Meet Andrew Seal, one of the experts behind the IPC's new "Gaza famine" report.
A Senior Lecturer at University College London, Andrew is a fanatical anti-Israel activist who was already crying "genocide" as early as October 28, 2023.
But that's not all 🧵
First off, here you can see Andrew's name listed on the new IPC report, and a tweet from UCL tagging Andrew's X account, so we know it's him.
Now, onto business.
Here's Andrew coming to the Houthi terrorists' defense by suggesting that they were merely trying to enforce the Genocide Convention when attacking ships at sea
"The destruction of the state of Palestine by Jewish insurgents"
And here he suggested in November 2023 that the U.S. should threaten to cut off aid from Israel
Whining about nonexistent "apartheid" in Israel since 2019
Sharing Al Jazeera videos glorifying Palestinian terror groups like the Lion's Den
And finally, in response to a video of Hamas official Ghazi Hamad vowing to commit October 7th's again and again, Andrew responded that Hamas shouldn't have to be forced from power because Israel's also bad 🤷♂️
H/T to the brilliant @MarkZlochin for inspiring me to do this thread
Clash Report, the Turkish psyop that half of political Twitter treats as gospel, had 49,200 followers within 20 hours of its very first tweet.
The account — a major source of disinformation and bogus conspiracy theories — is botted as hell. And I can prove it 🧵
The account was created in May 2015 but was completely dark.
Its first tweet only went up on February 28, 2020 — the night Turkey launched Operation Spring Shield, its massive drone assault on Syrian regime forces in Idlib.
Convenient timing, I'd say 🤔
Less than 24 hours after that first tweet, the Wayback Machine's archived snapshot of the profile shows 49.2K followers.
At the risk of giving it any more airtime, the cartoonishly nonsensical "Israeli dogs rape Palestinians" claim has a source worth naming.
It's the handiwork of Ramy Abdu, head of the Hamas front group called Euro-Med.
Let's once again get to know Ramy 🧵
First of all, Euro-Med has been responsible for some of the most absurdly hysterical lies from Gaza, including the one about Israel "vaporizing" Palestinians into dust
Ramy was designated by Israel as a Hamas operative since 2013, by the way.
He's got familial ties to Hamas as well.
Here's him just last year admitting that his brother-in-law was a senior Hamas terrorist — and a high-ranking UNRWA official.
A new study from Indiana University just analyzed 2,335 YouTube Shorts and 94,000+ video frames from major international news outlets covering the Israel-Hamas war.
The data on media bias is staggering, yet unsurprising 🧵
The study examined 4 state-funded outlets: Al Jazeera, BBC, Deutsche Welle, and TRT World. Together AJ and TRT published over 93% of all content studied — 1,258 Shorts from TRT alone vs. just 68 from BBC. The most prolific outlets are also, as we'll see, the most biased.
Al Jazeera's sentiment toward Israel across an entire year of coverage:
❌ 302 negative
➖ 371 neutral
✅ 19 positive
That's 43.6% negative vs. 2.7% positive. This isn't based on the researchers' opinions, but on computational linguistics applied to thousands of videos.
Been a while since I did a media takedown thread, but given my role in helping put Col. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya behind bars, I couldn’t help myself 🧵
This to me is the most dishonest part. If you search "Hussam Abu Safiya" and "Hamas" on Google or any LLM, you get a whole bunch of articles meticulously laying out the evidence of Abu Safiya's ties to Hamas.
The author is just flat out lying about there not being evidence.
Then we have the two UN Special Rapporteurs the author cites ad the basis for her article.
One of them, Ben Saul, thinks that Somalia is a leader in human rights and also accepted a $150,000 "donation" (not a bribe!) from the Chinese government
Breaking: I’ve just discovered that next month’s annual Al Jazeera Forum will feature a keynote by Iran’s foreign minister — fresh off his regime slaughtering 43,000 in the streets — alongside Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.
Let’s take a closer look at this conference, shall we?🧵
On its face, the conference theme sounds like the usual nauseating, sanctimonious, academia-infused soirée one might expect from Doha. But look at the actual lineup, and the mask slips.
Keynote speakers include Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi, the president of Somalia, the head of Türkiye’s Directorate of Communications, the director general of Al Jazeera Media Network and a member of Qatar’s ruling family, MEP Rima Hassan and some Chinese government dude