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Apr 15, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read Read on X
If you need any more proof that the @OPCW censored its Syria chemical weapons probe & covered it up, watch what unfolded at @Europarl_EN today.

OPCW chief Fernando Arias was asked critical questions, including whether he will meet the dissenting investigators. He didn't answer.
.@wallacemick of Ireland asked OPCW chief Arias whether he will account for the scientific fraud in the Douma investigation and why he's refused to meet the dissenting inspectors. Wallace was interrupted by the chair, and Arias refused to answer:
.@ClareDalyMEP of Ireland also asked OPCW chief Fernando Arias if he will meet with the dissenting inspectors who carried out the Douma investigation.

She raises a very key point: if the OPCW has nothing to hide and stand by its claims, why won't it meet its own scientists?
Here's Arias' response.

He never *addresses* the most basic: will you meet the dissenting inspectors? He just declares: "The matter is closed." Right: it's a cover-up.

He also recycles a lie laundered to @bellingcat & @chloehadj: that no state challenged the report's findings.
To try to whitewash his own organization's cover-up, OPCW chief Arias then cites a UN report released months earlier that conducted no on the ground investigation & relied on media accounts. Why isn't he citing his own org's report? Because it's fraudulent.
OPCW chief Fernando Arias then gets even more laughable -- citing a September 2017 report written months *before* the alleged Douma incident.
Arias closes by saying "I don't know why" the OPCW's final Douma report "was contested."

He's lying. If he's somehow managed to ignore the OPCW leaks, he did not ignore the detailed letter that he received from a dissenting inspector. We know that because Arias responded to it.
Here is my @TheGrayzoneNews article which revealed the detailed letter of complaint that dissenting inspector Brendan Whelan sent to Arias two years ago: thegrayzone.com/2020/10/28/dra…

Arias' brief & evasive June 2019 reply is included too. He's now pretending that this didn't happen: Image

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Feb 28
Guess who was an advisory board member for ZAKA, the scam Israeli "rescue" group that's spread fake Oct. 7th claims including beheaded babies, “mass rape”, and a fetus cut from its mother?

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It's right here on : ZakaWorld.org
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Here's a picture from the Feb. 12, 2018 ceremony "to officially install the members of the ZAKA Board."

Is that Stuart Seldowitz second from left? Regardless, he was there as a new ZAKA board member.
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Jan 29
.@gettleman, lead author of the NYT article that weaponized sexual violence to baseless claim that "Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7th", is on the defensive -- and doubling down on his fraud. ()

In a new article, he attempts to rebut unspecified "critics" -- whom he tellingly never names or cites.

That's because if he actually acknowledged and linked to the debunking by @TheGrayzoneNews, @intifada, and @Mondoweiss of his scam "reporting," it would be obvious that he can't refute it.

This comes one day after The Intercept reported that @gettleman's own NYT colleagues have raised serious concerns about his "reporting." ()nytimes.com/2024/01/29/wor…
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.@gettleman faced a serious problem: He led his story with a slain Israeli woman, Gal Abdush, and claimed she was a "symbol" of Oct. 7th sexual violence. He even all but declared that she was raped.

But then Gal's sister, Miral Alter, called out @Gettleman as a fraud. She said that "there is no proof that there was rape" and accused @gettleman of misleading their family.

Playing damage control, @gettleman went back to Miral and tried to get her to back down. The result is more scumbag journalism.
In his initial article, @Gettleman prominently featured the claims of Yossi Landau, Southern Commander of the scandal-plagued ZAKA. (pic 1)

But Haaretz has already exposed Landau as a liar for falsely claiming that he saw burned babies and a fetus cut from a dead woman’s womb on October 7. ()

So now, in his new attempt to defend his original article, how does the NYT fraudster @Gettleman handle relying on the Zaka fraudster Landau? He simply pretends he doesn't exist.

According to @Gettleman, two of the people he interviewed who described witnessing sexual assault "have since come under intense scrutiny." (pic 2)

This allows @Gettleman to omit that Yossi Landau has also come under "intense scrutiny" -- and found to be a flat-out liar.

Memo to @gettleman and his NYT editors: you don't get to escape accountability for relying on fraudulent sources by suddenly omitting that you relied on them. That shows you're only doubling down on your fraud.archive.is/H6rAmImage
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Jan 2
A major embarrassment for NYT's @gettleman
and his story on "How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence."

Gal Abdush is the Oct. 7th victim whose story leads and is featured throughout the NYT article. Her family is even featured as the cover image. NYT describes her as a "symbol" of Oct. 7th sexual violence.

But Abdush's sister says "there is no proof that there was rape." She also accuses the NYT of manipulating their family. They didn't know that she would be presented as a rape victim.

In other words, NYT weaponized both a dead woman and sexual violence to spread propaganda in the service of a genocide.
The instagram post with the sister's statement is here: instagram.com/p/C1lk5qzocmK/
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Dec 20, 2023
@noam_dworman No I don’t.

“So far, there was only one direct eyewitness testimony” — whose tale was outlandish and had zero evidence. Image
@noam_dworman Now we got two new purported male witnesses. One isn’t identified. The other happens to be an officer from an elite Israeli military unit. Image
@noam_dworman The head of Israel’s rape commission says “we will never know neither the numbers or the scope” of these alleged rapes. Why not? And why should I buy these claims if so?
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Nov 14, 2023
“CNN got an exclusive look on the ground in Gaza” by embedding with the IDF and letting it exclusively approve everything CNN puts on air.

Stenographers for mass murder:
“As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF air support, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication. CNN has agreed to these terms....”

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Nov 12, 2023
Your first clue that the Washington Post's new NordStream scoop -- which blames a senior Ukrainian intel officer for the bombing -- is yet another CIA cover story is in the second graf:

"...U.S. and Western officials have called" the NordStream bombings "a dangerous attack on Europe’s energy infrastructure."

No, top US officials -- namely Blinken and Nuland -- have openly celebrated the NordStream bombings as a "tremendous strategic opportunity" that they're "very gratified" by.
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