Handala

@haaretzcom The Zionist underground, when they conducted the terrorist operation Ali Baba and bombed synagogues in Iraq to spread fear campaigns amongst Iraqi Jews to force them to leave their homeland, Iraq, and go colonize Palestine.

@EylonALevy The world can't normalize what is abnormal and Israel is the definition of abnormality.

Qatar, Saudi, and Pakistan should join the Abraham Accords. They should recognize the State of Israel, because it has existed for nearly 80 years and they should recognize reality. The world must not continue normalizing this abnormal situation.

The Israel Lobby has adapted and refined their approach. The NewDem Action Fund accepts Israel lobby dark money from the Pro-Israel Network via Democracy Engine (payment processor) and then distributes to 115 members so FEC does not label it Israel lobby money. Stay vigilant.

Visca Barca 🇵🇸

@Israel Israelis do not understand true pain, that is why they can never understand true peace.

🕊️ A message of peace in Tel Aviv A large banner displayed in Arabic and Hebrew in Tel Aviv reads: “The time has come - peace, shalom.” Created by artists Mira Awad and Ben Sperber.

Israelis do not understand true pain; that is why they can never understand true peace.

Dear diary, This week felt like a reminder of how ordinary life here in Palestine is always balanced on a thin edge between routine and disruption. I went to the barbershop to meet my friend after he closed. It’s our small escape from work and from the heaviness of daily life here; we usually sit together, play FIFA or PUBG, and pretend, for a few hours, that things are normal. That night, we had just set everything up, laptops ready, when group notifications started coming in: Israeli soldiers had entered our village. At first, we didn’t react much. Israeli night raids are something we’ve grown up with, too frequent and too familiar, only to terrorize us and establish presence. We locked the main door out of habit more than hope, then checked the security cameras through our phones just in case. That’s when I suddenly saw it, flashlights moving through the garden of the house behind us, behind the barbershop. My stomach dropped. I told my friend immediately: They're here. We shut everything down. Lights off, laptops closed, silence. We sat in the dark, watching the cameras, barely breathing. The fear wasn’t just for ourselves; it was my old parents’ house I kept thinking about and what I should do if they barge in on them. On the cameras, I could see movement around it too. Surrounded, from all sides. And then the voices, shouting in Hebrew, cut through the night. We waited like that for hours. Anxious. Frozen. Until they finally left, around three and a half hours later, just as dawn was starting to creep in. A couple of days later, that very same friend, the barber, had his master’s presentation. He asked me to come with him to the university in the morning. It was supposed to be his big day, something he had worked so hard for the past years. We left early, thinking we had more than enough time for a short 24 km drive. But here, distances mean nothing when illegal Israeli checkpoints decide everything. Roads were blocked, traffic was crawling, and the tension in the car kept building as the minutes slipped away. We were stuck in line when a Border Police jeep (Magav) came speeding toward us in the opposite direction. I was driving. For a second, I didn’t know what to do; there was barely any space, just a bit of concrete to the side. I pulled over as best as I could, even damaging the underside of the car trying to make room for them. It didn’t matter. They stopped right next to us. Got out. Weapons drawn. Surrounded the car. Shouting. Cursing. Telling us to go back. For a moment, everything felt unreal, like we were guilty of something we were never told on our very own land. We tried to comply, shaken and confused. They shouted that if we did that again, they would shoot us and kill us on the spot. Then they told us to “fuck off” and left us sitting there, humiliated and shaken. We eventually made it through the checkpoint to the university, barely on time. My friend still went ahead with his presentation, even though he had thought about cancelling everything. I kept telling him to go for it, that he could do it, while inside, I was still burning with anger and humiliation I couldn’t fully put into words. Afterward, we ate, tried to shake it off, and started the long journey back home. Same checkpoints. Same delays. Same exhaustion. We both made it back safely. Drained, quiet, and carrying another day of survival in Palestine like so many before it. -Handala / Palestine, Spring 2026.

Dear Diary, Tonight, I just wanted to do something simple: buy food for my dog and cat before we completely ran out. Since there are no pet shops or veterinary clinics in our village, I had to drive to a nearby village. I thought going at night would make the trip easier and quieter. I was wrong. On my way out, traffic was completely frozen. Israeli soldiers had closed every entrance and exit to our village. Cars stretched endlessly in front of me, people waiting with no answers, no way through, no idea when the roads would reopen. I sat there for more than an hour, trapped only minutes away from my own home. Eventually, I gave up and turned back. I came home empty-handed, unable to feed the animals depending on me. What hurts most is how ordinary this suffering has become. Even the smallest tasks, buying food, visiting family, getting medical care, and going to work, can suddenly become impossible. This is what life under Israeli occupation feels like: constant restrictions, constant uncertainty, and the feeling that every part of daily life is being squeezed tighter and tighter. Sometimes it feels like these policies are designed to make life unbearable, to push us away from our land and our homes. But this is our home. And despite everything, we are still here. 9 May 2026.

Under cover of the Israel-US attack on Iran and Lebanon, Israel’s security cabinet approved the establishment of 34 new settlements in the West Bank. The resolution was kept secret for several weeks and published only after the ceasefire began. These settlements join 68 others approved by the government since it took office, and more than 107 outposts built with assistance from the state. Meanwhile, Israel is accelerating its ethnic cleansing of Palestinian residents. In two and a half years, 59 Palestinian communities have been expelled, and more than 40,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes. This mechanism relies on close cooperation between two branches operated by the Israeli regime: armed settler militias carrying out daily violence on the ground with support and assistance from the military and the police, and a governmental-legal system that legitimizes and institutionalizes their actions. Over the past weekend alone, dozens of violent attacks by settlers against Palestinian residents and their property were documented.

@Jerusalem_Post ''Shared purpose'' in stealing Palestinian lands and expelling the Palestinian natives out.

Opinion: Calls for aliyah must inspire all Jews, not just select groups, and reflect a broad, inclusive Zionist vision rooted in dignity and shared purpose. jpost.com/opinion/articl…

@QudsNen Jewish American colonists imported school shootings to Palestine. This is their culture, terrorism.

The moment Israeli settlers stormed Al-Mughayyir Secondary Boys School, opening fire at students inside their classrooms killing the child, Aws Al-Nasaan, a few days ago.

@EylonALevy Yaffa sunset, Palestine. Your independence is our Nakba. x.com/HandalaPali/st…

Mesmerized by the Tel Aviv sunset Happy Independence Day🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

@StandWithUs Israel and resilience shouldn't be in the same sentence.

As Israel marks its 78th birthday, it stands as a testament to resilience, found not only in historic milestones, but in everyday moments like a peaceful stroll along the Tel Aviv boardwalk.

@RabbiPoupko Rabbi Popo just wishes that Palestinians would disappear from the face of the earth; he sees them as subhumans with no rights whatsoever. Even a Palestinian child shouldn't go to school under Jewish supremacy. Jewish rabbis seeing educated Palestinians makes their blood boil.

When will Palestine adults stop using their children as props for social media and human shields and take responsibility for the future of their children by choosing peace?

Bibas's family was killed by your stupid, incompetent Israeli army. Why do you fake stories in order to appear as a victim when doing a genocide against Palestinians? Jewish Zionists have a mental illness of always wanting to be the victim when, in fact, they are the aggressors; they have no honor, and it is frankly disgusting and the complete opposite of normal human behavior.

Gazans strangled these two baby angels to death with their bare hands, along with their mother. Mutilated their bodies with rocks. They burnt the grandparents alive in their own home. They shot the family dog Tonto to death. We will never forget.

@rabbriansamuel Dildo Baggins is at it again with the ahistorical hasbara garbage.

This is an incredible post, linking biblical Israel to now. King David reigned over a unified Israel for 33 years. ➕ King Solomon reigned for 40 years. 🟰 73 years. The Hasmonean Empire lasted 77 years until Rome took over. Today, the state of Israel becomes 78 years old. Amazing!! 🇮🇱❤️🙏

@rabbriansamuel It is BS and ahistorical, but you wouldn't know anything about real history, would you, Dildo Baggins?

@Savage398620 @LRSS0319 Still nothing of substance to add or refute.

Denying a thief a home they stole isn't hate. It is called common sense.

@RabbiShmuley A Zionist Jew talking about betrayal. I have seen it all.

open.substack.com/pub/rabbishmul… I have known Cory Booker for decades. He was my student President at Oxford University. He was my soul-friend, my brother, my Torah-study partner. My closest confidante. And I was pivotal in launching his political career. Ours was not a casual acquaintance. It was a genuine friendship—one forged in shared ideals, mutual respect, and, I believed, a common moral language. I introduced him to many of America’s most committed Jewish philanthropists and leaders, not as a political transaction, but as an act of trust. I believed he was a man who understood the stakes for the Jewish people—after Auschwitz, after the long night of exile, after the rebirth of Israel. I believed he grasped that “Never Again” is not a slogan but a strategy. And now, I find myself asking a painful question: what happened? The Cory Booker I knew spoke of moral courage, of standing firm in the face of injustice, of being guided not by polls but by principle. The vote we just witnessed suggests something different: a leader governed less by conviction than by calculation, less by clarity than by caution. “When leaders trade conviction for calculation, they don’t become pragmatic—they become hollow.”

Everything changed in 1933, when the Nazis took control of Germany and immediately began persecuting and expelling the Jewish community. Many German Jews had nowhere to go but Palestine as a result of discriminatory immigration laws in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries. Hitler’s ascension proved to be a watershed moment in the modern history of Palestine and Zionism. In 1935 alone, over 60000 Jewish settlers arrived in Palestine, more than the total Jewish population of the country in 1917. The majority of these refugees were educated and skilled, primarily from Germany but also from neighboring countries. German Jews were permitted to bring in assets worth $100 million under the terms of a Transfer Agreement reached between the Nazi government and the Zionist movement in exchange for the end of the Jewish boycott of Germany. The Jewish economy in Palestine overtook the Arab sector for the first time in the 1930s, and by 1939, the Jewish population had increased to more than 30% of the total population. With rapid economic growth and this rapid population shift occurring over a seven-year period, combined with the significant expansion of the Zionist movement’s military capabilities, it became clear to its leaders that the demographic, economic, territorial, and military nucleus necessary for achieving supremacy over the entire country, or at least the majority of it, would be in place soon. As Ben-Gurion put it at the time, ''immigration at the rate of 60,000 a year means a Jewish state in all Palestine.'' (BEN-GURION and the Palestinian Arabs, Shabtai Teveth, pp. 166-168.). Numerous Palestinians came to the same conclusion. Palestinians now recognized that, as ‘Isa al-‘Isa had warned in desperate tones in 1929, they were inevitably transforming into foreigners in their own land. Throughout the first 2 decades of British occupation, the Palestinians’ growing opposition to the Zionist movement’s increasing dominance manifested itself in periodic outbreaks of violence, despite the Palestinian leadership’s commitment to the British to keep their followers in line. In rural areas, sporadic attacks, frequently referred to as “banditry” by the British and Zionists, reflected popular outrage over Zionist land acquisitions, which frequently resulted in the expulsion of peasants from lands they considered to be theirs and which provided their livelihood. Demonstrations in cities against British rule and the expansion of the Zionist parastate grew larger and more militant in the early 1930s.

@HandalaPali Calling Hitler a Zionist is lazy scholarship. We all struggle with what to do with world jewry, at least he had the balls to try.

Deep down Zionist Jews love Hitler and understand very well that without him, they wouldn't have been able to establish their ethnostate in its current form on stolen Palestinian lands through war crimes, all while gathering worldwide sympathy during the process of the erasure of Palestine. Hitler was the biggest Zionist.