[Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News.
1. The BBC - “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
2. CBS News
"This isn't Iraq or Afghanistan...This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city" - CBS foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata
3. Al-Jazeera
"What's compelling is looking at them, the way they are dressed. These are prosperous, middle-class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from the Middle East...or North Africa. They look like any European family that you'd live next door to."
4. BFM TV (France)
"We are in the 21st century, we are in a European city and we have cruise missile fire as though we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, can you imagine!?”
5. The Daily Telegraph
This time, war is wrong because the people look like us and have Instagram and Netflix accounts. It's not in a poor, remote country any more. - Daniel Hannan
6. ITV (UK)
"The unthinkable has happened...This is not a developing, third world nation; this is Europe!"
7. BFM TV (France) (again)
"It's an important question. We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing...We're talking about Europeans."
8. If you speak French, sample from the racism buffet on offer.
"These aren't like the other children that we've become accustomed to see suffer on TV, these children are blond with blue eyes, [so] this is very important"
10. Star UK media personality Matthew Wright on ITV's flagship show, "This Morning":
"The US has used [a thermobaric bomb] before in Afghanistan. But the idea of it being used in Europe is stomach-churning."
11. The New York Times.
On US veterans going to Ukraine, it not-so-subtly suggests that Middle Easterners love dictatorships.
"After years of serving in smoldering operations, trying to spread democracy IN PLACES THAT ONLY HAD A TEPID INTEREST IN IT".
12. CNN
“It’s one thing for sarin gas to be used on people in far away Syria who are Muslim and of a different culture. What is Europe going to do when it is on European soil, done to Europeans?” - Julia Ioffe
The IDF just committed one of the worst massacres in modern history. But if you rely on US media, you wouldn't even know that from their headlines.
New investigation from me:
Alexey Navalny's death in a Russian prison dominated headlines for days. But US media barely covered the death of a US journalist in a Ukrainian prison last month.
[Thread] For the third weekend in a row, cities across Europe 🇪🇺 have seen massive demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
1) London: A wall of humanity marches through the city center. Some estimates say 500,000 people are there.
2) Hundreds of thousands of people in Istanbul 🇹🇷 create an ocean of red at their Great Palestine Rally.
3) Paris 🇫🇷. These protests are explicitly illegal in France. But thousands still braved arrest to show solidarity with those suffering in Gaza and the West Bank 🇵🇸.
Incredible scenes as @Lowkey0nline owns @PiersMorgan so hard that they end the interview early.
Lowkey tells Piers his previous guests, Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev and CIA chief David Petraeus "deserve to be in The Hague and tried for war crimes."
"This badge was given to me by an employee of this building who said they were told they could not wear it because it was the Palestinian flag. You talk about 'uncensored'. This is censored!" - @Lowkey0nline
. @Lowkey0nline subtly suggests that Piers Morgan comparing himself to Nelson Mandela wasn't quite appropriate.
[Thread] As the Israeli attacks intensify, Europe has seen a massive, unprecedented wave of protests this weekend condemning the violence and showing solidarity with Palestine.
1) France 🇫🇷: Thousands of Parisians defy President Macron's ban to protest.
2) Absolutely massive demonstration in London 🇬🇧 on Saturday saw over 100,000 people march to Downing Street, demanding their government stop supporting Israeli war crimes.
3) Central Stockholm 🇸🇪 was flooded with Palestinian flags tonight, as thousands called for a free Palestine
[Video Thread] In response to the Israeli attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza earlier today, huge, spontaneous demonstrations have broken out across the Middle East tonight.
Let's go through them:
1) In Iran 🇮🇷, crowds have gathered in Palestine Square.
2) In Jordan 🇯🇴, protestors have surrounded the Israeli Embassy and set it on fire.
3) A similar situation might be brewing in Ankara, Turkey 🇹🇷, where enraged crowds have besieged the Israeli Embassy.