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May 12

https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/2053905990513275194

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The star source behind @NickKristof’s latest @nytimes Gaza piece has a history the paper never told readers about.

It includes torture allegations, Hamas-linked activity, and claims even Palestinian investigators struggled to pin down.

The omissions are staggering. 🧵

https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/2053905990513275194

Sami al Sai claimed, in 2017, that Palestinian intelligence tortured him: hanging him from ceilings, depriving him of sleep, injecting him with unknown drugs 4 times per day.

Then he told the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate that the torture claims were false.

And then backtracked again, claiming he only said that because he was threatened.

Here’s where it gets interesting. The reason he was arrested was because he had gathered names of Palestinian prisoners for Hamas. He called it a project. Intelligence called it recruitment.
Despite the “journalist professionalism” he prided himself on to Kristof, back then he said there was “no law that forbids journalists from working with political organizations.”

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May 11

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The @nytimes just published one of the most serious sets of allegations imaginable against Israel – claims of systematic sexual violence, including a bizarre story about carrots and trained rape dogs. We checked the sources.

What we found is journalistic malpractice. 🧵

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First, Sami al‑Sai, introduced by @NickKristof as a “freelance journalist.” What the NYT doesn’t tell you: al‑Sai has a long record of celebrating terrorists on social media.

Kristof repeats gruesome details of “vomit, blood and broken teeth” and lets al‑Sai claim he was arrested to pressure him into becoming an informant. In reality, al‑Sai had already been jailed in 2016 for incitement – and his 2024 arrest was again for incitement.

His own Facebook explains why.

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On 23 March 2023 al‑Sai posted about Amir Abu Khadija, calling him “our martyred prince.”
Abu Khadija wasn’t some random victim. He was the founder and leader of the Tulkarm Battalion – a terrorist group behind multiple deadly attacks, including:
🔴30 May 2023 – Israeli civilian murdered near Hermesh
🔴19 Oct 2023 – 1 IDF officer killed, 10 wounded
🔴23 Mar 2024 – 4 Israeli soldiers killed
🔴1 Jul 2024 – 1 soldier killed, another severely injured

In December 2023 – just two months before his arrest – al‑Sai posted videos and photos celebrating armed fighters in Nur Shams camp.

16 Dec – “Moons of Nur Shams camp,” showing terrorists in tactical gear

18 Dec – cheering captured Israeli military equipment
The very next day, 17 Dec, Israeli forces raided Nur Shams, killing five terrorists. Al‑Sai had close access to the gunmen Israel was targeting. NYT’s due diligence on his background? Zero.

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May 7

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The viral @nytimes clip where Tucker Carlson toys with calling Trump the “Antichrist" is clickbait. The most revealing parts of the interview – in clips below – aren’t about theology at all, but about Israel, where his worldview and conspiratorial ideas are laid bare. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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On Israel and Lebanon, Carlson doesn’t just criticize policy. He casts Trump as a “slave” to Netanyahu and claims Israel deliberately killed civilians in Lebanon to sabotage peace talks and grab land. It's not analysis, but a story in which Israel is always the hidden villain. It requires you to ignore decades of land‑for‑peace – Sinai for peace with Egypt, withdrawal from southern Lebanon, disengagement from Gaza – and to see a small, embattled state as a kind of omnipotent puppeteer.

When that goes largely unchallenged, it signals how comfortable mainstream platforms are becoming with framing Israel as uniquely sinister.

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On Iraq, he goes further: “many American presidents have put Israel’s interests before our own,” he says, and calls Iraq “a very obvious example,” with Cheney’s office “completely controlled” by people serving Israel. That narrative is dangerous because it rewrites a very American catastrophe – born of 9/11 trauma, neocon ideology, bad intel, oil and regional politics – into a war “for Israel.” It lets U.S. decision‑makers and institutions off the hook and hands the blame to a small Jewish state and a vague “they.”

It's exactly how a fringe story about Jewish power becomes a respectable explanation for everything that went wrong.

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May 5

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The @PulitzerPrizes just crowned @nytimes photographer Saher Alghorra for his Gaza photos – a prize built on staged scenes, a manufactured “famine” narrative, and intimate access to Hamas terrorists.

Let’s look at what, exactly, made the Pulitzer cut. ⬇️⬇️

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One of the winning photos shows 2‑year‑old Yazan Abu al‑Foul, turned by the NYT into the face of children “starving” because of Israel.

Yet the original wire copy notes that Yazan has four older siblings – none of whom appear in the Pulitzer portfolio – and the same mother and child were repeatedly shot by multiple agencies in near‑identical poses, raising serious questions about staging, consent and how one family was repackaged into a global “famine” poster‑child.

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Another Pulitzer‑winning image shows Hamas terrorists in Khan Younis reportedly carrying the remains of an Israeli hostage – a glossy, carefully composed shot that by definition required close coordination and trust with an internationally‑designated terror group.

And this is the same Saher Alghorra HonestReporting exposed for calling the Bibas family “prisoners” in his own Instagram post, faithfully echoing Hamas’ language for murdered hostages while @nytimes kept publishing his work.
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Apr 17

Do you follow @PopBase, @PopCrave, or @PopTingz?

These accounts present themselves as lighthearted pop culture sources — Taylor Swift tours, K-pop photoshoots, Eurovision updates, and celebrity news.

Yet a closer examination reveals something far more concerning: they are operating as vehicles for a coordinated influence campaign. 🧵

A review of their 𝕏 posts shows an unmistakable pattern: every number below represents posts that explicitly mention Israel.

2025:
• @PopBase: 34
• @PopCrave: 18
• @PopTingz: 7

2026 (through mid-April):
• @PopBase: 13
• @PopCrave: 4
• @PopTingz: 6

Why do accounts that are supposed to be reporting on Pop Culture have such an infatuation with Israel?

This is not incidental news coverage. It is a deliberate, disproportionate focus.

While these accounts flood feeds with Coachella lineups and album releases, the only other consistent topic is Israel — always framed through an anti-Israel lens.

Examples include:
• Praising Ghassan Kanafani, a terrorist linked to the 1972 Lod Airport massacre that killed 26 civilians.
• Random posts about the Iran War and the Strait of Hormuz amid pop culture content.
• Labeling Israel’s war on Hamas “genocide” while pushing boycotts.

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Apr 15

Italian magazine @espressonline put a photo of a Jewish IDF soldier and a Palestinian woman on its cover under the headline “The Abuse.” It played on all of the emotional tropes: an abusive man vs. the abused woman; the heartless Israeli monster vs. the powerless Palestinian.

But press play, and the narrative falls apart.🧵

@espressonline It went viral, racking up more than 3.7 million views on X alone. Like clockwork, antisemitic accounts reposted the image.

@espressonline The photo itself was taken by Pietro Masturzo in October 2025. After backlash from people claiming it was AI-generated, he released a video of the incident to prove it was real.
But the footage showed something very different than what the photo sold on the front page.