Does Hamas use Shifa Hospital?
NYT in 2008 reported armed Hamas & executions in Shifa.
Amnesty wrote in 2014 Hamas used Shifa for interrogations & torture; Washington Post wrote it was 'de facto Hamas HQ'.
This in addition to years of US & EU reports on Hamas in Shifa. 14/n
The
@WashingtonPost
's Dec. 23 piece on Israeli military action in Gaza after Oct. 7 makes 2 claims:
1) It's the most destructive war of the century
2) Israel attacks hospitals despite their protections.
WaPo is dishonest throughout. Receipts: (1/n)
@SameeraKhan
1. Egypt may be an Arab country now, but it wasn't 2000 yrs ago, & the Greek Ptolemaic Pharaohs definitely weren't.
2. Jewish people are Levantine.
This thread is *both* historically ignorant *and* racist.
@IlhanMN
Why is a US elected official distorting facts to protect Hamas?
Hamas is a US-designated terror group behind suicide-bombings & kidnappings.
Hamas forced a religious dictatorship on Gaza after a bloody 2007 coup & launched 10,000s rockets at Israel's people – 150 so far today.
Police beating mourners. That's what Jazeera & co want to show.
Yet they hide that:
1 Family coordinated with police
2 Part of crowd hijacked the coffin,
3 beat the hearse,
4 charged police line.
Then the clip begins.
(this clip shows stone throwing)
Even per the Hamas numbers of ~20k that WaPo uses (more on this below), the fighting in Gaza isn't even the same order of magnitude as other conflicts:
At least 200k died in Ukraine war.
At least 350k died in Yemen war.
So which wars did WaPo mean? (2/n)
@RepRashida
"Nakba" means 5 Arab armies trying to "throw the Jews into the sea" failed & a Jewish state survived.
By erasing that context, Rep Tlaib is calling for continued rejection of Israel's existence & never-ending conflict.
As some delegitimize Israel's birth by marking it as
#NakbaDay
, recall:
1. UN plan for 2 states, Jewish & Arab, was accepted by Jews
2. 5 Arab armies invaded to destroy Jewish state
3. After war Arab areas had 0 Jews; Israel had 20% Arabs & still does
4. 1% of Israel was killed
WaPo is wildly off even if zooming in to the region:
More died in 5 yrs in Syria (>400k) than 100 yrs on *all sides* of Arab-Israel conflict (<150k).
The 20k alleged, however tragic, do not come close.
Didn't WaPo know that? Their intentions become clear... (3/n)
WaPo cites "Gaza Health Ministry" for casualties but hides that Hamas runs it (readers also aren't told MoH tally doesn't differentiate between combatants & non-combatants, & even lists Gazans killed by Gazan rockets as...killed by Israel).
Worse to come... (4/n)
@GuyFromTheArea
Nonsense:
"Palestine" was name of the British Mandate & it was primarily a descriptor of Jewish people.
* Palestine Post was a Jewish newspaper, now Jerusalem Post
* Anglo-Palestine Bank was a Jewish Bank, now Bank Leumi
* Palestine national teams were made up of Jewish athletes
WaPo pads sources by quoting a 2nd group on numbers, UN OCHA.
But WaPo *hides that UN OCHA says they quote MoH*!
WaPo's bad faith are clear beyond doubt as they also choose to platform fmr UN rapporteur Michael Lynk, a partisan with a history of anti-Jewish tropes. (5/n)
@Blklivesmatter
Hamas's 3500 rockets have killed Jewish & Arab people in Israel.
500 Hamas rockets fell short in the Gaza Strip & like in previous conflicts killed many Gazans.
Condemn that?
"Many Gazans have been killed & barely any people in Israel"
Who is dying in the Hamas–Israel conflict? Here are some groups worth looking closer at:
Combatants killed by Israel
Non-combatants killed by Hamas
(1/n)
#GazaUnderAttack
#IsraelUnderFire
#غزة_تحت_القصف
@AOC
Are you aware that they're:
1) living on property owned by Jewish people, who had been forced to leave in 1948 when Jordan took over, and
2) that they could've stayed had they not refused to pay years of rent?
Why do Israel's bombs hit hospitals, schools & mosques – places that should be protected from combat?
Hamas intentionally uses those places for military operations, so violating their protection & risking them & civilians. Here are some example from the 2014 conflict. (9/n)
@MeidasTouch
In the clip Pres. Trump is criticizes Pres. Biden, saying "this would never have happened" under his administration...it's quite a stretch to frame that as Trump being in favor of Russia's invasion.
The dishonesty detailed above demands that, even if WaPo redefines "destructive" wars to mean buildings, not lives, their claims be subject to deep skepticism.
One thought: Aleppo & Mosul may be larger than Gaza, but fighting seems more concentrated.
What about hospitals? (6/n)
@DwyaneWade
"Keep leading" sounds like an endorsement of the anti-Jewish racial theories that got him in trouble more than an endorsement of his creative rights.
Can celebrities pls denounce the Farrakhan-esque ideas that build up Black people by tearing down Jewish people?
@m7mdkurd
This
@theNation
correspondent is calling for 'glory' to those behind a campaign of hundreds of terrorist attacks: suicide-bombings & shootings directed against buses & eateries full of men, women & children.
Here are some photos he left out.
@mehdirhasan
Yes, Israel is familiar with Russian-backed wars of aggression waged upon it.
How disappointed some are that the MiGs were downed & T-62 tanks repulsed by Israel's citizen-soldiers, & that they & their children today live free, productive lives.
Dec 2023 WaPo even says Israel showed evidence of weapons in hospitals, but disingenuously adds that these are unverified claims.
Here's just one video of Hamas shooting at Israeli troops from a hospital.
We'll see in a moment what else WaPo knows. (9/n)
WaPo uses slippery innuendo to imply Israel bombs hospitals despite their protections, b/c:
1) Indiscriminate bombing, which also hits hospitals
2) A secret plan to expel Gazans by denying healthcare
Does WaPo really believe that? No... (7/n)
WaPo's innuendo, not explicitly stated, that Israel violates hospital protections, is *contradicted by legal claims presented by WaPo*:
The 5th sentence links to ICRC: hospitals lose protection if used to commit harmful acts.
Even the quoted expert concedes.
So why lie? (10/n)
@RashidaTlaib
You can't support those – like CAIR – who promote incitement against US Jewish organizations & synagogues & then claim to send prayers or love when that incitement bears violent fruit.
@DUALIPA
Hamas' 4000+ rockets killed Jewish & Arab people in Israel.
600+ Hamas rockets fell short in the Gaza Strip & like in previous conflicts killed many Gazans.
Why won't you clearly condemn that?
"Many Gazans have been killed & barely any people in Israel"
Who is dying in the Hamas–Israel conflict? Here are some groups worth looking closer at:
Combatants killed by Israel
Non-combatants killed by Hamas
(1/n)
#GazaUnderAttack
#IsraelUnderFire
#غزة_تحت_القصف
@KenRoth
"Top human rights news in 2021"
HRW thinks that Arabs in Israel – who overwhelmingly identify with Israel & participate in its democracy – are of greater concern than:
1M Uyghurs in concentration camps
acid attacks on Afghan women
etc.
Interesting results from left-wing
@972mag
2019 poll:
✅ Most of Israel's Arabs identify as "-Israeli", a growing trend
✅ Most Jews & Arabs in Israel interact positively
✅ Most of Israel's Arabs would vote for Zionist parties who represented their positions
#يوم_الارض
#LandDay
🧵FAKE HAMAS CASUALTY UPDATE: Latest Hamas fatality count of ~20,000 claims at least 14,200 are women & children. If one accepts these numbers it means IDF has only killed ~840 Hamas versus latest IDF estimate of 8,000. Here is detailed analysis which shows Hamas is lying: 1/
Fair-minded people can judge why an outlet like WaPo produces a piece full of innuendo, dishonesty, & distortions.
Here's a previous thread (referenced above) about Gazan casualty numbers.
"Many Gazans have been killed & barely any people in Israel"
Who is dying in the Hamas–Israel conflict? Here are some groups worth looking closer at:
Combatants killed by Israel
Non-combatants killed by Hamas
(1/n)
#GazaUnderAttack
#IsraelUnderFire
#غزة_تحت_القصف
@benandjerrys
Consistency:
Why does
@BenAndJerrys
ask to boycott Israel but continue selling in all the other markets they 'disagree with'?
"I don't know"
CNN claims "new evidence" shows Shireen Abu Aqleh was killed by Israel – intentionally!
Yet
@CNN
, who just misreported the death of an armed terrorist as a "teen shot", base their conclusion on
*recycled
@Bellingcat
analysis* &
*terror-supporting Fatah official*.
Thread:
US Pres. Biden criticized for Bethlehem remarks renewing Palestinian funding previously halted due to
#pay2slay
payments to terrorists & their families.
Fmr US Pres. Trump slammed Pres. Abbas for 'toleration, funding, rewarding' terror.
#POTUSIsrael2022
For 19 yrs Jordan banned Jewish people from their holiest sites. They demolished synagogues. They made gravestones latrines.
Only once Israel's soldiers retook the area from Jordan's army could Jewish worshippers return in safety & dignity.
That's what
#JerusalemDay
celebrates.
@joshscampbell
In the clip Pres. Trump criticizes Pres. Biden, saying "this would never have happened" under his administration...it's quite a stretch to frame that as Trump being in favor of Russia's invasion.
@benandjerrys
You're 'staying in Israel' yet were working to stop the local licencee partnership, which you're now ending?!
Sounds like this is mostly just about giving in to those who oppose the Jewish people having a country in any borders.
#BenAndJerryShame
@MarkRuffalo
Which of these people are worshipping?
How do you propose protecting Jewish & Muslim worshippers from having stones & fireworks launched at them?
Palestinian man urinating on roof of al Aqsa mosque while "protecting" it.
One of violent hooligans who throw rocks & launch fireworks at Jewish worshippers while cynically claiming to be defending the site's sanctity.
#JerusalemDay
#القدس #المسجد_الأقصى
"Many Gazans have been killed & barely any people in Israel"
Who is dying in the Hamas–Israel conflict? Here are some groups worth looking closer at:
Combatants killed by Israel
Non-combatants killed by Hamas
(1/n)
#GazaUnderAttack
#IsraelUnderFire
#غزة_تحت_القصف
@m7mdkurd
Lolol. "Palestine Post" was one of many institutions founded by people called "Palestinian" before 1948, aka Jewish people in the historic Land of Israel.
He's highlighting the absurd post 1960s anti-Jewish appropriation of that identity & delegitimization of Jewish indigeneity.
@KenRoth
@hrw
HRW's Israel obsession has already done so much damage to int'l human rights.
One can hope that Roth's departure will open space for helping those actually in need, though I wouldn't hold my breath.
@natsechobbyist
@GovRonDeSantis
Could you please criticize DeSantis without invoking antisemitism? Let's save it for those actually harming Jewish people.
@amnesty
Victim?!
Amnesty says Ahmed, who stabbed a 12 y/o, is the victim.
Does Amnesty see the stabbed boy as the *perpetrator*?!
No inversion is too cynical for Amnesty et al as long as its Jewish blood that's shed.
#AmnestyLies
#SHAMnesty
#FreeAhmedManasra
@IlhanMN
Why were you silent when Hamas began shooting the rockets that have murdered Jewish & Arab people in Israel, & only speak up when Israel retaliates to end the rockets?
Of the 1500+ rockets launched, ~1/3 fell short in Gaza & injured/killed Gazans. Condemn that?
@marwilliamson
@AIPAC
@DemMaj4Israel
This comes off as "victim blaming".
Jewish people standing up for the US-Israel alliance – often against those who walk arm-in-arm with antisemites – are not the cause of antisemitism.
@AOC
@IlhanMN
Pretty sick & tired of the constant vilification, intentional mischaracterization, & public targeting of the Jewish people & Israel coming from your caucus.
You have no concept of the danger you put Jewish people in America & around the world in.
1/
Jews are being publicly beaten in broad daylight the street of America and Europe...
A thread🧵
(yes, it's that bad)
We'll start in London, where Palestinian activists use a bullhorn to tell people the rape the daughters of Jews:
@RashidaTlaib
How can you know – hours after the gunfight – who fired the bullet?
Claiming it must be Israel & must be intentional confirms your bias towards the Jewish state.
*Deleted* video even shows soldiers firing *away* from her (return fire likely her way).
Red dot - location that Shireen Abu Aqleh is seen after being shot.
Green dot - location above video was filmed.
Blue dot - location of IDF troops with arrow indicating direction of fire by troops.
@apmassaro3
Iron Dome would not be very effective in this kind of mission.
Also, the Russian military is just across Israel's Golan Heights border. When Israel's FM criticized Russia a few days ago, Russia immediately shot back with a statement mentioning the Golan.
The threat is clear.
His radio callsign is "Zion".
Meet the non-Jewish Ukraine soldier who carries a book about Israel PM Golda Meir in his combat pack & calls himself a Zionist & Ukraine nationalist.
#UkraineRussiaWar
@RepBowman
"Nakba" means 5 Arab armies trying to "throw the Jews into the sea" failed & a Jewish state survived.
By erasing that context, Rep Bowman is calling for continued rejection of Israel's existence & never-ending conflict.
As some delegitimize Israel's birth by marking it as
#NakbaDay
, recall:
1. UN plan for 2 states, Jewish & Arab, was accepted by Jews
2. 5 Arab armies invaded to destroy Jewish state
3. After war Arab areas had 0 Jews; Israel had 20% Arabs & still does
4. 1% of Israel was killed
@NatalieLKahn
@BDSmovement
@CrimsonOpinion
@thecrimson
"Does the Editorial Board believe Israel even has a right to exist? Because, if so, that line is coincidentally missing."
Excellent response to the attempted normalization of BDS's anti-Jewish bigotry.
@visegrad24
The medical delegation will be assisting Ukraine refugees on the Moldova border.
Israel is also flying in 100 tons of humanitarian aid including medical equipment & medicine.
EMT Linor Attias with a morning update about our team's progress.
Due to airspace closures, the team flew into Romania and will be making their way by land to Moldova and after a quick situation assessment to the border with Ukraine.
@RepRashida
@StateDept
@POTUS
US Congresswoman citing someone who was happy in 1980s Lebanon to be identified as an agent of the PLO, at the time a banned terrorist group, & who today justifies terror & rejects Israel in any borders.
I’m outraged that the
@StateDept
is moving forward with plans to build the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on land stolen from Palestinians. By doing so, the U.S. is complicit in the illegal confiscation of Palestinian property.
@POTUS
should reverse this Trump era policy immediately.
@Israellycool
@KeithPekau
"Keith Pekau is a decorated combat veteran and Air Force Instructor Weapons System Officer in the F-15E. He has over 1,500 hours of flight time, including 45 combat sorties and 150 combat hours over Southern Iraq."
He's been there & done that, & knows what he's talking about.
@sjabulhawa
A non-Jewish Arab person telling Middle Eastern Jewish people that their identity is wrong...
Might carry more weight if most Arab countries still had any Jewish people in them.
#الكذب_داء
@60Minutes
Questions whether there was genocidal murder of millions of Jewish people & in next breath refuses to recognize existence of the Jewish people's state.
This is the regime the West would allow right up to the line of nuclear weapons & would pay a fortune to for the pleasure?
@hzomlot
We can all watch the video & hear your refusal to condemn. If you condemn the pre-meditated murder of civilians at a house of prayer & it's root cause – indoctrination of Palestinian young people – then you can say so any time right here.
@TalbertSwan
@AndrewYang
There's no moral equivalence between Hamas' religious dictatorship shooting rockets at the Jews, Christians & Muslims in Jerusalem (& apparently rockets fell short & killed Gazans too) & Israel trying to stop those rockets.
An Arab politician in Israel & member of a far-left political party rejects
@Amnesty
's lies:
"Israel has many problems which it must solve, both inside the Green Line & all the moreso in the occupied territories, but Israel is not an apartheid state."
#AmnestyLies
#SHAMnesty
@StopAntisemites
@nbcsnl
@nbc
Ofc his name is "Israel"...
Must've been tough finding someone who knows something about Jewish beliefs and practice *in Hollywood*
A Gazan student studying in Ukraine fled when the war began. He crossed the border to Moldova and saw two Hatzalah volunteers with an Israeli flag draped on their car. Seeing the flag, he immediately sought their help and they are getting him home (pic below) Can’t make this up!
@LouiseMensch
@yairlapid
Israel has sent humanitarian aid, a field hospital, took in 10Ks refugees, & condemned RU in UN & EU, all while having Russian troops on its border.
This isn't a fair criticism of it's position or actions.
@benandjerrys
Appeasing those bullies who object to Israel existing in any borders, who object to Jewish & Arab people working & living together, doesn't quite make multinational corporation Ben & Jerry's a victim.
@Abihabib
In the clip Pres. Trump criticizes Pres. Biden, saying "this would never have happened" under his administration...it's quite a stretch to frame that as Trump being in favor of Russia's invasion.
@cjwerleman
"provocation rituals" = CJ-speak for Jewish religious practice.
Beyond the blatant anti-Jewish hate, he's also promoting
#FakeNews
#disinformation
as he does (or should) know that this is a holy site shared by Jewish & Muslim worshippers.
@TVietor08
A search warrant authorizes...a search, per 4th Amd. It does not create other powers or cancel out civil liberties.
I remember when people used to be skeptical of the police, *especially* when they were dealing with someone we thought was a criminal.
@AliAlbrecht5
Jesus didn't identify as Palestinian – a modern national identity – & anachronistically redefining him clouds the ancient past of many who today *do* identify as Palestinian.
He was a Judean Jewish person.
@KayBurley
@hzomlot
That people like him refuse to condemn the intentional murder of unarmed civilians by radicalized youth shows why there's no peace, & makes it unsurprising that he tries to distort cause/effect by recasting other proudly terrorist combatants as innocent victims.
@RashidaTlaib
Rashida wants more Jewish & Arab people dead.
She opposes a purely defensive system that protects Jewish & Arab people from Hamas rockets.
She's also ignores how – lacking Iron Dome – a single Hamas rocket aimed at a Tel Aviv apartment block will force full-scale conflict.
@m7mdkurd
@thenation
He's clear: the 'resistance' "forced Zionists to live fearfully" – that's the aim of terrorism.
He also claims 300k fled these attacks, giving voice to the fantasy he'd like to see realized: ethnic-cleansing of Jewish people from the area.
Receipts:
@MarkRuffalo
Translation: Paypal operates in areas subject to law & order & doesn't operate in areas with rampant political/financial corruption & terror financing.
@SamEssa8
@hzomlot
Intentionally targeting unarmed civilians, elderly, women & children, is unacceptable anywhere. It is called terrorism, & the fact that some would justify it shows exactly why there is no peace.
Interesting results from left-wing
@972mag
2019 poll:
✅ Most of Israel's Arabs identify as "-Israeli", a growing trend
✅ Most Jews & Arabs in Israel interact positively
✅ Most of Israel's Arabs would vote for Zionist parties who represented their positions
#يوم_الارض
#LandDay
@abierkhatib
This Holocaust inversion – trying to associate supporters of Jewish lives with supporters of Jewish deaths – is even more sick & twisted in light of the *actual* Nazi past of leading "anti-Zionists".
Interesting results from left-wing
@972mag
2019 poll:
✅ Most of Israel's Arabs identify as "-Israeli", a growing trend
✅ Most Jews & Arabs in Israel interact positively
✅ Most of Israel's Arabs would vote for Zionist parties who represented their positions
#يوم_الارض
#LandDay
@KevinLWalker
Fact:
'Blame the Jews for KKK' is a wacky conspiracy theory even for 2020 racism.
Anti-Jewish hate is wrong & only hurts the anti-racist fight.
#antisemitism
@RepAOC
@StateDept
Evictions are painful, but 20 yrs in court being sued by the municipality & other Palestinians who claim ownership on the land & building a school for Arabic-speaking special-needs students is hardly a "cruel act".
@FranceskAlbs
Ah yes, it's Israel's fault that...[checks notes]...a Palestinian walked up to a car and murdered two Israelis inside, shooting them at point-blank range.
Good thing we have the special rapporteur to clarify things.
As some delegitimize Israel's birth by marking it as
#NakbaDay
, recall:
1. UN plan for 2 states, Jewish & Arab, was accepted by Jews
2. 5 Arab armies invaded to destroy Jewish state
3. After war Arab areas had 0 Jews; Israel had 20% Arabs & still does
4. 1% of Israel was killed
@Barahmeh
If Jesus was born in Bethlehem today, these folks would label him a "settler" – and violence would be justified against him just for being Jewish.
@RepRashida
@StateDept
You: Israel is apartheid
Palestinians: No
Arab politician in Israel's far-left political party rejects her lies:
"Israel has many problems which it must solve, both inside the Green Line & all the more so in the occupied territories, but Israel is not an apartheid state."