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At a bar this weekend, I spoke with a random person in their young 30s. She mentioned that she and her sister-in-law have political disagreements.
I asked her which subject in particular.
She said: Israel-Palestine.
So, I asked which side she stands on.
She said she was opposed to Israel genociding Palestinians.
Trying not to give away my position, I asked: What makes you say that?
She said it was Israel killing 200,000 Palestinian children.
I told her that was interesting because Hamas's death toll, which includes fighters, sits at around 70,000. At that point, she made it clear that she wasn't interested in changing her opinion.
We have a propaganda and misinformation problem. It seems that many people have developed strong opinions based on lies. But perhaps correct information could help dispel the lies. Though, I suspect the truth doesn't matter as much as the narrative.
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First they came with colonialism...but it made no sense because Jews obviously come from Judea.
Then they came with apartheid...but it made no sense because racial segregation doesn't exist in Israel and Jews and Arabs have equal rights.
Then they came with genocide...to describe Israel's defense against genocidal terrorists who murdered over 1,200 Israelis in unimaginably brutal ways.
Following Hamas's slaughter of Jews, the terrorist group's supporters are now slaughtering the foundations of international order and the definitions of crimes.
This is full-on lexicide.
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If I’m defending pro-Hamas propagandists, I might stay away from the word “kidnapped.”
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If ever a tweet would land you on the no-fly list, surely, this one would do it.
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A Z-list actor refuses to audition for a Netflix series because it has Israeli producers. His most famous film role (🤣) is Syriana, partially filmed in Egypt (dictatorship) and Morocco (occupying Western Sahara). Thanks for your moral clarity. truthout.org/articles/i-said…
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A perfect storm of how the human rights camp is supporting terrorism against Israel.
🔻Accept Hamas casualty numbers.
🔻Don’t account for Hamas terrorists killed in the operation.
🔻Blame Israel for releasing its hostages, not Hamas for taking them.
🔻Ignore that almost all of the deaths occurred as Hamas tried to prevent the rescue.
🔻Don’t question the morality of holding hostages in a densely populated area that would endanger civilians.
🔻Disregard that Hamas had civilians hold Israelis hostage.
This is why the human rights crowd has zero credibility on the Israel portfolio.
Israel's latest hostage rescue operation: “How is it reasonable to kill over 200 people for the sake of four?" 972mag.com/nuseirat-camp-isr…
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If you are Israeli, pray that the Bibas kids are returned alive and well.
If you are Palestinian, pray that the Bibas kids are returned alive and well.
If you are human, pray that the Bibas kids are returned alive and well.
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15 minutes of research could have saved them 15 hours of pain, or more.
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I suppose Shafik met the food demands of the protesters by delivering this word salad.
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The JVP Haggadah: An indictment on the Jewish community...for raising people who would produce such a topic.
Here are some highlights in a thread 🧵
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If you want to have a nuanced discussion about discrimination and socioeconomic gaps, which exist in Israel like in every other country, that’s fine. But all Israeli citizens have equal rights.
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Tlaib in a press conference: Omar and I are very careful in vetting NGOs we partner with.
She says this after revelations of partnering with an NGO that promotes blood libels and terrorism.
So, which groups didn't make the cut?
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Dear white Mercedes with four people inside that sped by my DC shul Monday night, displayed a banner, and shouted “Free Palestine” at us because we’re Jewish: that is not the proper way to wish us a happy holiday. But it’s a great way to declare you’re antisemitic.
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Using a Jewish person, who essentially says "as a Jew" during the video, to narrate your attack on AIPAC and DMFI is a not-so subtle way of trying to head off accusations of antisemitism.
WATCH: Why have Republican-funded groups like DMFI and AIPAC spent millions of dollars to try to beat progressives like @SummerForPA, @JCisnerosTX, @BernieSanders, @ninaturner, and @JamaalBowmanNY in primaries?
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To many Jews, he’s a genocidal maniac.
To many others, he’s a bohemian artist with a chic mustache, a love of animals, and a penchant for energetic speeches.
Adolf Hitler’s story…
To many Israelis, he’s a terrorist.
To many Palestinians, he’s their Mandela.
Marwan Barghouti’s story is told in new documentary Tomorrow’s Freedom, and I spoke with co-director Sophia Scott and Marwan’s son Arab Barghouthi about the film and Barghouti's standing today.
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Since this is a week filled with people making claims "As a Jew"™, here is a thread about Pablo Christiani, one of the most famous "As a Jew"™s. Christiani converted to Christianity (as you could probably tell) in the 13th century and became a Dominican friar. 1/
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LOL, posting billboards declaring there to be apartheid in places where Israelis are barred entry (Ramallah and Bethlehem) is not the win you think it is.
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Israel wins bronze in the U20 World Cup with a 3-1 victory over South Korea. A goal and an assist for Israeli Arab Anan Khalaili.
Jews and Arabs as brothers.
Terrific example of coexistence.
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For 16 months, radical activists have tried to convince the world that the war in Gaza was a massacre/genocide. Now that there is an actual massacre nearby in Syria … crickets.
Their crying wolf is leading sheep to the slaughter.
Massive protests now in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Columbia University after Jihadist regime of Ahmed Al-Sharaa slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children in Syria.
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The Harvard Crimson endorsed BDS: A thread 🧵
Harvard's student newspaper commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day by endorsing the boycott of the Jewish state, just 89 years after the Nazis introduced their own boycott against the Jews.
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Obviously, there’s been a year and a half of denying Hamas’s atrocities and blaming Israel for imagined ones, but the proximity to the latest blood libel, that 14k Palestinian children will die in 48 hrs, is striking.
Blood libels aren’t just insults, they’re calls to violence.
Two Israeli Embassy staff killed, per source familiar with the shooting outside the DC Capital Jewish museum.
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Is there any amount of death and destruction that will convince Palestinians it is better to live in peace with the Jews than to die trying to exterminate them?
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During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Israel faced annihilation, Canadian singer Leonard Cohen went to Israel to lift the troops' morale.
In 2024, while Israel fights Hamas, Israeli singer @IshayRibo went to Harvard to lift the morale of the beleaguered Jewish college students.
Ishay Ribo getting the crowd involved while singing Vehi Sheamda at his concert for Harvard students while protesters demonstrate outside
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I think he should put out a statement, "Sorry, didn't mean to offend," but he's holding the mic out for the audience to chime in and he is doing a high-knees march, not a goose step.
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Using your Jewish heritage as an appeal to authority to undermine the Jewish people or the Jewish state is nothing new. Prefacing your criticism of Jews or Israel with "As a Jew"™ is not the shield you think it is. 7/
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Hey. Former teammate David May here. Happy to chat with you about the history of antisemitic tropes that you (unintentionally) are playing into here. Perhaps, Kanye (not Jewish) is getting punished for antisemitic remarks but not his anti-Black remarks because he's Black.
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Alternative New York Times headlines
July 4, 1976: Israel kills dozens of Ugandans and several Germans in night full of terror in Entebbe
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Par for the course, you deliberately misrepresented Balfour, you tried to move the goalposts during the debate, and you’re trying to move them after the debate.
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I guess the point of this whole thread is this: Many people claim their attacks on Israel cannot be antisemitic because Jewish groups like JVP express similar opinions. This haggadah is an accurate demonstration of JVP's Jewish authenticity.
Also, JVP needs to learn Hebrew.
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BDS loses at UMD 25-9 despite scheduling for a vote on Passover. I guess the only BDS we’ll be having is Brisket, Dried Fruit and Shank Bone.
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Western media: How dare Israel deceive us about ground operations in Gaza!
Also Western media: Let's unquestioningly report death figures from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
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Holding a press conference condemning Israel as a repressive state in Israel's capital is, perhaps, not the win you think it is.
Now in #Jerusalem @amnesty holds a press conference on the org’s new report, stating the Israeli regime between the river and the sea is #Apartheid
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Israeli judo champion Sagi Muki meets Iranian judo star Saeid Mollaei who fled Iran after being coerced into not competing against Muki. Mollaei received Mongolian citizenship. The wall of Iran and other countries boycotting Israeli athletes is falling. facebook.com/sagimuki/photos…
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Will the human rights crowd pause to think why Hamas is so threatened by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and why it is so adamant on UNRWA being allowed back into Gaza?
Could it be that UNRWA was key to Hamas siphoning goods and that GHF is an obstacle to that?
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The protestors tearing down and burning American flags did more to emphasize the shared fate of democratic allies than Bibi ever could in his speech.
NEW: A group of House lawmakers are at Union Station replacing the American flags that were taken down earlier in the day by pro Palestinian protesters
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Someone should warn Brady about what happened to the other goats at the temple.
#TomBrady the GOAT visiting the Western Wall in #Israel with Robert Kraft.
A true friend of the Jewish people and an example of kindness and decency.
🏈
H/t @Lazar_Berman
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Just over a month ago, Israeli Arabs were undergoing a crisis, with the bloodiest year from internal violence on record.
Now, after the Hamas massacres, the percentage of Israeli Arabs identifying with the State of Israel is at an all-time high.
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Two things are clear from this tweet.
1. Albanese does not know how Israel operates.
2. Albanese seeks to portray Israel as inherently evil. Her antipathy towards Israel is pathological.
Knowing how Israel operates,my assessment is that Israeli forces intentionally killed #WCK workers so that donors would pull out & civilians in Gaza could continue to be starved quietly.Israel knows Western countries & most Arab countries won't move a finger for the Palestinians.
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I’m sorry Hamas undid all your hard work…
Statements like this, from the Hamas leader in Gaza, don't only endanger Israeli Jews. They are a moral stain on the Palestinian struggle for equality and freedom nytimes.com/live/2022/05/05/…
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Spy cows are central to Israel’s פרה military forces.
jns.org/israel-trained-cattl…
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I saw him dressed up as a Jew outside the White House last month, next to a Christian prayer circle, decked in anti-Israel garb.
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There have been a lot of complaints about a lack of inclusion of Jewish voices in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training.
University of Michigan: Hold my Manischewitz!
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Hamas may not have put Shiri Bibas’s body in the coffin, but they sure put the final nail in the coffin of the two-state solution.
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I hate to be all technical but recognizing Palestine "based on its 1967 borders," means you don't recognize Palestine since there was no political entity known as Palestine in 1967. There was Gaza ruled by Egypt and West Bank ruled by Jordan. timesofisrael.com/tiny-islan…
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The explosion of anti-Israel activity in the wake of 10/7 has featured a dramatic increase in people’s comfortability with posting overtly antisemitic things. The newfound obsession with (and misunderstanding of) Jewish law is a case in point. Very often they’re interrelated.
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If someone tweets a picture of Ken Roth eating Ben & Jerry’s while watching My Unorthodox Life, Jewish Twitter will really blow up.
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The U.S. went from ‘if Hamas cares about its people, it won’t attack the American pier’ to ‘Israel must protect it.’
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The Nuseirat operation is a good microcosm of the war.
🔴Israel tried to recover its hostages being held in a dense urban environment.
🟠The IDF comes under heavy fire by Hamas fighters trying to prevent kidnapped Israelis from being rescued.
🟡In the process of killing dozens of Hamas fighters, Palestinian civilians are killed in the crossfire.
🟢It turns out Palestinian civilians are complicit in atrocities perpetrated against Israelis.
🔵Hamas supporters blame Israel for killing Palestinian civilians.
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This man was one of the UN’s most senior human rights officials. This is how he frames the creation of the State of Israel. A good indication of the UN’s neutrality.
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Missing from this tweet:
1. A condemnation of the attacks.
2. The identity of the attackers.
Israel is suffering a spate of lethal attacks on random victims by lone assailants. Hamas praised the latest attack "as a 'heroic operation' but did not directly claim responsibility for it." nytimes.com/2022/03/29/world…
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We had a tour of a Jewish school my kid might attend next year. During our class visit, I corrected the Hebrew teacher’s Hebrew.
I’m starting to think my kid might not get in
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"As a Jew"™, Christiani used his religious Jewish upbringing and education to try to undermine Judaism and eradicate the religion.
"As a Jew"™, Christiani sought to ban the Talmud.
"As a Jew"™, Christiani tried to convert the Jews of Provence. 2/
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Since it is nearly Christmas, and there will likely be a flurry of critiques of Israel for supposedly repressing Christians in the Holy Land, here is a thread on how Hanukkah is celebrated under Hamas in Gaza.
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This segment was weird and unnecessary.
Do we really need to analyze how some Palestinians are concerned about Israel rescuing Jews from the carnage of war? What's the alternative, that Israel should abandon its brethren so as not to upset Palestinians?
nytimes.com/2022/03/07/world…
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Thanks. I forgot to add “racism” to my original post.
In any case, Hamas didn’t ask if people were practicing Jews before slaughtering them. Antisemites want Jews dead whether or not they are observant. So Israel, as a safe haven for Jews, offers citizenship to all Jews, regardless of their level of affiliation. It’s not racist to protect Jews, but it is telling that you’d use that term to characterize Israel’s tools to protect Jews.
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Turning the Maccabees into the villains of Hanukkah is certainly a choice, but it does make sense considering that JVP would be the first ones to die at the hands of the Hasmoneans.
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Thanks to all my @FDD colleagues who helped me produce this important report on the #BDS campaign to defeat Israel through economic warfare. Please give it a read and let me know what you think. fdd.org/analysis/2020/1/20/w…
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All those who criticized Israel for not allowing Katherine Franke into Israel as part of a trip with the Center for Constitutional Rights because of her BDS support: You might want to reconsider.
.@ProfKFranke: "Like [Michigan professor Cheney-Lippold], I don't write letters of recommendation for students seeking jobs/internships in Israel because I have many students who are structurally disqualified from applying for those opportunities on account of being Palestinian."
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Will Sweden be the next country to join the Abraham Accords? timesofisrael.com/swedish-fo…
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In the aftermath of the disputation, Ramban fled to Palestine and founded a synagogue in Jerusalem's Old City, the oldest active synagogue in the city. 5/
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This editorial says a lot more about the decay in higher education than it does about Israel. Despite paying lip-service to opposing antisemitism, Harvard's student paper has actually endorsed it. AFAIK, the board has not called for BDS against any other country, just Israel.
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I realize I forgot to clarify that JVP stands for Jewish Voice for Peace, not Jewish Voice for Pharaoh.
If it did stand for the latter, it would explain their chant:
From the (Nile) River to the (Red) Sea, Return the Jews to Slavery!
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"As a Jew"™, Christiani helped convince King James I of Aragon that he could prove that Christianity was the superior religion. So, from July 20-24, 1263, Christiani and the Ramban duked it out in the theological boxing ring. 3/
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"As a Jew"™, Christiani used Jewish sources to argue that the early rabbis believed that Jesus was the Messiah. "As a Jew"™, Christiani hoped that the Ramban's fear of offending the king would prevent him from dismantling Christiani's arguments. "As a Jew"™, he was wrong. 4/
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"As a Jew"™, Christiani went on to help James I censor the Talmud and remove passages deemed to be offensive to Christians. "As a Jew"™, Christiani went to Pope Clement IV to denounce the Talmud and convinced King Louis IX of France to force Jews to wear badges. 6/
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Quoting an antisemite who advocates violence against Jews. This won't be the last one of these.
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Please pray for a speedy recovery for my sister (רחל חנה בת מרים). A bus in Tel Aviv hit her and severely broke her arm.
She was making a left turn when the bus went into oncoming traffic to pass her and ended up knocking her off her bicycle.
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If the Palestinians were in Mitzrayim, Israel would be able to finish off Hamas much easier. In any case, this is par for the course in terms of the bizarre framing of Jewish tradition.
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Understanding BDS's demands and how erasing the world's only Jewish state would harm the Jews is key to recognizing the antisemitic implications of endorsing BDS. 3/ algemeiner.com/2022/04/07/is…
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Speaking of things coming out of Pennsylvania in 1993, here is CAIR director Nihad Awad, then public relations director for an NGO shut down for supporting Hamas, at a conference that discussed how to support Hamas.
In an article he wrote in 1993, @JoshShapiroPA made racist comments targeting Palestinians. He has a track record that includes volunteering with the IDF and comparing pro-Palestine protestors to the KKK. 1/3
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The guy spreading Hamas propaganda is the same person who had a New York Times puff piece about him in 2021 (which remains on the site with an editor's note above). It's also a demonstrably false statement.
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Collective memory is real even if it isn't true.
Palestinians believe they are innocent victims of an ongoing attempt to erase their existence. The nakba narrative takes zero accountability, failing to acknowledge that their failed attempt to quash the Jewish state and their ongoing violence against Israelis has backfired tremendously.
So, they learn lessons from an imagined history, further setting back their cause.
When their advocates claim that the current Israel-Hamas war is another nakba, I tend to agree. An attempt at eradicating Israeli Jews backfired spectacularly and rather than experiencing introspection, the Palestinians have doubled down on their victim narrative, denying their own agency.
77 years of an ongoing Nakba.
Exile is not our fate; return is our destiny.
Generation after generation until return and freedom.
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Convincing Jews they don’t need a safe haven by….tracking them down and going after them where they live.
Antisemite Lamis Deek stands outside the home of a Jewish man moving to Israel in New York harassing him and accusing him of ethnic cleansing.
Jews are literally being chased and harassed by “free Palestine” Jew haters.
Where the hell are the police!?
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Anticlimactically, there is no "Next year in Jerusalem" or "Next year in al-Quds" to close the Seder.
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The most striking parts were where Murray caught her in a lie and how she tried to switch topics rather than admit her mistake.
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The apartheid charge is intended to delegitimize Israel and to shut down debate. It is not an analysis of law or facts on the ground.
Their logic:
Apartheid=evil
If Israel=apartheid, then Israel=evil.
It's a way of legitimizing hatred of Israel without knowing Israel.
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Alternate realities exist. Case in point is Beinart's imagined history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
There are many errors in this short article, but I'll just focus on part of this paragraph.
Beinart is one of many linking Israel and Russia.
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This is their explanation for how they take a story about the Jews entering the land of Israel and turn it into a call for opposing Jews in the land of Israel.
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Unsurprisingly, the Electronic Intifada published an op-ed explaining why anti-Semitism is not anti-Semitism by a person kicked out of the British Labour party for anti-Semitism. Next up: the White Nationalist explanation of Charlottesville. electronicintifada.net/conte…
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Because bigoted Muslim and Arab countries refused to play against the Jewish state and threatened the personal safety of Israeli athletes. Let me know if you need more information on anti-Israel discrimination that forced Israel to compete in European leagues.
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It should be clear by now that calls for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank unconditionally are unbelievably reckless, even if they assuage clueless Westerners. South Lebanon, Gaza, and now Afghanistan are likely models for what will happen. jpost.com/middle-east/what-d…
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