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16 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
If you are quoting or promoting any of the following, you are doing Palestinians a disservice. Because they habitually defend mass crimes & collective punishment elsewhere.

Ali Abunimah, Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Rania Khalek, Aaron Mate, Dan Cohen, Sana Saeed, Louis Allday.
Vijay Prashad, Caitlin Johnstone, Roger Waters, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald.

Or any of these outlets. Electronic Intifada (pro-Assad, anti-Uyghur); RT (pro-Assad, anti-BLM); Grayzone (pro-Assad, anti-Uyghur); Press TV (allround authoritarian); MROnline (allaround authoritarian).
Take one example. This group provides health services in both Gaza and Syria. Yet some of those pretending to be "pro-Palestine" smeared the same group as "Al Qaeda's MASH unit" when it was tended to the victims of bombings in Syria.

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THREAD: A case study in of how the Russia Today > Grayzone > Glenn Greenwald > Jimmy Dore > Tucker Carlson disinformation pipeline works to target progressive public figures like @AOC.

An employee of the Russian state media made the claim that she was visited by police after criticising AOC on twitter. She gave this as an example of the congresswoman's intolerance for dissent & pro-establishment ways. Except, there was no evidence AOC had anything to do with it
The story was quickly written up by Grayzone and Glenn Greenwald amplified it, and soon it was picked up by Jimmy Dore. All have huge audiences and soon a nothingburger was turned into a storm in the red-brown tea-cup.
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Today I learned that there’s such a thing as #kittyloafmonday. Well here’s ⁦@thelifeofspice1⁩ making himself comfortable on my desktop
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22 Jan
Rob Malley would be a bad appointment and at odds with @ABlinken & @jakejsullivan's stated commitment to human rights in Iran. Malley's position on Syria too is discordant (he claims Syria suffered because of the Obama administration's intransigence rather than its inaction).
Its worth remembering that while serving as an official in the Obama administration, Malley encouraged one of his underlings (Nir Rosen) to leak policy papers to the press to pressure his own administration, endorsing the "local ceasefires" strategy personally signed off by Assad
Rosen's girlfriend latter bragged about Malley personally commissioning him to publish the paper, endorsed by Assad. She also reveals that Malley had at least two secret meetings with Assad's frontman Khaled al Ahmed.
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22 Jan
Okay, we now have a winner, so you can stop with the #Bernie memes
Oppan, Bernie style!
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28 Nov 20
You've got to love @LRB's choice of writers. To write about the "war on terror" (presumably critically), they turn to the dude who supports Putin and Assad's "war on terror" and slanders Syrian rescuers and medics as "Al Qaeda". lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/…
This was @LRB's "war on terror" expert Andrew Cockburn's timeline on the day the Netflix documentary The White Helmets won an Oscar. Yes, he's slandering Syria's heroic rescuers and medics as "Al Qaeda" and yes that is clearly racist and Islamophobic.
Here is the @LRB writer promoting the head of the pro-Assad lobbying group British Syria Society (actually funded by Assad's father-in-law) as some kind of a revelation.
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24 Nov 20
There are few people more predictable and boring than the professional contrarian.

This made me think about all the other types of people I find insufferable. So here's a thread.
The social media ironist: this person is invincible because nothing means anything and everything is permissible because its "mere irony". Opinions without the burden of responsibility.

Irony is a potent rhetorical tool used in moderation, not when it becomes the default mode.
The "free speech" liberal.

Doesn't have any strong opinions on more fundamental rights, but is an absolutist on free speech and thinks the only measure of its vitality is if you can test it against the sensitivities of people in inferior positions.
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