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THREAD: @NPR is now echoing one of the most dangerous lies circulating post–Oct 7...

That Israel is "committing genocide".

1/ This week, @NPR’s Morning Edition featured Omer Bartov, an Israeli-born professor who claims the IDF isn’t targeting Hamas, but carrying out genocide against Palestinians.

Who is Bartov? Well, he's far from being a neutral scholar...

@NPR 2/ Bartov is an anti-Israel activist who has called Israel a nation “injected with poison,” accused it of “Jewish supremacism,” & blamed Hamas’ Oct 7 massacre on Israeli policy. His “evidence” of genocide? That Israel conducted operations in Rafah despite civilians being there.

@NPR 3/ But Israel warned civilians in Rafah to evacuate, issued maps, sent texts, dropped flyers, even set up field hospitals.

That’s not how genocidal regimes behave.

@NPR 4/ Bartov also ignores that...

📍Hamas is a terrorist group, NOT an ethnic or religious one

📍Genocide = intent to destroy a people, not terror infrastructure

📍Israel’s stated goal? To end Hamas after it butchered 1,200+ Israelis & vowed to repeat it “again + again”

@NPR 5/ Even @NPR’s host hesitated. Asked why Bartov dismisses IDF claims Hamas hides in civilian areas.

His answer? “Well… they are also going after Hamas… but mostly they’re destroying Gaza.”

Weak...

@NPR 6/ This is narrative laundering.

A fringe, inflammatory claim gains traction by being repeated on mainstream platforms like @NPR and @NYT not because it’s true, but because it fits the script.

@NPR @NYT 7/ Broadcasting this under the guise of it being expertise from an “Israeli-born Holocaust scholar” is not journalism.

It’s propaganda.

And it gives cover to those who want 🇮🇱Israel erased, not merely.

@NPR @NYT 8/ NPR has a choice: report facts or push fiction.

This week, they chose the latter.

@NPR @NYT Read the full analysis from CAMERA's Ricki Hollander ⤵️

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