Alison Weir
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Founder: If Americans Knew. Author: Against Our Better Judgment. Values: Truth, facts, justice, compassion, free speech. Follows/RTs not endorsement.
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In Gaza, I visited women and children living in the dirt. They’d had homes, but Israel decided to make a road through, so bulldozed their houses, their date palms, their orange groves... I met them in Feb. 2001, before Hamas came to power. The Palestinians had been pleading for…
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I'm tired. It is an uphill battle to try to get my fellow U.S. citizens to understand the great human tragedy of Palestine-Israel, our own role in enabling it and funding it, and that the only way towards a peaceful future for all is genuine truth and reconciliation that
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When I traveled to the Palestinian territories alone 23 years ago, the Palestinians I met asked me to tell their stories – as a US citizen, to speak up on their behalf. Since then, I've been threatened, harassed, called names, lied about, bullied, thanked. And I will never stop.
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I have lived 8 decades; for 5.5 decades I had no idea of the devastation and oppression my country was funding in Palestine; the last 2.5 of them I've worked to make sure others know. It's never too late. Who will open their eyes today?
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I met this boy in Gaza in February 2001. He had been shot by Israeli soldiers. This was before Hamas was in power, before the first rocket from Gaza. I saw suffering and devastation everywhere. Palestinians seemed to be in a pressure cooker, even then.
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I took this photo in Khan Younis in south Gaza in 2001. Notice the buildings riddled with holes from Israeli shelling - long before Oct. 7, years before Hamas came to govern, and before the first rocket was ever fired from Gaza into Israel.
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Israeli guards called him 'the Christian' to insult him, then beat the 16-year-old some more...for 41 days (after first breaking his nose & tooth). Read:
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Award-winning author Martin Sandler said at a book talk in Hyannis that Israel's Mossad may have assassinated JFK. Details at
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I didn't always know, and so I couldn't always care. I was living my life, I didn't scratch the surface, so I didn't know and I didn't act. The lack of engagement by citizens such as my former self has allowed fanatics to drive U.S. policies that harm the innocents of all nations…
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I took this photo of a Palestinian woman in her bullet-riddled
#Gaza
home. Not after Oct. 7. Not after Hamas came to power. Not after Hamas fired homemade rockets into Israel. In February of 2001. Palestinians were under military assault by the state of Israel long before most of…
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I took this photo of the American International School in Gaza in 2009. It had been destroyed by Israeli bombing, which killed the elderly night watchman, Abu Gleg, who had donated the land for the school. Israeli targeting of schools is not new.
More info at…
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It’s sunny today, here. There are children around who I love dearly, who love me. There are no bombs falling from the sky. We have food, fresh water. But I open my computer to witness great suffering; I must, for my government – my tax money – enables it. And so like so many of…
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Israel's targeting of journalists is not new. I know this first-hand. When I was in Gaza as a freelance journalist in 2001, Israeli soldiers suddenly fired in my direction, although I was lucky. The soldiers didn't intend to hit me. Their intention, it seemed, was just to try to…
Israeli troops killed British filmmaker James Miller in Gaza as his team waved a white flag. This was in 2003. Israel's targeting of journalists is not new.
Miller, 34, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, was with a crew for an HBO documentary that had been filming the…
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When I met women & children living in tents in the Gazan dirt in 2001 (Israel bulldozed their homes), they showed me a bent-up wash pan retrieved from where their homes once stood. Everything else, they said, was “under the land.” I wonder how many of them are “under the land”…
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In 2001 I went to the Palestinian territories as a freelance reporter, traveling alone through Gaza & the West Bank. I saw tragedy & devastation far beyond that reported in U.S. media. I saw children who’d been shot in the stomach, in the back, in the head. I still see them. 1/4
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I met Nurit Peled-Elhanan when we both spoke at a conference in the West Bank and have been very impressed with the quality of her work over the years. I highly recommend watching this interview that debunks the claim that Palestinian schools teach hate against Israelis, and…
Please share my explosive interview with Israeli professor and author Nurit Peled Elhanan who blasts the racist Israeli education system that borders on child abuse.
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The quest to establish and maintain Israel on land already inhabited by people of multiple faiths has led to massive tragedy: a hundred-year war of violence and loss; sacred land soaked in sorrow. It is time for truth and justice so that all the children of the land may dream of…
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Oil insider Gary Vogler, who spent years in Iraq, reports the real oil agenda: "The oil agenda I discovered and experienced was to supply Iraq oil to Israel."
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I talked to men who had been tortured. I saw communities destroyed, ancient orchards razed, croplands plowed under. I wrote about all this and more in a chapter for a Project Censored book. Are Americans finally noticing this tragedy?
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Israeli forces kill 174 more Palestinians after ICJ ruling directing Israel to stop killing civilians - when will Biden stop enabling Israel's daily massacres?!
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As part of the ongoing censorship related to Israel, Amazon is now prohibiting sale of an extremely valuable book: "Jewish History Jewish Religion. The Weight of Three Thousand Years" by Israel Shahak. Fortunately, we provide the full text here:
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Israel's war on Gaza is not about removing Hamas from power. It is part of a war on all Palestinians that has been going on throughout my entire lifetime and involves the taking over of land and expelling its unwanted inhabitants.
#gaza
#GazaGenocide
Israeli news reports Israel’s parliament will host a conference on building settlements in Gaza. The news site says parliament members & others are expected to speak & 1000s of Israelis have already applied to settle in Gaza.
It quoted organizers: “There is a great demand in the…
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The U.S. media presents a distorted picture of the Israel-Palestine issue, creating an illusion of balance where there is none, and reporting on periods of “calm” that are shattered only by Palestinian violence, with Israeli violence rarely meriting reporting.
This has been the
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I watched as a mother wept for her small son, and I took pictures of his spilled blood. I watched a son grieve for his mother, killed on her way home from the market on a day that I was told was the Muslim equivalent of the day before Christmas or Passover. 3/4
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There are so many questions from people who saw Israelis killed or kidnapped Oct. 7 and who see the Palestinians in Gaza being slaughtered and made homeless, and who want to understand. This speech was my best attempt to get to the heart of the matter for beginners. Please share…
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Netanyahu (just elected Israeli prime minister again) actually speaks the truth...
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Twitter's chief censor Yoel Roth tweeted awhile back: "It turns out that I still have very limited patience for people who deploy the phrase 'the Israel lobby.'" We need to see the twitter files on his actions re Palestine & the lobby he appears to be part of.
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The pro-Israel lobby in the US that enables this, the media organizations that hide it, and the Biden administration that funds it are profoundly guilty, to their everlasting shame…
"On average 247 Palestinians are being killed & are at risk of being killed each day. Many of them literally blown to pieces. They include 48 mothers each day, 2 every hour. And over 117 children." From the v powerful South Africa ICJ closing statement:
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It's horrific that Israeli forces would kill Israelis waving white flags in Gaza. Why is it any better to mow down Palestinians waving white flags?
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Reposted excellent NYT piece - added excerpt from my book: An American Biblical scholar reported that a Christian friend in Jerusalem had been told by a Zionist in 1948, “When we get control you can take your dead Christ and go home.”
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Are these the Israel partisans behind the temporary rejection of HRW head Kenneth Roth for a position at Harvard's Kennedy School? See
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The ADL, one of the world's most powerful proponents of censorship, has long worked to suppress information about Israel's systemic criminality. They're already going after Musk
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US IS POISED TO GIVE ISRAEL $19 BILLION this year! While Israel is killing children everyday, shelling hospitals, schools, churches, and while many Americans are struggling...
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Clarence Thomas is attacked for trips paid for by another person. Yet Ruth Bader Ginsburg took numerous such trips. Israeli billionaire Morris Kahn provided transportation, food & lodging on her 2018 trip to Israel... see thread below
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I saw communities destroyed, ancient orchards razed, croplands plowed under. I saw people convulsing and writhing in pain from a mysterious poison gas that had been lobbed at them; they said it felt like there were knives in their stomach. 2/4
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Extremely important revelations. (For the full, very powerful video see )
NEW: Josh Paul, State Department official, who resigned over weapons to Israel, says a charity told US govt that a 13-year old Palestinian boy was raped in an Israeli prison.
State Dept led an inquiry and brought the matter to Israel's attention. Israeli officials closed the…
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This was before the Israel lobby took over the Republican Party:
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@FoxNews
When Israel invaded Egypt 65 years ago during the Suez Crisis, President Eisenhower defended U.S. interests rather than enabling Israeli aggression…Even though he was up for reelection, Eisenhower offered an exceptionally tough response...
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On Veterans Day how many people will dare speak out in support of USS Liberty vets? Do you support them, or their far more powerful attacker?
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If this were a Ukrainian teen fighting against cruel invaders it would be headlines & people would rally around the need to help those being occupied
Israeli police in East Jerusalem shoot Palestinian teen dead
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How Israel rips off American taxpayers to fund its war crimes:
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Everyone reports that Shireen Abu Akleh was killed 'during an Israeli raid on Jenin.' They don't mention that such Israeli raids occur in the West Bank EVERY SINGLE DAY & this has gone on for many years! See the daily reports from IMEMC
@ifamericansknew
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On this day to honor American veterans, we should include the veterans attacked by Israel in its attempt to sink their ship, killing 34 & injuring 174.
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It's tragic that so many people who know better won't talk about Israel's crimes (they don't want to risk the dangerous wrath of the Israel lobby)
Today, Israel killed Omar Mana’, a young baker from Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem. He was trying to protect his brother, who was also arrested. Every day, Israel’s occupation is getting more brutal and costing more lives. Time to end the killings! Time to end the occupation!
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I visited this Quaker school in the West Bank years ago. The three young Palestinians who were shot here in the U.S. for wearing the keffiyehs were graduates of the school. One is now paralyzed.
From RFS to the world,we share our version of timeless “Little Drummer Boy.” Our hearts come together in prayer for the safety of children in Gaza.May our shared prayers echo for peace & justice,embracing the shared humanity we all hold dear.
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Will Chuck Schumer, who pretends to care about women, condemn Israel's murder of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh? Or will he, as usual, work to keep US tax money flowing to Israel (over $10mill/day)
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I wonder if anyone will dare to retweet this extremely honest thread...
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For the record, Ilhan Omar's comments were not antisemitic - see these reports:
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If you want to help Gazans, try to reach one person today who doesn't already know or care. You'll have to try to understand where they're coming from, meet them where they are, remain nonjudgmental, rely on facts, find the point that will resonate with them, and use language…
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Of course, the ADL will call us 'antisemitic' for tweeting this... and others will be afraid to retweet it because of the power of the pro-Israel lobby to damage anyone who strays from the ADL's required line...
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel says that after 30 yrs of fighting torture, it had “reached the unfortunate conclusion” that Israel has no wish to end torture, honestly investigate victims’ complaints & prosecute those responsible.
🔵 Details:
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We've been posting these deaths, day after day after day after day... If these were Israelis there would be major news coverage & Hollywood would be up in arms... Maybe a clue about who has power in the news & popular media?
@ifamericansknew
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@NBCNews
22 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of Sept (6 under 20 yrs old); 1 Israeli soldier has also been killed. As is often the case w/Palestinians shot by Israel, 2 were denied medical assistance & their bodies are being withheld.
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This reminds me of when I visited the home of an English woman living in the West Bank. She described a terrifying incident when Israeli soldiers had used her as a human shield. Sadly, many commentators won't retweet this because they don't want to be called 'antisemitic'
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@USATODAY
Israeli forces told 16-year-old Ahed, “Stay where you are & don’t move. You’re a terrorist.” For two hours, they used her as a human shield in a gun battle – then they bombed her family’s home w/rocket-propelled grenades.
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14 minutes of history on Israel and Palestine that most people have never heard
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And Israel wouldn't allow her children to visit her
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@AP
July 2, 2022: Sa’diyya Farajallah, 68, died in an Israeli prison less than 7 months after Israeli soldiers abducted her. Sa’diyya was the oldest female detainee imprisoned by Israel. The circumstances that led to her death remain unknown.
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Today's detailed Update, including: "In Jabalia refugee camp, several children who went out to fill water bottles were killed by Israeli shelling." read
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Zionists obtained
#BalfourDeclaration
by promising to get US into WWI via Brandeis - see the documented facts
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If you dislike 'cancel culture,' please be aware that Israel does this all the time, and has been doing it long before the current craze... Here's the latest example:
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@AP
London hospital removes Gaza children’s artwork after a complaint by ‘UK Lawyers for Israel’ on behalf of Jewish patients who felt ‘vulnerable’ and ‘victimised’ by the
#Palestinian
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I suspect this was also done against those of us who support Palestinian rights & expose the destructive power of the Israel lobby.
1. A new
#TwitterFiles
investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users.
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The powerful Israel lobby in the US has caused great harm... After pushing the disastrous Iraq War they now want one against Iran
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The state of Israel is younger than I am. In global terms, it is youthful. Birthed in violence and grown in strife, maybe it's now in its tumultuous teenage years. May it yet grow into a wiser, kinder adulthood? Let us wish it, but it will never happen if it continues to be…
An elderly Palestinian woman, who had gone viral for saying that she was “older than Israel” in a video circulating online, was killed by an Israeli sniper.
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The Senate is expected to pass a bill to give Israel an EXTRA BILLON DOLLARS. Why does Israel, a rich nation with numerous billionaires & millionaires, keep getting our money?
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It's exciting to see such a diverse set of politicians opposing Biden's unconstitutional airstrikes on Yemen. Those opposing, per this article include:
Dems: Ro Khanna, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Summer Lee, Pramila Jayapal, Sarah Jacobs, Barbara Lee
Repubs: Matt Gaetz, Anna…
New Republic: Biden’s Airstrikes on Yemen Draw Outrage From Democrats and Republicans Alike
Follow
@newrepublic
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I wish every single journalist–especially women–would publicly condemn the murder of this courageous veteran reporter. But most are too intimidated, or too propagandized, by the Israel lobby to speak out
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Our ad was just broadcast on The Five, the most watched cable news show in the US - the 6th time our ad has been on a major news show!
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Chuck Schumer is going to milk (again) a tragedy that ended over 3/4 of a century ago, while he works to enable a tragic, ongoing, century-long ethnic cleansing project
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Thank you all for working towards justice, peace, humanity, and our common future. May 2024 be the year we turn things around, together.
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Haaretz has long article about Israeli documentary questioning real number of deaths in Holocaust. Meanwhile, Israel just pushed through UN resolution calling on governments & social media to censor the topic.
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Very few people seem to know that US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is an advisory member of an Israeli organization - info at
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How many Americans even know about Israel's ruthless assault on Jenin that Shireen Abu Akleh reported on? How many have seen the powerful documentary that Israel tried to suppress or read the brilliant book on it
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed just went to Israel to pander its power brokers despite the fact that Israeli forces just killed & injured numerous men, women, and children in Gaza
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This report by CNN's Clarissa Ward shows why Israel has been preventing US journalists from entering Gaza
Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now
@CNN
’s
@clarissaward
,
@scottycnn
and
@BrentSwailsCNN
managed to enter without Israeli military escort. Watch their extraordinary report.
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Know someone who relies on CNN for news? Share this with them.
#gaza
#censorship
The Intercept reports: "WHETHER REPORTING FROM the Middle East, the United States, or anywhere else across the globe, every CNN journalist covering Israel and Palestine must submit their work for review by the news organization’s bureau in Jerusalem prior to publication, under a…
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@mehdirhasan
The pro-Israel lobby in the US that enables this, the media organizations that hide it, and the Biden administration that funds it are profoundly guilty, to their everlasting shame…
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The numerous entities that have condemned Israeli demolition of the Salhiya home in Sheikh Jarrah need to realize this happens all the time
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Want to honor the global strike in the U.S.? For starters, CALL CONGRESS to get them to oppose the new $14 billion to Israel and support a ceasefire.
Some U.S. citizens are honoring the global strike by calling their Congress members to ask them to support a ceasefire and to oppose the new $14 billion to Israel.
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I just came across this photo of me 21 years ago in Gaza during my first trip to the region as an independent journalist... I had no idea yet about what I was up against
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Even while RBG was a sitting Supreme Court Justice & ruled on a case regarding the Israel lobby, she was the member of an organization that worked for Israel - see
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Tulsi, please speak out about this! Congress gives Israel $10 mill/day. Time to stop.
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@TulsiPress
you've courageously spoken out against the Establishment & opposed wars - please also oppose Israeli violence!
’42 Knees in One Day’: Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters /
Read: Also, read:
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This is going on day after day after day after day...
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For all the politicians who claim Israel is our 'friend'
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Are, once again, Americans going to kill and be killed for Israel?
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The widely repeated claim that Iran had a direct role in orchestrating the Hamas attack appears to be untrue Once again Israel seems to be trying to get us to attack a country on their behalf
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These settler hit and run deaths against Palestinians are extremely tragic and are not rare - eye witnesses often say they appeared to be intentional... given the extreme bigotry of many settlers this seems likely...
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@NBCNews
Jan. 6, 2022: Mustafa Yassin Falna, 25, a married father of an 18-month-old baby, was killed after being rammed by an Israeli vehicle while heading to work in Jerusalem. Mustafa was from Safa village, west of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli soldiers invade people's homes in the Palestinian Occupied Territories literally every day - usually in numerous locations, often at night
@ifamericansknew
Israeli forces detain a Palestinian youth after breaking into his home in Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem.
#FreePalestine
#ارفع_علمك #المسجد_الأقصى
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@ifamericansknew
@USATODAY
@FoxNews
@Reuters
It's sad that so many people are afraid to say anything negative about Israel... shows the power of the Israel lobby... I suspect it's far more powerful than any other special interest group.
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This is what living under Occupation is like…
Israeli apartheid soldier is arresting a 10 y/o Palestinian girl.
Her slightly older sister says you can’t take her.
Soldier say “I can’t!?” goes to cuff her, the older sister says take me instead.
So he cuffs them both.
Older sister says I don’t care if they arrest me.
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Jewish & Israel studies at colleges around the US owe almost the totality of their existence to Jewish donors, who then use ‘soft power’ to shape pro-Israel programs. Now they’re starting to use ‘hard power’
After a donor who gave $5 mill to endow an Israel chair at U of Wash complained about the chair’s criticism of Israel, UW stripped the professor of her chair & reportedly transferred the money to an Israel advocacy organization…
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@elonmusk
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@mtaibbi
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@ggreenwald
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@mtracey
It's hugely disappointing that
@bariweiss
has been brought in as part of the twitter files' release. She herself has a well-known history of trying to cancel Palestinians:
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In my article I discuss
#TwitterFiles
journalist Bari Weiss and former Twitter censor Yoel Roth. Weiss says she is a 'Zionist fanatic of unhinged proportions.' She has a history of working to cancel people & suppress negative facts about Israel.
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Almost no one is mentioning this: The anti-Russia Ukraine crisis was originally stoked by neocons furious that Russia was preventing top a Israeli priority: US military strikes on Syria & Iran… Now the neocons' efforts are continuing
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Invading Israeli forces just shot dead a Palestinian boy near Bethlehem, the third Palestinian boy that invading Israeli soldiers have killed in the past week.
@ifamericansknew
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Because the media ignores these deaths, and largely fails to tell us about pro-Israel legislation, we're about to spend $20 mill per day on behalf of Israel:
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@SophieHRW
@hrw
@HRWSoCal
Imad Duikat was the 6th Palestinian to be shot dead by Israeli troops during recent protests against the settler outpost of Evyatar, & the 40th to be killed in the West Bank since May, 2021.
#Americans
need to know the facts! ⬇️
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We need more people courageous enough to speak out about this
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@krystalball
Tell Congress: Demand Israel allow Gaza children to travel for medical treatments, and allow their parents to be with them!
PLEASE HELP.
Act now 👉
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Unfortunately, influential journalist Bari Weiss (part of the valuable
#TwitterFiles
team) has a history of working to suppress certain types of info... read the details at
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@ggreenwald
Many liberals listen to NPR & believe they're fully informed. I used to be like this until 20 yrs ago when I became aware of its bias on Palestine . I now see that its management almost always has an agenda. It's obvious when your eyes are open.
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Israel just keeps killing people - 7 in a little over a week
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@johncusack
Israeli forces claimed that a Palestinian teen had ‘attacked them w/a hammer’ before they used lethal force against him, & abducted his body. This is the 7th Palestinian to die at Israeli hands in a little over a week.
#BibleBuild
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