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1/ Overall, Israeli Judaisation of Jerusalem have failed. 1970s policy (yes, explicit policy) was to keep Palestinians at 30% of the population in the municipal area, but today they are

1/ Almost the entire spectrum of political scenarios for Israel-Palestine could be credibly presented as continuing and fulfilling the vision of Zionism - from a Kahanist state to a single

1/ It is often argued that the expulsion of Palestinians was written into the Zionist programme from its very beginning. A thread on why this is wrong. ---------- 2/ In

The EHRC report is a vindication of the struggle of Jewish activists who rightly called the Labour party on antisemitism. But it couldn't have been won without the struggles for

There's a narrative that sometimes people get so excited about their Palestine activism and their principled objection to Zionism that they get "carried away" and drift into antisemitism. I think

Was the Oslo agreement designed to achieve permanent Israeli occupation over the West Bank and Gaza, to prevent meaningful Palestinian sovereignty, and foil a meaningful two state solution? (A thread)

Rabin did far worse things than the heavy handed attempt to suppress the first intifada. The expulsion of Palestinians from Lydda and Ramleh in 1948. Architect of the 1967 war

So, @PeterBeinart endorses binationalism and imagines a future for liberal Zionism beyond Jewish statehood. This is an important piece. I'll outline what I see as its strengths and weaknesses. THREADhttps://jewishcurrents.org/yavne-a-je

100 years to the 1920 “Nabi Musa Riots”, aka Easter Disturbances, انتفاضة موسم النبي موسى מאורעות תר״פ.(THREAD)---------The Jerusalem riot was the first major Palestinian anti-Zionist violent confrontation, and as such