Zachary Foster
@_ZachFoster
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Historian of Palestine | PhD | Founder of Palestine Nexus ↓
Joined November 2013
6 🧵s to make sense of Israel/Palestine: 1) A history Palestinian non-violent resistance 2) A history of Hamas 3) A history of Israel's ethnic cleansing Palestinians 4) A history of Israel's wars on Gaza 5) A history of Gaza 6) A history of Israel’s use of disproportionate force
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Israel forces Palestinians to chose between freezing to death in the cold or being killed trying to retrieve winter clothing. @ochaopt
https://t.co/J5m3dyWxYI
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Try to imagine a Hamas fighter posting a video of himself firing indiscriminately at Israel during the ceasefire. No need to imagine ⤵️
This is a video from a few days ago In Gaza, from what the US and Israel call the “yellow line,” the Israeli soldiers firing toward Palestinians on the other side for Fun
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The first two decades of Zionist colonization of Palestine (1880s-1900s) made clear the enterprise was destined to collide w/ the native population, and lead to violence & bloodshed. Source: https://t.co/yNi50t7PPK
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Refaat Alareer reported on Israel’s use of the Hannibal Directive on Oct. 7, 2023, in which Israel deliberately targeted its own soldiers & civilians to prevent their capture.
BREAKING: Israeli warplanes target and kill some of their own Israeli captured soldiers as they are transported into Gaza.
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Another day of ‘ceasefire’, another Israeli killing spree in Gaza. The genocide continues.
Since the early hours of this morning, the Israeli terrorist forces killed 5 people in the Gaza Strip in three separate crimes: 1- an elderly mother named Yahma Yassin (70 years old) was heading to al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City along with her son Said (25 years old) to see a
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Palestine is a genocide laboratory https://t.co/XRIhkNAiS2
Israel uses video from Gaza genocide to market arms to European, Asian countries https://t.co/adAdszsWDj
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How do you become a media executive in the US? Help murder Palestinian intellectuals in Gaza.
Never forget that @bariweiss incited the murder of Dr. Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian professor, writer and poet in Gaza. Israel killed him 2 years ago for no reason. They also killed his sister and her kids, his daughter, husband and baby. Bari will always be known for this.
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Israel knew that Hamas has not abducted the Bibas family.’ Israel is a criminal state
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In first interview since leaving role, Nitzan Alon describes how the command formed after Oct. 7, intelligence work behind negotiations and why he believes public protests had limited impact on talks
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This article is terrifying. Israel, with the help of companies like Microsoft and Palantir, has turned Gaza into a dystopian hellscape beyond imagining—a drone-patrolled, wiretapped wasteland where grieving, traumatized people are afraid to even text their surviving loved ones.
I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It was deep, painful, and at times unbearable. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Read in @NYMag
https://t.co/DBfVVfn4f0
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“I think Palestinian children are human beings” is the new antisemitism.
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The earliest Zionist colonies in Palestine would have been in "dire straits," as Gershon Shafir put it, had it not been for the welcoming environment they found in Palestine. source: https://t.co/lDDif7rtQw
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Israel spends more on it's military than any country save for Ukraine. If only Israel spent its money on becoming "a Dubai on the Mediterranean" rather than building terror infrastructure, maybe it wouldn't have become the most genocidal society on earth.
2/4 For the fiscal years 2026-2027 it allocated 140 billion ILS (43 billion USD), per year, to military spending. A 50.5 percent increase, accounting for 21.2 percent of the total State budget, overshooting all other countries but Ukraine.
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Wait, this isn’t satire?
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The attitude of the earliest Zionist settlers in Palestine towards the Palestinian Arabs. Here we are 120 years later. source: Anita Shapira, Land and power: The Zionist resort to force, 1881-1948 (Stanford University Press, 1999), 59.
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1) Israel kidnapped a 13-year old Palestinian boy 2) Israel raped the 13-year old Palestinian boy in prison 3) @DCIPalestine alerted the US government 4) The US government asked Israel for an explanation. 5) Israel declared @DCIPalestine a terrorist entity, raiding their offices
Israelis raped a child they imprisoned. IOF soldiers then labelled the organisation investigating the crime as a “terrorist entity.” Israel is the rape capital of the world.
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The @AP, manufacturing consent for Israeli terrorism & apartheid
If you read this headline and didn’t follow the issue closely, you would have no idea that Israel illegally occupies the West Bank—which is Palestinian land—the “settlers”are Israeli, and they terrorize Palestinians every day. Because none of those words are in it, by design.
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