The media is calling Francesca Albanese a "critic of Israel," but she's not.
She's an antisemite, a terror apologist, and a fraud.🧵
@unwatch @hillelneuer
@UNWatch @HillelNeuer Francesca Albanese lied about being a human rights lawyer and justified Hamas’ October 7th massacre...as it was still happening.
@UNWatch @HillelNeuer She accepted thousands of dollars from pro-Hamas groups for trips to Australia and New Zealand...and then lied about it.
@UNWatch @HillelNeuer She downplayed Hamas' systematic and brutal rape of Israelis on October 7th.
@UNWatch @HillelNeuer She repeatedly spread antisemitism while hiding behind a “human rights” label.
@UNWatch @HillelNeuer Yet media outlets like @bbcnews dismissed her repeated violations of the UN's code of conduct as simply "criticism of Israel."
@UNWatch @HillelNeuer @BBCNews She's not a "critic" or a "human rights expert." She's a terror apologist, an antisemite, and a fraud.
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You’ve seen it before.
A bombed-out building.
A pile of rubble.
And there, impossibly intact, a teddy bear.
Let’s talk about one of the most emotionally powerful, and misleading, images used in war coverage.
2/ The teddy bear in the rubble sends a clear message: a child died here. It’s powerful, emotional, and widely used. But when the same bear keeps appearing in different scenes, taken by different photographers, it raises questions.
📸 Rafah, Jan 21. Same toy, multiple photos.
3/ October 6: Teddy bears arranged on rubble in Khan Yunis.
📸 Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu via Getty
December 1: A similar scene appears with a new caption.
📸 Saeed Jaras / Middle East Images via AFP
“The girl who gathered them attempts to preserve joy…”
.@Independent "takes a closer look at the history of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and why it is controversial."
So let's take a closer look at how The Independent evidently finds the concept of Jews defending themselves against terrorists to be "controversial." 🧵
@Independent No mention of how the newly formed IDF fought to defend the nascent Jewish state against 5 Arab armies intent on wiping it out.
Just a hyperbolic claim that "hundreds of thousands of people were driven...into refugee camps."
@Independent The IDF "claims" to be facing terrorist organizations?
Just who does @Independent believe threatens Israelis? Or did October 7 simply not happen?
Israel struck Iran preemptively.
Was it legal under international law? Here's what the rules actually say 👇
International law doesn’t ban preemptive strikes, but it does make them hard to justify.
They must be a response to a real, immediate threat, not a guess or grudge.
The standard? A 19th-century case called the Caroline Affair.
It's still the gold standard for when preemptive force is legal.
Modern military lawyers use it like a checklist, and it’s hard to pass.
How the media manufactured a “genocide.”
Zach Goldberg breaks down how the world’s most serious crime became a political weapon—and how media outlets helped it happen. 🧵
Mentions of “genocide” in relation to Israel have exploded—far beyond how the media treated actual, recognized genocides in history.
In The New York Times, coverage linking Israel and genocide was:
➤ 9x higher than for Rwanda
➤ 6x higher than for Darfur
Let that sink in.