An evolving document compiled by young Palestinian media activists (last update 13 September 2024)
Israel was built on top of Palestine through the ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinians, a long-standing Zionist policy that resulted in 8 million Palestinians becoming refugees or displaced people and the rest enclosed in ghettos/bantustans (1) based on a set of myths and distortions of reality to justify colonization and plans for ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and continue today (2).
(1) See Truth About Palestine
PalestineRemembered.com
History of the Question of Palestine
Video Nakba 101
Video how Israel was created
Occupation 101
Ilan Pappe explains
(2) Zionism at 100
The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel
see books by Shlomo Sand on the myths that allowed ethnic cleansing
Ben-Hur, the LA Times & a place called Palestine
Greenberg, Gary. 101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History. Sourcebooks, 2002
Whitelam, Keith W. The invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History. New York, Routledge. 1997
Nur Masalha "Palestine: A four thousand year history"; Raed, Basem. Hidden Histories: Palestine and The Eastern Mediterranean. Pluto Press. 2010.
Israeli plan to expel Gazans and this
Gaza is a sliver of land along the Mediterranean Coast. Per the 1947 UNGA partition resolution, Gaza’s area was many times more than what it is now, and it was to be under the UNGA 181 but during 1948, Israel removed 247 villages and towns, including Asqalan (now Israeli Ashkelon) and Najd (now Sderot). Most of them were pushed (including on boats from Jaffa) to be squeezed in the open-air prison called the Gaza ‘Strip’. Thus 2/3rd of the current population (2.3 million, 60% of which are below 18) of the squeezed Gaza ghetto are refugees, a concentration area of “surplus people”. After Israel’s occupation of the Strip in 1967, Israel conducted numerous attacks on the area including in 1974, 1981, 1987-1991, 1997, 2000, 2008, 2014, 2018/2019, and 2021. In 2012 the United Nations reported that Gaza will be unliveable by 2020 and that was before two more wars n the eople of Gaza. The nonviolent 2018-2019 march of return by unarmed civilians was met by Israeli forces’ systemic targeting, massacring these civilians. The violence against people living in crowded Gaza had been ongoing for decades- see other questions and answers below. The events of 7 October 2023 that took Israel by surprise and caused pain and suffering is precisely what Palestinian were faced with many fold over in the past 75 years (33 massacres in 1948 alone and hundreds more since then including the lates series of massacres commnitted in Gaza in October 2023) (3)
(3) Israeli rights group Gisha report
UN Statistics updated daily
2019 Video
UN's 2012 report
https://wehaddreams.com/
Blocade befor this crisis, see this and this, and Oxfam reported and UNICEF reported on acute water deprivation, and the UN stated that Gaza will be unlivable by 2020 and The Long War on Gaza
The West Bank (including Jerusalem) and Gaza have been under a brutal and illegal Israeli military occupation since 1967. This occupation is illegal per international law (illegality of acquisition of territory by war, see below). Israeli settlers built, and continue to build colonial residential and industrial setlements in these occupied areas. Since the PLO signed an agreement which recognized Israel in 1993, it was hoped that after an interim period of 5 years of negotiations, a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank would be formed with currently Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem as its capital (the Oslo accords). Instead, the last 30 years saw an increase in the number of illegal Israeli colonial settlers squatting on Palestinian lands in the West Bank (now 970,000 settlers). Palestinians were removed from their lands and homes and squeezed into Bantustans/ghettos in the West Bank and this process is ongoing (in just the past two years, 22 communities in the WB were removed). Before this latest escalation on 7 October, Israel has killeds 300 Palestinians in the West Bank including 38 children and two American citizens. Ben Gvir was unleashed by Netanyahu to arm settlers and gave the green light to them and to the apartheid terrorist army to shoot to kill and commit now well documented pogroms such as at Huwwara and Turmusayya. This only intensified when on 7 October Israeli forces sealed off all our ghettos so that people are trapped (for example Bethlehem people cannot get to Ramallah or Jericho). 106 Palestinians were thus killed in the West Bank since 7 October alone (18 days). Since the occupation in 1967, the Palestinian economy has been devastated, natural resources are stolen and given to colonial settlers, and there are almost daily incursions into Palestinian cities and holy sites like Al-Aqsa mosque but all of this intensified under the extremely right wing government led by Netanyahu (4). Now there is discussion and revolt in Israeli society charging that the colossal failure of the Israeli government on 7 October 2023 and collaps of the Gaza front was directly related to diverting the army for land grab and settler protection in the West Bank. Israeli forces and settlers are also in a rampage in the West Bank with >600 Palestinians killed in the past year and many pogroms committed and torturing prisoners (5)
(4) Netanyahu tweeted 28 December 2022: "These are the basic lines of the national government headed by me: The Jewish People have an exclusive and unquestionable right to all areas of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop settlements in all parts of the Land of Israel - in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan, Judea and Samaria" (Note the latter areas are all parts of historic Palestine that still has native/indigenous Palestinians that have not yet been fully ethnically cleansed) See data from UN-OCHA, B'Tselem, ARIJ and here is how he realluy thinks caught on camera, and PeaceNow reported on accelerating settlement buildings.
(5) See reports from Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, by contrast see how Palestinians treated prisoners and tortured Palestinians,
Does a rapist or a slave owner have a right to defend himself against being hit by the victim? But more concretely International Law says an occupying army does not have a right to defend itself from those whose land it occupies. The premise that a colonizer is doing self-defense is itself a linguistic error. Colonizers use violence to achieve their cause of ethnic cleansing. This happened in all other colonial situations in over 170 countries. As an occupier/colonizer that was created by ethnic cleansing of the local people beginning in 1948 and continuing today, the Israeli regime defends its illegitimate colonization project (itself based on violence). The claim that Hamas presence as a guerrilla force among the Palestinians in Gaza is also not an excuse for violating basics of warfare and targeting civilians. Afterall, Israeli military facilities are also inside Israeli cities but this does not justify targeting civilians (6). Further Israeli authorities themselves openly declared that they are punishing the population of Gaza (not fighters from Gaza) by bombing them without warning and starving them see Q# 6 and #7 below.
(6) See reports from Gisha,ARENA, Doctors without Borders, OHCR,ARIJ,
Do millions of Palestinians, disenfranchized, impoversihed, and brutalized for 75 years have a right to defend themselves? Yes, international law does stipulate that local people have a right and obligation to resist oppression of course consistent with International law (7). Israel’s 75 years of oppression and subjugation of millions of people cannot be ignored to demand quiescent victims (8). The struggle for freedom in South Africa and Algeria or other colonial situations was not delegetimized when (a minority) of natives as individuals or groups targeted colonial settlers. Ending colonization is always the only way to end both the resistance and the much larger violence of the colonizers. But we also recognize that most resistance in the past 100 years by Palestinians has been popular (non-violent) resistance. Certainly less violent than most other colnial-anti-colonial struggles.(9)
(8) The view of Islamic Resistance Forces on 7 October and the before and after events. Whether you/we agree with them or don't, it is important to read to understand their view titled "Our Narraive: Operation Al-Aqsa Flood". English and Arabic and see also this.
(9) See Mary Elizabeth King "A quiet Revolution" 2007
Mazin Qumsiyeh "Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment" Pluto Press 2014
Marwan Darwish and Andrew Rigby "Popular Protest in Palestine: The uncertain future of unarmed resistance”, Pluto Press, 2015.
From its inception, Israel ethnically cleansed Palestinians (a breach of international law, including the Geneva Conventions). Israel was admitted to the UN only when it agreed to implement UN resolutions, including UNGA 181 and 194, but Israel refused to implement them. Subsequently Israel has violated over 70 UN Security Council Resolutions and hundreds of UNGA resolutions. In the most recent October 2023 conflict in Gaza and as a matter of policy even when there is no conflict, Israel engaged in collective punishment, many cases of which are verifiable war crimes and crimes against humanity. Human rights organizations (AI, HRW, PHR, B’Tselem) and global organizations (UN, WHO, etc) denounced collective punishment, including carpet bombing of residential buildings, denial of basics of life (water, food, medicines, fuel), and use of white phosphorous on civilian areas (10). If we take just the UN Declaration on Human Rights, which ironically Israel and the US signed, we find Israel breaching just about every article. Israel intentionally targets Palestinian civilians and commits human righst abuses on large scale amounting to crimes against humanity and war crimes including including via collective punishment and outright genocide now well documented (11). This also involves genocide by denial of food, water, medicine and fuel (12). Before October 7, 2023 more than 500 trucks entered Gaza daily even though this was not sufficient (Gaza was under blockade and one Israeli minister had said they were put on a diet!). In the 70 days since 7 October when Israel defense minister say no food, no water, no electricitcty, a token handful of food trucks entered the Gaza strip (during the short pause in Israeli genocide campaign) and combined with Israeli army preventing any farming and destroying farms, the hunger genocide is commented. There is also an ecoside ongoing.
(10) See this, and this, and US bankrolling genocide, and from Jewish Voice for Peace,
Dropping leaflets telling 1.1 million people to leave Northern Gaza and head south (and then ironically bombing them)
Petition (1 million signatures) https://www.change.org/p/sign-and-share-this-urgent-petition-calling-for-a-ceasefirenow-in-gaza-and-israel
Intention to prosecute Canadian officials for aiding and abetting
Hundreds of Palestinian civilians rounded up, stripped, abused and shipped to gulags.
Even the biased world food program had to write this (without naming the culprit)
Assault on institutions of higher education
Statement and call for action from the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability and the Palestine Museum of Natural History (Bethlehem University) on the Israeli destruction of Palestinian natural and cultural heritage has good resoureces on this
Detailed report in 972mag lays out Israeli policies of targeting civillians
‘They shot her son in her arms and forced her to throw his body’: testimonies from the death march on Salah al-Din Street: Multiple testimonies collected from Palestinians displaced from northern Gaza reveal the horrors of the Israeli army's "safe passage" on Salah al-Din Street.https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/they-shot-her-son-in-her-arms-and-forced-her-to-throw-his-body-testimonies-from-the-death-march-on-salah-al-din-street/
Israel also calculated ratiops of civilians allowed to be killed for every "suspected" militant. See this, and targeted hospitals, Targeting other hospitals, and used of Palestinians as human shields and see Kids Used as Human Shields, Names and faces of some of those murdered in Gaza in a previous incursion
Israel hits center of Red Cross
Statistics on number of people killed
From Amnesty
Six residential towers leveled, & Kidnapping children
Gaza being turned into desert and this. And this short video.
(11) Genocide convention is relevant and was activated via a case brougt by South Africa (also this file) before the International court of justice and now joined by dozens of other countries. Also there are now cases at the International Criminal Court and the ICC prosecutor already charged Netanyahu and his army chief. Great speeches worth watching from the ICJ proceedings for Genocide: this, and this.
Raz Segal Israeli historian says it is "A Textbook Case of Genocide
Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece
Center for Constitutional Rights (Very well documented now)
A text book case of genocide by Raz Segal
Let them eat cement
Gaza has exposed the hypocrisy of international law
Targetting higher education institutions https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/12/assault-on-education.html
From Center for Constitutional Rights
(12) See Death March, & Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) global partnership report Within a week of of the ICJ ruling, not only did the axis of evil led by the US/UK/Israel shut off funding to UN refugee and work agency and started threatening other agencies like the Red Cross and Red Crescent to exacerbate the genocide but continue to do (or fund and arm) the genocide. and after the ICJ ruling bodies of ‘torture victims’ found at Gaza school. The killing of dozens of people whose bodies were found at a Gaza school was a clear war crime, according to a Palestinian human rights lawyer who spoke to Al Jazeera Oxfam reaction to the IPC food security figures for Gaza: “While over 90 percent of people in Gaza cannot find their next meal, some UN Security Council member states are still toying with words rather than voting for a ceasefire." World Food Program: 2.2 million people in crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity in Gaza and 576,600 people face catastrophic hunger and starvation in Gaza; 5.3 milion population of the state of Palestine (under Israeli occupation, 1967 areas only) World Health Organization report: Hunger is ravaging Gaza, and this is expected to increase illness across the Strip, most acutely among children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and older people. WHO resolution (not supported by Israel and te US!) Both Christians and Muslims in Gaza will likely not resort to cannibalism to survive starvation as happened in Ukraine during the 1930s famine (eating dead corpses from the bombing and there are hundreds of those every day). A more serious problem in Gaza is also lack of potable water so nearly half a million have developed diseases. Combined with lack of medical services (only 9 hospitals of 36 remain open to offer only minimal first aid services since doctors were abducted and medicines and tools to offer important services are gone) and in any case there is no electricity to operate equipment like drip machines, baby monitors, or kidney dialysis machines). Reliefweb on the cut off of water See also this report from the Palestine Red Crescent Society covering 7 Oct - 20 Dec.
The criminality of Israeli leaders are reflected in their racist statements about indigenous people (13). Israeli leaders have always chosen to use their military might to achieve their objectives of colonization. Yitzhaq Rabin, who came the closest to recognizing some need to compromise and allow some margin of freedom for some Palestinians, was assassinated by a right wing Zionist. Since then, Israeli leadership has shifted to become even more racist and fascist (e.g. having settlers like Smotrich and Ben Gvir in the cabinet). This and the educational system that is racist ensure a public that is racist. For example 57.5% of Israeli Jewish public actually think Israeli military is not doing enough killing (genocide, see point 6 above) and 34% think it is about right! So 94% agree with genocide https://www.facebook.com/reel/263941703057280
(13) Israeli Racism is rampant fro highest to lowest levels of society. The Israeli "defense" minister ordered starvation explaining that he "we are dealing with human animals", and the Israeli President says there are no innocent civilains in Gaza and that they are responsible
and Moshe Feiglin stated "The only solution is the complete destruction of Gaza”,
Obligation to destroy churches
"When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it's going to be a human catastrophe. Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It's going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day." Amnon Sofer, Israeli demographer in 2004
Israeli dissidents expose genocidal language (this is proof of intent) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxzcKiSuJQw“We will turn Gaza into an island of ruins” Benjamin Netanyahu 8 October 2023
”We are dropping hundreds of tons of bombs on Gaza. The focus is on destruction, not accuracy” Daniel Hagari, Israeli army spokesperson 10 October in Haaretz
Animal Humans will be treated accordingly, you wanted he’ll and you’ll get hell” Ghassan Major General of the Israeli army October 9 Social media post
“There is an entire nation who are responsible. This rhetoric about civilians supposedly not being involved is absolutely untrue (…) We will fight until we break their backs” Yitzhak Herzon, Israeli President Press conference
“Jericho missile! Doomsday weapon! That is my opinion. Powerful rockets to be fired without limits/borders. Gaza to be smashed and razed to the ground. Without mercy” Tally Gotliv :okud Partly, 9 October on X/Twitter
“Wipe out their families, their mothers and their children. These animals must not be allowed to live any longer” Ezra Yachin, Israeli Veteran who participated in the ethnic cleansing of 1948 (Nakba)
"The only thing that needs to enter Gaza are hundreds of tons of explosives, not one ounce of humanitarian relief" Itamar Ben Gvir (Israeli minister in Charge of Police and arming setters)
"They should go, as well as the physical homes in which they raised the snakes in. Otherwise more little snakes will be raised there" Ayelet Shakid
"We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children, We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children " Golda Meir (old but shows the racist ideology)
"I am here today not only as the US Secretary of State but also as a Jew … as long as the US exists, you will never have to do this (alone) because we will always be with you" US Secretary of State Blinken 12 October already hundreds of special US Delta force boots are on the ground).
Michael Ben-Ari, ex-member of the Knesset: “There are no innocents in Gaza. Mow them down ... Kill the Gazans without thought or mercy.”
Israel Katz, Minister of Transportation: “Gaza should be bombed so hard the population has to flee into Egypt.”
Avi Dichter, Current Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Former Shin Bet director and Minister of Internal Security: “Gaza should be wiped clean with bombs.”
“The Gaza Strip must be smaller at the end of the war. Anyone who starts a war against Israel must lose territory“ Gideon Sa’ar Israeli Interior Minister
see also https://www.facebook.com/JonasMoffat/posts/pfbid02cYbWibyQ1qnFrNDJrkjbCwoK2bWTwHv6krmVV7mwfH77LknQFd1tFFdduc51DsF9l
Children song in Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo6bGp652XI
What Zionists really think about Christians https://www.facebook.com/reel/1044142583372586
and fascism ruling "Israel" was predictable, and strong, and Netanyahu deceived the west
There is a significant body of literature on the suppression of free speech in Western Countries when it realtes to Palestinain rights. The corporae media is dominated by the Zionist narrative based on lies, distortions, and attempts to blame the victims (14)
(14) Human Right Watch statement, and ACLU, and Adalah, and crackdown in European universities, Germany silencing.Many western countries under influence of the lobby suppress free speech, examples here and this
Yes, daily. This is more blatant in Gaza but has been going for 75 years. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz (7/15/01) reported that: "... giving his audience (Likud leaders) a bit of advice on how to deal with foreign interviewers (Benjamin Netanyahu said): 'Always, irrespective of whether you're right or not, you must always present your side as right'". Indeed from its inception, the Israeli government and its agents abroad have lied. There were false flag operations like the Lavon Affair, or the bombing of Jewish community centers in Iraq to blame it on locals and scare Iraqi Jews to leave their country (15). Hasbara (propaganda) is a very common Zionist tactic to advance their project of colonization. During the October 2023 incidents Israeli leaders lied about Hamas killing and beheading babies, about Israeli soldiers killing Israeli citizens, or even about wanting peace and set the stage for ongoing genocide (16). There were also a lot of exposed lies about what happened on 7 October 2023, lies that help perpetuate genocide (17)
(15) The Lavon Affair: Israel and Terror in Egypt, and in Iraq to drive Jewish exodus, and see Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, and Israel killed an American citizen and lied about it, and this This UN report on the sheling of a UN Compound that killed civilians (Qana massacre 1996) also reveals Israeli tactics. Why they lie?
(16) Israel's history of lies
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/israelis-keep-hurting-their-own-pr-interests-by-talking-fa653840d732
Israel lies to manufacture a case for genocide
https://truthout.org/articles/medias-selective-moral-outrage-manufactures-consent-for-palestinian-genocide/
Just three lies on Gaza
Netanyahu in a video worth watching very carefully
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/hostages-how-the-u-s-media-is-distorting-the-news-from-palestine/
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/no-proof-of-beheaded-israeli-babies-white-house-backtracks-on-bidens-comments-breaking
On the Ahli Hospital bombing
taking responsibility and then lying
Israeli forces shot at their own civilians also look up Hannibal doctrine.
Israeli helicopters killed Israeli women and child
What happerned in Al-Ahli hospital targeting (471 killed)
Al-Ahli Arab hospital: piecing together what happened
Digital investigation of Al-Ahli hospital attack
Israel caught out in further lie about hospital strike after doctored image exposed
https://fair.org/home/unconfirmed-beheaded-babies-report-helped-justify-israeli-slaughter/
https://www.who.int/news/item/17-10-2023-who-statement-on-attack-on-al-ahli-arab-hospital-and-reported-large-scale-casualties
Israeli history of attacking medical facilities
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/who-bombed-al-ahli-baptist-hospital-three-top-investigations-offer-an-answer/
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-19-video-evidence-points-to-israeli-air-burst-bomb-striking-al-ahli-hospital-grounds.html
Hospital warned two and four days before it was targeted https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2023/10/anglican-run-al-ahli-arab-hospital-in-gaza-damaged-by-israeli-rocket-fire-as-conflict-continues.aspx
UN says Israel intentionally and recklessly killed Journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh (a US Ctizen)
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/how-israel-likely-killed-its-own-settlers-on-october-7
Killing Aljazeera Correspondent’s Family Days After Blinken Demands the Channel’s Coverage be ‘Toned Down’
The self-declared “I am zionist” US president Biden questioned the number of people killed in Gaza as documented by the Ministry of Heath so in response, the ministry released the data with names, ages, and ID card numbers (Biden has no shame to dehumanize Palestnians and start to lie on behalf of his pimps. The list released did not include the names of the reported issing (over 1670 including over 950 children) who are likely mostly dead under the rubble.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-death-toll-names-killed-released-biden-questions You can find the list of names here but this grows daily by hundreds https://tinyurl.com/2y7fkrac
Fake video of “nurse” from Gaza hospital turns out to be Israeli actress https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzpAgrehb4q/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJim0gNVKQ
Fox News also engaging in an elaborate theatrical play of "capturing a terrorist" but their own footage showed the same actor putting back his pants after the end of the play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6J1ekGlq8E
see also https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/11/does-truth-matter.html
In arabic on hate speech statistics
(17) On 7 October 2023, Israeli forces activated Hannibal directive which meant they killed their own citizens, see here, and here, and here, and here,and this and [burned]and even using tanks and helicopters to shell their own people as shown on Israeli television, and also see this
There was also a lie that there was mass rape and this has been debunked over and over again yet is repeated even by highest level US officials to justify funding genocide.
see also Why is Israel trying to HIDE this hostage interview? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HugMS0k0kB4
Max Blumenthal and Sott Ritter also here. Israel admitted this over and over again and yet continues to ie about atrocities.Israeli TV admits to Israeli army shooting Israelis.
On sexual violence and this
and here is an Interview by a released Israeli hostage who took her dog with her!
Here is an academic study of Israeli sexual violence nd prisoner rapes and even death by rapeand this on poster child.
The claim of Hamas beheading babies was also repeated even by US President biden but this is a lie.
An open letter to Israelis from Israelis: We deserve the truth about October 7
And there is more here and here
As the late professor Edward Said articulated clearly, Palestinian voices are methodically suppressed. This only intensified as the Zionist movement increased its grip on Western media, which then silenced Palestinian voices. In the US for example, distorted, misleading and outright false coverage as a result of the strong Zionist lobbies (18). Free speech must be protected in all countries: in Palestine Israeli forces shoot you for demonstrating, meanwhile Germany, France and Belgium are trying to outlaw free speech or demonstrations addressing human rights/international law/Palestine and even balanced reporters harassed or fired (19).
(18) See Mearsherimer and Walt on the Israel lobby
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/06/evangelical-christians-republicans-2024-israel-palestinians
https://decolonizepalestine.com/myths/
https://ifamericansknew.org/
(19) See Paul Findley, “They Dare to Speak Out”
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2021/5/22/incite-and-inflame-israels-manipulation-of-the-media
Demonstrations in the West ignored by Western media
https://www.trtworld.com/us-and-canada/us-news-network-msnbc-suspends-muslim-anchors-amid-israeli-war-in-gaza-15405819
Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts: https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check see also https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/no-human-being-can-exist/
Israel is a Jewish state built on the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and the setting up of an apartheid state that ruled over the remaining Palestinians in 1948. At least 65 Israeli laws exist that discriminate against non-Jewish citizens within the Greenline (1948 Palestine). After Israel illegally expanded to occupy the rest of the area (the West Bank and Gaza) in 1967, the belligerant occupiers set up hundreds of laws/military orders that made life under occupation horrific for the indigineous people while facilitating foreign Jewish settlers to live on stolen Palestinian lands. In this "greater Israel" there is thyus the privilaged 7.1 million Israeli Jews (most immigrants) and 7.3 million disenfranchized Palestinians. Human rights organizations (AI, HRW, PHR, etc.), including local ones like B’Tselem, have called the dual legal system apartheid (20)
(20) See Adalah, UN Special Rapporteur, Addameer, Human Rights Warch, Amnesty, and Amnesty also, B'Tselem
Adalah database of racist laws
The seven most racist Israeli laws
300 groups call on the UN to investigate apartheid
More resources
Absolutely not. While the Zionists have used Judaism as an excuse and weaponized it in their attacks on the native people, the colonial and apartheid system does not discriminate in its victimization of native Christians, Muslims, Druze, Bahai, or Atheists. All non-Jews were targeted for ethnic cleansing, with the exception of the self-proclaimed Christian Zionists (21). Palestinian and non-Palestinian Christians have been outspoken for human rights. Jews have also been the most outspoken (22). But Israel’s use of religion to try to justify its colonization does lead to targeting and harming the religious sites and sensibilities of other religions. This is part of the reason why the state facilitates settler attacks on Al-Aqsa mosque (3rd holiest site in Islam), which has influenced uprisings like the last one (23).
(21) https://www.christianzionism.org/
(22) https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
(23) https://www.palestineremembered.com/Articles/General/Story2670.html
All wars historically have been initiated based on geoplotics related to greed (money and theft of natural resources and land). Religion and ethnicity are used to rally people around a cause that ultimately is profitable to some small segment of the population. The Zionists decided to take a country from its ownewrs and ended up stealing all its natural resources (even a fully developed airport renamed from Lydda Airport to BenGurion airport), posrts, farms, water resources etc. Regarding Gaza, Netanyahu regime had eyes to dissolve the Palestine question and create an alternative to China's Belt and Road initiative that connects East to West via "Israel" (including Gaza) and Israeli dominated gulf states ncluding Saudi Arabia. This is what he called the new Middle East. Netanyahu showed this plan in maps at his speech to the UN General Assembly months ago. Thre are even plans for an alternative canal from Eilat to Gaza to rival the Suez canal. It is not a coincidence that the discovery of huge Gas fields off the Gaza coast preceded blockade on Gaza in 2006. Israel covets those fields and wants them to be the main source of Gazz to Europe to replace Russian gas (conveniently pipelines connecting Russia to Europe were bombed). Dozens of companies profit tremendously from war. Stocks of Raytheon and General Dynamics went up 15-20% in the first three weeks of genocide in Gaza. Also, Gaza has been a testing laboratory for Israeli arms manufacturers and is critical for flowing funds to the military and industrial complex in Israel. Israeli weapons and security related sales bring in billions to Israeli elites and even compete with traditional exporters of such destruction like the USA. Israeli importers and the government (via tax) profited handsomely even from the humanitarian aid to Gaza and the WB that comes through Israel (24)
(24) https://www.whoprofits.org/. This genocide and erthnic cleansing is about gas fields off of gaza and a corridor between Asia and Europe via a Zionist controled MIddle East. See this and this, and this.
The centrality of a trade corridor
Gaza as a testing lab is evident here and here, and here.
See book on "Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation: Evidence from the London Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine"
Also theoccupation of Palestine is highly profitable
Companies benefitting from blood
Israel gets nearly $4 billion in military aid annually from the US and gets protection from prosecution under international law by use of the US veto power at the UN. This collusion with apartheid is carried out even against US law (25a). Some Arab Countries and even the Palestinian authority help Israel (25b). Part of it has to do with the history of those countries themselves being colonial and imperial powers who have killed millions of natives and “understand” what it takes for colonization but most of it has to do with the strong Zionist lobby (26). Furthermore, the US military industrial complex benefits from this funding to Israel, as a large portion of the funding can only be spent purchasing weapons directly from US arm dealers (27). Another part of it is the strong Zionist lobbies in Western countries (28). Some European countries have mistaken beliefe that Israel represents Jews and that they owe their support to their own history of persecuting of Jews. For some Arab dictatorships, it is because they are dependent on the US and some other Western countries to stay in power against the wishes of the people, or because they believe the US hegemony will last forever. This complicity and normalization are what has encouraged Israel to violate human rights and increased chances of the kind of resistance we have seen in October 2023 (29). But among people of the world, there is great sympathy and support for Palestine See #19 and 20 below.
(25a) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy_Law (25b) see the land bridge to supply Israel and here and here on Egypt role. And on Oslo treachury here (26) See the lobby data here and here. And this.
(27) See for example this
(28) US Hypocrisy in supporting crimes against humanity and meddling in US elections as shown here and here and this.
(29) https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/21873.html
https://imeu.org/article/imeu-policy-analysis-5-abraham-accords-isolate-palestinians-solidify-israel
http://opiniojuris.org/2021/06/24/the-pathology-of-arab-state-silence-on-palestine-how-rapprochement-with-israel-reveals-complicity-in-the-conflict-and-could-cause-further-unrest-in-the-region/
Let us be very clear: Palestinains will keep fighting for freedom and justice (supported by decent people around teh world including Jews) despite over 200 massacres, 8 million refugees, bantustans/concentration camps in which remaining Palestinians live, and an ongoing genocide in Gaza. Amnesty International has said, “The root causes of these repeated cycles of violence must be addressed as a matter of urgency. This requires upholding international law and ending Israel’s 16-year-long illegal blockade on Gaza, and all other aspects of Israel’s system of apartheid imposed on all Palestinians.” (30) Implementing International law, human rights, and justice are essential to stopping these cycles of violence. Justice means the return of Palestinian refugees, the abolition of apartheid laws, and full equality regardless of religion. Palestinians have put together two proposals: in 1968 they proposed a democratic secular state for all its people and in 1988 a twpo state solution with the rights of refugees to return to their homes and lands. Zionism rejected both solutions. If some in the western world still believes in a “two state solution” as a step towards peace, then they must insist on full withdrawal (i.e. all illegal settlements evacuated) from the 1967 occupied territories (West Bank, including East Jerusalem; Gaza; and the Golan Heights) and allow Palestine to be a state with full sovereignty (including natural resources, borders, etc). In either case, apartheid laws should be ended and refugees should be allowed to return or compensated per UNGA resolution 194.(31). The global community is with Palestine (the people are) while many western governments and corporate media eroded their own democracies to support the genocidal apargrtheid Israeli regime because of the lobbies and suppress voices of reason and human rights. In Belgium, france, and Germany governments forcefully limited free speech. In other countries such as the UK/USA, governments go against the wishes of their people (33, plus point 19 and 20 below).
(30) See this video from Gaza
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/israel-opt-civilians-on-both-sides-paying-the-price-of-unprecedented-escalation-in-hostilities-between-israel-and-gaza-as-death-toll-mounts/
(31) Beinart on this issue
Another Jew speaking openly about what must be done
and Ali Kazak https://arena.org.au/the-only-path-to-peace-in-the-middle-east/
and see writings by Ilan Pappe, Edward Said, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Ali Abunimah and others.
John Mearsheimer gives a logic worth listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuDstZvaGbE
Bereaved Palestinian doctor who write a book "I shall not hate" on what is happening today https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cry-newborn-baby-cry-hope-130452327.html
(32) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfF4bTCuSrk
Educate yourself (resources above plus books, videos like Occupation 101, Born in Gaza)
Use the right language (colonialism, apartheid, collective punishment) not "conflict" etc if you have to use war it is war on the people of Gaza not Hamas-Israel war
Write to media (letters to editor or op-eds)
Join groups like the International Solidarity Movement
Create or join local groups of joint struggle (like PSM)
Join political parties and lobby all politicians
Use social media with hashtags for Palestine (facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, TikTock, You
Join or organize protests (5 people or 50,000 people)
Join the Boycott, Divestiment, Sanctions campaigns http://bdsmovement.net and https://boycott.thewitness.news/browse/1
Organize street theatres, flash mobs, tabling, or flyering
Engage in civil dsiobedience
Contact local faith centers (Churches, Mosques, Synagogues, Temples)
Action filled but concise packet to stop the genocide in Gaza from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
Sign petitions. E.g. 700,000 signed petition to demand global leaders end the genocide https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/sa_icj_case_loc/ Digital toolkit Media work
Volunteer in Palestine
Sign a petition such as: - https://www.change.org/p/to-stop-the-killing-we-must-right-the-wrongs-that-feed-it - https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/israel_palestine_save_the_kids_loc/ West Bank situation: We must spotlight that oppression in the West Bank continues. We hsould set-up or expand civilian defense groups to face the Zionist settlers who have been armed and given a green light to commit pogroms, like happened recently in Turmusayya, Beita and Huwwara. As we are in the Oliver harvest season, settlers and soldiers have shot at farmers trying to get totheir fields. Arab governments should be challenged on their complicity and hypocrisy. The show concern for Gaza civilains but aid and abet the governments that perpetuate crime against humanity in places like Gaza. تعرب عن قلقها أو استيائها ألخ Western governments should be challenged and we must demand they stop funding, arming, and protecting Israel from international law. Israeli political and military leaders should be brought to trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including violating the conventions on crimes of genocide and apartheid/racial discrimination. Western media must be challenged for their lies and distortions, and for bias in use of language which results in their complicity in crimes. Their support of genocide is also eroding the public’s trust in them. As one person wrote “The UK media's coverage is shameful and our leaders are self-serving liars.” Social media issues: Activists and all people of conscience must use Facebook, Instagram, Tik-tok, X (Twitter), Telegram and other websites for sharing photos and videos.
Very important article from Al-Haq legal cente. Defiance in the Face of Genocide: A Call for Justice and Decolonisation on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People & Scientists Against Israeli Apartheid, Occupation and Genocide in Gaza & Statement and call for action from the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability and the Palestine Museum of Natural History (Bethlehem University) on the Israeli destruction of Palestinian natural and cultural heritage & Nobel Peace Laureat Mairead Maguire Statement signed by over 800 international legal scholars Resigned from state department & Letter to Gaza Foreign Affairs Minister statement, & Center for Constitutional Rights on Israel's unfolding Crime of Genocide in Gaza Jewish Currents: A text book case of genocide by Raz Segal & Let them eat cement: Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war — starvation. Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die. & Palestinian Christians plea to world churches & The mask is off: Gaza has exposed the hypocrisy of international law & US Psyciatric association & Amnesty International Report on war crimes & Open Letter from Palestinian Christians & Artists & Academics in Canada & Venezuela's president, and the indominable Salman Abu Sitta: I could have been one of those who broke through the siege. Group of Elders statement. Josh Paul, John Mearsheimer, & Health care statement on Gaza & Ramzy Baroud, Gabor Mater, Scott Ritter, Miko Peled, Two Jews make an eloquent statement, An Israeli soldier, Humanitarian Coordinator, NOTICE OF LEGAL LIABILITY. Khaled Nabheen- a video of him hugging his murdered granddaughter whom he used to call "Rouh Rouhi" (Soul of my Soul): and his message and he helps injured in hospital after losing his grandchildren: Refaat Alareer: Palestinian Poet, Teacher, and Martyr. link1, link2, link3. two nuns, twin sisters remain in Gaza to help
Most eloquent speech at the UN and one of the reasons I am optimistic about our future Millions were out in the streets in October 2023 depite governments threats and intimidation. Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Example 5 Example 6 Example 7 Example 8 Example 9 Example 10 Example 11 Example 12 Example 13 Example 14 Example 15 Example 16 Example 17 Example 18 Example 19 Example 20 Summary video
Annex CAUSE https://www.facebook.com/mazin.qumsiyeh.9/posts/10160919216451181 (Netanyahu long before this genocidal action) https://www.facebook.com/reel/308177298660625 https://www.facebook.com/reel/344969104608291 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1011580826776519 https://www.facebook.com/639657926/videos/278246188002507 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1064433681228536 https://www.facebook.com/reel/878806363683585 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1251209615555565 https://www.facebook.com/reel/352778063985760 https://www.facebook.com/reel/301757522765342 https://www.facebook.com/reel/247973378257499 https://www.facebook.com/reel/680580910501209 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1366276930991636 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160213-the-wild-beast-of-israeli-racism/ https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/israel-defense-minister-human-animals-gaza-palestine_n_6524220ae4b09f4b8d412e0a https://thewire.in/world/northern-gaza-israel-palestine-conflict
EFFECT see this visual impact of numbers from the UN https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-118 Then view some of these videos for personal impact https://www.facebook.com/reel/1005924534038932 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1028640151677022 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1036127130871914 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1064396378055298 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1064433681228536 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1140383236935021 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1409846396240215 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1446631016070266 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1498305100905240 https://www.facebook.com/reel/171654876013486 https://www.facebook.com/reel/193003723844677 https://www.facebook.com/reel/219322117715756 https://www.facebook.com/reel/2492508067598176 https://www.facebook.com/reel/267515342935773 https://www.facebook.com/reel/295754560044998 https://www.facebook.com/reel/342182358463855 https://www.facebook.com/reel/342910481573714 https://www.facebook.com/reel/343736248313472 https://www.facebook.com/reel/354972273758525 https://www.facebook.com/reel/358677136723546 https://www.facebook.com/reel/616704703797190 https://www.facebook.com/reel/622474083189011 https://www.facebook.com/reel/821410706397348 https://www.facebook.com/reel/848844680040608 https://www.facebook.com/reel/858262825800295 https://www.facebook.com/reel/865675955015882 https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=235642535962085 https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1722049139465154862
