The NYT view of "what it means to be Israeli today: “tensions," "inequities,” “divisions,” “unrest,” “fury,” “ambivalence,” “illegitimacy,” “alienation,” “injustice,” “discrimination,” “bias,” “abuse,” misfortune, “slums” & “shabby” “tired” “garish” towns. camera.org/article/ny-tim…
2/ Israel is consistently ranked among the very happiest in the world. It is home to what Time Out says is the "funnest" city in the world.
No wonder the guy in Time Out's photo looks so sad. #SadSadIsrael
3/ A few years ago I had the misfortune of randomly stumbling upon this parade of sadness in the Druze town of Dalyat al Karmel. #SadSadIsrael
4/ One Friday afternoon, I stumbled upon these strangers sitting on a hill overlooking Jerusalem's Old City walls, strumming and singing classic songs about the city. I took them up on their invitation to sit with them, and snapped a pic of their tears of sadness. #SadSadIsarel
5/ Even the graffiti in Israel is sad. #SadSadIsrael
7/ Was paging through an old family album, and confirmed that the abject misery documented by the NYT preceded our generation. #SadSadIsrael@nytimes
8/ Here is #SadSadIsrael's place at the top of the World Happiness Index.
(Considering how miserable they made Israel appear, I shudder to think how the @nytimes would capture the zeitgeist of the 137 countries ranked lower than Israel. The streets would be flooded with tears.)
But in Israel, the sun's rays contain harmful UV radiation. Probably has something to do with their nuclear research. (Right, @nytimes?) @SadSadIsrael.
Not only is 25% not "an overwhelming majority" of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, as claimed by Amnesty director Agnes Callamard…
But the Association is also full of non-scholars, e.g. MD Nidal Jboor, who just lauded "freedom fighters," aka genocidal Hamas.
Here, at the extremist "People's Conference for Palestine," the self-appointed "genocide scholar" cheers freedom fighters. I wonder how he voted. instagram.com/reel/DOC174ygO…
Even putting aside those who partisanship is so obvious… is the former Metropolitan police officer who went on to study photography and photojournalism any more of a genocide scholar than Dr. Freedom Fighters above?
The knowledge that if I'm ever shot in the back then repeatedly shot while crawling away, the @nytimes will wax philosophical about my murderers…
"some hint of acceptance"
–@nytimes
"Armed struggle for Palestinian freedom."
–@nytimes about the Jewish museum shooting, because what can I say, they're clearly sympathetic to murder if and only if it's the murder of Jews and Israelis
The online campaign to blame Jews for what attackers characterized as a "Jew hunt, which included miscaptioned video that spread on X, made its way to mainstream media.
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⇝ The New York Times insisted it had video of Israelis chanting that there are no children in Gaza. Were they duped by the widely circulated miscaptioned video?
After initially stonewalling, the paper informed @CAMERAorg it had no such video, and published corrections. 🧵
⇝ The Media Line claimed it had video of the same chant. After @CAMERAorg called for substantiation, it admitted it had no such video. It quietly corrected its piece to refer to a "reported" chant.
⇝ Same claim, and same stealth correction from the Jewish Chronicle. 🧵