#b'tselem

[homochadensistm]

you mention i think you liked B'Tselem until they started lying. what idd they lie about? I did see they call israel apartheid

B'Tselem (among other activities such as documenting settler violence) publicizes testimonies of soldiers who served in the west bank and witnessed unprofessional, shitty and straight up illegal conduct by other soldiers or their commanders/officers. These testimonies are important in keeping an eye on the military occupation of the west bank and its evolution. However, several independent probes into the org over the years revealed that multiple such incidents reported to B'Tselem allegedly by soldiers were fabricated, yet they still published them. And, these weren't like little oopsie doopsie we made up a lil white lie, these were serious accusations of egregious misconduct. Something happened to them circa 2010 onwards which is when (more or less) the making shit up started happening, among with employing holocaust deniers and known antisemites, snitching on palestinians who "collaborate with the occupation" (e.g, sell land to Da Joos) which is punishable by death, donations from uuuuh shady sources, and more. You can look it up in Hebrew, some of these reports are quite famous.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Liel Leibovitz

According to sources in and out of the U.S. government familiar with Fenzel’s reports and advocacy, nearly every claim presented by the USSC as fact seems to have been lifted directly, sometimes verbatim, from the websites of highly partisan pro-Palestinian organizations, including the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) and the far-left Israeli NGO B’Tselem, which accuses Israel of apartheid and receives vast support from European governments and from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

In the past 12 months, 13 Israelis were murdered by Palestinians in Jerusalem and 17 in the West Bank—not counting those slaughtered on Oct. 7, 2023—while doing nothing more provocative than driving home or stopping for gas. The number of Palestinian civilians who have been killed by Israelis under such conditions over the same time period is zero.

But the story the administration has been telling anyone who will listen is very different. By scrubbing any mention of the daily violence directed by Palestinian terror operatives against Jewish civilians living in the West Bank from his reports, Fenzel has eliminated the clear retaliatory motive for the vast majority of attacks by Israelis against West Bank Palestinians. Thinly laundered reports from expressly anti-Israel organizations, designed to support an illusion of innocent Palestinians being violently attacked by bloodthirsty Israelis, paint a picture of an Israeli equivalent to the Palestinian atrocities of Oct. 7, lending itself an easy “both-sides” posture meant to ease the way to creating a new Palestinian state in both the West Bank and Gaza. With an executive order now in place, the Biden administration has all the tools it needs to crack down on any form of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria, and on anyone, in Israel or stateside, who supports it.

[workersolidarity]

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION USING GAZA VIOLENCE TO ACCELERATE FORCED REMOVAL OF PALESTINIANS FROM OCCUPIED WEST BANK TERRITORIES

One of the most tragic crimes being overshadowed by the war in Gaza has been the acceleration in the forced removal of Palestinians from villages and towns in the occupied West Bank territories.

As Israel's war of genocide continues unabated in the Gaza Strip, daily raids in the occupied West Bank have resulted in the deaths of at least 390 civilians, including 102 children, and wounded in excess of 4'450 Palestinians.

But while the raids and bombings capture headlines and negotiations between embassies, a quieter action taken by the Israeli occupation has been the forced transfer of more than a thousand Palestinians from towns and villages in the West Bank.

According to the Israeli Human Rights organization B'tselem, 151 Palestinian families numbering 1'009 people, including 371 children, have been forcibly displaced by a vicious combination of heavy-handed Israeli occupation soldiers threatening and removing families and violent attacks by colonial settlers.

B'tselem says the process began long before the start of the war in Gaza, but has accelerated "under the cover" of the war.

The human rights organization has decumented each and every case, and while we cannot include every miticulously recorded story from B'tselem, we will share one or two and leave the reader to choose whether to access the source or just imagine scaling up the following stories a thousandfold.

In the village of Khirbet ‘Ein a-Rashash, in the central mountain range, on October 9th, 2023, several colonial Israeli settlers blocked the main road leading into the community, which the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) had repeatedly blocked in the past, with local residents reopening the road into the village themselves.

This time, the settlers blocked local water tankers from accessing the village, the sole source of potable water for the community. Many Palestinian territories do not have access to clean water due to Israeli agricultural chemical and toxic runoff which is filtered into Palestinian territories, destroying local water sources.

With their sole source of clean water blocked off from accessing the village, the local farmers moved 1'500 heads of sheep to the village of Duma. Soon after, the women and children of the community followed, leaving for Duma to access clean water and other daily supplies Westerners take for granted but are regularly blocked off from Palestinian communities.

On October 16th, 2023, the men left Khirbet ‘Ein a-Rashash to join the women in Duma. Even without the violence that characterizes the Israeli occupation, the settlers had succeeded in eliminating an entire village of Palestinians in just a few days.

In another example, in the Palestinian West Bank village of Wadi a-Siq, on the central mountain ridge, escelating threats by Israeli colonial settlers led local Palestinian families with young children to begin leaving on the evening of October 10th, 2023.

One by one, 30 Palestinian families, numbering 180 civilians, including 40 children, left Wadi a-Siq as the threats continued to roll in. They'd watched as the slaughter in Gaza accelerated into a genocide and decided not to risk their own families on the outskirts of the occupied West Bank, despite calling it home for generations.

On the 12th of October, while Israeli activists and the few remaining men in the village were taking down the structures and grabbing what they could save, loading them onto trucks, a group of Israeli settlers, backed by IOF soldiers, arrived and began beating and brutally attacking them. No Palestinians have been able to return since.

On October 10th, 2023, in the village of Atiriyah, south of a-Samu', in the southern Hebron Hills, two Palestinian families, numbering 31 citizens, including 20 children, were attacked by an armed Israeli settler who opened gunfire at a flock of sheep, killing three.

Soon after this event, on the night of October 14th, 2023, a large group of Israeli settlers arrived in Atiriyah and threatened harm to the families if they did not leave the community in 24-hours. On the night of October 23rd, with violence escalating in all the Palestinian territories, the families left, and have not returned.

In the Palestinian village of Khirbet Zanutah, in the southern Hebron Hills, a community of 27 families, numbering a total of 250 people, including some 100 children, was facing escalating threats and harassment from armed Israeli colonial settlers, sometimes accompanied by the Israeli Occupation Forces, who repeatedly ordered the community to vacate the premises. Armed settlers and soldiers riding ATVs kept arriving, threatening families with violence unless they leave.

On the evening of October 12th, 2023, with the violence in the West Bank quickly accelerating just after Hamas's attack on October 7th, several armed Israeli settlers arrived in two vehicles to three Palestinian homes and proceeded to beat the residents, hitting them with firearms, smashing solar panels, threatening families and destroying a car door before leaving again.

On the night October 23rd, the violence escalated again when two Israeli settlers arrived at the Samamrah family home, shoving the mother of the family, Hanaa Abu al-Kabash. The settlers then purposefully drained two water tanks local families depend upon to survive before leaving again.

On October 24th, 2023, settlers arrived once again. Escalating the violence further, they began throwing rocks at local residents, smashing solar panels, draining the few remaining water tanks, and smashing the windows of one home.

On October 27th, a group of local residents were sitting outside their home when four Israeli colonial settlers arrived in a civilian vehicle and proceeded to attack local residents with stones and threatening them after the residents began recording the incident. At one point, an Israeli settler threw a stun grenade at the Palestinian residents. The residents were forced to flee inside their homes.

Unfortunately, the damage had been done and the local families, terrified of the escalating threats and their accompanying violence, decided the leave. Soon after, a group of Israeli human rights activists arrived with foreign journalists to find that 10 local structures had been destroyed, including residential homes, agricultural buildings and even a school.

B'tselem is filled with stories like these recorded since October 7th, however the process has been ongoing for 70 years, beginning with the 1948 Nakba and only accelerating as the Gaza War overshadows the events in the West Bank occupied territories.

In addition to the communities that have been forcibly displaced, some communities have not completely given in to Israeli settler and soldier threats, where some families remain or just men remain while parts of the communities have left. More than 11 families totaling 89 Palestinians, including 32 children have been displaced from communities that have not been completely abandoned as of yet.

As Israel's genocidal war in Gaza rages on, and an invasion of Rafah City is immenent, the West Bank territories continue to be torn apart, limb by limb, until only a handful of disconnected communities spread across the territories and separated by Israeli Occupation checkpoints remain, and the international community continues to do nothing.

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@WorkerSolidarityNews

[eretzyisrael]

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[vyorei]

I think sooner than 6 months given those genocidal monsters

[jyndor]

This video features Orly Noy, an Israeli anti-war leftist activist and journalist who works for B'TSelem, the Israeli human rights organization that has been doing amazing work on Palestinian rights for ages. She gives context and her experience as an anti-apartheid and anti-war Jewish Israeli citizen.

I think this is important to see for those who don't understand the Israeli left - and why so many leftists there are not concerned about Palestinian rights.

It reminds me of what it was like for US Americans who were against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the early days, who weren't okay with our reaction to 9/11. I know these are different situations but I was there. I remember how isolating it was being anti-war.

Anyway, support B'TSelem. Support anti-war Israelis - especially those who are fighting for Palestinian rights. As Orly says, they are feeling very isolated and have for some time.

[indizombie]

Israel's incoming national security minister is set to be the far-right firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir - a staunch supporter of settlements who calls for stone-throwing Palestinians to be shot. He also wants Israeli soldiers to have immunity from prosecution in cases where Palestinians are killed.  Dror Sadot from B'Tselem, the human rights group, described 2022 as an "extreme year" in terms of Palestinian fatalities.  "There are many cases of protests where the Palestinians are using rocks, stones and sometimes other means, and Israel's army almost always uses disproportionate force," she said.

Tom Bateman, ‘West Bank footage throws spotlight on Israel's use of lethal force’, BBC

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[eretzyisrael]

The lies of @btselem are so egregious.

Here are some screenshots from their position paper that pretends to prove that Israel is an apartheid state. Their arguments are not only weak – they are self-contradictory.

Jews cannot travel to Area A. Or Area B. Or Gaza. And severe limitations on the Temple Mount. So by B'Tselem's definition, Jews are the ones under apartheid.

In fact, the only people who can freely travel to all areas of the West Bank and Israel are Arabs in Jerusalem, who have far more freedom of movement than Jews do.

[ahaura]

some quick resources with vital information and context about or related to Palestine (compiled Oct. 15)

[Video] Why Israel Deliberately Targets Civilians

[Thread] Zachary Foster, a Ph.d historian of Palestine, posted about the real history of Hamas

[Video] Double Down News covering the myth of "self defense"

[Video] Mohammed El-Kurd on 75 years of violence and oppression

[Thread] Abby Martin debunks the "human shield" excuse used by Israel to bomb civilians

[Video] Mohammed El-Kurd on media literacy, "DO NOT BE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE"

[Article] "Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed." - Raz Segal, associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University, in @JewishCurrents.

[Video] Mohammed El-Kurd on ABCNews

[Tweet] Reminder that just a few months ago Netanyahu brought a map to the UN of the “New Middle East” that effectively showed Israel annexing all of Palestine.

[Video] Michael Brooks breaking down how the situation with Palestine and Israel is "not complex"

[Video] Paul Murphy, Irish Parliment Member for People Before Profit, on Israel and Gaza

[Statistics] The Human Cost of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

[Video] Husam Zomlot: “It’s the Palestinians that are always expected to condemn themselves.”

[Map] An interactive map that details the history of "Conquer and divide", from 1967 onwards, via B'Tselem.

[Documentary] The Actions of Settlers in Hebron (Tel Rumeida)

[Video] Former CIA admit to lying about atrocities committed by Cubans. They admit they didn't know of a single atrocity done by the Cubans. "It was pure raw false propaganda to create an illusion of communists eating babies for breakfast."

[Documentary] Gaza Fights For Freedom (covers the IDF assassinating and maiming Palestinians in the peaceful March for Return in 2019)

[Video] Ghassan Kanafani’s famous interview

[Documentary] How Palestinians were expelled from their homes

[little-etho-everywhere]

List of accounts on social media that discuss/show the Palestinian genocide crisis

My only regret about this post is that I didn't make it sooner, because one of the most popular accounts, Eye on Palestine, got taken down TODAY

I tried my best to find English-speaking sources, but here it is.

Omar Suleiman / Instagram / Twitter

Motaz Azaiza / Instagram / Twitter

Mahmoud Sami Al-Hissi / Instagram

Palestine International Broadcast / Instagram / Twitter

Subhi / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Chris Kunzler / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Middle East Eye / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'Tselem / Instagram / Twitter / Facebook / Youtube / Official website

Metras Global / Instagram / Twitter

Bisan / Instagram / TikTok

AJ+ / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Al-Jazeera / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Al-Arabia / Instagram / Twitter / TikTok

Times of Gaza / Instagram / Twitter

OTHER HELPFUL SOURCES:

Palestine and how to help

Save Palestine

r/Israelicrimes

Counting the kids

I will try to add to this list but these are all the ones I have followed, feel free to reblog with more!

YOUR SILENCE IS COMPLICITY TO ETHNIC CLEANSING, GENOCIDE, AND COLONILISM. USE YOUR VOICE TO SPEAK FOR THOSE UNDER THE RUBBLE.

edit: fixed typo and added more sources to B'tslem.

[copingchaos]

80% of palestinian children from East Jerusalem (where there is no Hamas for those who wonder) who are detained and who have signed a "confession", are actually made to sign a document in a language they cant even read...

Source: Unprotected: Detention of Palestinian Teenagers in East Jerusalem | B'Tselem

[notfromcold]

I've waited to say something until I had something useful to say. Other than simply expressing horror and grief.

There are many organizations doing good work right now. One organization I haven't heard mentioned is B'Tselem. They are an organization staffed by both Israelis and Palestinians working for human rights.

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 Scenes from destroyed neighborhoods in Khan Yunis where Resistance forces can be heard confronting the invading Israeli occupation army in the Al-Amal neighborhood.]

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💥ISRAELI OCCUPATION COMMITS 8 NEW MASSACRES OF PALESTINIAN FAMILIES ON THE 141ST DAY OF WAR IN GAZA💥

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF), on the 141st day of Israel's genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, committed 10 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of 104 civilians, mostly women and children, and wounded another 160 others over the previous 24-hours.

Intense battles play out in the Al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Yunis as Resistance Forces confront invading Israeli soldiers and armored vehicles, while IOF aircraft continues to destroy large sections of residential neighborhoods in Khan Yunis.

Meanwhile, according to the Israeli human rights organization B'tselem, the Israeli occupation intends on creating a "buffer zone" one kilometer wide along the entire border between the Gaza Strip and the Israeli entity, about 60km in total, in which Palestinians, even ones who cultivated lands along the border, will not be allowed to access.

This buffer zone is intended to be covered by paved roads, with Israeli outposts and surveillance equipment, to essentially enforce the outdoor prison of Gaza. To create this buffer zone, the Israeli occupation is "currently destroying almost everything in the area it has designated for it," with one Israeli soldier describing his work as "flattening everything."

B'tselem says the Israeli occupation has demolished 1'072 of 2'824 structures located a kilometer or less from the border, the majority of which were Palestinian homes.

According to Adi Ben Nun from the Geography Department of Hebrew University, in Khan Yunis alone, 704 of 1'048 buildings, almost 70% of all structures, have been demolished by the Israeli occupation army. B'tselem says that Corey Scher of the City University of New York and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University put the number of demolitions even higher, estimating that at least 1'329 buildings have been completely destroyed by IOF soldiers. The same can be replicated along the entire border with "Israel".

Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes have continued the work of flattening the Gaza Strip, launching several firebelts targeting residential neighborhoods in the village of Khuza'a, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

At the same time, local medical sources say Israeli warplanes and artillery concentrated on Khan Yunis resulted in the deaths of at least 19 Palestinians.

Also in Khan Yunis, Israeli fighter jets bombed the Ammer Bin Yasser mosque in the Al-Shahayda neighborhood, north of Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis.

Occupation armored vehicles and soldiers continue to besiege the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, putting the hospital out of service at this time.

Occupation aircraft also bombarded residential buildings in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of Khan Yunis, while IOF jets also committed new massacres across residential neighborhoods in the central Gaza Strip.

In Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, occupation artillery and warplanes bombed the Abu Zuaiter family home, killing 25 civilians who were transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

Israeli artillery shelling also targeted Zamzam family home in the Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp, killing a woman and wounding several others.

Several other civilians were also wounded by the artillery fire of Israeli gunboats along the coast near the Nuseirat Refugee Camp.

Elsewhere, Israeli aircraft launched firebelts targeting the Al-Ghurais family home in the Nuseirat Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 9 civilians and wounding others.

In the south of Gaza, Israeli fighter jets launched a firebelt on the Abu Muammar family home east of the city of Rafah, killing at least 11 civilians and wounding several others.

At the same time, Israeli occupation snipers posted on local rooftops shot and killed two civilians, Amer Al-Bawab and his son, in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City, while another woman was killed after occupation air raids on the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

In another horrific atrocity by the Israeli occupation forces, occupation warplanes bombed the Shaheen family home in central Rafah, which also housed members of the Abu Hamra and Abu Sultan families, resulting in the murder of 7 Palestinian civilians and wounding several others.

At the same time, occupation fighter jets carried out a series of airstrikes targeting areas near the border with Egypt, in the areas where roughly half a million displaced Palestinians have settled in tents in unbearable and dangerous conditions.

As a result of Israel's ongoing war of genocide in the Gaza Strip, after 141 days of all-out war on a civilian population, more than 36'000 Palestinians are dead or missing, the majority of which are women and children, while over 60'000 Palestinians have been wounded, including more than 11'000 injuries which require travel abroad for treatment.

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