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Alan MacLeod Profile picture
@AlanRMacLeod
May 20, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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(Thread) Israel is not just attacking Gaza; it is targeting journalists.

Here are some of the most notable attacks on the media.

Pictured is Gazan Momen Faiz Quraiqea outside his bombed out press office. (A previous 2008 Israeli airstrike blew his legs off).
2. Journalists from Andolu Agency were fleeing an airstrike in a car clearly marked TV when they themselves were targeted by an Israeli strike.
3. Israel blew up the multi-storey building home to the headquarters of Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press.

Journalists pleaded with the IDF to give them just a few minutes to collect their cameras and computers. That was denied.

aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/15…
4. An Israeli airstrike hit the home of Palestinian journalist Yousif Abu Hussein of @Timesofgaza
5. Anadolu Agency cameraman Mohammad Dahlan was taken to hospital yesterday, wounded in the leg from an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

aa.com.tr/en/pg/photo-ga…
In total, Israel has destroyed the offices of more than 20 news outlets so far, and is blocking foreign journalists from entering Gaza to document its crimes.

bit.ly/3wkZno9
7. Here is footage of the IDF roughing up veteran CNN correspondent Ben Wedeman and his team with complete impunity.

If they feel comfortable doing this to CNN, what are they doing to Palestinian journalists?

To be clear, Yousef Abu Hussein was killed in the Israeli airstrike that destroyed his home.

Here he is being buried with his press jacket.

Increasingly, it seems, these identifiers are targets, not shields.
9. Pictures of the bombed out building that used to house the Nawa Online Women Media Network.
10. 🇮🇱 forces attacked @MiddleEastEye reporter Latifeh Abdellatif on Tues. as she was covering the detention of a young boy in Jerusalem.

"I'm a journalist," she shouts.

The soldiers then pull her veil & beat her with truncheons.
middleeasteye.net/news/israel-pa…

11. Attacks against journalists inside Israel are also on the rise, as the far-right increasingly sees media as an enemy to their goals.

haaretz.com/israel-news/.p…

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Your reminder that Jerry Seinfeld is not a good guy. Image
Seinfeld is just one of many celebrities who have taken IDF propaganda trips to Israel.

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Jan 15
Alert 🚨: The New York Times has just published an article calling for a US military invasion of Venezuela 🇻🇪. Image
The paragraph in question which explicitly outlines the call for an invasion. Image
Trump wanted to invade Venezuela during his first term in office, and an invasion could be on the cards soon.

My report on the issue:

mintpressnews.com/with-trump-ree…
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Nov 14, 2024
BREAKING: Today, the United Nations voted 170-6 on "The Right of the Palestinian People to Self-Determination".

Those voting against:

🇺🇸United States
🇮🇱Israel
🇦🇷Argentina
🇵🇾Paraguay
🇫🇲Micronesia
🇳🇷Nauru Image
The full voting list can be found here. The vote today was actually less one-sided than it should have been, as certain targets of Washington (e.g. Venezuela 🇻🇪, Afghanistan 🇦🇫) have had their voting privileges revoked, thanks mainly to US sanctions on their countries. Image
I'm seeing a few of the same questions about UN voting pop up in the replies, so here are some answers:

The intense US economic blockade of countries like Venezuela 🇻🇪 and Afghanistan 🇦🇫 has caused them to be physically unable to transfer their dues (payable in US dollars) to the UN, meaning their voting rights have been suspended. The same thing happened to Iran a couple of years ago.

On the question of why so many tiny Pacific countries vote alongside the US 🇺🇸 and Israel 🇮🇱: They are microstates, and one of their only valuable exports is their United Nations votes, which are reliably (under the table) sold to the highest bidder. On so many issues, you will see the likes of Nauru 🇳🇷 and Micronesia 🇫🇲 vote with the minority (usually the US position) in order to pad the stats a bit. Why is it that only these countries vote alongside the US? Because that's all Washington can afford.
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Nov 13, 2024
Thread 🧵

Undisclosed to the public, there are hundreds of former Israel Lobbyists working in America's newsrooms, shaping the way we understand the world.

My new investigation lifts the lid on this network:

mintpressnews.com/revealed-the-i…
For instance, Moshe Arenstein, MSNBC's Executive Producer, was literally an IDF intelligence commander in his youth. Image
You'd never guess from Gili Malinsky's CNBC profile that she is a former IDF commander, & worked for years for Friends of the IDF, an American charity that raises money for supplies for Israeli soldiers.

This conflict of interest isn't even disclosed when she writes about Israel Image
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Oct 30, 2024
BREAKING: For the 32nd year in a row, the United Nations votes overwhelmingly to end the US embargo on Cuba 🇨🇺.

The vote today was 187-2.

Countries voting against:

United States 🇺🇸
Israel 🇮🇱

Abstentions:

Moldova 🇲🇩 Image
US sanctions are illegal under international law, & only pariah nations like the 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 support them.

The sanctions are designed, in the US govt's own words, to "decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and [the] overthrow of [the] government." Image
When read out, the results were met with resounding applause from representatives of the world's free nations at the UN.
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Oct 26, 2024
Thread 🧵

By aiding the 🇮🇱 slaughter in Gaza, Joe Biden has been accused of participating in war crimes.

But "Genocide Joe" is far from the 1st president to have done so

In this thread, I will show how successive presidents have perpetrated war crimes & crimes against humanity Image
1. Joe Biden

Apart from directly funding and facilitating the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Biden:

+ Strongly supported the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, helping push through conflicts that would go on to kill millions of people, according to a study from Brown University - watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

+ Biden was also the architect of "Plan Colombia" - the militarization of the drug war in Latin America, whereby the US sent vast amounts of money and military hardware to the far-right Colombian government, who used it to fight a bitter counter-insurgency war against leftist guerillas under the guise of eradicating drugs. The United Nations estimates that 7.4 million Colombians were internally displaced in this war, which few in the US have even heard about. mintpressnews.com/mass-incarcera…Image
2. Donald Trump

Some of Trump's worst actions included:

+ Removing the US from global anti-nuclear weapons treaties.
+ Supporting a Saudi-led genocide in Yemen, supplying arms and political support to the government in Riyadh.
+ Dropping "The Mother of All Bombs" on Afghanistan - the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat.
+ Ramping up illegal sanctions against Cuba 🇨🇺, Venezuela 🇻🇪, Iran 🇮🇷 and many other countries.Image
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