israel is a pariah state for good reason. it cannot defend its repugnant belligerence. so it will continue to demand state repression with cynical smears of antisemitism, which only feeds in to the just anger people feel towards the genocidal apartheid entity.
The people watching the sunset here on the beach in Tel Aviv don’t know that, at this very spot, 25 years ago today, 21 teenagers were killed by terrorists as they arrived at the Dolphinarium nightclub, now replaced with this beachfront promenade.
Exactly a year before, hoping for international acclaim, hapless Israeli PM Ehud Barak pulled the IDF out of the South Lebanon buffer zone they had held for 18 years.
Hezbollah immediately planted its flag on the border, literally. Nasrallah came to the border to declare victory, famously noting that Israel was “weaker than a spider’s web.”
Arafat took note, and so, weeks later, rejected the Clinton offer at Camp David that would have brought about a Palestinian state.
Two months after that, he began the campaign of terror that killed 1,000 Israelis.
Twenty-five years later, a new generation of Israelis is back in Lebanon, still cleaning up the mess the hasty pullout from Lebanon precipitated.
The New England hinterlands, where cell service is more of a myth than a reality, is the perfect place for a well-funded hate movement to fly under the radar.
Enter BDS 2.0, aka AFC.
Extra, extra, but nothing new.
Read all about it.
https://t.co/LUxdCbiR9Y
A movement based in truth does not need to lie.
Yet an international anti-Israel pledge is spreading toxicity in order to sow roots in American soil.
Where is it finding fertile ground?
More dirt and article in🧵
SCOOP: I've discovered that Euro-Med Monitor has actually been formally designated as a terrorist organization by Israel — since 2015.
And nobody realized.
Not journalists. Not myself. Not even the Israeli Diaspora Ministry, which published a detailed report on Euro-Med just last week following the Nicholas Kristof NYT op-ed.
So what happened? Israel designated the organization under its old name, "EUROMID OBSERVER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS." The group rebranded circa 2015 as "Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor," and the old spelling made the designation invisible to any obvious sanctions search. It sat buried in the government's official list for ten years, completely undetected.
The Swiss commercial registry makes the link unambiguous. Same organization. New name. Still designated.
The original designation, issued by then-Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, declared Euro-Med an "unauthorized association" under Israel's 1945 Defense (Emergency) Regulations.
Under Section 101 of Israel's 2016 Counter-Terrorism Law, that designation was automatically converted into a permanent terrorist designation, with no additional process required.
A terror front. Rebranded.
Undetected for a decade.
@AviMayer@AJCGlobal Ask them what’s going on in Vermont and give us a shout.
We’re being inundated, but we’re fearless and we’re cracking the code on where this hate is coming from and how it’s getting in.
Safe travels!
On our way to Bangor, Maine for a rally with @grahamformaine.
The crises facing our country are too serious for establishment politics and tinkering around the edges.
We need candidates like Graham who will take on the greed of the oligarchs and deliver for working families.
A Jewish woman’s yoga studio in southern Vermont was vandalized with antizionist graffiti this AM. Again.
Meanwhile, our senators @BernieSanders and @SenPeterWelch are endorsing Jew haters and spreading blood libels on the US Senate floor.
Vermont is unwell for a reason.
Vermont - StopAntisemitism is sickened to see the yoga studio of a proud Jewish woman be vandalized with hateful graffiti DG Bodyworks.
Local residents - please support DG Bodyworks in Cavendish, Vermont!
And if the man in the video looks familiar at all to you, please DM us.
TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists."
"It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added.
What we are experiencing now around October 7 is worse than Holocaust denial, because there is a violent movement hellbent in suppressing the memory—and law enforcement is buckling.
If you’re in London, go and bear witness. https://t.co/IWrjLon9y6