IDF: Israeli Disinformation Forces? I am glad @halbfinger wrote about this, but he missed three key things in this article. (Thread) #Gaza_Under_Attack
1. First, the article makes it seem like it is rare for the Israeli military to disinform the foreign press. But in fact there are numerous examples of the foreign press taking false Israeli statements and narratives and spreading them without fact-checking. The FP MUST…. 2/
… fact-check every statement the Israeli military makes. Not fact-checking IDF statements, and I don’t just mean during war time, violates journalistic standards. Let’s make sure this mistake doesn’t happen again @nytimes 3/
2. Secondly, the article doesn’t even mention the fear & terror that spread throughout #Gaza families as this story spread. I was up until 4AM with families believing they were going to literally die. Once AFP reported it, it went viral on social media..4/
How can @halbfinger write this story without interviewing or getting the perspective of those who lived in fear, the thousands who ran away from their homes, and spent hours in the streets, due to this disinformation? Again, it disappears Palestinians completely. That’s wrong. 5/
Stemming from the two points above, Palestinians & other communities across the world have significantly lost trust in the integrity of the foreign press and how it reports on this conflict. 6/
3. The article doesn’t speak to the overall information warfare conducted by the IL ministry of strategic affairs, & the asymmetry in media resources when it comes to the conflict. Israel has a global, well-financed machine designed to define the narrative around the conflict. 6/
The majority of foreign press reps are based in Israel, disconnected from the daily oppression of Palestinians. They need to do better in how they cover the conflict, as they are often pulled into the Israeli info ecosystem - even leaning on it.

7/
Rule: Never report anything from the IDF or other Disinfo sharing actors before corroborating it using basic journalistic standards & independent sources. Disinfo is a key weapon in the age of social media, & not taking precautions to avoid spreading it puts lives in danger. 8/10
We need to see the foreign press urgently adopt NEW processes and standards on how to engage with Israeli spokespersons, especially by those who fell for this ploy. Otherwise, the ISF will not be deterred from spreading disinfo & the FP will be their tool of deception. 9/9

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16 May
Palestinian youth, along with a broad range of civil society and other groups, are calling for a national strike on Tuesday across all of historical Palestine.

This is a significant development for multiple reasons. (Thread)

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1. It is breaking decades of political fragmentation where Palestinian actors in each subdivision (WB, #Gaza, 48 areas), acted individually.

The youth’s initiative to refuse to allow this fragmentation to continue, if it succeeds, further builds up unity not seen in decades. 2/
2. Whereas the last month’s developments mainly included young people, this allows a broader swath of society to engage. This is key at this moment, expanding agency to meet demographics. 3/
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Here’s one powerful thing the @AP can do in response to Israel’s destruction of its offices in #Gaza:

Mobilize the @APFactCheck team to start fact-checking statements made by the Israeli military & politicians. Almost none of Facebook’s US based fact-checking partners… (1/2)
….are engaging in fact-checking disinfo coming from the region, even though a majority of IL’s strat-comms revolves around maintaining a subset of Americans deeply misinformed about this conflict.

@APFactCheck, as a @Facebook partner, can ensure misinfo is.. (2/5)
….actually labeled and corrected on the platform.

You can even start with fact-checking misleading claims about how the @AP office in Gaza was a hub for terrorists.

P.S. @faresakram — you should push for this.

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15 May
I am getting this question a lot from different media outlets: What are Palestinians after, why are they protesting?

Let me try to simplify it in a way people around the world may be able to relate to.

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Palestinians want what @NelsonMandela and #SteveBeko wanted: #Freedom.

Palestinians want what #MalcolmX and #MLK fought for: #Dignity & #Equality

Palestinians are struggling for what #Gandhi & #FrantzFanon fought for: #EndingColonialism

Palestinians are struggling for… 2/
Palestinians are struggling for what Simone de Beauvoir & Sojourner Truth fought for: #EndingSubjugation

Palestinians are struggling for what George Washington and Simon Bolivar fought for: #PeoplesRule #EndingAuthoritarianism

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14 May
Members of #Congress need to see this — men from the Israeli lynch mobs attacking Palestinians appear to be brandishing similar “Punisher”symbols to those the Proud Boys & others who attacked the US Capitol wore. @AOC @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @CoriBush 1/3
The ideology of ethno-nationalism is a threat to democracy and human dignity everywhere. We need to understand the context of attacks on Palestinians as an extension of these dangerous beliefs. 2/
Many ethno-nationalists see #Israel as a model of the type of government they want to create in the US. I hope this allows members of Congress who came under attack 4 months ago to empathize with what Palestinians are facing today. 3/3

#PalestineUnderAttack
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14 May
It’s out of a movie: Israeli drone dropping tear gas canisters at protesters in El-Bireh, West Bank right now.

100s are in the streets protesting, but it is dystopian as we are besieged with modern weapon art.

(Thread)

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These weapons will soon be sold to authoritarian regimes everywhere, as means to shut down popular protests. They experiment them on us. Another reason to impose sanctions on Israel: It’s not just about our freedom, it’s about making oppression unprofitable. #PalestineUnderAttack
P.S. These videos are from about an hour ago. Connection to 3G was being jammed and no tweets loaded — it was impossible to go live on any social media platform if you have a Palestinian cell phone. So a bunch of content is coming online now.

Sorry for confusion.
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14 May
It’s a dystopian movie: Israeli drone firing teargas canisters at protesters in El-Bireh in Palestine.

We’re besieged by walls and colonies trying to do our part in rising up for Jerusalem and Gaza.

It’s a brave act, but we are sitting ducks. (Thread) #PalestineUnderAttack
Soon these weapons will be sold to other authoritarian regimes across the world, to silence popular protests.

A reminder about why it’s key to sanction Israel, not just for Palestinian rights but to protect other vulnerable communities. 2/
Let’s remember Israel was a key exporter of weapons to the apartheid regime in South Africa and to the Myanmar military now.

The struggle for freedom is collective, just like those oppressing us cooperate — we must work together too. 3/
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