Why on earth is @SkyNews' @Stone_SkyNews giving this blatantly agenda-driven "investigation" media coverage?

It set out to find Israel guilty - barely mentioning that an Israeli soldier was hurled into the air by the impact, or the that shocked soldiers acted in self-defense.
Forensic Architecture has conducted 69 investigations so far. 17 have involved Israel.

This isn't a lab investigating human rights failings - it's a political lobby under the guise of 'research' available for rent by extremist groups such as Al-Haq, an NGO with ties to the PFLP.
And of course that's before getting to the most basic failing of this so-called "investigation": the car visibly sped up as it approached the soldiers.

That's why the driver was shot. The soldiers understandably were shocked and had every reason to think they were under attack.
The video on the Forensic Architecture website is pure propaganda, for example describing "illegal checkpoints" as serving "Israel's neo-colonial regime."

Attacks like this are EXACTLY why checkpoints are necessary. Terrorists cannot be allowed to attack Israeli civilians.

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#NursesNBC, you could have easily established this.
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Promoting antisemitic myths isn't remotely funny.

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Shameful.
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Here's the article on the @WashingtonPost, for example.
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