International media keep declaring “famine” in Gaza City.
But social media tells another story. 🧵
h/t @imshin
@imshin On August 22, 2025, the UN-backed IPC declared Gaza City in famine. The media echoed it with images of hunger and despair. But those images that don’t match the videos coming out of Gaza City.
@imshin New restaurants and cafés are popping up.
@imshin A luxury car dealership just opened, where you can shop for high-end cars while enjoying dessert.
@imshin Fresh fruit and vegetables for sale.
@imshin Bustling markets full of shoppers.
@imshin Canned goods. Fresh produce. No desperation. No chaos.
@imshin This doesn’t erase Gaza’s suffering. But it isn’t only empty pots and desperation. The reality is far more nuanced than the media shows.
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1/ ▪️Platforming terrorists & terror sympathizers
▪️Calling for the “fall of the world order,” sympathizing with Hamas, and demonizing the West
▪️Teaching kids about Palestinian "resistance"
Here are some of the "highlights" from the People’s Conference for Palestine 2025 🧵
2/ Online streamer Hasan Piker encouraged attendees to “find the anger in [their] heart” to continue the Palestinian “resistance” movement “out of spite.”
3/ Activist Imam Omar Suleiman expressed support for the “Holy Land Five” – men convicted for funneling money to Hamas in what was the largest successful terrorism financing prosecution in US history.
3/ ❌ Hassan Eslaiah, then an AP & CNN freelancer, entered Israeli kibbutzim with Hamas on Oct. 7 & photographed the mutilated bodies of Israelis on the blood-stained floors.
After his targeting, the IDF provided proof he was actually a Hamas terrorist.
This set of maps is designed to promote the lie that Israel has been stealing land from "Palestine" since 1946.
Shame on @thetimes for including it in an "explainer."
Here's an explanation of what these maps really show. 🧵
1/ Map 1: "1946"
The first map purports to show “Historic Palestine,” and is filled with red, indicating that it is one self-governing state. In the period preceding British rule, the region was administered by Turkey and stretched into modern-day Lebanon and Syria. The area at the time was never a sovereign entity in its own right, and the boundaries shown in such a map do not reflect the boundaries of the region as administered by the Ottomans, nor as they appeared under previous rulers.
2/ The yellow "Jewish land" here evidently denotes areas where Jews lived. By that logic, then, surely there should be patches of red in later maps indicating the presence of Arabs living in Israel. By conflating Jews in this map with Israel in later maps, the map fundamentally misleads with regard to the issue it supposedly illustrates: the borders of a "Palestinian" state.
1/ A blood libel disguised as a tragic war feature. The @nytimes “trauma of Gaza’s children” piece is built on distortions— from photos staged at propaganda sites (spot the red & white gate) to casualty figures framed to demonize Israel. We see you, NYT. 🧵
2/ NYT says Israel has “killed 18,000 under 18.” The trick? They lump in 16–17-year-old militants with toddlers to paint all as “children.” Hamas’ own ministry admitted most deaths were combat-age males. NYT cherry-picks to make Israel look like baby-killers.
3/ Endless evidence—intel, videos, eyewitnesses—shows Hamas using civilians as shields. The NYT has admitted it before. Yet here, such facts are reduced to “Israeli claims.” Why? Because nothing, not even evidence, can interrupt its vile “Israel kills kids” narrative.
She's beloved worldwide.
That’s why Ms. Rachel’s viral misinformation is so dangerous—it doesn’t just entertain millions, it shapes how the next generation sees the world.
With 16M subscribers and billions of views, Ms. Rachel is called the “Mr. Rogers” of our time.
But her foray into Gaza activism isn’t as innocent as it seems.
She shared this viral photo of a Gazan child, later revealed to have a congenital condition, and vowed she wouldn’t work with anyone who hadn’t spoken about Gaza.
1/ @TIFF_NET decided to pull an Oct. 7 documentary from its lineup this year.
Why? It claimed it needed permission from Hamas to publish bodycam footage of the massacre.
Let’s take a closer look at the dangers of giving a terror group editorial control 🧵
2/ Hamas live-streamed Oct. 7.
When perpetrators document their horrific crimes for the world to see, they don’t get to decide whether they continue to be shared.
No one questioned when outlets published images taken by photographers of the crimes of Oct. 7 from inside Israel.
3/ This isn’t new.
When Nazi propagandist & filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl threatened to sue @simonwiesenthal for using her films without permission, Rabbi Marvin Hier famously offered to pay her… in Reichsmarks.