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Palestinian identification 101.
Zionists have been trying to ‘ctrl-alt-delete’ the Palestinian people from the historical record for more than a century. In this thread, I document usages of the term, “Palestinians,” from its earliest appearances in the late 19th century to the late 1940s. A 🧵
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Sit down, get your smelling salts, watch your blood pressure: serious people are allowed to say that Israel is undemocratic.
Where did I accuse you of being responsible for it? Nowhere. You chose to call Israel’s election “undemocratic.” That utterly lacks seriousness. You might deeply dislike some of the debate and campaigning. I might too. But get back to being an analyst. Not a cheerleader.
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I fully believe Bari Weiss when she says she doesn't care about collapsing ratings. The only reason to care about ratings is profit, and that's not why Larry Ellison, at the age of 82, suddenly went on a frantic shopping spree to purchase Hollywood's studios (Paramount and Warner Bros), news outlets (CBS, CNN), and social media (TikTok). Ellison is the second-richest man on earth. He is not motivated by money-making in the last stage of his life. He bought all these news and entertainment outlets to turn them into Israeli State TV, to try to stem the rising disgust Americans harbor for Israel. Ellison is one of Netanyahu's best friends. He's the single-largest donor to Friends of the IDF. His only political cause is Israel. All the key people he and his son hired as Israel loyalists. So Bari Weiss is telling the truth: her job isn't to increase ratings but to convert CBS into Zionist propaganda.
During her on-stage interview, according to the article, Bari Weiss dismissed concerns about weak ratings at 60 Minutes by saying: “I could never build anything if I were focused on the precise number of people that happen to tune in to the second feature on 60 Minutes on a given Sunday.” theinformation.com/articles/…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Benjamin Moser says Israel is "actively fomenting" antisemitism by claiming to act in the name of all Jews: "It's asking a lot of people to say that there's this Jewish army of this Jewish state with this Jewish star on their flag, and they are mercilessly slaughtering tens of thousands of children, but don't confuse them with Jews," Moser said. He argues that the reported rise in antisemitism is simply a rise in anti-Zionism, "people reacting to Israel and the evil, wicked things that Israel has been doing in our names."
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If you are an Israeli soldier stationed in Gaza, you can vote in one of 40 illegal voting stations setup for soldiers of genocide. If you are a Palestinian born in Gaza, to parents Palestinian parents and grandparents and great grandparents born in Gaza, you cannot vote. You cannot have clean water. You cannot have shelter. You are not allowed to leave the Gaza Concentration Camp. You can be executed at any moment for any reason. You are the personal property of Israel and Donald Trump. You are effectively a slave. Not so complicated after all, it's call genocide and apartheid. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e…
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77.45% of Israeli citizens voted for right-wing & far-right parties 6.51% voted for the zionist left 15% voted for Arab parties If you leave out Arab citizens of Israel, it means over 92% of zionist Israelis voted for the right!
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Israeli journalist: "You are both first time voters. What are you voting based on?" Israeli voter 1: "I don't want there to be Arabs in the county." Israel voter 2: "Me neither." Background: 56% of Israeli Jews want to expel all 2M Palestinian citizens of Israel, and 82% of Israeli Jews want to expel all Palestinains in Gaza to other countries. haaretz.com/israel-news/2025… Turns out, for some voters, it is the only issue they care about: creating an Palestinianrein Israel the same way the Nazis created a Judenrein Germany. source: instagram.com/reels/DfAdZBDB…
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“There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip.” -then Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman (2018) palestinenexus.com/articles/…
Avigdor Lieberman is one of Gadi Eisenkot’s key coalition partners He emerged from Likud and served under Netanyahu, always pulling him rightward For some reason, his fascist record hasn’t gotten much attention this campaign
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"97% of Israeli Jews have supported the genocide, so this is a democratic genocide.... This is a jewish Zionist apartheid genocidal democracy"
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Replying to @simon_moos_
Le maire d’une ville arabe dénoncent un ralentissement volontaire, alors que des électeurs attendent dehors Idem dans plusieurs bureaux de votes,la police invoquait un problème de surpeuplement malgré le nombre rlativement faible de personnes à l’intérieur
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RT @AdrianThomas90: 500 000 colons de Cisjordanie peuvent voter, mais pas les 3M de Palestiniens sous occupation. 230 000 Israéliens dans J…
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Wow! Canadian journalist asks Moshe Feiglin, a former Likud Member of Knesset, if he is concerned about Israel's plummeting global standing. Feiglin's response is chilling, as it reveals the fundamental supremacist view he and many in Israel hold. He says that the real moral supreme court is in Israel, ie with the people of Israel. The Bible says, he explains, that those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. As a result, it's we - Israelis - who get to judge you, rather than you judging us. And then he adds? "Are you with the children of God or not?"
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It's an antisemitic conspiracy theory to say that the ADL is an Israeli spy organization, but they are literally admitting they are an "intelligence" operation that is spying on Americans and punishing them if they speak out against Zionism and Israel.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt: "I have 45 people at ADL—full-time analysts—45 full-time intelligence analysts tracking the bad guys across social media, across AI, across video games, podcasts, crypto, you name it." "[We've built] software to track Wikipedia [editors]…"
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if you call this fascist, the media and politicians who support israel will spend months slandering you and countries will restrict your travel. ask me how i know.
"Carpet bomb them all". Speaking to The Guardian at an event ahead of Israel’s elections, a young Israeli woman called for Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from the Gaza Strip, saying they should be killed if they cannot be removed.
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Today, you'll be flooded with Israeli propaganda about "we're a true democracy, not an apartheid" All of their talking points are copied from Apartheid South Africa's propaganda (watch👇) Apartheid South Africa's Tricameral Parliament was 42% colored & Indian in 1983, after the regime allowed 2.8 million colored & 850,000 Indian citizens to vote (while excluding 22.7 million black South Africans). Colored representatives even held ministerial positions, but without portfolios (i.e. no real power). This is just like Israel allowing 2 million Palestinian citizens to vote while excluding 6 million in the occupied territory & 8 million in exile. The less than 15% of Israel's Knesset that is Arab are excluded from power (both Netanyahu & the opposition parties refuse to form a government with Arab parties). Apartheid South Africa had black policemen, soldiers, engineers, doctors, & professors whom they loved to show in propaganda videos to claim "we're a cosmopolitan society". But that was only a fig leaf to hide the disenfranchisement of the overwhelming majority of blacks. Apartheid South Africa also claimed a God-given right to the land. They also screamed "we're facing an existential threat" & are "surrounded by enemies who want to destroy us". They also bragged "we're the only democracy in Africa", "we have Western values", "we're the only industrialized state in Africa", "we're one of the 20 most developed states on earth"... It was still an Apartheid! Don't fall for Israel's recycled apartheid propaganda!
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Israel is deliberately suppressing Arab voter turnout: Gov incitement at the highest levels Ben Gvir's police at Arab voting stations Election workers deliberately obstructing Arabs from voting Hebrew-only ballots at Arab voting stations Likud activists sent to film & intimidate Arab voters
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Today’s UN report stated that Israel uses torture and rape to attack Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and—like in Gaza—they DELIBERATELY KILL CHILDREN. You have to be sick to still defend this.
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The most laughably stupid Israeli hasbara line you’ll hear today: “Arabs can vote in Israel, so it can’t be apartheid.” Now tell me: how can more than 700,000 Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, vote in Israeli elections, while Palestinians living in the same territory cannot?
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Fun fact: 400,000 native Palestinian residents of Jerusalem are defined by Israeli law as neither Palestinian citizens, nor Israeli. As a result, they don't have political representation anywhere and vote nowhere - not even in the fake occupation instrument called 'the Palestinian Authority'. With the knowledge, blessing and approval of almost every country in the world, and every international institution, on top of every other atrocity and crime against humanity documented, Israel holds 400,000 people under full ,formal denial of every political right given to any other human being on this planet. No vote. No parliament. No representation. Transparent subjects.
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Why did Israel grant Palestinians it conquered in 1948 citizenship (if under belligerent military rule) but not Palestinians conquered in 1967? In 1948, Israel only had to grant ~150,000 Palestinians citizenship relative to the 600,000 Jews (a number that rapidly increased beginning in May 1948... that had already exceeded a million by 1949). In 1967, Israel would have had to grant over 1 million Palestinians citizenship relative to the 2.3M Israeli Jews at the time (a number that was no longer rapidly increasing). There were simply too many Palestinians by 1967 to grant them citizenship. Ever since, Israel has been kicking the can down the road.... in the process it has imposed an apartheid regime on them and is now genociding them, in both Gaza and the West Bank.
For more than 75% of Israel's history, it has ruled over millions of Palestinians it denies the right the vote. The equivalent would be, imagine if, since 1838, about about ~1/3rd of the population living under United States rule had been denied the right to vote because they are native Americans rather than white settlers. Israel is a democracy the same way the US would be a democracy if we stripped the right to vote from 110 million Americans because they had the wrong DNA.
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🇵🇸 Israeli authorities barred a 23-member international delegation — delegates, from Britain, the US, France, Spain, Ireland and other countries, including Labour MP Clive Lewis, Scottish National Party MP Lara Bird, Scottish Greens lawmaker Kate Nevens and former Labour MP Sam Tarry — from entering the occupied West Bank to meet Palestinian children, farmers, and coil society leaders, They were headed to Progressive International's Second Ramallah Congress at Birzeit University, a gathering on Global South solidarity and resistance to imperialism, and planned to join Palestinian farmers for the olive harvest before they were held for nine hours at the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan and later denied entry. "We were detained, taken aside and then interrogated," Lewis said. "People were shouted at." Bird asked: "If Israel has nothing to hide, why is it so determined to stop us seeing what is happening in the occupied West Bank?" 🎥 @The_NewArab
The New Arab
Today I was denied entry into the West Bank, alongside other parliamentary colleagues from across Europe as part of a @ProgIntl delegation. We were held for 8 hours, interrogated and ultimately prevented from crossing the border. I came to stand alongside Palestinians being attacked for harvesting olives on their own land. Instead, we were turned away, with no reason given. More than ever, Palestinians are being subject to terror and violence by the IDF and illegal settlers. Increased blockades, demolitions and unthinkable violence have become the norm for Palestinians in the West Bank. It is more important now than ever that we bear witness and show our solidarity. But we were prevented from doing so. I will continue to do everything I can to apply pressure on the Netanyahu government, and those responsible for the persecution and genocide of the Palestinian people.
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