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    this is why the focus is on
    a largely fictitious antisemitism

    because what the Israeli state does to Palestinians is indefensible

    https://twitter.com/asafronel/status/1336915600048857088?s=21

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      https://twitter.com/nimrodnovik/status/1339187849741160453?s=21

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        https://twitter.com/btselem/status/1340986096356786178?s=20

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          America First except...

          https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1341121311578476544

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            https://twitter.com/larafriedmandc/status/1342113571052933120?s=21

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              https://twitter.com/lioramihai/status/1344024890681266176?s=20

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                the ISraeli army are terrible

                settlers are absolutely out of control fascists

                https://twitter.com/joshualeifer/status/1344034465421668353?s=20

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                  Thread
                  https://twitter.com/dror_etkes/status/1345283303709024263?s=21

                  “ the nakba is a lie”

                  israeli
                  ambassador to UK

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                    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...go-to-settlers

                    "Israel is celebrating an impressive, record-setting vaccination drive, having given initial jabs of coronavirus shots to more than a 10th of the population. But Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza can only watch and wait.

                    As the world ramps up what is already on track to become a highly unequal vaccination push – with people in richer nations first to be inoculated – the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories provides a stark example of the divide.

                    Israel transports batches of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine deep inside the West Bank. But they are only distributed to Jewish settlers, and not the roughly 2.7 million Palestinians living around them who may have to wait for weeks or months."

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                      But you can't call it apartheid or you will be expelled from the Labour Party.


                      I'm not sure if even South Africa had different roads for different people living on the same land

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                        https://twitter.com/MairavZ/status/1348734440457990145?s=20

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                          Why left wing Israelis can’t join the Labour Party

                          https://twitter.com/parkerciccone/status/1348889032147824640?s=21

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                            Worth bearing this in mind too, of course,

                            https://twitter.com/aj_iraqi/status/1348912502084661250?s=20

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                              https://twitter.com/bdsmovement/status/1349029422473629699?s=21

                              ”The premise that Israel is a democracy, maintained by Peace Now, Meretz, the editorial board of Haaretz and other critics of occupation, rests on the belief that one can separate the pre-1967 state from the rest of the territory under its control. A conceptual wall must be maintained between two regimes: (good) democratic Israel and its (bad) provisional occupation. This way of thinking is of a piece with the general liberal Zionist belief that it’s legitimate to condemn Israeli settlements – and even, for some, to boycott their products – but not to call for reducing support to the government that planned, established and maintains them. What seemed most troubling about annexation for these groups was that it would undermine their claims that the occupation is occurring somewhere outside the state and that it is temporary, a 53-year-long departure from what liberal Zionist groups like the New Israel Fund call Israel’s ‘liberal democratic founding values’.

                              It is not difficult to make the case that Israel’s actions in the West Bank amount to apartheid. Israelis and Palestinians in the same territory are subject to two different legal systems. They are tried in different courts, one military, one civilian, for the same crime committed on the same street. Jews in the West Bank, both Israeli citizens and non-citizens who are eligible as Jews to immigrate, enjoy most of the same rights and protections as Israelis in the rest of the country. Palestinians are subject to military rule and are denied freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement and even the right not to be detained indefinitely without trial. The discrimination is not just national – by Israelis against Palestinians who lack citizenship – but ethnic, by Jews against Palestinian subjects and citizens alike. While Jews in the West Bank, citizens or not, are tried in Israeli civil courts, Israeli citizens who are Palestinian can be sent to military courts. A 2014 report by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the largest and oldest human rights group in the country, noted that ‘since the 1980s, all Israeli citizens brought to trial before the military courts were Arab citizens or residents of Israel ... no judgment was found in which the request of an Arab citizen to transfer his case from a military court to a court in Israel was accepted.’”
                              Last edited by Nefertiti2; 12-01-2021, 18:20.

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                                https://twitter.com/Mivasair/status/1349359782638080000?s=20

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                                  https://twitter.com/mishtal/status/1350858856138743809?s=21

                                  the response Is from a leading campaigner against
                                  “ antisemitism „ in the U.K.

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                                    Deeply depressing article by Yonatan Mendel in the LRB
                                    https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/janu...i-or-not-tatbi

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                                      Last night BBC4 showed Til Kingdom Come, a documentary about evangelical Christian support for Israel. It was both worrying and bizarre, with the Americans' longing for The Rapture downplayed by both sides to ease the short term relationship and flow of funds. A Palestinian Christian minister might as well have been talking to a brick wall when he tried to suggest to his American counterpart that the situation might be more complicated than the latter's understanding (using the word loosely) of it.

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                                        https://twitter.com/972mag/status/1353428218875949056?s=21

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                                          Masha Gessen in the New Yorker


                                          When concluding the tour, Shaul said that if the Netanyahu government went through with the formal annexation of the West Bank, “we will no longer be able to speak of Israel as a democracy.” Shaul’s listeners—a Palestinian lawyer, an American volunteer in Palestine, and I—wondered how it was possible to refer to Israel as a democracy at all, when more than a third of its de-facto subjects had no political rights. Such had been the thought habit of even the most progressive Israeli Jews: to see two regimes, one of democracy and one of extreme repression, as distinct and existing side by side.

                                          Thought habits can stand in the way of effective action. “The international community has been working to prevent formalization, not on stopping the unacceptable de-facto reality, and it silently communicated that permanent subjugation of Palestinians was O.K. as long as it wasn’t spelled out in law,” El-Ad said. “We want to change the discourse on what is happening between the river and the sea,” meaning the territory controlled by Israel as a whole. “The discourse has been untethered from reality, and this undermines the possibility of change.”

                                          There is, of course, no guarantee that B’Tselem’s statement will enable change, although it has infuriated the government and opened the organization up to attacks from the powerful Israeli right. But, after a year of discussions, B’Tselem concluded that “we have a moral obligation to say it, whether we think it’s effective or not,” El-Ad said. There comes a time to say that a line has been crossed, even if the breach occurred long ago.

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                                            Anyone disagree with this?

                                            https://twitter.com/pdeepdive/status/1354546050762158086?s=21

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                                              https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1354470520360677377?s=20

                                              (I guess that means reading The Onion is no longer compatible with Labour Party membership)
                                              Last edited by Nefertiti2; 28-01-2021, 11:46.

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                                                Somebody commented 'on holocaust day?' Only to be met with many replies stating that this is actually the perfect day to post such a thing.
                                                history repeats, eh...

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                                                  https://twitter.com/ayeletw/status/1356317250379161600?s=20

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                                                    https://twitter.com/aronkeller/status/1357276096711053312?s=20

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