Chris Kyriacou

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[Chris Kyriacou @chriskareoke]

@stefthe0 Ange In… mate

[Chris Kyriacou @chriskareoke]

@LeGrove Quick decisive counter attacks are not something we do

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Abier @abierkhatib]

The besieged people in the city of Beit Lahia

Without water
Without food
Without hospitals
Without doctors
Without civil defense
Killing, bombing, destruction and genocide every second

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

In fact Israel has repeatedly violated the ceasefire.

[Art 🇦🇲 @artasovor_]

“Syrian rebels” and “Palestinian terrorists”.

Funny how that works.

[Gabriel Reid @DrGabrielReid]

Corruption writ large. America is bought and paid for, and the whole world knows it.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

🚨US is the Loan Guarantor of Israeli Debt

What does this mean?

Our Israel Lobby Funded lawmakers have forced the U.S. taxpayer to become the guarantor of Israel’s junk bonds. So if Israel can’t repay its debts (bonds), the U.S. taxpayer will pay it for them.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The elites who control the "Western democracies" are currently trying to overthrow by violence the election results in Venezuela, Georgia and Romania, because they don't like them.

Oh, and they are promoting a new "Shah of Iran" 🤣🤣

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Norman Finkelstein: What's happening in Gaza isn't just a war - it's genocide. 42M tons of rubble, destroyed hospitals, obliterated universities. 70% of infrastructure gone. This isn't about Hamas - it's about erasing Gaza from the map.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

I for one welcome the honesty. It allows the rest of the world to react accordingly

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

“Zionism is simply about Jewish self-determination.”

Sounds like y'all could benefit from a brief history lesson on Zionism (full disclosure: I'm a historian).

By the early 20th century, Zionism evolved into a movement of Jews who sought to:

1. Move to Palestine, or perhaps more accurately, colonize Palestine, since they described their own institutions as colonial institutions (The Jewish Colonial Trust; Imperial Charter for the Colonization of Palestine; Jewish Colonisation Association; Palestine Jewish Colonization Association).

2. Hire only other Jews and violently expel non-Jews out of Zionist cooperatives in 1933, for example, & build a Jewish-only labor union (the histadrut, no Arabs allowed until the 1960s) & build a Jewish-only health care system & build Jewish only social clubs etc.

3. Establish a Jewish state in a land that was 90% non-Jewish in the 1900s, 80% non-Jewish in the 1920s-1930s and 70% non-Jewish by the 1940s... a state where Jews would make all the key decisions, a state that would need to secure a Jewish majority & thus was ipsofacto consider hundreds of thousands if not millions of people living in its midst as anb inherent threat. Zionism was a movement that inherently deemed hundreds of thousands of people a threat b/c they were the wrong religion / ethnicity.

What could possibly go wrong?

Here are a few articles that help you understand more about the history & current politics of Zionism:

This article debunks the most common myth about Zionism, namely, that it was all about rescuing Jews Fleeing Persecution. Spoiler alert: it was not. https://t.co/tanirPx6PE

This article is all about doing Zionism, also known as Judaization, within the borders of so-called "Israel proper" from 1948 to the present. https://t.co/UavqCGzIfb

These two article cover the history of the Zionist movement's tragic use of (Jewish) human shields: https://t.co/f8WDi9GA5M and https://t.co/g2DXdgeZoT

This is a brief history of Zionist antisemitism https://t.co/BbFzDqst3T

This is a brief history of Jewish anti-Zionism
https://t.co/Xule6CLBVx

If you'd like to dive even deeper, I offer a 5-hour course on the history of Zionism, from its origins to the present day: https://t.co/l0K7AFOl4J

[Chris Kyriacou @chriskareoke]

The only democracy in the middle east denies people of a certain ethnicity their rights to representation. Is there a name for that?

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

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Israel's Knesset advances bill to limit Arab participation in local elections
https://t.co/BWmmQwx6eF

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Israeli media confirms (AGAIN) that Hamas accepted the ceasefire deals in both April & July but Netanyahu deliberately foiled both rounds to maintain a forever war.

Meanwhile, Biden's team is now re-writing history & telling everyone Hamas rejected those deals & Bibi accepted!

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

When student protestors chant “From the River to the Sea,” it means they want to destroy Israel, but when the current Israeli Finance Minister publicly declares his intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza, it doesn’t mean anything, and you’re an antisemite if you suggest it does.

[Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz2]

When Americans did this with Iraqis at Abu Ghraib, it prompted outrage and critical self-examination in the western world. But now we are two decades deeper into the western fascist resurgence and moral collapse.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The UK is now arming suspected war criminals who have been indicted by the world’s pre-eminent criminal court, the ICC.

The government must end ALL arms sales NOW.

https://t.co/wY9p8pPseP

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Israel drops leaflets ordering Palestinians to 'evacuate', and when they do Israel uses drones to murder them.

@Hind_Gaza reporting

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is Israel's finance minister advocating to "thin out" Gaza's population to halve it within two years.

Israel's leaders could not have been clearer about their intent, all the way through this horror.

That our media refused to frame their coverage accordingly is a scandal.