Historian of Palestine | PhD | Founder of Palestine Nexus ↓

6 🧵s to make sense of Israel/Palestine: 1) A history Palestinian non-violent resistance 2) A history of Hamas 3) A history of Israel's ethnic cleansing Palestinians 4) A history of Israel's wars on Gaza 5) A history of Gaza 6) A history of Israel’s use of disproportionate force
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In 1976, the highest official in the Israeli Ministry of Interior, Israel Koening, called the Palestinians in the Galilee "a cancer in the state's body" & the Israeli Chief of Staff, Raphael Eitan, openly spoke of them as "cockroaches." This was 50yrs ago. archive.org/details/ethniccl…
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It is not well-known, but the Zionist movement co-opted the leadership of the Displaced Person (DP) camps in Germany, Austria & Italy after WWII. They imposed a draft among Jewish males 18-35 in the DP camps in November 1947, a draft for a country that didn't exist yet, a draft imposed on holocaust survivors against their will. @mollycrabapple writes about this episode in her book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country. “In the end, she writes, "Zionists imposed the draft by force. It was shocking, said the Bundist newspaper Unzer Shtime, “that Jews, the standard victims of Fascism and terrorism, would be capable of the kinds of violence Zionists in the camps exercise toward their Bundist and other non-Zionist political rivals.” She continues: "Bundists and other non-Zionist Jews told stories of night raids and mob beatings. Bundists in the Bad Reichenhall camp claimed Zionists publicly whipped a draft dodger, then took photos to frighten others into compliance. In a camp near Ulm, Germany, Zionists beat the elderly fathers of sons who avoided the draft. Conscription continued until April 1949, at which point recruits from DP camps made up a third of the new Israeli army.” source: Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund, p.323
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Rabbi Chaim Eleazar Spira was a leading rabbinical authority and prominent anti-Zionist in the Ukranian town of Munkács. He died in 1937. This is an anecdote from his life: "There were conflicts between the rabbis' office and the Zionists, too.... ...Hasidim didn't think it necessary to move to Palestine. They believed that the Messiah would come to lead all Jews to their ancestors' land of Palestine and that they had to wait for Him where they were, while the Zionists were helping people to move to Palestine. Rabbi Spira often made angry speeches against the Zionists and even cursed them. There is a well-known Jewish curse: 'to erase one's name so that nobody remembers it'. This curse is said at Purim when they mention Haman's name. Every time the name of Haman is mentioned, everyone boos, hisses, stamps their feet and twirls their graggers. Children start their rattles, adults hit the table with their fists and stamp their feet to blot out Haman's name from history. There's the expression 'blot out' the name or the memory of particular individuals. Rabbi Spira often used this expression when speaking about the Zionists. Sometimes it led to scandalous situations. Occasionally students of grammar school threw eggs at rabbi Spira during his speeches." centropa.org/en/photo/rabbi-…
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Meet Sean Sammitt, a former employee at the Temple Kol Ami synagogue on Walnut Lake Road in West Bloomfield, Michigan, 1 mile from where I grew up. In 2020, Sammitt claimed a man shouted anti-Semitic comments then stabbed him as he was leaving synagogue. Sammitt told police he fought the attacker off and drove himself to Henry Ford hospital. It turns out, Sammitt invented the whole story out of thin air A complete fabrication. Police analyzed Samitt's Apple watch and looked at his heart rate when Samitt claimed the attack happened. Investigators say it was normal and should have been higher. But the watch showed before the attack that Samitt's heart rate was elevated. That led police into the synagogue, where they found bloody tissues and a knife Samitt used to stab himself. Do other groups of people lie and invent racist attacks against themselves, is this just a Jewish thing? Honest question. fox2detroit.com/news/mans-ap…
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Israeli Jewish society is addicted to murder
Prominent Israeli media figure Attila Somfalvi calls to assassinate the Emir of Qatar
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an Israeli "ceasefire"
Israeli airstrikes happening now across the south of Lebanon. Remember that this is happening all day, every day.
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Make this genocidal fuckturd infamous
Last year, Yosef Merania was taking part in the genocide in Gaza as an IDF terrorist. Now, he's a luxury real estate agent in Beverly Hills.
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Zachary Foster retweeted
Podcaster @profgalloway repeated the same false claim as the one made by PM Netanyahu at the U.N. on Thursday, while interviewing Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed on Tuesday. Israel does not "provide" vaccines or food to Gaza. The UN, WHO, UNICEF and aid groups purchase and deliver them. But Israel controls the crossings and therefore decides what gets through, by constantly restricting, delaying, and denying life essential aid far below what Gaza needs. This, despite the ICJ ordering Israel in 2024 to allow unimpeded humanitarian access.
Fact check: Polio vaccines were provided by WHO not Israel. Israel blocked & continues to impede food provided by international orgs, even now, a year after the “ceasefire” & Israel-created famine. Israel bombed & continues to bomb people lining up for food, water & medical aid
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Zachary Foster retweeted
judge me by my enemies
Benjamin Netanyahu mentions Hasan Piker when attacking Zohran Mamdani "It's no wonder you praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas, you count as friends people like Hasan Piker"
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.@muhammadshehad2 explains how tens of thousands of Palestinians are at imminent risk of death at any moment as they are living in structures partially destroyed by Israel that could collapse at any moment: "Now in Gaza about 2,000 high-rise buildings that are at risk of collapse. And Israel is neither allowing any construction material to prevent that collapse from happening. Neither does it allow any machinery to go in to bring down those buildings before they collapse on top of the heads of the people inside them. So you end up with the catastrophic scenario that we saw a few days ago ...in the tower called al-Sa'ada, a building that's been shelled and bombed multiple times by Israel. And then because people are so desperate and they would rather stay in a bombed out building than to stay on the street and get feasted upon by mice and rodents, basically people stayed in that building out of desperation. And one night it collapsed on top of their heads overnight. You had a hundred people stuck in there, including 50 children. And people that tried to rescue them had to dig with their own bare hands to find bodies underneath find living humans underneath. And the people that were stuck underneath that rubble, they were screaming for help for hours and hours and hours until some of those voices eventually just died out. It disappeared slowly into thin air. And basically, it shows you the state of the world that we are in today. If this was the OceanGate Titan submarine, or if this was that incident in Thailand, the Tham Luang cave rescue, you would have seen tens of thousands of volunteers from an international coalition of countries and intergovernmental agencies rushing to the site to save those people. But when we saw a hundred people that in front of our eyes, we saw them suffocated slowly and dying one minute after the other, the entire world was completely silent, not even a noise."
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Today, the words “colonialism” and “colonization” bother Zionist sensibilities, as indicted war criminal and genocidaire benjamin netanyahu is clearly bothered by the word, but that’s how the Zionist movement described itself and saw itself for much of its history. For Zionists, colonization was not a dirty word, it was something to be proud of, which is why they embraced the term: The Imperial Charter for the Colonization of Palestine, for example, was a proposal submitted by Theodor Herzl to the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II to secure Ottoman legal guarantees for Jewish settlement in Palestine. The Jewish Colonisation Association encouraged the emigration and resettlement of Eastern European Jews to Argentina, Palestine and elsewhere. The Jewish Colonial Trust, a Zionist financial institution, acquired capital and credit for a Palestine charter. The Palestine Jewish Colonization Association facilitated Jewish land purchases in Palestine. The Zionists thought of themselves as bringing development and modernity to Palestine, as Herzl put it, “an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.” they saw colonization and colonialism as good things. But the Zionist movement was not just any old colonial movement, it was a settler-colonial movement, a specific kind of colonialism that veers towards replacement rather than extraction and permanent settlement rather than temporary residence. And, indeed, the Zionist movement did not seek to integrate into Palestinian Arab society, it sought to take it over. It sought to establish a Jewish State with a Jewish supermajority working at Jewish-only cooperatives living in Jewish-only colonies operating Jewish-only schools maintained by Jewish-only militias in a country, Palestine, that was overwhelmingly Palestinian Arab, not Jewish. What could possibly go wrong?
They accuse Israel – little Israel – of colonialism. And who is doing the accusing? Among others, people in Britain and France. For goodness sake, they are the ones who invented this concept – their colonies stretched across the entire world. Colonialism? Please, give us a break!
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"free palestine" v. "am yisrael chai" free palestine = end genocide & apartheid. am yisrael chai = support genocide & apartheid yet free palestine is deemed "controversial" while am yisrael chai is totally uncontroversial. make this insanity make sense
Jewish students from YULA high school harassed a woman in Los Angeles today for wearing an "Israel Kills Children" shirt. The young Zionist thugs chanted "Am Yisrael Chai" and waved Israeli flags. nitter.net/kylieoralobell/status/… Reminder: YULA high school sends its students to party with Israeli soldiers in Occupied Palestine while a genocide is being carried out.
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Does the United Nations also provide genocidaires free dry cleaning services, or that just the White House?
DID YOU KNOW… Sara Netanyahu Brings Suitcases of Dirty Laundry from Israel to Blair House for U.S. Staff to Clean Sara Netanyahu and Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly brought suitcases filled with dirty laundry from Israel to Blair House, the White House guest residence. U.S. staff cleaned and dry-cleaned the clothes at American government expense. A U.S. official stated: “The Netanyahus are the only ones who bring actual suitcases of dirty laundry for us to clean. After multiple trips, it became clear this was intentional.” Recordings from Netanyahu’s former aide Nir Hefetz described Sara packing four or five suitcases of laundry on every overseas trip for dry-cleaning, and up to eight suitcases on at least one occasion.
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Apartheid Israel is a nuclear state backed by the most powerful empire in world history occupying and attacking a half dozen countries. But they want you to believe they are incapable of arresting 150 juvenile delinquents whose homes are protected by the Israeli military and who film themselves perpetrating their acts of terrorism every day. (Of course there are many thousands of these Jewish terrorists, not 150, and they mostly adults.) But this is what Apartheid Israel wants to believe. And this is why Zionism incinerates brain cells. It requires to believe chicken shit is actually chicken salad.
Replying to @haaretzcom
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu downplayed Israeli settler violence in the West Bank, describing the perpetrators as "young juvenile delinquents, about 150 in number."
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Indicted war criminal & genocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu, seen here bragging about murdering this 10 year old girl, Fatimah Jaafar Abdullah, during an Israeli terrorist attack on Lebanon in September 2025.
Netanyahu: Remember the beepers?
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An Israeli Jew, seen here perpetrating an actual blood libel.
Zionists love to talk about "bloodlibels" when they are accused of crimes they commit. But here is a real one. Micah Avni, respected businessman, listed three times as one of the 100 most influential people in Israel, got on one of the main news channels in Israel and accused Palestinian doctors in Israel, falsely, of poisoning Jewish patients. No one corrected him.
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Is it just me, or is Apartheid Israel not just the most genocidal country in the word, but also the most sex depraved? How many massive sex / gang rape / prison rape / child rape / child bride / pedophilia scandals are there in such a small country? timesofisrael.com/hasidic-se…
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This is insane. Education in Canada is now just straight up propaganda for genocide and apartheid.
This is the democracy that Ontario kids are learning about in the new civics curriculum. My latest From The Desk does a deep dive into how Zionism is being taught to 12 year olds in Ontario. 👉piped.video/AJ4zYlDE57o?si=ZORH…
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“Democrats should make Mr. Barghouti’s release a central part of their agenda in the run-up to 2028” -@PeterBeinart couldn’t agree more
Must read by @PeterBeinart: "Democrats should do more than pledge to stop subsidizing Israel’s crimes... Democrats should make [Marwan] Barghouti’s release a central part of their agenda in the run-up to 2028" & support free & fair Palestinian elections. nytimes.com/2026/09/23/opini…
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