Trending and important tweets this week about Israel and the Jewish people: When BDS activists show their true colors; HonestReporting holding the BBC to account over inaccurate reporting; information on Hamas you won’t find in a UN report; IfNotNow’s ignorance of how Israel-Arabs see themselves exposed; and what the return of the body of a soldier killed in action over 35 years ago means to Israel.
1. A BDS advocate goes into meltdown when confronted with a proud black, female Jewish Israel.
I'm not sure what he is madder at, the fact that I'm a strong woman, the fact I am a Black Jew or the fact that I'm a proud Zionist, let me guess I believe it's all.#thefaceofhate pic.twitter.com/ngiefHByxQ
— Ashager Araro (@AshagerAraro) April 5, 2019
In this video you can see a prominent member of the #BDS movement yelling that he "supports #Hamas"
Tell me one more time how #BDS promotes peace ??♀️??♀️??♀️#noplaceforhate pic.twitter.com/1dxrHnTgaa— Ashager Araro (@AshagerAraro) April 4, 2019
2. HonestReporting’s Simon Plosker exposes the BBC trying to justify a serious case of inaccuracy in a story about a terror attack in 1976, in which Jews and Israelis were kidnapped by Palestinian and German terrorists.
.@BBCNews' response to a complaint I lodged is appalling. Instead of simply making a quick correction, the Beeb tried to justify its original error by coming to its own conclusion that the Entebbe terrorists had no problem with Jews, only with Israel. Sound familiar anyone? https://t.co/WaSDXaA16e
— Simon Plosker (@SimonPlosker) April 1, 2019
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3. Hen Mazzig’s thread on how the Nazis oppressed the Jews of North Africa is well worth a read.
Thread: My Jewish-Amazigh family worked in forced labour camps in Tunisia. Did you know that the Nazis oppressed the Jews of North Africa as well as European Jews?
Approximately 5,000 Tunisian Jewish men were conscripted for almost 40 detention camps and forced labor areas >>> pic.twitter.com/jKhqaWZNge
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) April 5, 2019
4. After IfNotNow laughably claimed that saying “Israeli Arab” is not admissible, Israeli-Arab Jonathan Elkhoury and others poured scorn on the claim. Even those on the hard left disagreed, with the radical leftist, pro-Palestinian news outlet +972 quoted as evidence of how false IfNotNow’s claim was.
In fact, new poll shows that "Israeli Arab" is the preferred self-definition of this population: 46% define themselves that way, compared to 19% who define themselves as "Palestinian-Israeli" & 14% as "Palestinian" https://t.co/ZF1VGwLHFs pic.twitter.com/tJhU62qqMT
— ג'סיקה מונטל – Jessica Montell (@JessicaMontell) April 4, 2019
I’m an Israeli Arab speaking Christian. Stop labeling us in a way to fit your hateful agenda. It is not OK to erase our personal and individual identity.
— Jonathan Elkhoury- جوناثان الخوري (@Jonathan_Elk) April 4, 2019
5. The return of the body of Israeli soldier Zechariah Baumel had the entire country talking. Journalist Lahav Harkov noticed how close-knit Israel remains, even though it appears to be so politically fractured at times.
It's amazing how Zechariah Baumel has been MIA for 37 years, but he's a name that so many Israelis and Jews around the world know and have been praying for regularly ever since. מי כעמך ישראל. May the rest of the captives and missing soldiers be brought back soon.
— Lahav Harkov, Space Laser Controller (@LahavHarkov) April 3, 2019
6. This tweet by Gaza News Agency on Twitter didn’t go unnoticed by HonestReporting’s Emanuel Miller.
You'll find more truth in this tweet by a Gazan news agency than in an entire UN fact-finding mission or report. https://t.co/HfsjPFRUC0
— (((Emanuel Miller))) (@emanumiller) April 1, 2019
7. And neither did this nugget, picked up by MEMRI and Sacha Rojtman Dratwa.
https://twitter.com/SachaDratwa/status/1114688807910162432
8. The Sunday Times rips into Jeremy Corbyn for his interference with antisemitism cases in the UK Labour party.
Corbyn‘s office blocked and delayed at least 101 cases of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party including members saying "Heil Hitler", "Fuck the Jews", Jews are to blame for 9/11, and Jews control the media.
That’s textbook institutionalised anti-Semitism. pic.twitter.com/08mBwiXS1K
— Julie Lenarz (@MsJulieLenarz) April 7, 2019
9. Joe Truzman keeps exposing the “dead protesters” in Gaza for the armed terrorists they really are
Faris Abu Hijras who died today from wounds sustained during Saturday's Land Day event at the #Gaza border was a Koshuk Unit member and a militant in the Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini Brigades. #Israel pic.twitter.com/KrlGlgcUMX
— Joe Truzman (@Jtruzmah) April 2, 2019
