Zachary Foster

Historian of Palestine | PhD | Founder of Palestine Nexus ↓

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

6 🧵s to make sense of Israel/Palestine:

1) A history Palestinian non-violent resistance
2) A history of Hamas
3) A history of Israel's ethnic cleansing Palestinians
4) A history of Israel's wars on Gaza
5) A history of Gaza
6) A history of Israel’s use of disproportionate force

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

The ancestral homeland of Gadi Eisenkot, who will likely become Israel's next Prime Minister, is Morocco.

That's at least what his parents' & grandparents' generation felt when they arrived in Israel ⤵️ Most wanted to return home -- Morocco.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

A Moroccan Jew who moved to Israel in the early period of statehood wrote in a letter back home telling his family that antisemitism was worse in Israel than it was in Poland. The antisemites were the Ashkenazi Jews, who were more racist towards Moroccan Jews that whites were racist towards blacks in 1950s in the United States.https://t.co/qCdTZWABrG

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

“We’ve died from rain, from drowning, from hunger, from bombing, from planes. Now we’re fighting a new war.” A displaced Palestinian holds up a young viper found among the tents of al-Anan camp in the al-Katiba area of western Gaza City. Residents say they had only ever seen it near the eastern border, and this is the first time one has turned up inside the camps. Its bite can kill a child.

Families sleep on bare ground in tents with no floors, pitched among rubble and rubbish where snakes, scorpions and rats hide, and the World Health Organization has warned of the risk of snakebite among Gaza’s displaced. A year into the ceasefire, the Israeli occupation still blocks the shelter that could keep them off the ground.

SOURCE: khaled.sulttan

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Another Moroccan Jew wrote a letter back home, saying:

“You must know that the Arabs are our brothers, unlike the Ashkenazi Jews, who make our lives miserable. For all the money in the world I will not stay here.”

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

A Moroccan Jew who moved to Israel in the early period of statehood wrote in a letter back home telling his family that antisemitism was worse in Israel than it was in Poland. The antisemites were the Ashkenazi Jews, who were more racist towards Moroccan Jews that whites were racist towards blacks in 1950s in the United States.https://t.co/qCdTZWABrG

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

you can't be serious

[Ahmed Moor @AhmedMoor]

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[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

I haven’t spoken to a single Democratic member whose office HASN’T been inundated and overwhelmed by calls opposing Jeffries for Speaker.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Brigadier General (Res.) Oren Solomon: "A country thinks in terms of a generation: in another generation from now, there are no Gazans in Gaza... We need a total complete siege... Without water, without electricity, without food"

Aired on Channel 14, September 17.

[Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc]

If you believe Ayanna Pressley should be the next Speaker of the House, sign below!

Ayanna is an incredible leader. She was part of the 2018 election where I had the honor to meet her. She would be incredibly effective in this role.

https://t.co/agGobepdRZ

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

I can confirm that the Michigan Jewish community — which I grew up in — has been largely & still is largely all in on apartheid & genocide.

If this data is accurate — which it likely isn’t given the small sample size — then the Jewish community of Michigan is a stain on humanity

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

Jews in Michigan swung 44 points to the GOP in the midterms.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

@jaygee29 A person who believes Jews are superior to non-Jews.

Do you need help with the word toxic too?

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Hello World,

Monica Marks is a toxic jewish supremacist.

Sincerely,

A human being

[Monica Marks @MonicaLMarks]

Three quick points:

(1) Ahmed Moor would run well to the left of Abdul El-Sayed on Palestine. Unlike Abdul or Mamdani, Moor is firmly on the record as a one-stater and has never, to my knowledge, clearly condemned Oct. 7 for targeting civilians as Abdul & Mamdani did repeatedly.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

They declare their racism openly and proudly.

[הדר מילר Hadar Miller 🇮🇱 @hadarmiller_]

הגיוני שאללה אכבר זה הסאונד ברחובות במדינת ישראל?!?

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

11 Dems for genocide. has a nice ring to it.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

The 11 Democrats who didn’t vote on Hegseth’s impeachment:

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

The Israeli journalist Aryeh Gelblum wrote this in 1949 in describing the Arab Jews from North Africa. They had a "lower level" than even the Palestinians!!! https://t.co/eVMmDJheE2

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The chances were always low that House Dems would elect anyone other than Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker because of how rigidly hierarchical and pro-institution they are.

But any chance of choosing someone else was permanently crushed months ago when AOC announced on Meet the Press that Jeffries was the candidate she supports for Speaker (even though he supported, armed and funded what she claims she believes is a "genocide" in Gaza and he still defends it). AOC's support made Jeffries' elevation a foregone conclusion.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Hegseth won't be impeached because 11 Democrats didn't show up. But that's not the whole story. Hakeem Jeffries wasn't just an incompetent leader, he told members to "vote their conscience." That's a greenlight to miss the vote. Why? Israeli lobby wants pro-war Hegseth in place.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Hakeem Jeffries is bought and paid for by the genocide & war lobbies.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Hakeem Jeffries has been bought… he’s the biggest threat to the victory we just won. Give me 4 minutes and I’ll show you the receipts.” #Palantir #Aipac

From @byalphajalloh: https://t.co/JeQ9cuiQp1

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

In Apartheid Israel, if there might be an ancient Jewish cemetery somewhere, but you have no proof, you can destroy the lives of Palestinians near it to protect it.

In Apartheid Israel, if there an ancient Muslim cemetery, and you can prove it because all the tombstones are still there, you can destroy it to build a “Museum of tolerance.” I kid you not.

Not so complicated after all. It’s called Apartheid Israel

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Some fun facts about Israel from the 1950s & 1960s:
- supported the far-right fascist French Secret Army Organization in Algeria
- voted repeatedly in the United Nations against Algerian independence
- supported Congo’s General Mobotu, who carried out a military coup deposing the country's democratically elected government in 1960
- supported the landing of U.S. & British troops in Lebanon and Jordan in 1958.
- supported King Hussein of Jordan during Black September 1970, when he massacred thousands of innocent civilians.
https://t.co/qLkVCNcTdj

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Why would Benjamin Netanyahu sign a peace deal with Syria that allows Israel to annex the Golan?

That would deprive him of his primary mission in life, which is a state of forever war, forever genocide and forever death and destruction.

[Sam Heller | سام هيلر @AbuJamajem]

On Israeli podcast, Elizabeth Tsurkov says current Syrian officials have told her they would agree to a peace deal with Israel that effectively cedes the occupied Golan (paired with some declaration ostensibly suggesting otherwise): https://t.co/FfojcTYXlK (from ~1:11:05)