Woeful misinformation being peddled by @trtworld, and recycled by @YahooNews.
1. Israeli planes have been striking *Hamas assets* in Gaza, not all of Gaza. Citing @AlJazeera should be a hint as to the credibility of the claim.
2. An Israeli missile did indeed hit a school in Gaza in mid-August. The missile, fired late at night when no students were around, did not explode.
A critical, even more important, point is whether terrorists were using the school for cover, in defiance of international law.
3. The tried-and-tested Hamas tactic of using schools, homes and hospitals for cover results in fewer terrorist deaths and the tragic death of innocents - something Hamas is responsible for under int'l law. The @Telegraph failed to disclose this vitally important context.
4. And that Telegraph headline is *not* from this year - deceitfully mislabeled as 23 June 2020 - it's actually from six years ago, when a war was being waged between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
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Actually, it was a mass displacement caused by a conflict initiated by the local Arabs and regional Arab states.
While some of those Arabs were expelled, there was no systematic or premeditated policy.
But this isn't the only time @AP gets it wrong while framing the Gaza war purely through Palestinian suffering on "Nakba Day."
Let’s unpack the bias. 👇
2/ Let’s not forget that around 850,000 Jews were brutally expelled or forced to flee from Arab lands across the Middle East during the exact same period.
AP memory-holes them entirely.
3/ @AP claims the "fighting began when Arab armies attacked following Israel’s establishment."
This glosses over what actually happened: The Jews accepted the two-state solution expressed in the 1947 Petition Plan, while the Arab side rejected it and launched a war of annihilation.
"The Nakba" means “catastrophe” in Arabic, but it didn't originally refer to the narrative of Palestinian displacement as it is commonly understood today.
It referred to the Arab world’s failed attempt to destroy the newly re-established Jewish state.🧵
On November 29, 1947, the UN voted to partition British Mandatory Palestine into two states: one Jewish, one Arab.
The Jews accepted. The Arab states and Arab leadership rejected it.
On May 15, 1948, five Arab armies invaded the new State of Israel... and lost.
Israel survived and gained territory beyond what the UN Partition Plan had allocated. Egypt took Gaza. Jordan seized the West Bank.
Many Arabs were displaced during the war. Others stayed, and became Israeli citizens. Today, their descendants number more than 2 million.
Sami al Sai claimed, in 2017, that Palestinian intelligence tortured him: hanging him from ceilings, depriving him of sleep, injecting him with unknown drugs 4 times per day.
Then he told the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate that the torture claims were false.
And then backtracked again, claiming he only said that because he was threatened.
Here’s where it gets interesting. The reason he was arrested was because he had gathered names of Palestinian prisoners for Hamas. He called it a project. Intelligence called it recruitment.
Despite the “journalist professionalism” he prided himself on to Kristof, back then he said there was “no law that forbids journalists from working with political organizations.”
1/ The @nytimes just published one of the most serious sets of allegations imaginable against Israel – claims of systematic sexual violence, including a bizarre story about carrots and trained rape dogs. We checked the sources.
What we found is journalistic malpractice. 🧵
2/ First, Sami al‑Sai, introduced by @NickKristof as a “freelance journalist.” What the NYT doesn’t tell you: al‑Sai has a long record of celebrating terrorists on social media.
Kristof repeats gruesome details of “vomit, blood and broken teeth” and lets al‑Sai claim he was arrested to pressure him into becoming an informant. In reality, al‑Sai had already been jailed in 2016 for incitement – and his 2024 arrest was again for incitement.
His own Facebook explains why.
3/ On 23 March 2023 al‑Sai posted about Amir Abu Khadija, calling him “our martyred prince.”
Abu Khadija wasn’t some random victim. He was the founder and leader of the Tulkarm Battalion – a terrorist group behind multiple deadly attacks, including:
🔴30 May 2023 – Israeli civilian murdered near Hermesh
🔴19 Oct 2023 – 1 IDF officer killed, 10 wounded
🔴23 Mar 2024 – 4 Israeli soldiers killed
🔴1 Jul 2024 – 1 soldier killed, another severely injured
In December 2023 – just two months before his arrest – al‑Sai posted videos and photos celebrating armed fighters in Nur Shams camp.
16 Dec – “Moons of Nur Shams camp,” showing terrorists in tactical gear
18 Dec – cheering captured Israeli military equipment
The very next day, 17 Dec, Israeli forces raided Nur Shams, killing five terrorists. Al‑Sai had close access to the gunmen Israel was targeting. NYT’s due diligence on his background? Zero.
1/5 The viral @nytimes clip where Tucker Carlson toys with calling Trump the “Antichrist" is clickbait. The most revealing parts of the interview – in clips below – aren’t about theology at all, but about Israel, where his worldview and conspiratorial ideas are laid bare. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
2/5 On Israel and Lebanon, Carlson doesn’t just criticize policy. He casts Trump as a “slave” to Netanyahu and claims Israel deliberately killed civilians in Lebanon to sabotage peace talks and grab land. It's not analysis, but a story in which Israel is always the hidden villain. It requires you to ignore decades of land‑for‑peace – Sinai for peace with Egypt, withdrawal from southern Lebanon, disengagement from Gaza – and to see a small, embattled state as a kind of omnipotent puppeteer.
When that goes largely unchallenged, it signals how comfortable mainstream platforms are becoming with framing Israel as uniquely sinister.
3/5 On Iraq, he goes further: “many American presidents have put Israel’s interests before our own,” he says, and calls Iraq “a very obvious example,” with Cheney’s office “completely controlled” by people serving Israel. That narrative is dangerous because it rewrites a very American catastrophe – born of 9/11 trauma, neocon ideology, bad intel, oil and regional politics – into a war “for Israel.” It lets U.S. decision‑makers and institutions off the hook and hands the blame to a small Jewish state and a vague “they.”
It's exactly how a fringe story about Jewish power becomes a respectable explanation for everything that went wrong.
1/ The @PulitzerPrizes just crowned @nytimes photographer Saher Alghorra for his Gaza photos – a prize built on staged scenes, a manufactured “famine” narrative, and intimate access to Hamas terrorists.
Let’s look at what, exactly, made the Pulitzer cut. ⬇️⬇️
2/ One of the winning photos shows 2‑year‑old Yazan Abu al‑Foul, turned by the NYT into the face of children “starving” because of Israel.
Yet the original wire copy notes that Yazan has four older siblings – none of whom appear in the Pulitzer portfolio – and the same mother and child were repeatedly shot by multiple agencies in near‑identical poses, raising serious questions about staging, consent and how one family was repackaged into a global “famine” poster‑child.
3/ Another Pulitzer‑winning image shows Hamas terrorists in Khan Younis reportedly carrying the remains of an Israeli hostage – a glossy, carefully composed shot that by definition required close coordination and trust with an internationally‑designated terror group.
And this is the same Saher Alghorra HonestReporting exposed for calling the Bibas family “prisoners” in his own Instagram post, faithfully echoing Hamas’ language for murdered hostages while @nytimes kept publishing his work. x.com/HonestReportin…