Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City.
These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today.
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A few months ago I was sitting on a bench in Tel Aviv with a colleague, and an older Israeli man came up to us and asked if he can sit with us. We said yes, so he asked what we were working on. We said we're making a film about the West Bank.
"What do you think about the Arabs?", he asked. Instead of answering, I asked what he thought.
"A good Arab is a dead Arab", he answered.
This was said 5 minutes into the conversation, to a complete stranger. This is a normal thing to say in Israeli society, even in the hyper-liberal Tel Aviv.
🔴 Flotille pour Gaza : "Un soldat a commencé à me toucher la poitrine, à me tirer les cheveux et le pantalon (...) On nous a traités comme des animaux", témoigne Meriem Hadjal, militante de la flottille pour Gaza, face à @jeannebarontv. #Le23hWeekEnd#canal16
@partigggiano Infatti lo stesso comportamento viene regolarmente applicato ai prigionieri palestinesi, in pratica ostaggi di un sistema giudiziario bengviriano. Non c’entrano “gli ebrei”, c’entra Israele.
A commento del video sugli attivisti della Flotilla trattenuti in Israele, il Presidente Mattarella ha parlato di “trattamento incivile inflitto a persone fermate illegalmente in acque internazionali, che tocca un livello infimo ad opera di un ministro del governo di Israele”.
@EurovisionewsIL The New York Times reported that Israel had spent more than $1m on using Eurovision as a "soft power" tool to "burnish the country's flagging reputation and rally international support".
@Tiziana_DR The New York Times reported that Israel had spent more than $1m on using Eurovision as a "soft power" tool to "burnish the country's flagging reputation and rally international support".
@ShaykhSulaiman The New York Times reported that Israel had spent more than $1m on using Eurovision as a "soft power" tool to "burnish the country's flagging reputation and rally international support".
@KatrineDaugaard@Dimonios The New York Times reported that Israel had spent more than $1m on using Eurovision as a "soft power" tool to "burnish the country's flagging reputation and rally international support".
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
Today, masked Israeli settlers under the protection of the Israeli army attacked the village of Jiljilya in the West Bank, stole a flock of sheep, and murdered a Palestinian child, Yousef Kaabneh, 16 years old.
—Theodor Herzl referred to the Arab-Palestinians as "the #indigenous population".
—Chaim Weizmann called them "#negroes".
—In the 1870s, there were around 468 hectares of irrigated citrus groves in the #Gaza area. The "indigenous negroes" were taking care of them.
How we know?
78 yrs ago (May 14, '48) Ben-Gurion unilaterally proclaimed the independence of the State of Israel. According to a widely common propagandistic narrative, "Palestinians rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan": no one asked them to accept or reject anything.
https://t.co/EXjuKFAERJ
🚨Speaking to college students, Pope Leo decried rising European military spending under Von der Leyen, amid pressure from Trump:
“Let us not call it ‘defense’ when rearmament increases tensions and insecurity, drains investment from education and healthcare, undermines trust in diplomacy, and enriches elites who care nothing for the common good.”