On top of @mishtal's incredible scoop on Mohammed, portrayed in the media as a child victim of the Gaza ‘famine', our Arabic dep't discovered disturbing information about the Gaza-based photographer of those photos, Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-Arini:
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Al-Arini described a terror attack in Tel Aviv which targeted civilians, in July 2023, as "heroic".
Al-Arini described the terrorist perpetrator of a Tel Aviv attack which killed one civilian, in April 2023, as a "hero" t.me/ahmed_al_arini… and his death as "martyrdom" t.me/ahmed_al_arini…
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🧵THREAD: Why does the BBC STILL employ journalists who publicly celebrated the horrific October 7th massacre?
1/ Yesterday @BBC told @Telegraph it “strongly” denied @4mediastandards’ claims its reporters “celebrated acts of terror”.
2/ CAMERA’s analysis tells a different story…
Beirut-based BBC reporter Sanaa Elkhoury (@sanaakhouri) liked 7/10 comments about sweets handed out in Lebanon “in celebration” of the massacre, and about Gaza being “liberated”.
Running thread, for the duration of the war, of media outlets which published material justifying the Hamas attacks to one degree or another, or suggesting a moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel
.@thetimes book review legitimises an antisemitic conspiracy theory by Avi Shlaim, which blames Jews themselves for the Farhud and other manifestations of antisemitism in 1940s-50s Iraq
@thetimes Any Iraqi who believed there was "Jewish complicity" in the British/Anglo invasion of Iraq in 1941 was, by definition, anti-Semitic
The award for most egregiously inaccurate British media headline about Palestinian rioting at the Temple Mount early this morning - following Hamas incitement - goes to @MailOnline
It's like Hamas hacked into the DM's computers and wrote the headline themselves
@MailOnline@RoleMarks What really occurred is that dozens of masked Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the mosque with fireworks, clubs and rocks following evening prayers, while locking the doors and placing barricades at the entrances.
@MailOnline@RoleMarks Officers then reportedly tried to convince those inside to leave but were forced to enter the mosque, where they were attacked with rocks and fireworks. Police said dozens of were arrested and that “the rioters caused damage to the mosque and desecrated it.”
.@guardian's charge that there’s been an "erosion" of Palestinians from Jerusalem over the years is contradicted by open source population data camera-uk.org/2023/04/03/gua…
@guardian The proportion of Palestinians and Jews in east Jerusalem has remained fairly steady over the last 40 years – at a 3:2 ratio
@guardian Since 1990, Palestinian population growth in the city (both east and west) has significantly exceeded the Jewish population growth