The West Bank is literally worse than the Jim Crow South at its peak. Constant mob ethnic violence, targeting the indigenous Muslim and Christian communities. No accountability; pogroms are legal and facilitated by the Israeli state.
Israelis are probably the only people in the world - if you look at public opinion - who support this war. Which makes sense because it's a war for their country.
RAJU: Why shouldn't Congress assert its constitutional role and actually vote to declare war the way it did with Iraq and Afghanistan?
FETTERMAN: Well, the last war we actually declared was World War 2
RAJU: No. Iraq and Afghanistan.
FETTERMAN: *stammers*
A literal pimp - that's what someone who takes a cut from sex workers' labour is - has been paying off our politicians to support Israel and its wars, including now in Iran.
Meet billionaire Leonid Radvinsky, owner of @OnlyFans
and the single top donor to @AIPAC, post-7 Oct.
New documents released from 1948 make the horror of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine completely clear.
"There were operations in which the potential enemy was destroyed, meaning civilians. In Saffuriyya, Jish, Eilabun, Lod, and in the south on a larger scale. The intention was to expel. It is impossible to expel 114,000 people from the Galilee without terror, and there needed to be an initial element of terror so they would go."— Mordechai Maklef, operations officer in the north, later Chief of Staff
"How do you expel a village? You cut off an ear in front of everyone from one of the Arabs and they all flee. No village was evacuated without stabbing one in the stomach or similar methods. We won only because of the fear the Arabs had, and they feared only because of acts that are not according to the law."— Maxim Cohen, commander of the Carmeli Brigade
"The soldier, one of ours, an intellectual, one hundred percent reliable. He arrived at the village immediately after the conquest. There was no battle and no resistance. The first conquerors killed 80 to 100 Arabs, women and children. One commander ordered a sapper to put two elderly Arab women in a certain house and blow it up on top of them. One soldier boasted that he raped an Arab woman and then shot her. Another Arab woman with a newborn baby in her lap was put to work cleaning. For a day or two she worked in service, and finally they shot her and her baby." - Meir Afron, 89th Battalion
Israel hid these atrocities for years. Buried in archives. It is now doing the same thing only at a greater scale. This is what Israel has always been.
The recently declassified documents published by Haaretz today - e.g. the orders by a Golani Brigade commander to 'shoot every 10th man' and murder all the Zabahim Arabs - should put an end to the "golden medium" theory of the Nakba promoted Benny Morris, a form of 'academic hasbara' which, due to Morris's eminence, has gotten a disturbing amount of currency.
This was clearly - as Palestinians have said - a systematic ethnic cleansing policy, driven by systematic murders, massacres, and deliberate attacks on civilians.
Newly uncovered documents show how systematically Israel ethnically cleansed Palestinian communities and killed civilians in 1948:
'Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave': What the Israeli Army Did in 1948, Revealed
by Adam Raz of @Akevot
https://t.co/IWk54o7W0g
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Every element of this war crime is routine for Israel
1) Shoot member of protected group (child, dr, journalist, or UN/aid worker)
2) Use force to prevent ambulance from saving lives
3) Lie about every aspect
4) Get proven wrong by video evidence
You might think this is finally an honest headline from BBC about Israelis. It is not. It is still downplaying what actually happened.
IDF didn't just shoot a 14 year old boy and watched him die. They created a cordon-off and actively prevented 2 ambulances from saving him.
Who believed that "if they only released the hostages"? Who believed in the ceasefire?
After killing 500+ people in about 3 months, Israel- armed and supported by the US - continues its genocide in Gaza undisturbed.
Don't let it become the new normal. Stand up against genocide!
“My mother was killed, and my uncle was torn to pieces. I’m scared of the rockets.”
🚨HEARTBREAKING: The children of Gaza speak about their fear and trauma to psychosomatic specialist Dr. Nawal Asqoul.
Every one of them carries loss parents, siblings, friends and the weight of a childhood shaped by airstrikes and grief.
I took this footage when I was about 13. What you’re seeing is Jewish American tourists parading around our house like it’s a zoo, gloating about stealing it, harassing us and hurling insults. This is some of what we are protesting when we protest land theft events at Yeshivas.
This video is a microcosm of how October 7 has been discussed and deliberately misframed.
If the Palestinian man had reacted at all, even in basic self-defense, the Israeli would’ve shot him on the spot and faced little to no consequence. That asymmetry is the operating reality; it’s not hypothetical.
What this footage captures is only a drop in an ocean of violence Palestinians have been subjected to for nearly eight decades. Yet when October 7 happened, the focus wasn’t on the daily, structural violence that preceded it (the settler who runs someone over, the soldier who humiliates, or the system that enables it all). Instead, the focus was placed squarely on the Palestinian who reacts, as if reaction exists in a vacuum.
That’s what this video exposes. One side’s permitted to brutalize, terrorize, and endanger lives in full view of the world, while the other’s expected to endure it quietly. If they don’t, they’re killed and then blamed for their own death.
⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN:
The Israeli settler, who is a reserve soldier, rammed a Palestinian during prayer near Ramallah and was released to 5 days of house arrest.
Before the ramming, he also shot at two Palestinians in the same area.
No consequences because he is not Palestinian.
An armed Israeli settler deliberately ran over a young man while he was praying on the roadside near Ramallah in the West Bank.
He probably wont be arrested or held accountable and is instead likely to be praised and rewarded by Israeli political leaders.