Christopher Hazou

Palestinian-American political analyst. Fmr Comms Officer for PLO Mission to the US & freelance journalist

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Israeli authorities have deliberately accelerated formal annexation of the occupied West Bank through a state-driven ethnic cleansing campaign targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C of the West Bank, while committing the crime against humanity of forcible transfer.

Our new report is out now. It shows that:

➡️Palestinians Bedouins and herding communities have been erased from their ancestral land, cut off from their pastures, and terrorized into fleeing their homes amid this

➡️What is happening is not an historical or political aberration

➡️The ethnic cleansing campaign is NOT new. It is rooted in Israel’s longstanding system of apartheid, a crime against humanity perpetrated by Israel against all Palestinians under its control for years. Decades.

➡️The campaign is NOT driven by some rogue settlers.
The international community is guilty of mischaracterizing the annexation as “settlers’ violence” driven by some bad apples or “extremist” ministers.

➡️Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is state-sanctioned, state-implemented and state-enforced.

➡️What the the 37th Israel government – a coalition between the Likud, the Jewish Power and Religious Zionism parties - has done is to accelerate a campaign of ethnic cleansing and longstanding oppressive practices, making them more aggressive, and more destructive.

➡️Israel’s turbo-charged campaign of ethnic cleansing must be met with an equal surge of measures by states around the world.

➡️We are calling on states to ban all trade, investment relations and activities that contribute to, or are directly linked to Israel’s unlawful occupation, system of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
➡️This must include banning the provision of funds or any other assistance to organizations that are integral to the settlement enterprise and apartheid system.
➡️The EU in particular must leverage its influence by expediting the long overdue suspension of its association agreement with Israel and suspending visa-free access to all Israeli settlers living in the OPT.
➡️We are also calling on states to impose unilateral, targeted sanctions, against senior Israeli officials directly implicated in Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign, including Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel Katz, Bezalel Smotrich, and Orit Strock.

https://t.co/sDXWgZ6hbI

[Christopher Hazou @c_hazou]

@daveweigel Buttigieg and Slotkin are not progressives and neither is Carney.

[Christopher Hazou @c_hazou]

@PalantirTech "The Technological Republic" aka "Mein Karpf."

[Christopher Hazou @c_hazou]

@jonathanchait You forgot the part about one of them being head of a genocidal apartheid state who is wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[Christopher Hazou @c_hazou]

@Maddytx76 @GPCody60 My father & his family were Palestinian Christians. They were ethnically cleansed in 1948 along with their Muslim neighbors. No one bought their home or land. It was stolen from them just like Israeli settlers continue to steal Palestinian homes/land in Jerusalem & the West Bank

[CNN @CNN]

Israeli soldiers talked of revenge after targeting Palestinians and detaining a CNN crew in the West Bank. https://t.co/G5zSscQgza

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Democratic senators Cory Booker, Ruben Gallego and Elissa Slotkin all told Politico they wouldn’t go on Hasan Piker’s show.

But they have all been on Bill Maher’s show, who says Islam is like “the mafia”, the Muslim world has “too much in common” with ISIS, Muslims bring “desert stuff” to the west, and has also used the N word on his show.

Why the double standard? Slotkin was on Maher’s show *yesterday*

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

This is a heinous crime by Israel. An extension of its serial killer campaign, hunting and murdering journalists in Gaza. Shame on all Western journalists and news outlets who refuse to condemn these crimes unequivocally.

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settler violence is surging again as the Iran war takes much of the world's focus. After one attack, Israeli soldiers who echo settler ideology assaulted a CNN photojournalist and detained the rest of the CNN team. Jeremy Diamond reports.

[Defense for Children @DCIPalestine]

A record high number of Palestinian children are in administrative detention with no charge or trial.

Read more: https://t.co/CP5O9JFCeA

[Nathan Thrall @NathanThrall]

A new apex in Israel's ethnic cleansing of the West Bank:
Settler violence is up >1700% since 2006;
Out of all 350+ outposts, more than half were built after 2022;
From 2023-25, more Israeli settlements were approved than in the previous 25 years combined.
https://t.co/R03hAyGmww

[The Breach @TheBreachMedia]

Israel secretly hired a Toronto law firm to ensure wines from its illegal settlements would not be accurately labelled in Canada.

@AnasAmbri reveals Israel’s efforts to lobby the federal government over fears the labelling could set precedents elsewhere. https://t.co/cffYxj9pl8

[Christopher Hazou @c_hazou]

@HadiK_Scouting I'm so sorry for your loss, Hadi.

[Jeremy Loffredo @loffredojeremy]

This week the New York Times published two articles devoted to explaining what the United States and Israel are targeting in their war on Iran.

Across both articles, the description of what the bombing campaign is hitting is sourced entirely to U.S. and Israeli officials: a “senior U.S. military official” speaking anonymously, the Pentagon, U.S. Central Command, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Israeli military, and Israel’s ambassador to Washington.

Neither article quotes Iranian officials, independent analysts, humanitarian organizations, or civilians inside Iran.

Neither article makes any mention of civilian deaths or the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including medical centers, water desalination plants, apartment buildings, mosques, or schools.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink.

Women in Gaza are being denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/AD2A0YDJ9o

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

Breaking: @MarkJCarney's government just voted against Bill C-233, which would have stopped the flow of weapons to Israel via the United States loophole. Canada has chosen to protect those profiting from genocide. We will not forget how MPs voted in this urgent moment.

[Christopher Hazou @c_hazou]

@BrilynHollyhand No, no one else has noticed because it's only happening in your delusional mind.

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

The U.S. and Israel have just poisoned the sky over a metro area of 17 million civilians. Anyone who is more concerned about the mayor of NYC’s wife’s social media likes from 3 years ago is irredeemable.

[Christopher Hazou @c_hazou]

@CBSNews Your editor-in-chief has spent the last two and a half years using her media platforms to deny/whitewash Israel's genocide in Gaza. Which do you suppose is worse?

[Christopher Hazou @c_hazou]

@mattyglesias Yeah, Middle East hawks are known for their great sense of humor. Understandable mistake on your part.