🚨Israeli soldiers detained two Palestinian children, accusing them of being spies in Al-Khalil, West Bank today. When passersby questioned why such young children were detained, the army told the to stop filming. The soldiers demanded to know where the boys' father was and detained them for a while before multiple soldiers went to the family's' house, preventing activists from following them. The soldiers then harassed and threatened the shopkeepers who were trying to support the children.
This is the everyday violence of the occupation in Al Khalil where Israeli soldiers routinely terrorise Palestinians outside their homes without impunity.
@ISMPalestine
Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez on Israel:
Protecting your country is one thing. Killing over 60,000 civilians, displacing 2 million people, bombing hospitals, and starving innocent children to death is quite another.
I do believe we are witnessing one of the darkest and most terrible events of the 21st century unfold right before our eyes.
The International Community cannot remain silent and paralyzed.
What moral leadership can we play in the new global order if we abandon Palestinians?
Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."
The situation for Palestinians in Gaza is beyond description, beyond atrocious & beyond inhumane.
A policy of siege & starvation makes a mockery of international law. The blockade against humanitarian aid must end immediately.
This is a moment for moral clarity & action.
"Being a Zionist means you believe Israel has a right to exist." FALSE.
First, no state has a "right to exist." that's not how international law works. Peoples have rights to exist. Individuals have rights. But not states. No state has a right to be an apartheid state. No state has a right to give one ethno-religious group more rights over others.
So, what does "being a Zionist" mean?
It means you believe in an ideology that said, let's create a Jewish state in a country that's 90%+ non-Jewish.
Zionism meant that, when Jews bought land in Palestine from the 1900s-1948, they uprooted the people living on the land because they weren't jewish.
That's why, when Zionists created cooperatives in Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, they insisted on "Hebrew Labor", i.e., "Jews only" -- no Arabs allowed.
That's why, in the 1930s, Zionists expelled Palestinian Arabs from working at Jewish companies and business. (Think "whites only", but with the Zionists it was "Jews only.").
That's why, in 1948, Zionists militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.
That's why, from 1949-1956, Israeli forces shot & killed b/w 2,700-5,000 overwhelmingly unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes after the war. Because they were the wrong religion/ethnicity (source: Benny Morris, Border Wars, p.416).
The Zionists wanted to create a Jewish State with a Jewish majority, and there were simply way too many Palestinians that would have been incorporated into the borders of the new state, so they had to go, they had to be expelled. The ideology created the incentives, the incentives created the outcome.
That's why the state of Israel uprooted & ethnically cleansed another 30-40,000 Palestinians from the borders of the newfound state from 1949-1959, because those people were of the incorrect religion/ethnicity, thus rendering them an inherent threat to the state because they didn't have J-positive blood (source: https://t.co/1d4VqUjxvE…).
Zionism was a political ideology that insisted on Jewish control, Jewish domination, Jewish supremacy in a land of mostly non-jews, in a land of mostly Palestinian Arabs.
That's why Israel has become such a pariah state over the years, because it's insistence on jewish rule in a country with so many non-jews. That's why Zionism has led Israel to become an apartheid state, according to every relevant human rights organization ( @ICAHD in 2010, @UNESCWA in 2017, @YeshDin in 2020, @AdalahCenter in 2020, @btselem in 2021, @hrw in 2021, @amnesty in 2022, @fidh_en in 2021, @alhaq_org in 2022, @Addameer in 2022, @AlMezanCenter in 2022,
@cacalqudsuni in 2022, @AdvocacyJlac in 2022, @miftahpal in 2022, @ICJ_org in 2022, @DAWNmenaorg
in 2022), because Israel gives Jews extra rights & extra privileges over the native non-jews in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Obviously it does. that's the point of Zionism.
Zionism also explains why Israel is now committing genocide, because, what a Zionist dream it would have been had Palestine been a land without any people on it! the ideology incentivized genocide.
I have directed the CDA Chairman to immediately visit the dharna site to assess what relief and assistance can be provided to the dharna participants with the onset of rain and changing weather conditions.
Josep Borrell, Head of EU Defence Agency:
“The Sec Gen of the UN is not antisemitic. The PM of Spain 🇪🇸 is not antisemitic….I have the right to criticise the decisions of the Israeli 🇮🇱 Govmnt…without being accused of antisemitism. This is not acceptable. That’s enough.”