BGrau - I stand with Francesca Albanese

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

Don't tell me I'll be shocked by the latest Israeli atrocity. I can't be shocked beyond children shot in the head while lining up for food, young girls seeking water blown up, or hearing the piecing, primordial cries of mourning mothers. After 3 yrs, I'm dead inside. I can't be more shocked & still breathe

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

A Border Police officer threw a stun grenade into a Palestinian car while its occupants were trapped inside, in the Qalandiya refugee camp in East Jerusalem. The officer then walked away as if nothing had happened.

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

The IDF actively participates in this violence. It not only chooses not to stop violent settlers but also protects them and actively takes part in the violence itself.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

When anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, pro-Trump Dems run, it’s “build a bigger tent,” and “vote Blue no matter who.”

When the energy, volunteers and enthusiasm to revive a Dem party that has failed to meet the moment are to the left of the establishment, lobbyists, high-priced consultants and big conservative and corporate donors, it’s “leave the party.”

Maybe pay attention to the voters on this one.

[Asaf Ronel @AsafRonel]

I was born as a Jew in Jerusalem, educated in the best school the Zionist movement established and lived in occupied Palestine for 42 years. I am a very informed anti-Zionist and know about "the reality of life in Israel" a million times more than this ignorant American

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Sari Bashi, an Israeli Jewish woman exposes the apartheid and ethnic cleansing campaign going on inside Israel, in detail.

[Tamer | تامر @tamerqdh]

حتى تدرك حجم الافتراء الإسرائيلي؛ أطلقت إسرائيل بالأمس عدداً من المختطفين الفلسطينيين من معسكرات التعذيب إلى قطاع غزة، وكان من بينهم ثلاثة أشقاء:

معاذ عادل سعيد أبو ريالة (23 عاماً)
محمد عادل سعيد أبو ريالة (26 عاماً)
سعيد عادل سعيد أبو ريالة (30 عاماً)

أشقاء مدنيين اختطفتهم إسرائيل من عائلتهم، وأودعتهم في مراكز تعذيبها فقط لأنهم فلسطينيون، ودون أي تهمة أو ذنب؛ والدليل على ذلك هو إطلاق سراحهم اليوم دون أي مقابل، بعد أن امتلأت معسكراتها وأصبحت مجبرة على إفراغ من لا حاجة لها بهم، لاعتقال آخرين من الضفة وغزة

[Euro-Med Monitor @EuroMedHR]

“I am a paediatrician who provides medical care to patients, the wounded, and the most vulnerable in the Strip. I carried out my work in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards. My detention is unjust and arbitrary.”

A message from the Palestinian doctor detained in Israeli prisons, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, conveyed through his lawyer during today’s latest court session.

[Judith T Soon everyone will have been against this @JuAvrilT]

@thetrueCatpack @k_eagar @Peter15930204 @_marching_Ents_ @yanisvaroufakis @MikeCarlton01 I’m a Jew. I’m a history graduate. I would call myself pretty well versed on the Shoah. Yes the Zionists are replicating the Nazis. I wish it wasn’t so but it is.
We don’t need to list Shoah details to know another genocide is being carried out. Our job as humans is to stop it

[beth miller @beth_avedon]

It's antisemitic to conflate Jews and Israel. Which is exactly what the ADL is doing by calling the "Israel Day Parade" a "Jewish celebration"

As a Jewish person who lives here, I'm pretty fucking glad we finally have a mayor who isn't at a parade celebrating atrocity crimes.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Since October 2023, women in the Gaza Strip have been living under Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. By mid 2026, Israel had killed more than 72,000 people, 12,500 of them women, including more than 9,000 mothers, leaving 21,193 widows.

For more than two and a half years, Palestinian women in Gaza have been forced to survive under Israel’s ongoing genocide, while carrying the impossible burden of keeping their families alive.

As homes, hospitals, water systems and entire communities are destroyed, women are left to care for children, find food and water, protect loved ones, and preserve some sense of dignity amid devastation, displacement and loss.

In an article for The Guardian, Olfat al-Kurd, a Gaza field researcher for B’Tselem, writes about her working to document the lives, grief and resilience of women enduring Israel’s destruction of Gaza and about our report on the subject.

Read the full article >> https://t.co/09wEqcTqch

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Don't let them fool you! Ben Gvis is NOT an outlier

Here's Miri Regev, one of Netnayahu's closest Ministers, parading tortured activists like some captured animals

Her clip didn't get much attention, so no one in Israel is condemning her

Their only problem with Ben Gvir is his video went viral & was bad PR for Israel's "we're the world's biggest victims" narrative!

They don't give a darn about him torturing, beating, humiliating, caging women & civilians, as long as the world doesn't see it!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🧵on 'NYT rift'
1/22
A NYT article on sexual abuse against Palestinians -accurate but barely scratching the surface- is triggering hysteria in the Israeli govt not bcs of the facts, but bcs of the audience.
Apartheid Israel fears NYT readers will finally see and no longer ignore.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

As footage of an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza spreads online, legacy media dutifully frames it as “targeting Hamas” to justify another flagrant violation of the so-called ceasefire.

“Israel says” IS NOT JOURNALISM. This is how you whitewash war crimes.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

You know what's insane? There's a well-documented story about Israel's systematic rape of Palestinian prisoners, and somehow all the discourse is about how Israel is being unfairly vilified, and not about how Israel is engaging in systematic rape of Palestinian prisoners.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.

Together we are One.

[TheMuslimLawyer @faisalkutty]

A deeply disturbing and meticulously documented report by historians Liat Kozma and Lee Mordechai of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem traces the starvation of Gaza over the past three years through data, testimony, official statements, food prices, aid access, and powerful visual storytelling.

The report documents not only the collapse of food access and humanitarian relief, but also the public rhetoric surrounding it, including statements by Israeli officials openly discussing restrictions on food, water, electricity, and aid. It shows how aid convoys became lifelines measured in “tons of survival,” while ordinary Palestinians faced destroyed roads, military checkpoints, looting, shortages, and impossible food prices.

One image that stays with me is their description of a sack of flour becoming “a month of life.” Another is the simple line: “The lack of access to food led to death by starvation.”

Whatever one’s politics, this is devastating reading. The fact that this report comes from Israeli scholars at a major Israeli university makes it even harder to dismiss.

Originally published in Hebrew in March and now available in English. Worth reading carefully and reflecting on.

The link to the full article is here -- https://t.co/QAKeQ42qJC

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

There seems to be some misunderstanding regarding Israeli attacks on Christians.

Some of this violence and abuse, particularly when directed against clerics and others wearing identifiably Christian attire, is indeed motivated by specifically anti-Christian religious bigotry.

As messianic religious extremism becomes more widespread and gains increasing power within Israeli Jewish society and Israel's government, attacks directed at Christians specifically because they are Christian have indeed been on the rise.

But the majority of such attacks are not directed at Christians as such. Rather, the primary motive for such attacks is that these Christians are like their Muslim compatriots Arabs and, as in the case of Armenians, part of Palestinian society.

The violence and abuse, the dispossession and expulsions, should first and foremost be understood in the broader context of Zionism and Israel’s determination to establish a Jewish supremacist state in which the Jewish community maintains demographic, territorial, political, and economic hegemony.

Most prominently, the vast majority of Christians in the territory that became the state of Israel were expelled in 1948 as part of the Nakba. Not because they were Christian, but because they were like their Muslim neighbors not Jewish. Because they are Arabs. It is for this reason that they have been denied and deprived of the right to return to their homeland or reclaim their stolen properties.

Since 1967 vast amounts of Christian land and property in the occupied territories have been expropriated by Israel. Not because it is specifically Christian, but because it is not Jewish and because it is Arab.

Similarly, the regular pogroms against Christian villages and communities in the West Bank today are indistinguishable from those being launched by Israel, its military, and settler vanguards against Muslim villages.

The motive is Israel’s insatiable appetite for Palestinian land and property, not the Christian identity of its legitimate owners.

Israel’s campaign against churches and their properties also largely falls within this framework. The various churches have established extensive land and property holdings over the centuries.

Property rights, it might be added, that were with few aberrations not only respected but upheld by successive Muslim authorities. That's why they still exist.

That has all now changed. Israel is introducing a variety of tax measures, and engaging in a range of other gimmicks, the purpose of which is to seize these properties from the churches, transfer their ownership to the state or settlement groups, and reserve them for exclusively Jewish use. Again, and on the whole, not specifically because they are Christian, but because like their Muslim counterparts they are not Jewish.

Needless to say, if the roles were reversed this would be immediately denounced across the globe for what it transparently is.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

****Statement from Mosab Abu Toha in response to LeMoyne College's President's email to students today*****

This is deeply shameful. I cannot believe what I am reading.
How dare you tell a person who survived a genocide that they cannot speak about it?
On April 15, I had the honor of visiting and speaking at Le Moyne College. I spoke about my lived experience in Gaza, shared the family trees of those killed by Israel, and read my poems. I also played the actual recordings of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling that I documented myself while on the ground in Gaza.
This morning, the President of the college sent out an email condemning my use of the word GENOCIDE when describing these crimes. She claimed that using that word is "antisemitic." She stated that she recognized the "real hurt" that the word caused to Jewish students.
Seriously? Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case.
It is utterly ridiculous to begin a letter by stating that your institution welcomes the "free exchange of ideas," only to immediately condemn a speaker, not for sharing abstract ideas, but for sharing his own life. I still carry the physical wounds of a 2009 airstrike on my neck, my forehead, and my cheek. My wife and I have lost over one hundred relatives, most of them children. Some of them have still not been buried.
Who are these students you are talking about? Not a single person who identified themselves as Jewish approached me after my talk to offer condolences or acknowledge the actual crimes committed against me and my family. I never once used the word "Jewish" during the entire event; I refuse to conflate the faith of Judaism with the actions of the state of Israel.
Yet, you suggest my language caused "hurt." Whoever went to your office to complain about my words should have been the first to approach the stage to show humanity and support for a survivor.
It may surprise you to know that I used the word GENOCIDE to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza long before most human rights organizations, including prominent Israeli organizations, and leading Holocaust and Genocide scholars arrived at the same conclusion. I hope this fact does not "hurt" anyone even more.
If anyone told you they felt "hurt" because I used the word GENOCIDE, then I ask you: how should I feel? How should my wife feel after losing her father? How should my three children feel after losing their grandfather?
At a time when a GENOCIDE should be condemned, it is the survivors and those who speak out against it who are being targeted instead.

SHAME!!!!!