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@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Hey New York City, in the next few years, brace yourself for more false flag operations & staged antisemitic incidents than at any previous time in history. https://palestinenexus.com/articles/jews-zionists-manufacturing-anti-semitism-us
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
it's genocide (@amnesty) it's genocide (@hrw) it's genocide (@btselem) it's genocide (@MSF) it's genocide (IAGS) it's genocide (@AlHaq) it's genocide (@UNHumanRights) it's genocide (@UN_HRC) it's genoicde (@pchrgaza) it's genocide (@AlMezanCenter) it's genocide (@WarOnWant) it's genocide (@PHRIsrael) it's genocide (@fidh_en) it's genocide (PHROC) it's genocide (@LemkinInstitute) it's "highly contested" (@jimmy_wales) Hey Jimmy, this is among the least contested genocides in all of history. Who pressured you to lie? What kind of leverage did they exert over you?
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Hi Michael, I'm Jewish. Many of my closest friends are Jewish. I love them all. My whole family is Jewish, I love them all too. My community is Jewish. Love them all. I love Judaism. I host shabbat dinners, celebrate Jewish holidays, sing Jewish prayers, study Torah & Talmud, and love Jewish culture, history and expression. But I'm not a Zionist. Zionism was an ideology that said, let's create a Jewish state in a country that's 97%+ non-Jewish. That's why, when Zionists bought land in Palestine from the 1900s-1948, they uprooted the people living on the land because they weren't jewish. That's why, when Zionists created cooperatives in Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, they insisted on "Hebrew Labor", i.e., "Jews only" & they tried to expel Palestinian Arabs from working at Jewish-owned enterprises. https://jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2007.36.2.25 That's why, in 1948, Zionists militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. That's why, from 1949-1956, Israeli forces shot & killed b/w 2,700-5,000 overwhelmingly unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes after the war. The refugees had the wrong DNA! (source: Benny Morris, Border Wars, p.416). That's why Israel expelled another ~30-40,000 Palestinians from Israel from 1949-1959. https://palestinenexus.com/articles/israel-ethnic-cleansing-1949-1965 That's why Israel expelled another ~250,000 Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank when it occupied those territories in 1967. That's why Israel continued to expel Palestinians from the occupied territories from 1968-1993, many hundreds of thousands of them. They had the wrong DNA! https://palestinenexus.com/articles/israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-the-palestinians-1968-1993 Zionists wanted to create a Jewish State with a Jewish majority in a land of overwhelmingly Palestinians. That's why Israel has become such a pariah state over the years, because it's insistence on jewish rule in a country with so many Palestinians. That's why Zionism has led Israel to become an apartheid state, according to every relevant human rights organization ( @ICAHD in 2010, @UNESCWA in 2017, @YeshDin in 2020, @AdalahCenter in 2020, @btselem in 2021, @hrw in 2021, @fidh_en in 2021, @alhaq_org in 2022, @Addameer in 2022, @AlMezanCenter in 2022, @cacalqudsuni in 2022, @AdvocacyJlac in 2022, @miftahpal in 2022, @ICJ_org in 2022, @DAWNmenaorg in 2022, @amnesty in 2022), since it cannot grant the ~5-6 million occupied Palestinians Israeli citizenship. Israel chose apartheid over democracy to preserve its Jewish majority. Zionism also explains why Israel is now committing genocide (according to @hrw @amnesty @MSF @AlHaq @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @pchrgaza @AlMezanCenter @WarOnWant @PHRIsrael @BtSIsrael & 86% of the members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars), because, what a Zionist dream it would have been had Palestine been a land without any people on it! the ideology incentivized genocide. So, please don't conflate Judaism -- that has existed for 3,300+ years -- with your 150-yr-old anti-Jewish ideology founded on the principles of forcible displacement, supremacy for one group over others, apartheid and now genocide. Judaism will last as long as their are humans on the planet. Zionism is imploding in real time.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
How it started: “don’t be evil” How it’s going: https://t.co/rApvZR4nTp
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Nearly all Zionists in Palestine before WWI were living there illegally since the Ottomans banned Jewish immigration to Palestine in the early 1880s. Then, they were able to continue to build Tel Aviv during the British Mandate period thru colonial violence. That is, the British used force to suppress the political will of 85% of the local population — who rejected Zionism as indicated by the King Crane Commission of 1919 — that’s how Tel Aviv got built. Appreciate you bringing up history — as the more history people know — the more hostile they become to Zionism.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Time Magazine is TOXIC. Last year, Time Magazine asked me to write a 1000 word piece on the history of Hamas. In their words, "we're of course open to different angles & ideas that you feel are most pertinent based on your analysis of the situation." Spoiler alert: that turned out to be false. I wrote the piece. First editor made some excellent suggestions. I revised & re-submitted. Then it went to a second editor (Adam Rasmi @adamrasmi). Adam went through the article & removed all of the important evidence for my argument. It was as if @TIME Magazine was only willing to publish the piece if I agreed to remove all of the supporting evidence for my argument. Strange. This was my response: "The argument of my essay is that Israeli violence radicalized Hamas. Four of the key pieces of evidence I share in the piece to support this argument are: 1. The violence committed by the Israeli military in Gaza during the first year of the intifada (142 Palestinians killed, 0 Israelis killed), the same time that Hamas officially transitioned from charity org. to militant group. 2. the Israeli violence committed against Palestinians up until 1991, i.e. the period in which Hamas transitioned from attacking Israeli military targets to also attacking Israeli civilian targets. 3. The torture of the son of Hamas's leader Ahmed Yassin in front of Yassin himself. 4. An excellent @NYMag piece based on many interviews w/ Hamas militants, saying they embraced violence not b/c of some eternal Jew hatred or Israel hatred, but rather b/c of the violence committed against them, especially against innocent Palestinian civilians. These four pieces of evidence, critical to the argument of the essay, were all removed in the latest round of edits. I wrote back to Time Magazine: I rejected the suggestion to remove the evidence for my argument. Needless to say, they never published the piece. So I published the piece here: https://palestinenexus.com/articles/israeli-violence-radicalized-hamas
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Donald Trump admits the point of the starvation policy is the extract concessions. It’s an admission that he & his Israeli counterparts are deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war. https://t.co/GQLNHaYhxT
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
10 examples of Israeli apartheid at work. 🧵
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If u are Palestinian from Silwan (Ramzi Abbasi), Israel can imprison u for 120 days, no reason provided. If u are Jewish in Silwan, u can ethnically cleanse Palestinians & Israel will imprison those protesting being cleansed. Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If you are Palestinian in the West Bank & you throw a stone, you face arrest & 20 years in prison. If you are Jewish in the West Bank & you throw a stone, the Israeli military will arrest the people you throw the stone at. Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If you are a Palestinian & you live on Shuhada Street in Hebron, u must climb onto your rooftop to an adjacent street to leave your house, b/c you aren't allowed on the street. If you are Jewish, you can come & go as u like. Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If you are Jewish & arrested in Adora, Israeli law requires you be informed of the reason. If you are a Palestinian & arrested in Fer'a (200 meters away), Israeli law does not require u be informed of the reason. Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If you are Jewish & move to Israel, you are given subsidized housing. If you are Bedouin & lived in Israel before the country existed, your home may be demolished b/c u are the incorrect ethnicity. Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If you are a Jew & you kill a Palestinian in the West Bank, you will likely face no consequences. If u are a Palestinian & you kill a Jew you will likely be killed on the spot.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If you are a Jew in Jaffa, Israel will build Jewish-only buildings for you. If you are a Palestinian in Jaffa, Israel will issue eviction + demolition orders on your house (in 1 out of 10 cases). This is in Israel "proper". Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
A Jew born on Road 3157 who organizes 11 people for a pol. purpose w/out a permit faces 0 yrs in prison. A Palestinian born on Road 3157 who organizes 11 people for a pol. purpose w/out a permit faces up to 10 yrs in prison. Not so complicated after all. It's called apartheid.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If you live in (Jewish) West Jerusalem, your water runs 24hrs/day, 7 days a week. If you live in (Palestinian) East Jerusalem, your water runs 1-2 days/week or 4-9hrs/week in some cases. Not so complicated after all. It’s called apartheid. https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2024-07-16/ty-article-magazine/.premium/the-arabs-living-in-jerusalem-without-running-water-it-will-become-a-second-gaza/00000190-bb83-db81-a3f7-fb9fe9680000?utm_source=App_Share&utm_medium=iOS_Native
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If you are a Jew, you CANNOT be arrested w/out charge or trial & be held in an Israeli torture dungeon forever. If you are a Palestinian, you CAN be arrested w/out charge or trial & be held in an Israeli torture dungeon forever. Not so complicated after all. It's call apartheid
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
This is why every major human rights organization has described Israel as an apartheid state: "it's apartheid" (@HSRCza, 2009) "it's apartheid" (@ICAHD, 2010) “It’s apartheid” (@YWCAPalestine, 2014) "it's apartheid" (@UNESCWA, 2017) "it's apartheid" (@YeshDin, 2020) "it's apartheid" (@AdalahCenter, 2020) "it's apartheid" (@btselem, 2021) “it's apartheid" (@hrw, 2021) "it's apartheid" ( @fidh_en, 2021) "it's apartheid" (@alhaq_org 2022) "it's apartheid" (@Addameer 2022) "it's apartheid" (@AlMezanCenter 2022) "it's apartheid" (@cacalqudsuni 2022) "it's apartheid" (@AdvocacyJlac 2022) "it's apartheid" (@miftahpal 2022) "it's apartheid" ( @UN 2022) "it's apartheid" (@amnesty 2022) it's apartheid" (@ICJ_org 2022) "it's apartheid" (@DAWNmenaorg 2022) “It’s apartheid” (@DisciplesNews 2023)
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
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@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
As predicted, Israel waited until Tuesday, Nov. 5th, 2024, the date of the US Presidential election, to officially announce that Palestinians are in the process of being ethnically cleansed from North Gaza. Doing Zionism quietly, like clockwork. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/06/palestinians-will-not-be-allowed-to-return-to-homes-in-northern-gaza-says-idf?CMP=twt_b-gdnnews
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Zionism = Colonialism. A 🧵
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Many (most?) Zionist organizations used the words "Colonial" or "Colonization" (later they were changed when colonialism fell from grace): 1) The Jewish Colonial Trust 2) Imperial Charter for the Colonization of Palestine 3) Jewish Colonization Association 4) Palestine Jewish Colonization Association That's b/c colonization was considered to be noble by most in the West, since it was bringing Western civilization to the uncivilized natives. All major Zionist leaders held this worldview.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Zionist leaders often compared their movement to other colonial movements: In 1897, at the First Zionist Congress, Max Nordau said: “We will endeavor to do in the Near East what the English did in India.” https://mondoweiss.net/2014/05/determination-haunts-policy/ In an 1899 speech in London, Herzl said: “I should think that here in England, the Zionist idea, which is a colonial one, should be easily & quickly understood in England.” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10099254/
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Zionist leaders also acted as though they were establishing a colonial movement: → Herzl was inspired by the English & Dutch companies that gained concessions in European colonies, he made a similar proposal to the Ottomans; in 1902, Herzl proposed a plan to the Colonial Secretary for Jewish settlement in Cyprus. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/47602/1/THESIS.pdf → Arthur Ruppin hired a former German Colonization Commission official who transformed Poznan from Polish to German. this would help advise on how to transform the demographic character of Palestine from Palestinian to Jewish.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
This inspired Ruppin, who became head of ZO in Jaffa for a decade & later head of the Jewish Agency in the 1930s. Ruppin even hired a former German Colonization Commission official to advise on how to transform the demographic character of Palestine from Palestinian to Jewish https://x.com/_ZachFoster/status/1653886598923145219/photo/1
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
For a deep dive on the history of Zionism: https://palestinenexus.com/courses/p/zionism-101
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Photo of Haganah / Israeli military soldiers dressing up w/items from the wardrobes of Palestinians they expelled from their homes, in 1948. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-10-03/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/jews-looted-arab-property-en-masse-in-48-the-authorities-let-them/0000017f-e7d4-d62c-a1ff-ffff83bd0000
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Rafah in Nov 2023. Rafah in Sep 2024. @POTUS & @SecBlinken remember when you said invading Rafah was a red line? Remember when you said Israel’s operation in Rafah was limited in scale? You are both genocidal maniacs who should be in jail cells the rest of your miserable lives. https://t.co/ELD1GwbQE2
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Meet the Palestinian hostages kidnapped by Israel. 🧵
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
On June 27, '23, Israeli forces abducted the journalist Mohammed Muna, 41, from his home in Nablus for the 7th time. He worked at "Hawa Nablus" radio & w/Quds Press. On Dec. 27, his detention was extended by another 6 months. His whereabouts are unknown. https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240117-israel-administrative-detention-rates-soar-after-october-7
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
On April 7, '24, Israeli forces kidnapped the women’s rights activist Layan Nasir, 24, from her home at 4am. She graduated Birzeit University & worked in a women’s development NGO before her abduction. Her detention was recently renewed for 4 more months. https://indcatholicnews.com/news/50309
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
In Aug. '23, Israeli forces abducted the healthy Farouq Issa Al-Khatib for 4 months. He was beaten badly by his Israeli captors & denied medical care. Doctors declared him terminal before his release. He was killed on May 19th, '24. https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/he-was-taken-from-his-home-a-healthy-man-he-came-back-on-his-deathbed/
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
On 1 March '24, Israeli forces abducted the researcher & activist Omar al-Khatib, a research partner at The Institute of Development Studies, affiliated w/ the University of Sussex in Brighton. In June 2024, his sentence was extended for 4 months.
@theiachatelle - Theia Chatelle
My friend Omar al-Khatib has been in Israeli administrative detention since March. His sentence was just extended by four months. Israel is targeting anti-occupation activists like Omar and detaining them without charge. Free Omar and all Palestinian political prisoners.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
On August 12, 2024, Israeli forces abducted journalist & activist Ayman Gharib. His alleged crime was “incitement on social media” but his posts document Israeli military & settler violence. I guess he’s inciting people to reject Israeli apartheid?
@ytirawi - Younis Tirawi | يونس
Yesterday, my dear friend Ayman Ghryeeb was arrested by IOF. Ayman has faced huge incitement from Israeli settlers for his anti-settlement activities & escorting internationals and Israeli-leftists to endangered Pal communities. IOF claim: “incitement on social media”
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
On 26 Dec. 2023, Israeli forces abducted the politician & scholar Khalida Jarrar, 61. They just renewed her "administrative detention" again. She is currently being held in solitary confinement. She has been held in prison w/out charge on & off for years. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240821-israel-keeps-palestinian-legislator-khalida-jarrar-in-solitary-confinement/
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
These are 6 out of ~3,615 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons & dungeons, known as "administrative detainees." They have not committed a crime, they are not told why they are abducted & their imprisonment is renewable forever. They are hostages & should be called hostages.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Israel doesn't care if they are Muslim or Christian, young or old, men or women, whether they protest w/a camera, voice or pen. Palestinians who non-violently resist occupation, apartheid & genocide face abduction, indefinite imprisonment, torture & possibly death.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
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Polio had been eradicated in Gaza. You can now credit Israel w/ bringing it back through its annihilation of Gaza’s health care system https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjup6ouoc
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
A few months ago, Time Magazine asked me to write a 800-1000 piece on the history of Hamas. In their words, "we're of course open to different angles & ideas that you feel are most pertinent based on your analysis of the situation." Spoiler alert: that turned out to be a lie. I wrote the piece. First editor made some excellent suggestions. I revised & re-submitted. Then it went to a second editor (Adam Rasmi @adamrasmi). Adam went through the article and removed all of the important evidence for my argument. It was as if @TIME Magazine wanted to publish the piece, except without any of the evidence to support it. Strange. This was my response: "The argument of my essay is that Israeli violence radicalized Hamas. Four of the key pieces of evidence I share in the piece to support this argument are: 1. The violence committed by the Israeli military in Gaza during the first year of the intifada (142 Palestinians killed, 0 Israelis killed), the same time that Hamas officially transitioned. 2. the Israeli violence committed against Palestinians up until 1991, i.e. the period in which Hamas transitioned from attacking Israeli military targets to attacking Israeli civilian targets. 3. The torture of Yassin's son in front of him 4. The NY Mag reporting where the Hamas militants interviewed themselves saying they embraced violence not because of some eternal hatred of the jews or of the state of Israel but because of the violence committed against them, especially against innocent palestinian civilians. These four pieces of evidence -- critical to the argument of the essay -- were all removed in the latest round of edits. I've rejected those suggestions, because I don't think it makes sense to remove the most compelling pieces of evidence." Needless to say, they never published the piece. What a toxic publication. So I published the piece here: https://palestine.beehiiv.com/p/israeli-violence-radicalized-hamas
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Ever wonder what ethnic cleansing looks like? ⬇️
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
A new Israeli law is on it's way to success. The law will make Israel more obviously an apartheid state. The law is simple: Palestinians can be subject to indefinite, arbitrary imprisonment (i.e. hostage taking), but Jews can't. Not so complicated after all #apartheid
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
A new law under discussion in Israel: If you are Palestinian in Israel, you can be imprisoned forever w/out being charged w anything ("administrative detention") If you are a Jew in Israel, you cant. Not so complicated after all. it's called apartheid. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-06-16/ty-article/israel-presents-detention-without-trial-for-arabs-only/00000190-1d81-d880-a7f5-bdd5d0650000?utm_source=App_Share&utm_medium=iOS_Native
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
It feels like the right time to re-share this piece, after AIPAC spent $15 million dollars to unseat Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York. So, if you ever wondered why the US Congress is so pro-genocide in Gaza, you have @AIPAC to thank for that. https://palestine.beehiiv.com/p/aipac-making-us-congress-progenocide
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A brief history of Israel's policy of torturing Palestinians. A 🧵
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Oct. 7-present. Israel tortured 4,000+ Palestinians at the Sde Teiman prison: systematic beatings, sexual violence, electric shocks, electric sticks up anuses, sleep deprivation, psychological torture. 35 have "died" while in the prison since Oct. 7. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-detention-base.html
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Oct. 7-present. Israel restrained prisoners round the clock by all 4 limbs at Sdei Teiman. 2 prisoners had legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, 1 had a hand amputated, described as "a routine event." Inmates fed through straws, defecate in diapers. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-04/ty-article/.premium/doctor-at-idf-field-hospital-for-detained-gazans-we-are-all-complicit-in-breaking-law/0000018e-a59c-dfed-ad9f-afdfb5ce0000
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Oct. 7- present. Israel withheld food from prisoners for 12 days at the Ashkelon prison; injected prisoners w/unknown substances; required handcuffs when eating & using toilet; prisoners told: "Do not complain to the press, or we will come to you again." https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6367/Killing,-torture,-and-injections-of-unknown-substances:-Intl.-community-must-act-on-Israeli-violations-of-Gaza-detainees
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
2021: Mohammed Ardah, Mahmoud Ardah, Zakariya Zubaidi & Yaqoub Qadri denied food, sleep & water for days. Zubaidi was electrocuted, severely beaten, his leg broken & hung upright from his broken leg. Israeli torturers banged Mohammed's head into the ground https://stopthewall.org/2021/09/15/despite-torture-palestinian-prisoners-continue-to-humiliate-israel/
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2020: Israel tortured Samer Arbeed, Walid Hanatsheh, Mays Abu Ghosh & more. Arbeed was tortured until unconscious w/ 11 broken ribs, lung injuries & kidney failure; an Israeli guard fired tear gas into his hospital room, he developed pneumonia as a result. https://samidoun.net/2020/01/severe-torture-in-israeli-prisons-targets-palestinian-steadfastness-walid-hanatsheh-samer-arbeed-mays-abu-ghosh-and-more/
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
2017: @btselem reports Israel holds Palestinian prisoners in solitary confinement / moldy & foul-smelling cells; Israel exposes them to extreme heat/cold, sleep deprivation; denies showers, toothbrush or toilet paper; bound to chairs for days on end. https://www.btselem.org/torture
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2012: @amnesty reported Israel continued to torture Palestinian prisoners in "cruel, inhuman or degrading" thru indefinite administrative detention w/out trial, prolonged incommunicado detention; solitary confinement & worsening prison conditions https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/mde150292012en.pdf
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
2008: Israel tortured "GF": “I was held for interrogation for 91days. At the beginning of each ‘torture session’, a bag was placed over my head & tightened around my eyes. After tying my hands behind my back, I was then hung by my hands to the ceiling..." https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/publications/en_pa_violations_report_2009-2010.pdf
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2003: Israel tortured Wajdi Najajra: "He started beating me...he pulled me by my hair & started hitting me on my throat; he picked up 2 electrical wires & rubbed them against each other to create a spark...he blindfolded me & cuffed my hands behind my back; [he] put the two wires on my nipples. I started shaking and screaming. Then he removed the wires & asked me if I rethought my answer. I told him that I had nothing to say. He then put the wires back onto my nipples, and I started shaking and screaming again." source: https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/publications/torture-eng_0.pdf
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
From 1988-1992, Israeli torturers tortured tens of thousands of Palestinians: sleep & food deprivation; hooding for prolonged periods; enforced standing for long periods in a enclosed space, hands bound behind the back & legs tied; the "banana" position; prolonged periods of painful confinement in small, specially constructed cells (the "closet" or "refrigerator") and severe and prolonged beating on all parts of the body. https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files2/the_interrogations_of_palestinians_during_the_intefada_ill_treatment_moderate_physical_pressure_or_torture_march_1991.pdf
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
In 1977, the London Sunday Times documented Israel's use of systematic torture of Palestinians in the oPT since 1967 War: 44 out of 49 interviewees described being tortured despite still living in the OpT after their release (thus subject to retribution). https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/38577
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
This thread could have been tens of thousands of tweets long, b/c Israel has tortured tens of thousands of Palestinians. This thread represents a tiny sampling. For more content like this, subscribe to my Palestine newsletter: http://PalestineNexus.com
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A brief history of Israel's use of human shields, a 🧵.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
June 2024: Israeli soldiers used an aid truck to enter central Gaza, killing 276 Palestinians & releasing 4 hostages. A survivor of the massacre reported: the aid truck stopped in Nuseirat, Israeli soldiers got out of the truck & sprayed him w/3 bullets.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
May 2024: the Israeli military used an elderly man in Shuja'iyya, Gaza as a human shield, forcing him to inspect buildings with two (likely explosive) drones on top of his head ready to kill him at any second.
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Jan. 2024: the Israeli military used a civilian as a human shield in clashes today in Hebron, West Bank.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Jan 2024: Israeli gunmen dressed as hospital staff and Arab civilians raided a hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin, killing 3 Palestinians. https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227832688/israeli-forces-raid-west-bank-hospital-jenin#:~:text=Israeli%20military%20and%20security%20forces,who%20they%20say%20were%20militants.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Jan. 2024: the Israeli army used a Jerusalemite as a human shield in its invasion of the Qalandia refugee camp. The Israel soldier holding him is careful to keep the Palestinian detainee in front of him as they point their weapons upwards.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Dec. 2023: "Testimony of those arrested by the Israeli army (in Gaza): They provided vests packed w/ explosives to the detainees & put them in a tunnel as human shields. If anyone resisted, the army would blow up the detainee booby-trapped in the tunnel!"
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Nov. 2023: A video shows Israeli soldiers using a blindfolded Palestinian detainee as a human shield in the West Bank. He is seated on the ground w/ vehicles behind him using him as a shield as an Israeli soldier aim his rifle towards Palestinians
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
May 2023: Israeli soldiers forced Nidal, 9, Karam, 11, Ahmad, 2 & Mohammad, 2 to stand in front of Israeli military vehicles while they fired tear gas canisters, stun grenades & live ammunition at Palestinians in Ramallah https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_use_five_palestinian_children_as_human_shields
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March 2023: Anas al-Khalili from Nablus. “I was used as a human shield by Israeli forces. They handcuffed me & started shooting from behind me. While I was handcuffed, they pushed me down the stairs, they stayed behind me & were shooting at the men… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHi6uQj4lSE
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
May 2022: Israeli soldiers used 16yr old Ahed Mohammad Rida Mereb as a human shield in front of an Israeli military vehicle while in Jenin. Israeli soldiers forced her to stand in front of a vehicle on as Palestinian gunmen shot at Israeli forces https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_use_palestinian_girl_as_a_human_shield_in_jenin
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June 2021: Israel is using a Palestinian child as a human shield to stop protesters throwing stones at them in the occupied West Bank.
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March 2018 Israel soldiers detained ‘Abd a-Rahim Gheith in Jericho & ordered him out the car, handcuffed him & made him sit on the road for 2hrs. Gheith was then used as a human shied, & was hit by stones thrown at the soldiers. Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WzzrptwQunI&t=3s&ab_channel=btselem
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July-Aug 2014: The Israeli military used Ramadan Qudeih as a human shield: “Israeli soldiers handcuffed & blindfolded us...they made us stand by the windows as protective shields for them [for 9hrs]. There was gunfire all around us. We were their shields." https://youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv3Cc&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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July-August 2014: The Israeli army used Nazeeha al-Najjar and her family as human shields. “They refused to let us out….I asked for am ambulance for my sister, who fainted, they refused. They held us to protect themselves." (7:30) https://youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv3Cc&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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July-August 2014: "I was taken prisoner, handcuffed & walked almost at gun point…he made me walk forward and he was protected by me…if any shots had been fired, they’d have hit me. He [the israeli soldier] was right behind me. https://youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv3Cc&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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2010-2013: "The Committee on the Rights of the Child express deep concern about the continuous use of Palestinian children as human shields and informants. 14 such cases have been reported from January 2010 to 31 March 2013 only." https://youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv3Cc&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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2008-9: Israeli military used Palestinians as human shields in the 2008-9 war on Gaza, including Majdi Abd Rabbo, Abbas Ahmad Ibrahim Halawa, Mahmoud Abd Rabbo al-Ajrami and others. See p. 218-230 of the UN's Goldstone Report: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G09/158/66/PDF/G0915866.pdf?OpenElement
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Feb 2009: the Israeli army used Magdy Rabbo as a human shield: “the officers said I wouldn’t see my family unless i did it…he pushed me w/his weapon, held me by my neck & said go." [He had to go back & forth between Israeli soldiers & hamas fighers]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acaU4D6dUqU
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Feb 2009: the Israeli army used Rabbi Abde Rabi as a human shield in Gaza: “They would send us ahead they made me dig holes in the wall...first to check in case they were booby trapped. We were put in front so in case there was gunfire, we would be [hit]." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acaU4D6dUqU
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2000-5: the Israeli military used Palestinians as human shields on 1,200 occasions from 2000-5, according to Israeli officials. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/israel-gaza-idf-used-palestinians-as-human-shields-1200-occasions-in-last-five-years-say-israeli-defence-officials/30483468.html
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2002: the Israeli military forced Palestinians to walk thru buildings suspected to be booby-trapped. they were forced to enter certain areas before the Israeli forces to serve as shields against attacks (p.230) https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G09/158/66/PDF/G0915866.pdf?OpenElement
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May 2001: the Israeli army took over Hussein Aladi’s home, established an Israeli military base on the roof. For 3 months, they fired every day from there. The army insisted family always remain in the house, to protect the Israeli soldiers in it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=D9SlKCla3xY&ab_channel=JourneymanPictures
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Now, a brief summary of Israel's use of Israeli civilians as human shields: In the 1950s, Israel built civilian centers in border areas to serve as a first line of military defense. 108 such settlements were built in Israel after 1948, including many of the Israeli towns near Gaza like Nahal Oz. Israeli historian Yoav Gelber put it this way: "Originally, the border settlements served as Israel’s first line of defense. They defended themselves & supplemented the then small regular army (three brigades) in providing cover for the mobilization of the reserve formations. The status of those living in the border settlements was identical to that of reserve soldiers. They were organized in companies and platoons in the border towns and villages and integrated into the IDF’s territorial hierarchy of areas and districts under territorial commands. They were trained and equipped according to their mission, including anti-tank and light support arms." https://jstribune.com/gelber-israels-revised-national-security-doctrine-must-include-border-defense/ The Israeli military HQ is in the Tel Aviv city center, a few hundred meters from a large high school. Why is the Israeli military HQ so close to so many children? Why does it operate its war machine so close to so many innocent Israeli children? https://jacobin.com/2023/11/human-shields-bombing-gaza-palestine-israel-defense-forces-morally-bankrupt The Israeli army’s radio station, @GLZRadio, is located in a residential apartment building & its antennas are on the roof of that residential building. Israel's civilian settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories have been & continue to be used for military purposes. Avigdor Lierman said this explicitly: “The settlements in Judea & Samaria & those here in the area of Jericho and the Dead Sea are the State of Israel’s true defensive wall.” https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Liberman-West-Bank-settlements-are-necessary-for-Israels-defense-505370 Many of Israel’s settlements in the West Bank were first established as military outposts, later converted into civilian towns; Israeli settlers wear military garb, carry weapons & enmesh themselves w/ the Israeli army in the OPT, blurring the lines between combatants & civilians. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2016-07-28/ty-article/.premium/document-confirms-first-settlements-built-on-a-lie/0000017f-ea04-da9b-a1ff-ee6ff9080000
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I would like to draw attention to a grass roots effort to document Israel's violations of International Humanitarian Law since Oct. 7th. The result of this painstaking effort is a 33 page PDF, fully sourced, fully linked & continuously updated: https://crimesbyisrael.com/ https://t.co/s2RWNU1Qka
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Was there a ceasefire on Oct. 6th 2023? A 🧵
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Oct 5 2023: Israeli forces killed 3 Palestinians in the West Bank, including Abd al-Rahman Atta & Hudhayfah Fares. Israeli forces also prevented medical aid from reaching the victims & took their bodies hostage; an Israeli settler murdered Labib Dhamidi https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/5/israeli-troops-kill-two-palestinians-in-occupied-west-bank-clash
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Sep 22 2023: Israeli forces killed a Palestinian 18-year old, Abdullah Abu Hasan, in Kafr Dan in the West Bank in a raid in the early hours of the morning. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/22/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-in-northern-west-bank
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Sep 19 2023: Palestinians in Gaza protested Israel's inhumane treatment of Palestinian prisoners & attacks on al-Aqsa mosque. In response, Israel murdered Yousef Salem Yousef Radwan w/ a shot in the head from behind https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israel-resumed-deliberate-use-excessive-and-lethal-force-against-palestinian-protesters-gaza-killing-one-and-injuring-eight
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Sep 19 2023: Israeli forces killed 5 Palestinians & wounded 30, some critically, during an overnight raid in Jenin’s Aqabat Jabr refugee camp. Israel prefers to kill Palestinians at night b/c of fewer cameras & fewer people awake to witness the crime. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230920-jenin-more-palestinians-killed-during-another-israeli-raid/
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Sep 2023: The Israeli army raided Bir Zeit University (near Ramallah in the West Bank) & arrested nine students, including the head of the student council. https://www.npr.org/2023/09/24/1201381201/an-israeli-military-raid-has-killed-two-palestinians-in-the-west-bank
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Sep 19 2023: Israel injured 7 Palestinians in Gaza, including 3 children, during protests in the Malka area, east of al-Zeitoun, in Gaza & in the Abu Safiya area, east of Jabalia, also in Gaza. https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israel-resumed-deliberate-use-excessive-and-lethal-force-against-palestinian-protesters-gaza-killing-one-and-injuring-eight
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18 Sep 2023 Israeli forces injured 4 journalists wearing press gear in Gaza covering a protest, including al-Manara photographer Fadi Mahmoud Ramadan Al-Danaf, French Press Agency photographer Bilal Bassam Odeh Al-Sabagh, Anadolu Agency photographer Mustafa Muhammad Al-Badri Hassouna https://mezan.org/ar/post/46245/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%83%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81-%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8-%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%AE%D9%84-%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86
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5-18 September 2023: During this period, Israeli forces: 1) injured 4 Gazan fishermen for committing the crime of fishing 2) on 15 Sep, Israel bombed Gaza, injuring 1 3) on 13 September, Palestinians protested in Gaza, Israeli forces shot at them injuring 15 Palestinians, including 6 children 4) on Sep 9, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child in Hebron; 5) on Sep 5, Israeli forces raided Nur Shams Camp (Tulkarm, West Bank) & killed 1 Palestinian. Some more stats for this period: https://www.ochaopt.org/poc/5-18-september-2023
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Altogether, on the eve of Oct. 7th, Israel has killed more 200 Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 2023, on pace to be the deadliest year on record in nearly 20 years. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/09/more-200-palestinians-killed-2023-israel-detains-lions-den-leader
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Before that, 2022 was the deadliest year on record since 2004. In 2022, Israel killed 146 Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20230108_the_occupied_territories_in_2022_largest_number_of_palestinians_killed_by_israel_in_the_west_bank_since_2004
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This came after 15yrs of an Israeli-led, Egyptian supported siege on Gaza, making the place "unlivable" already in 2020, according to the @UN. Note as well that imposing a blockade is act of war. The origins of the current war can be traced to June '07
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According to international law, it is an act of war to impose a blockade. So, no, Hamas did not start this war. Israel started the war in June 2007 & has been waging a war every minute of every day of every year for 16 years on all people living in Gaza https://guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/article/3/blockade/
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Israeli media: the 59 Israeli Police officers killed on Oct. 7th are civilians (e.g. @haaretzcom https://haaretz.com/haaretz-explains/2023-11-23/ty-article-magazine/.premium/how-haaretz-is-counting-israels-dead-from-the-october-7-hamas-attack/0000018b-d42c-d423-affb-f7afe1a70000) Israeli military: Palestinian Police officers are military targets (e.g. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israel-hamas-war-israeli-forces-killed-6-palestinian-cops-in-rafah-says-hamas-5007233) A case study in dehumanizing Palestinians.
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A brief history of the Israeli military's use of Palestinians as human shields. A 🧵
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10 Nov 2023: A video shows Israeli soldiers using a blindfolded Palestinian detainee as a human shield in the West Bank. He is seated on the ground w/ vehicles behind him using him as a shield as an Israeli soldier aim his rifle towards Palestinians https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231110-israeli-army-in-west-bank-uses-palestinian-detainee-as-human-shield/
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May 2023: Israeli soldiers forced Nidal, 9, Karam, 11, Ahmad, 2 & Mohammad, 2 to stand in front of Israeli military vehicles while Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters, stun grenades & live ammunition at Palestinians confronting the soldiers in Ramallah https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_use_five_palestinian_children_as_human_shields
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March 2023: Anas al-Khalili from Nablus. “I was used as a human shield by Israeli forces. They handcuffed me & started shooting from behind me. While I was handcuffed, they pushed me down the stairs, they stayed behind me & were shooting at the men…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHi6uQj4lSE&ab_channel=DefenceforChildrenPalestine
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9 March 2018 Israel soldiers detained ‘Abd a-Rahim Gheith in Jericho & ordered him out the car, handcuffed him & made him sit on the road for 2hrs. Gheith was then used as a human shied, & was hit by stones thrown at the soldiers. Video evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzzrptwQunI&t=3s&ab_channel=btselem
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July-Aug 2014: “Israeli soldiers handcuffed & blindfolded us...they made us stand by the windows as protective shields for them. There was gunfire all around us. They made us stand by the window for 9 hours. We were their shields.” - Ramadan Qudeih https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv3Cc&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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July-August 2014: “They refused to let us out….I asked for am ambulance for my sister, who fainted, they refused. They held us to protect themselves. -Nazeeha al-Najjar (7:30) https://youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv3Cc&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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July-August 2014: "I was taken prisoner, handcuffed & walked almost at gun point…he made me walk forward and he was protected by me…if any shots had been fired, they’d have hit me. He [the israeli soldier] was right behind me. https://youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv3Cc&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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2010-2013: "The Committee on the Rights of the Child express deep concern about the continuous use of Palestinian children as human shields and informants. 14 such cases have been reported from January 2010 to 31 March 2013 only." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oed1s5jv3Cc&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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2008-9: The Goldstone Report documented many cases in which the Israeli military used Palestinians as human shields in the 2008-9 war on Gaza, including Majdi Abd Rabbo, Abbas Ahmad Ibrahim Halawa, Mahmoud Abd Rabbo al-Ajrami and others. See p. 218-230 https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G09/158/66/PDF/G0915866.pdf?OpenElement
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Feb 2009: “the officers said I wouldn’t see my family unless i did it…he pushed me w/his weapon, held me by my neck & said go." -Magdy Rabbo. [He had to go back & forth between Israeli soldiers & hamas fighers]. The IDF used Magdy as a human shied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acaU4D6dUqU&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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Feb 2009: “The Israelis would send us ahead...they made me dig holes in the wall & in the houses first to check in case they were booby trapped. We were put in front so in case there was gunfire, we would be [hit].” -Rabbi Abde Rabi, Gaza resident, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acaU4D6dUqU&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish
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In 2002, IDF forced Palestinians to walk thru buildings suspected to be booby-trapped. it ordered them to enter certain areas before the combat forces...the army used residents as a “human shield” to serve as a shield against attack on those forces (p.230) https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G09/158/66/PDF/G0915866.pdf?OpenElement
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May 2001: the Israeli army took over Hussein Aladi’s home, established an Israeli military base on the roof. For 3 months, they fired every day from there. The army insisted family always remain in the house, to protect the Israeli soldiers in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9SlKCla3xY&ab_channel=JourneymanPictures
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The Israeli military HQ is in the Tel Aviv city center, a few hundred meters from a large high school. Why is the Israeli military HQ so close to so many children? Why does it operate its war machine so close to so many innocent Israeli children? https://jacobin.com/2023/11/human-shields-bombing-gaza-palestine-israel-defense-forces-morally-bankrupt
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So why did @SecBlinken call out Hamas for using human shields (w/out evidence), when it's the Israeli military that has been shown to regularly use Palestinians as human shields over and over and over and over and over again for decades? https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-at-a-press-availability-43/
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A brief history of Israel’s 33-year long policy of starving Gaza. A 🧵
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It’s been 5 weeks since @hrw said Israel was starving Palestinians “as a weapon of war.” 5 weeks since the @UN said >1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving; 5 weeks since the @WHO said the risk of famine is “increasing each day;” hrs since the @UN said “everyone in Gaza is hungry”
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The famine unfolding before our eyes did not begin 3 months ago. It began 33yrs ago, when, in Jan 1991, Israel required all Palestinians in Gaza to obtain permits to enter Israel. Overnight, Israel threatened the livelihoods of 40% of Gaza, then employed in Israel. Source:
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Israel's permit regime begot its lockdown regime, which is when the food insecurity in Gaza first reached emergency levels. Israel imposed lockdowns for 64 days in '94, 84 days in '95 & 90 days in '96. During periods of total lockdowns, unemployment reached 70% in the Gaza Strip. The @WFP launched an emergency food operation in 1996 in Gaza, targeting 10,000 families struggling to eat. Source: https://odihpn.org/publication/food-security-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/
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Israel brought back its lockdown regime in the early 2000s, bringing hunger back as well. The @WFP launched another “emergency operation” from 2002-4, assisting hundreds of thousands of people in need of emergency food aid in Gaza. Source: https://odihpn.org/publication/food-security-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/
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The Israeli military tightened the noose around Gaza again in June 2007. Here is a graph of the # of exits of people from Gaza. From 6M in 2000 to 11K in 2007. The siege began. A declaration of war on all 2M Palestinians in Gaza. Source: https://palestine.beehiiv.com/p/no-moral-equivalency-israel-hamas
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Israel wanted to make the people of Gaza suffer, but not starve. At the time, Israel didn’t think the world would allow it to actually starve Palestinians to death in Gaza. (Turns out they were wrong about that). And so, to ensure no starvation took place, the Israeli Health Ministry began to calculate the caloric needs of the population of Gaza & allow that much food in. Dov Weisglass, an adviser to former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, summed up Israel’s policy this way: “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” Source: https://www.haaretz.com/2012-10-17/ty-article/.premium/israels-gaza-quota-2-279-calories-a-day/0000017f-e0f2-d7b2-a77f-e3f755550000
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By 2022, Gaza’s population was on the brink of collapse. A 2022 UN report found that: > 76% of households were worried about not having enough food to eat > 54% of Gazas had to borrow money for food > 52% had to reduce expenses on health to put enough food on the table > 46% had to reduce or cease payment on utilities like electricity to put enough food on the table. > households spent 56% of their money on food source: https://www.ochaopt.org/msna/2022/Key-Sectoral-Findings_Factsheet-Booklet_MSNA-2022_Gaza.pdf
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A brief history of Israel’s 33-year long policy of starving Gaza. A 🧵
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"My two oldest uncles, Khadr & Muhammad, who were child survivors of the Nakba, were detained amongst hundreds of people in the north & they were disappeared. They are older than the state of Israel, stripped of their dignity, humiliated by 18-19 year old soldiers who have no respect for human life, or for the elderly. I was horrified to learn of this news. To this day, they do not speak about it. They say, let's focus on surviving through this day & tomorrow, there is no point in telling you what we've been through. They've seen horrors they can't speak about it." @ShahdAbusalama
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It's strange so many liberal Zionists are angry that @netanyahu would so openly embrace @elonmusk despite his anti-Jewish tendencies. It's strange b/c Zionists have long embraced anti-Jewish tendencies. In fact, many of Zionism's champions were deeply anti-Jewish. A 🧵
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In 1897, Theodor Herzl published a text, "Mauschel," a derogatory term for Jewish Germans connoting cheating & insincerity. Herzl believed Jews who opposed Zionism were "Mauschels," who he described as a “distortion of human character, something unspeakably low & repugnant."
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"...[A] Maschel’s face shows only miserable fright or a mocking grin… in wealth a Mauschel is an even more despicable show-off… and pursues arts & science only for vulgar profit.” One scholar called the diatribe "an antisemite’s dream.” source: cml.austincollege.edu/assets/herzl--…
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Max Nordau (Herzl’s right-hand man)’s best-selling works of 1880s (Conventional Lies of Our Civilization & Paradoxes) are replete with antisemitic portrayals of the body of “the Jew” as circumcised & diseased, especially with leprosy. Source:
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Nordau believed Jews were a race & different races had different inherent abilities. Jews apparently excelled at politics b/c of their realistic shrewdness. His ideas resurfaced among one of the most virulent American white supremacists of his era, Madison Grant. source:
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Arthur Ruppin (1876-1943) believed Jews were racially pure, and to maintain their purity, they had to reject Jewish immigrants to Palestine from places like Ethiopia because of their lack of "blood connection." Source:
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Ze’ev Jabotinsky described Jews as ugly, sickly and lacking decorum. They were trodden upon, easily frightened, accepted submission and wanted to conceal their identity. Much later in life, in a 1940 interview, he also proclaimed that Jews were a “superior race.” Source:
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In 1878, Győző Istóczy called for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine to eliminate the Jewish “threat” in Hungary. In 1882, he proposed expelling the Jews from Hungary & became the spokesperson for the Hungarian antisemitic movement. Source:
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In 1881, Wilhelm Marr popularized the term "antisemitism" itself & pioneered racial antisemitism. He was also a Zionist: he proposed sending all of world Jewry to Palestine. He wrote, “our anti-Semitic movement will agree to obtain Palestine a second time for the Jews." Source:
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In 1905, Arthur Balfour passed the Aliens Act, placing Jewish restrictions on immigrating to Britain at the height of the pogroms. He also wrotemthe Balfour Declaration, the basis for Britain’s interwar policy of encouraging Jewish immigration to Palestine from 1918-1948.
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if you say, "between the river & the sea, there will be only Jewish sovereignty," (Likud Charter) you get $3.8B/yr in military aid from the US. if you say, "between the river & the sea, Palestine will be free," you are censured from congress, fired from CNN or banned from X.
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Hamas has 3 co-founders #1 Ibrahim Yazuri Born in 1941 in Beit Dras, near Ashdod. On 21 May 1948, Israeli forces entered his village & indiscriminately slaughtered many women & children trying to flee the violence. Yazuri survived. source: Jawad, "Zionist Massacres," p.113
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Yazuri's family fled to Khan Yunis. On 3 Nov 1956, Israeli tanks entered Khan Yunis to "eradicate" Palestinian militant resistance. [Recall, Palestinians picked up arms after Israel slaughtered 1000s of unarmed refugees returning home in 1949-1950. Morris, Border Wars, p.416]:
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So, on 3 November 1956, when Israeli forces entered Khan Yunis, they rounded up all men 15+, lined them against a wall & executed them. Yazuri was 15 years old at the time. He survived the massacre. This is one account of what Yazuri witnessed: source: Filiu, Gaza, p. 271
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#2 Abdulaziz Rantissi. Born in October 1947, in Yibna, near Jaffa. Israeli forces attacked Yiba in June 1948. His family fled to Khan Yunis. Rantissi was 9 years old at the time of the Khan Yunis massacre cited above. His uncle was one of the victims.
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#3 Ahmed Yassin Born in al-Jura in 1936. When he was 13, he was expelled from his home in al-Jura, near Ashkelon. His family settled in al-Shati (the beach refugee camp) in Gaza. These were the conditions in the camp: Source: source: Filiu, Gaza, p. 79
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Then, during the same 1956 operation in which Israeli forces slaughtered hundreds of men in Khan Yunis, they also executed people in the beach refugee camp, where Yassin lived. source: Filiu, Gaza, p. 100
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Violence breeds violence. In the past month, 1.7M Palestinians in Gaza have been forcibly uprooted. Many r dehydrating in real time. ICU patients are dying in real time b/c no electricity. Babies born pre-maturely are dying in real time. 11,000+ Palestinians have been slaughtered
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
If history teaches us anything, it's Israel is in the process of destroying itself, ensuring it will have more enemies in the future than it ever had in the past. Israel, for your own sake, stop the killing. stop the genocide. stop this total madness and insanity.
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
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