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Yehuda Teitelbaum

@chalavyishmael

May 7

. @RepThomasMassie went on Tucker Carlson yesterday and told his audience that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security set up its official X account in Israel using an Israeli IP address and an app purchased from the Israeli App Store, and that Congress needs to open an investigation into it.

There's just one problem. The claim is based on a screenshot that was fabricated.

The image went viral in November showing the @DHSgov page listed as based in Tel Aviv, created July 2008, connected via the Israel App Store, and it got 39 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes before anyone looked closely at it.

The screenshot didn't have the gray checkmark that X puts on every single verified government account without exception, and the person who originally posted it later appeared to admit they made the whole thing up.

X's own head of product @nikitabier came out and called it fake news directly, confirming that @DHSgov was deliberately excluded from the location feature for security reasons and never showed any location data at all.

A sitting U.S. congressman is calling for a federal investigation based on a screenshot that the person who made it appears to have admitted was fake, and Tucker just let him say it to millions of people.

Get this liar out of Congress!

https://x.com/i/status/1993418809596617032

The original poster explaining how he did it:

https://x.com/i/status/1993418809596617032

https://x.com/i/status/2048937720483901537

Tucker is a pathological liar at this point.

Here are some examples:

https://x.com/i/status/2048937720483901537

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Yehuda Teitelbaum

@chalavyishmael

May 6

I’m having way too much fun right now.

Somebody built an LLM trained only on pre-1931 material when a lot of the propaganda people treat as historical fact didn't even exist yet.

So I asked it some very basic questions.

The answers are incredible. Check these out.

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Prompt:

Describe the current situation in the British Mandate of Palestine, analyze who the land should rightfully belong to, and predict what will become of the territory in the near and distant future.

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Prompt:

Was Palestine an independent country before the British occupation?

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Yehuda Teitelbaum

@chalavyishmael

Apr 15

🧵 EXCLUSIVE:

The BBC just ran a piece accusing Israel of targeting “paramedics,” even though the crews belong to a Hezbollah-linked medical network, a fact the article only bothers to mention around paragraph 13.

Their own website features ACTUAL HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS in the "Martyrs" section and says they’ve “accompanied combatants” since 1984!

What are we even doing here?

How is this still considered journalism?

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Not only that but in the same article the @BBC admits that its own reporters were embedded with them days earlier, as if that raises no questions at all.

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@BBC This is Qassem Muhammad Suleiman, killed in 2014 fighting in Syria near the Lebanese border.

He was documented both in full Hezbollah gear and in an Islamic Health Organization uniform, the same “medical” network the BBC presents as civilian.

Source: Meir Amit Center

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Yehuda Teitelbaum

@chalavyishmael

Mar 24

The screenshots below show two things.

First, a private email sent by Glenn Greenwald, where he tells a Jewish recipient to “crawl out of your Sabbath hole” and watch Israeli cities being hit by Iranian missiles, followed by a link and the word “Enjoy.”

Second, his public follow up, where he frames himself as the victim of smears, denies wrongdoing, and then states plainly, “I think it’s good for the world that Israel is feeling retaliatory strikes for the wars they started.”

All the talk about innocent civilians, all the moral posturing, all the hours spent pretending this is about universal principles and human suffering, all of it collapses the second Israelis are the ones under fire. Then the mask slips, and what comes out is the truth. They never cared about innocent civilians in any consistent or serious way. They cared about using civilian suffering as a political weapon against Israel. That is a very different thing, and people should stop pretending otherwise.

Defenders of Israel spend an enormous amount of time explaining basic realities that should not need to be explained to honest people. We explain why casualty figures coming out of the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health cannot simply be treated as clean, neutral civilian death tolls, especially when Hamas has every incentive to inflate, manipulate, and obscure the distinction between civilians and combatants. We explain that Hamas embeds itself in civilian areas, stores weapons in homes, schools, and mosques, launches attacks from within populated neighborhoods, and then relies on the resulting images for propaganda. We explain that Hamas built an entire terror infrastructure under Gaza while leaving its own civilians exposed above ground, because civilian vulnerability is useful to them. We explain all of this for one reason. Because if Israel were deliberately targeting innocent civilians, that would be evil, and the truth would matter.

That is what makes comments like Glenn’s so revealing. He’s not arguing that civilian suffering is tragic wherever it occurs. He’s arguing that Israeli civilians being targeted by ballistic missiles is somehow morally satisfying because he has accepted the lie that they are collectively guilty. He wants the category of civilian to apply when it can be used against Israel, and he wants it to disappear when Israelis are the ones bleeding.

And once you see that, a lot of other things come into focus. It explains why so many of these people become extremely skeptical and forensic when Israeli actions are under discussion, but suddenly become emotionless and vindictive when Israelis are murdered. It explains why every dead Gazan child is treated as a moral indictment of the Jewish people, while dead Israeli children are treated as background noise, an unfortunate detail, or in many cases a justified consequence. It explains why they spend months lecturing the world about “dehumanization” and then casually speak about Israeli families as though they are legitimate instruments of collective punishment.

You can see this everywhere if you open your eyes. Look at Arabic media comment sections after missile strikes on Israeli neighborhoods. Look at the replies on X whenever Israeli homes are hit, whenever civilians are wounded, whenever parents are filmed carrying terrified children into bomb shelters. The joy is often open, the language is genocidal and the delight is unmistakable. And what is especially telling is how often Western activists, commentators, and supposed dissidents end up converging with that same moral logic, even when they dress it up in more respectable language. They may not all sound the same stylistically, but the underlying position is identical. Israeli suffering is deserved. Israeli fear is deserved. Israeli death is deserved.

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You can read the rest of this piece for free on my Substack.

Here's the link:
chalavyishmael.com/p/genocidal-gl…

Leaving this here for posterity.

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Yehuda Teitelbaum

@chalavyishmael

Feb 10

🚨 BREAKING: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has filled senior and mid-level roles in his administration with activists who praised ripping down Israeli hostage posters, led anti-Israel divestment campaigns, and publicly compared Israel to Nazi Germany.

Among the hires are a Brooklyn borough director who called people who destroyed hostage flyers “heroes,” advisers who organized campus movements accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide, and policy staffers who described Israeli counterterrorism as “terrorism.” One health department employee openly celebrated October 7 and said Israel amounts to “modern-day Nazi Germany.”

Several of these figures deleted social media accounts after their past statements surfaced. Others have been placed inside city agencies dealing with public health, community engagement, and policy planning.

We tried to warn you. Now our city is being taken over from within.

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"Lopez had served as a member of Mamdani's inaugural committee, during which a since-deleted post on X in which he called people who ripped down flyers of Israeli hostages "heroes" raised eyebrows. "

freebeacon.com/democrats/mamd…

https://x.com/i/status/2021228071156588802

These people are insane.

https://x.com/i/status/2021228071156588802

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Yehuda Teitelbaum

@chalavyishmael

Dec 25, 2025

You don’t care about Palestine.

How do I know?

One Word. Sudan.

CNN has just published a detailed, months-long investigation documenting ethnically targeted mass killings carried out by Sudan’s army and its allied militias. The reporting describes civilians being executed, bodies dumped into canals, and mass graves concealed until satellite imagery revealed wrapped corpses surfacing as the water receded. Investigators traced responsibility back to senior levels of command.

The scale is absolutely staggering. More than 150,000 civilians are believed to have been killed. Nearly 12 million people have been displaced. Entire regions are facing famine. Non-Arab communities have been targeted at checkpoints, driven from their villages, and in some cases wiped out entirely. Women interviewed by investigators described watching their children executed. Weeks later, bodies were still being carried downstream by the canals. A UN investigator quoted by CNN described the campaign as a “targeted extermination of people.”

If concern for civilian life were really the driving force behind today’s activism, Sudan would be impossible to ignore. Yet there are no campus encampments demanding action, no mass ceasefire marches, no viral influencer monologues, and no celebrities posting flags or slogans.

The usual explanation is that Israel is different because the United States supports it militarily, and that protests are really about American complicity rather than the tragedy itself. I don’t buy it. If mass killing only matters when it can be blamed on your own country, that is a deeply self-centered way of engaging with human suffering.

These same voices regularly insist that silence is complicity and that there is always something one must do, even when the odds of success are low. That principle is suddenly abandoned when Sudan comes up.

No one genuinely believes that protesting Israel under a Trump administration is likely to change Israeli policy. People protest anyway because they believe public expression itself has moral value. That logic does not disappear because the victims are Sudanese, yet it is treated as if it does.

There is also a tendency to pretend that the United States is simply powerless in Sudan, which is not true. This is not an argument for American troops on the ground, and it is reasonable to oppose that idea. But the United States is the most powerful military and diplomatic actor on the planet. If it wanted to exert serious pressure, coordinate large-scale evacuations, isolate leadership, enforce consequences, or push negotiations using the full weight of its influence, it could. Even short of military action, there are many tools available.

The reality is not that nothing can be done. It is that no one wants to do anything. Sudan does not offer the emotional payoff or political symbolism that Israel does. It does not fit neatly into Western ideological narratives, and it does not allow people to perform virtue without cost.

Sudan has everything people claim to care about: ethnic cleansing, mass graves, famine, millions of refugees, and overwhelming evidence documented by satellite imagery, whistleblowers, and international investigators. Even CNN could not soften what it found.

And still, there is silence.

That silence says far more than the slogans ever did. Your outrage is not humanitarian. It is selective, ideological, and narrowly focused on one country, while far worse atrocities are treated as background noise.

You don’t care about Palestine.

You care only about the tragedy you can blame on the Jews.

You can read this article on my Substack here:

chalavyishmael.com/p/you-dont-car…

Here is the CNN investigation.

Be warned, it's quite graphic.

cnn.com/interactive/20…

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