With Israel eager to restrict the spread of Covid-19, it's no surprise that the government moved to impose restrictions, including on protests, so much of the media either published the news matter-of-factly, or didn't cover it at all.
Perhaps because, with a complete lockdown under way, the lifting of the exemption for political protests is not as outrageous as @Guardian would have us believe.
Regardless, the @Guardian and others have the right to cover whichever stories they choose. What is less legitimate, however, is the contrived manner in which internal critics of Israeli government policies are repeatedly given a platform far exceeding their own significance.
This tendency, taken together with the blurring of the lines between news reporting and news analysis, leads to an ongoing stream of negative news content from some media outlets.
This has a real, distortionary effect on the public's opinion of Israel.
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Just who are some of the "UN experts" quoted by international media claiming famine has spread throughout Gaza?
They may use the imprimatur of the UN but, in reality, they aren't the credible, impartial sources you or the media may think. 🧵
◾️ Francesca Albanese has previously apologized after antisemitic posts on her personal social media profile were uncovered and has likened the Jewish state to Nazism.
More on Albanese's deeply compromised background from @UNWatch's @HillelNeuer. ⬇️
Is Israel really using LGBTQ+ rights to hide its policies towards Palestinians? 🧵
First published: September 28, 2023
BDS activists claim Israel uses LGBTQ+ rights as a distraction. But what's the real story behind these accusations?
Israel has been a trailblazer in LGBTQ+ rights for 3 decades! Discrimination banned since 1992, and military open to all in 1993 – nearly 20 years before the US. 🏳️🌈
Claiming to be a “report on eight months of claim & counter-claim” about the sexual violence against Israelis on Oct 7, @thetimes foreign correspondent @scribblercat & @gabrielle_siviais' story is nothing more than a muddle of victim-blaming & bias. 🧵 thetimes.com/magazines/the-…
The piece claims the atrocities, specifically the sexual assaults & rapes, are Israel’s most “contentious” assertion of what occurred on Oct 7.
The writers evidently don’t believe sexual violence occurred & they'll try their hardest to convince readers not to believe it either.
Much of the piece discusses the UN report by Pramila Patten, which we are told came during a “furious row” in which they suggest allegations of antisemitism were weaponized — and not the fact that it seemed that Jewish women were the only group not believed about sexual assault.