PhD in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter. Adjunct Professor @goUFV. My website: https://xitter.cf/t.co/TGk0Ypik9C

Joined July 2011
🧵1/13 Over the last two years, I have compiled into a table investigations by six human rights organizations and fact-finding bodies into no less than 37 separate incidents of Israeli strikes in Gaza since October 2023. Together, these strikes killed at least 1573 Palestinians.
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"Even if one were to blindly accept that each of the journalists included in 'The Press Files' was a militant, the [Israeli] army has no accusations whatsoever against at least 113 more journalists whom it killed in Gaza during the past three years." 972mag.com/israeli-army-gaza…
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
It would be nice if Western media gave a damn about the Israelis killed *by Israel* on October 7th. They may not - but we here at Zeteo do. Watch @mehdirhasan take you through that day, explaining the secretive 'Hannibal Directive' and how it was deployed by the Israeli military
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"Once we have become a strong power ... we will annul the partition and expand throughout Palestine.” — David Ben-Gurion, August 1947
The Jewish community accepted partition in 36, 47 and 48. The Palestinian leadership violently rejected those offers. In 48 Palestinians and later Arab states went to war to prevent the birth of a Jewish state. They lost. So what nationalism is racist again?
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
🚨I checked every single name on Israel's list of 170 Gazan "terrorist" journalists. It's the most sloppy shameless fraud possible🧵 In the overwhelming majority of those listed, the IDF presents ZERO credible evidence. In most of them, their pages are literally blank.
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
Israeli humor be like “lol what if we murdered you 😂😂”
I’m quite happy to let Piers in. Out is another question.
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In this edition of "shooting & crying", Yair Lapid says the Israeli public's enthusiasm for killing babies is bad, not for Palestinian babies, but for Israelis, because they have "become like Hamas". On Oct. 7, Hamas killed 1 baby; since Oct. 7, Israel has killed 1,000 babies.
Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Gaza: I had a painful meeting with a group of very young people, and I heard all the lines about how "everyone has to be killed" and "there are no innocents." I asked them, "Babies?" They said, "Babies too, because eventually they’ll grow up and become terrorists." I said, "Even a two-week-old baby?" And I thought: Hamas won. Those are Hamas’s standards. That is what Hamas wanted — for us to become like them. I support the use of force. But I am saying that we must not become like them.
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked photograph depicts the "research" and "writing" processes of top hasbara intellectuals John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) and @Mr_Andrew_Fox, both of whom I recently exposed for repeatedly using AI to write entire or near-entire articles.
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Anyone surprised Thiessen can't even get his cities right?
Horrifying. Clear evidence of genocide… Oh wait that’s Dresden after US and British bombing in WWII..
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Photo shows destruction of Warsaw, Poland, in early 1945 following systematic razing by Nazi German forces after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. behance.net/gallery/406641… reddit.com/r/europe/comme… wsj.com/articles/BL-NE…
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"There is currently no public evidence linking Ward to the pro-Palestine movement ... Despite this, pro-Israel voices suggested that anti-Zionism, the pro-Palestine movement and 'anti-Israel' government policies were responsible for causing the attack." readthemaple.com/how-pro-isr…
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
The IDF not only killed more children than any military or militant group this century, but also more women: more than the genocidaires in Darfur and Myanmar. Assadist forces over 14 years of civil war in Syria may have killed slightly more women than the IDF in under 3 years in Gaza. But this is misleading because "Assadist Forces" combines multiple militaries and militant groups, such as Hezbollah and the IRGC, not just the SAA. If we compared the IDF to the SAA, or to the IRGC, or to the Russians, any one group in Syria, the IDF would have killed more women (in two years vs 14 years, in a much smaller theater against a much more poorly equipped enemy, etc). Thus, the IDF has killed the most women AND the most children of any military in the 21st century. This is all the more remarkable given that Gaza has proportionally a lot fewer women than most other parts of the world. (That is because Gaza is about half children, meaning it is only about half adults, including women, who are adults by definition.)
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This is a terrible argument. If “proportionately” the Oct. 7 victims are equivalent to 40,000 American deaths, then “proportionately”, the Gaza victims are equivalent to well over 6,000,000 US deaths— is Bibi suggesting Israel has carried out a holocaust? normanfinkelstein.com/a-gues…
Benjamin Netanyahu says October 7th was the equivalent of "sixteen 9/11s." "Proportionately," the death of 1,200 Israelis is "equal to" the death of 40,000 Americans, he says.
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When Israel flunkies ask why Hamas didn't build shelters for Gaza's civilians, remember that there *was* a vast shelter system already in place—UNRWA's schools—which Israel systematically targeted. Do you think it would have refrained if these schools were *Hamas* built shelters?
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: substack.com/home/post/p-217…
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
I hope @PiersMorgan will watch this because he said he believed @HenMazzig when he insisted to Norman Finkelstein and me that he never justified or denied Israel's use of starvation, but denounced it. These are total, provable lies (and he was a paid propagandist for Israel):
"Am I a child killer?" Hen Mazzig debates Norman Finkelstein after he called Israel 'a nation of child killers' and more in tonight's Uncensored. Dropping at 7pm (BST)👇 📺 youtube.com/piersmorganuncen… @piersmorgan | @normfinkelstein | @HenMazzig | @MrWinMarshall | @ggreenwald
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Hen Mazzig by @ColterL
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normanfinkelstein.substack.c… Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Hen Mazzig
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What disgusting genocide propaganda. Of ~21,600 children killed in Gaza, ~5,900 were teen boys (13-18 yrs old). Even assuming, without a shred of evidence, that *every teen boy* was “actually” a “Hamas militant”, the vast majority of children killed would be noncombatants.
I was today years old when I learned that most of the ‘20,000 children killed in Gaza’ are actually male Hamas militants aged 16–18.
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