🧵Te-Nehisi Coates The Message is an anti-Israel, antisemitic screed filled with lies, misrepresentations & omissions (especially). He calls Israel the most evil nation on earth. His academic fraudulence is only exceeded by his vicious hate for Israel. Detailed analysis: 1/
Coates’ first sentence deliberately reflects his hope & dream: no Jewish state. He makes clear he believes there is only one legitimate people with rights in the Holy Land – Palestinians. He disgustingly says Holocaust center Yad Vashem is based in Palestine. Tone firmly set. 2/
Coates lies & misrepresents often, on every page. First of a small sample of examples: he falsely claims the Temple Mount run by the “occupying power” is unfair, as “Israelis regularly tour Al-Aqsa” while “Palestinians are barred from the Western Wall.” 3/
It's exactly the reverse. Non-Muslims are screened at Temple Mount & Jews cannot pray, Jordanian Waqf restricts non-Muslims entry to mosque. But Muslims & Christians, including 2mm Palestinian citizens of Israel, can visit Western Wall. Here is US State Dept discussion. 4/
Coates suggests Muslims cannot pass through Lion’s Gate into Old City of Jerusalem, because when he was there he did not see that happen. Wow, what solid proof! But it’s a lie. Muslims regularly pass through here to the Muslim Quarter filled with Muslims. 5/
Coates falsely presents restrictions due to security concerns on literally ONE street in Hebron, Shuhada St, out of 74 sq km of city of which 80% is off limits to Jews, as evidence of racism. The Shuhada St. lie will never die as this thread exposes. 6/
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Coates next lies about citizenship laws, claiming they are different for “Jewish Israelis” and non-Jewish ones – but they are not, they apply equally to all Israeli citizens, Muslim, Arabs, Jews, Palestinians. The rules apply to NON-CITIZENS. Coates blatantly lies. 7/
Spousal law he refers to bars non-citizen Palestinians who married Israelis (Jew, Arab, Muslim) from automatically obtaining permanent residency & citizenship. Strict residency laws that applies to non-citizens is not racist; it is legal & common worldwide. See description: 8/
Another lie: claiming that Jewish Israelis in Jerusalem are citizens, but non-Jewish ones are not, merely “permanent residents.” False, as Jerusalem is not off limits to Palestinian citizens of Israel. This is a gross fabrication. Coates lies on every page. 9/
Another lie: there are yellow Jewish license plates and green for non-Jews. False, 2 million Arab-Israeli citizens also have yellow plates. Coates deliberately conflates Jews & Israeli citizens, because acknowledging Israeli-Arab citizens have full rights destroys his book. 10/
Coates lies about water allocation in the West Bank, claiming like Jim Crow, Israel segregates water. It’s an ugly falsehood. Under the Oslo Accords (Article 40 of Annex III) water has been allocated under agreed amounts between Israel & PA, which has been fully adhered to. 11/
Coates lies by claiming Israel is a “caste" society. The primary evidence: Pals in Israel are poorer and live shorter lives. But Jewish vs Arab income is the same as White vs Black in the US! Coates did not bother to research. Is the US then a caste system? 12/
Here is the data from Israel Central Bureau of Statistics and US Census for income levels. Jewish income is 1.5x Arab, and in the US, white income vs black income is remarkably the same at 1.5x. But to Coates, this is evidence of a Jewish run CASTE system. 13/
What about life expectancy? See data for Israel & US for 2021. Arabs in Israel live 4.5 years less than Jews, but Blacks live 5.5 years less than whites in the US. Pals in Israel live 7 years longer than US blacks! Coates did zero research, just fake criteria & conclusions. 14/
Coates’ omissions are worse then the lies. Palestinians are pure, innocent, indigenous victims from time immemorial while Jews are cruel powerful oppressors. So the 1948 & 1967 wars are ONLY Arabs driven from the land, not rejecting a 2 state solution and starting both wars. 15/
In Orwellian fashion, Coates completely erases Palestinian terrorism. Not even a hint of Pal terrorism exists in his fantasy narrative of Israeli evil because Pals can only be pure, innocent victims. So when discussing checkpoints the only reason is Jim Crow – not terrorism. 16/
Coates does in fact use the word terrorism to describe the conflict. But only as something Jews do (sorry, Zionists)! He also describes the Baruch Goldstein terror attack in detail. ZERO about Palestinian terrorism, suicide bombings, Hamas, rockets. 17/
Coates trots out the lazy and false claim the Herzl advocated for “expropriation and banishment” by ignoring his entire and extensive body of work that says nothing of the sort, cherry-picking one out of context quote referring to South America. This is academic dishonesty. 18/
Coates lies claiming “Palestinians owned 90%” of land and Israel stole it; in fact >80% was state land (60% of Israel is desert). No mention of why state land was acquired: Pals & Arabs started war of extermination against Jews in 1948 and lost. Arabs refused peace post war. 19/
Coates’ hostility to Jews is evidenced when he compares the mere presence of the archeological site The City of David in Jerusalem, a Jewish history site, as offensive to Palestinians just like a confederate flag is to blacks. Disgusting comparison. 20/
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