Opinion | Israel’s Elimination Project (Gift Article)

The Israeli government deploys language about "security" and "self-defense" to disguise a systematic violent effort to dispossess Palestinians and to eliminate their collective existence in occupied Palestinian land.

"The Israeli government deploys language about 'security' and 'self-defense' to disguise a systematic violent effort to dispossess Palestinians and to eliminate their collective existence in occupied Palestinian land." - Kenneth Roth

I'm old enough to remember when the mainstream media was full of arguments denouncing the notion that settler colonialism had anything to do with what is happening now. It was merely a "woke" concept. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

This is one of the most tortured essays I've ever read in the NYT. The word Palestinians use to describe events in Gaza is "genocide", as does the overwhelming majority of professionals working in genocide scholarship, history and law. Only liars and media avoid it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

"The larger reality: a new phase of the political project to make Israeli Jewish control permanent while dismantling the conditions for Palestinian collective life.... in a project of supremacy, dispossession and elimination." - Yuli Novak, Exec Director of B’Tselem www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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This is an excellent piece in the NY Times. The author is the director of the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem

What Israel does to Palestine and the Middle East - For Palestinians living under Israeli rule and for many observers around the world, blocked roads, demolished homes, expulsions and violence are elements of blatantly unjust domination. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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Trump enabled this: #Israel’s Elimination Project www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

"The logic of elimination does not require every Palestinian to disappear. It seeks to make Palestinian collective life increasingly impossible while securing permanent Israeli Jewish control." Yuli Novak, Executive Director of B'Tselem in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026...

The executive director of B'Tselem (In the Image of, as in made in the image of God) explains Israeli policy from a far left (for Israel) perspective. He goes further than I would (e.g., calling Gaza "genocide"), but it is refreshing to see a self-aware portrait of reality from an Israeli.

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I hope everyone reads this. All of it. The screenshots I'm posting here are of the last three paragraphs - the crescendo. I don't know how any Jew, secular like me or observant to whatever degree, can justify this in the name of, of all things, the Holocaust. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

The Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of Israelis and Israel's response has long dominated the news coverage. What is beginning to gain greater attention is settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Genocide. "Day after day, we had documented homes being burned and demolished, communities being expelled, children being shot and killed, roads being blocked and humiliating assertions of Jewish supremacy by settlers and by the Israeli government alike." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

It matters. It must. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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'The logic of elimination does not require every Palestinian to disappear. It seeks to make Palestinian collective life increasingly impossible while securing permanent Israeli Jewish control.' - Yuli Novak, Executive Director, #BTselem #Palestine #WestBank #Israel #oPt #colonialViolence

I am so grateful to Israeli human rights organizations like B'Tselem, which has published a report that lays out the roots and reality of this genocide in Gaza and the ongoing violence in the West Bank.

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“Jewish historical, religious and cultural ties to this land are real, as is the long history of persecution and violence against Jews in many parts of the world. None of that changes the fact that exclusive Jewish sovereignty was built through Palestinian dispossession.” —Yuli Novak, B’Tselem

That, has always been the plan of the Zionist Genocidal Colony: Israel’s Elimination Project www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

“The politics have shifted over time, but the underlying logic has remained the same: Israel has preserved a political order that places Jews above Palestinians in rights, power and control over the land.” Israel’s Elimination Project www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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It's called genocide Israel’s Elimination Project www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

"The politics have shifted over time, but the underlying logic has remained the same: Israel has preserved a political order that places Jews above Palestinians in rights, power and control over the land." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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I hope every Jewish American, whatever degree of observance (or absence of it; I'm secular), finds their way to this piece. The screenshots are of the crescendo: the last three paragraphs. THIS is what the Holocaust, of all things, is used to justify. THIS. GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

""Exclusive Jewish sovereignty was built thru Palestinian dispossession. Politics shifted over time, but the underlying logic has remained the same: Israel has preserved a political order that places Jews above Palestinians in rights, power & control over the land."" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

"Elimination:" the #word the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories came up with to reach beyond a political #language that has implications for the physical landscape, the reality lived by Palestinians, and the writing of history. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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"To refuse the language that rationalizes the violence inflicted on Palestinians must also mean refusing the system that produces it and insisting that it be brought to an end." Important piece if anyone will listen and act. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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""Today, after years of deepening dehumanization, Palestinian suffering is simply ignored in much of Israeli public discourse. That is why the language of those who live under this system matters so much."" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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Israel’s Elimination Project=Genocide. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o... @jvp.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social @jfrejnyc.bsky.social@bendthearc.bsky.social @hiimjewish.bsky.social @jewishwomensaid.bsky.social @timesofisrael.com @palestinestudies.bsky.social @eyeonpalestine.bsky.social @cnn.com

Israel’s Elimination Project www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o... This is why all support for Israel needs to end immediately!

Yuli Novak writes about the new B'Tselem report: www.btselem.org/the_eliminat...