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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi I have to express how shocked I was by the number of problematic statements being made in this article. From the very opening sentence, Mr. Blades shows his willingness to shape facts. While noting that Amb. @nikkihaley "accused" the UNHRC of being biased, Blades
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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley including not so much as a single statement of the many that she made, not even a link to one of those statements, which justifies that accusation. Instead, he promotes the belief that the USA withdrew from the council because it, like Israel was facing charges of human

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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley rights violations (and because of its solidarity with Israel). There is no note of the fact that Israel alone is a "mandatory" item for review by the council, that even as nations such as Syria, Iran and North Korea commit violations they are rarely the subjects of

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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley resolutions, or that even Ban Ki Moon, former Secretary General of the UN, acknowledged the damage caused to the legitimacy of the council by its disproportionate focus on Israel. Rather than educating the readers of Teen Vogue, Mr. Blades has chosen

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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley to create his own narrative and present it as being the "truth" rather than just his personal opinion, and has presented only those links which support his statements rather than allowing readers to make their own educated evaluation of the situation.

This unfortunate bias

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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley continues throughout the article. For example, Mr. Blades notes that Israel is the "largest cumulative recipient" of aid since WW2, and links to an article by The Atlantic (from which he borrows that exact line). This 'evaluation' of aid to Israel leaves out several

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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley factors worth considering, such as the important fact that Afghanistan currently receives over $1.5 billion more than Israel annually, or that the aid money sent to Israel is primarily spent within the USA (unlike funds sent to other foreign nations).
int.icej.org/susans-blog/do…

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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley It also glosses over such facts as that most of the aid sent to Israel from 1959 to 1985 was in the form of loans, which Israel paid back, or that military grant assistance did not begin until 1973. Before 1971, the Arab states of the Middle East actually received more aid

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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley money ($4.4 billion compared to $3.1 billion for Israel) even without considering that over a third of the money that Israel received was loans.
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-ov…
This 'evaluation' also ignores financial spending for bases in other countries such as Japan, S.Korea and

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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley Germany, which costs roughly $7 billion per year.
factcheck.org/2016/04/u-s-fo…

There are many other errors worth noting, or insinuations of guilt that are not supported by fact, to which I will return, but I think that there is already evidence to say that Mr. Blades and

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@lincolnablades @TeenVogue @pfpicardi @nikkihaley Teen Vogue not only need to know better, but most certainly can do better.

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