a country who has imposed a 55-year (and ongoing) military rule over five and a half million people depriving them of basic human rights “honoring” the memory of MLK?
Today, we honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As he wrote in a letter to Jewish leaders in 1967, referring to the region: "The solution will have to be found in statesmanship by Israel and progressive Arab forces >>
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🧵The reason some folks accuse those who rightfully say Israel’s rule over Palestinians is apartheid of antisemitism is because they have no real argument to rebut it. So the hasbarists try to de-legitimize both the speaker and the charge of apartheid. 1/9
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30,000 dead Palestinians is punchline to these psychopaths. And their audience laughs.
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Incredible. But the contradiction between chanting “Democratia” and supporting the continued military rule over 5.5 million Palestinians should be mentioned in every article. And it’s hardly mentioned at all.
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Arm Israel to save Palestinian lives is a real argument very serious people are making.
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When American Jews spoke out in favor of Palestinian rights Gordis told us to shut up. Now when it’s his rights in jeopardy he wants our voice.
The irony is that it’s the anti-occupation American Jews who are supporting the pro-democracy movement, not the Aipacniks.
Together with my fellow Israeli writers, Matti Friedman and Danny Gordis -- our open letter to Diaspora Jews: Time to take a stand on Israel's democracy movement.
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Here’s one channel you haven’t tried: enforcing US law by suspending military aid to Israel until it stops impeding the flow of aid into Gaza.
It is imperative that we expand the flow of aid into Gaza to alleviate the dire humanitarian situation. People urgently need more food, water, and other assistance.
That’s why the U.S. is working to get more aid in through every available channel, including air drops.
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These weren't clashes, this was another pogrom. Normalized by reports like this.
If armed settlers from an illegal outpost enter a Palestinian village, it's to wreak havoc with impunity.
Antizionism is not antisemitism, it's a reaction to the apartheid reality on the ground.
Palestinian reportedly shot dead by settlers during clashes in northern West Bank
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The stories people tell themselves to justify apartheid is really something.
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AIPAC is endorsing Jim Jordan (plotted and voted to overturn the 2020 election) and opposing Andy Levin. Let that sink in.
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This is the Zionism Palestinians experience.
Calling them antisemitic for opposing it is cruel complicity.
Settlers uproot 300 olive seedlings and spray trees with chemical pesticides after attacks on Palestinian farmers & solidarity activists east of Bethlehem.
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There is nothing false about what
@RepRashida
said. And Greenblatt makes no argument why the claim of apartheid is false, he just says it is and calls it antisemitic. We deserve more from leaders of our institutions.
Once again,
@RepRashida
continues to advance false claims of apartheid and inflammatory rhetoric about Israel. Her blanket assertions are widely out of context, demonize the Jewish State and fuel antisemitic rhetoric that Americans increasingly believe: .
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Abbas’s antisemitism is not a free pass for apartheid.
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Once again, no push back from the hasbaristas. Why? Because calling Yehuda Bauer an antisemite for acknowledging Israel’s apartheid regime over Palestinians shows how absurd the accusation is. It’s better for them to save the false charge for Congresswomen of color.
Renowned Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer just signed the academics' letter accusing Israel of "apartheid." He is honorary chair of the Intl Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, whose purpose is to use claims of antisemitism to prevent such accusations. Overton window is shifting fast
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“American Jews…have paid insufficient attention to the elephant in the room: Israel’s long-standing occupation that, we repeat, has yielded a regime of apartheid.”
Notice when Jewish scholars call it apartheid
@JGreenblattADL
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This is straight out racism.
Surely
@RepCori
and
@justicedems
will condemn the terror attack on this Israeli woman….
Or mourn her lost unborn child…
Or speak out against the Palestinian Authority paying the family of the terrorist…
No? Why not?
It’s not pro-Palestinian, it’s pure anti-Israel hate.
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Not when they’re Palestinian-Americans. I’m ashamed of my government.
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Is there a single American who wants their tax dollars funding this?
מדהים. דתיים כורתים עצים ומיידים אבנים. חמושי צה"ל מאבטחים אותם. תיעוד: יש דין
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“As long as he is in power, Israel will continue to pay the price for his arrogant policy. This causes significant damage, and comes on top of all the other damage Netanyahu has caused Israel. He needs to step down,” Haaretz Editorial.
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Jabotinsky threw it around too. Here he’s talking about Palestinians as ‘natives’ and ‘Zionists’ as colonists.
The media throw around words like “settler” or “colonizer.” But is that accurate terminology? When it comes to Israel, the answer is no.
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Saying the quiet part out loud was invented for this moment. Ben-Gvir is simply saying what people twist themselves in knots not to say. There’s an entire vocabulary that’s been created to avoid calling apartheid apartheid & to instead call it democracy.
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AIPAC is opposed to democracy. They are backing 109 MOCs who joined the insurrectionists’ cause. For AIPAC, American politics is just a system to game in aid of preserving Jewish rule from the River to the Sea while trampling on Palestinians’ human rights.
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@mgopin
That’s your take away from this video of Jewish activists chanting Let Gaza Live? I can’t tell for sure with the wide angle but I’m fairly sure I know some of them and I can tell you that is not their intention.
Let Gaza Live!
Now you can call me an antisemite too.
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If dual loyalty is a criticism it’s anti-Semitic. If dual loyalty is a bear hug it’s an Aipac tweet.
@LeaderHoyer
.
@LeaderHoyer
"I stand with Israel, proudly and unapologetically. So when someone accuses American supporters of dual loyalty, I say: accuse me."
#AIPAC2019
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Some personal news. My daughter’s getting married today.
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And you’re objecting to a deal that would free him. Stop exploiting the hostages.
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Human rights orgs are only an existential threat if your existence depends on violating human rights.
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The only thing certain right now about the formation of a government in Israel is that Palestinians will continue to pay the price.
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12 years ago.
Thank you to the leaders who responded to our call to reject antisemitic apartheid accusations against Israel and call out those who want to remove Zionists from progressive spaces.
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This has a real no-way-the-gas chambers could-have-killed-so-many-Jews vibe.
“Here’s the problem with this data: The numbers are not real. That much is obvious to anyone who understands how naturally occurring numbers work. The casualties are not overwhelmingly women and children, and the majority may be Hamas fighters.”
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Don’t think we make enough of the fact that the
@ADL
, the “leading” Jewish-American organization fighting antisemitism, is so dismissive of Palestinian rights and equality. It’s so distressing.
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Criticism of BDS — a nonviolent and legitimate tactic with a proud history — would carry more credibility if its critics were working to end the occupation rather than perpetuate it. Maybe I’ve missed it but has
@JGreenblattADL
ever recognized Palestine’s right to exist?
This
@thecrimson
editorial endorsing
#BDS
is beyond disturbing. Contrary to its claims, endorsing BDS does nothing to help Palestinians & only serves to delegitimize Israel’s existence, and isolate & intimidate the Jewish community, especially on campus.
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What would AIPAC, et al. call it, if a dozen or so families of American Jews, say in Chicago, were evicted from their homes because they were Jewish. Or had their houses demolished. Had to pass through military checkpoints to get to work. Had no citizenship. For decades.
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And how did we let it go unpunished? And how are we now promoting Gina Haspel who was responsible for torture and its cover up?
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Considering? This is a no brainer and should have done three years ago.
Two US officials said the Biden administration is also considering revoking the so-called Pompeo Doctrine, which deemed settlements “not per se inconsistent with international law.” The 2019 policy overturned '78 State Dept memo characterizing settlements as illegal. (8/17)
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The degree to which the Israeli government has abandoned the hostages shocks the conscience. 1/4
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The racists will never forgive Obama for the complete class he and his family have displayed throughout their 8 years in the White House.
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Imagine living through the second Iraq War and thinking heading down the road to a military confrontation with Iran is a good idea.
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“[T]here hasn’t been a democracy [in the WB] in 57 years, there is total apartheid,” former head of Israel’s Northern Command, Gen. (Ret.) Amiram Levin, the latest truth teller.
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“For years, the occupation apparatus has banned the Palestinian communities from construction; demolished their homes; denied them connection to water and electricity; stopped them from paving roads; issued demolition orders for schools….”
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“Why should the U.S. continue to defend the idea in the U.N. and the International Court that Israel is just temporarily occupying the West Bank — and therefore is not practicing some form of apartheid there”
Tom Friedman, ladies and gentleman.
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You can present Zionism in a vacuum like this and say it’s merely about equal rights. Or you can reckon with the way Israel, the modern day expression of Zionism, has denied the Palestinian people equal rights. One is honest, the other is not.
Normalize Zionism, people.
We have permitted the bigots to transform support for equal rights into a slur.
To be a Zionist is to believe Jews have the same rights as all other people: the right for a place to call home.
Say it loud and say it proud: Yes, I am a Zionist. 🇮🇱
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This is Feb. 2023.
The Dennis Ross hug Israel theory has been a complete failure. America’s failure to confront Israel and impose consequences for its human rights abuses has brought us to this moment. 1/5
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