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10 May, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Things are getting extremely heated between Israel and the Palestinians, both in Jerusalem and Gaza.

Here's what you need to know:

Hamas has been firing dozens of rockets at Israel, including at Jerusalem, over the course of the last hour.
Hamas had earlier issued Israel an ultimatum to withdraw all security forces from the Temple Mount and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood or rockets would be fired from Gaza at 6pm.
This came after a day of heavy rioting on the Temple Mount, with thousands of Palestinians using boulders, rocks and fireworks as missiles and chanting violent songs.
Media reports are framing this premeditated Palestinian violence simply as "clashes," thus blurring the lines between cause and effect.
Read more about how the media are missing the real story here >>>

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And check this out to understand how reports are misrepresenting the source of the violence as an Israeli march in celebration of the victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.

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11 May
Israel has just come under a massive barrage of rockets from Gaza.

Moments ago, MILLIONS of people in all these towns and cities heard the red alert siren and had to scramble for cover.

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Hamas claims that it fired "130 rockets at Tel Aviv" in the space of 5 minutes.

This is the result:
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24 Feb
What is going on, @NBC?! This vile caricature of Hassidic Jews in @nbcnurses completely disregards the truth: Jewish law simply does not prohibit this. Doctors can break the Sabbath to save a person’s life, and food that is not kosher can be eaten in order to survive.
FACT: There is no prohibition in Jewish law on receiving a graft from another person, dead or alive.

#NursesNBC, you could have easily established this.
FACT: Jewish law makes very clear that we should take advantage of modern medicine to save human lives.

#NursesNBC, your Jewish characters are acting in contradiction with Jewish norms.
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23 Feb
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.
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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.
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That's why the driver was shot. The soldiers understandably were shocked and had every reason to think they were under attack.
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21 Feb
This is outrageous, @nbcsnl.

Promoting antisemitic myths isn't remotely funny.

Jewish, Muslim and Christian residents of Israel alike are eligible for vaccination, and over half a million Arab citizens of Israel have received at least one dose.

Shameful.
Jews have long faced false claims of spreading plague and only protecting their own since being blamed for the Black Death in Europe.

The result had grim short-term and long-term effects: Thousands were murdered, and the baseless claim entrenched Judeophobic views for centuries.
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22 Dec 20
Want to understand how pervasive media bias works? Read on.

Check out this awful headline from @AP. A gun was found on the scene, there are bullet casings and bullet holes on nearby walls.

This isn't simply an allegation. This was clearly was a gunman.
It would be bad enough if the Associated Press alone published this headline. But because @AP is a wire service, many other leading news outlets have republished this content, often verbatim.

Here's the article on the @WashingtonPost, for example.
And here's the same article, and same headline, on @YahooNews.
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12 Oct 20
The media love a strong image, but exactly 20 years to the day after the brutal, barbaric lynching of two Israeli reserve soldiers, this one isn't being republished.

This is the important story the media failed to retell today.
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Rumors quickly spread that Israeli undercover agents were in the building, and an angry crowd of over 1,000 Palestinians gathered outside the station calling for the death of the Israelis.

Before long, enraged rioters overcame the police and stormed the building.
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