🧵 1/2: I've been thinking a lot about this video from Sam Stein, an American #Israeli #HumanRights activist. Filmed 4 weeks ago after his detention by the #IDF for resisting #settler violence in the #WestBank (as he's been doing for the past 5 years), it triggers profound lessons, which I hope act as a lightning rod for Western #activists, who often understimate the system at their peril.

Sam starts: "all your legal training goes out of the window when a soldier has his knee on your neck...