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🧵 THREAD: This was coordinated.

Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes, the exact same clip, same caption, same outrage floods the internet.

Not organic. Not coincidence.

Labs tracked it in real time.
What we found will shock you. HonestReporting.ai
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The trigger quote, "The Israelis drove the decision" to go to war with Iran, was clipped and posted across hundreds of accounts almost simultaneously.
Not minutes after it trended. During the broadcast.
Real breaking news takes time to spread. This had a running start. Image
Who amplified it? A coalition that should make you raise an eyebrow.
🇷🇺 Russian state TV (RT)
🇮🇷 Iranian state media (HispanTV)
🇶🇦 Hamas-aligned Quds News Network
🇹🇷 TRT (Turkish state broadcaster)
🇧🇷 Sputnik Brasil
… AND Jackson Hinkle, Candace Owens, MTG, and Max Blumenthal.
Russia, Iran, Hamas, and Alt Right dissidents. All posting the same thing. At the same time.
Ask yourself: when does that happen naturally?
The rollout wasn't spontaneous.
It was scripted.
Kent resigned → Tucker booked within hours.
Real whistleblowers are chaotic. They call journalists from parking lots. They don't have a media tour lined up before the ink dries on their resignation letter. This had a plan.
The narrative quickly evolved, escalating beyond what Kent actually said:
1 "Israel forced the US into war.” This was Kent’s primary argument.
2 "Israel killed Charlie Kirk." Jackson Hinkle and AdameMedia manufactured.
3 "Israel controls America." A lazy, repackaged antisemitic trope.
That's called narrative laundering.Image
One final tell: what got buried.
From 2020–2024, Joe Kent publicly called for destroying Iran's nuclear AND ballistic capabilities. Repeatedly. That record was almost completely absent from the conversation.
Narrative laundering doesn’t only determine what to amplify, but what to erase.
Bottom line:
🟢The FBI was investigating Joe Kent. He resigned to control the narrative.
🔴 The speed, uniformity, and foreign state amplification of this story are not organic. It was weaponized within minutes.

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May 20
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After the @nytimes “dog rape” story, we examined “human stories” Nick Kristof has published on Gaza.

What we found is alarming.

Sources presented as credible and apolitical supporting terrorism, don’t match descriptions – or may not exist.

Did Kristof verify any of this? Image
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Take Mohamed Abu Jafar.

In one column, Kristof holds him up as the kind of Palestinian who preserves a shared humanity, citing him as an example of those “who press for reconciliation and peace,” and in another calling him a “wise” Palestinian from Jenin whose 16‑year‑old brother was shot dead by Israeli forces – and even has him saying “the only practical option… is working for peace.”

A tragic story – and a quote Kristof reuses as his moral anchor. But Abu Jafar’s own Facebook tells a very different story: glorifying “martyrs,” posts about armed terrorists and “resistance,” praising attacks and celebrating jihad and martyrdom.

This is the man readers are told embodies wisdom and is “working for peace.”Image
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Kristof never tells readers one crucial fact: Abu Jafar’s brother was not killed in the current war.

In another NYT piece, the brother’s death date is given as 2002. Abu Jafar also appears to post his grave on Facebook, identifying him as a “martyr” of the Al-Aqsa Intifada.

But none of that context appears in Kristof’s columns. Instead, readers are left with the impression of a fresh tragedy – while a man who openly glorifies “martyrdom” is presented as a voice of “shared humanity” and “peace.”Image
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May 17
There is nothing normal about the Palestinian refugee problem. Here are some quick facts:

Most claim there were 750,000 Palestinian refugees after the war. But in 1948, the @UN recorded only 472,000 Arab refugees.

Today, the number stands at 5.9 million people. Why? Because @UNRWA gives Palestinians permanent, hereditary refugee status that never ends, even if they become citizens elsewhere. That’s unique to them.

The UNHCR, which deals with every other refugee group in the world, seeks to resettle and find permanent solutions. UNRWA, which was created solely to handle the Palestinian refugee problem, refuses to remove that status. Again, unique to them.

The result? A conflict kept alive for 78 years.

#Nakba #UNRWA #MiddleEastImage
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May 17
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The 1948 "mass expulsion" of Palestinians?

Actually, it was a mass displacement caused by a conflict initiated by the local Arabs and regional Arab states.

While some of those Arabs were expelled, there was no systematic or premeditated policy.

But this isn't the only time @AP gets it wrong while framing the Gaza war purely through Palestinian suffering on "Nakba Day."

Let’s unpack the bias. 👇https://apnews.com/article/nakba-israel-palestinians-gaza-war-hamas-4230f1ef1a1a36a1f72b664b1ae12acf
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Let’s not forget that around 850,000 Jews were brutally expelled or forced to flee from Arab lands across the Middle East during the exact same period.

AP memory-holes them entirely. Image
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@AP claims the "fighting began when Arab armies attacked following Israel’s establishment."

This glosses over what actually happened: The Jews accepted the two-state solution expressed in the 1947 Petition Plan, while the Arab side rejected it and launched a war of annihilation.Image
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May 15
"The Nakba" means “catastrophe” in Arabic, but it didn't originally refer to the narrative of Palestinian displacement as it is commonly understood today.

It referred to the Arab world’s failed attempt to destroy the newly re-established Jewish state.🧵 Image
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On November 29, 1947, the UN voted to partition British Mandatory Palestine into two states: one Jewish, one Arab.

The Jews accepted. The Arab states and Arab leadership rejected it.

On May 15, 1948, five Arab armies invaded the new State of Israel... and lost. Image
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Israel survived and gained territory beyond what the UN Partition Plan had allocated. Egypt took Gaza. Jordan seized the West Bank.

Many Arabs were displaced during the war. Others stayed, and became Israeli citizens. Today, their descendants number more than 2 million. Image
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May 12
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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. 🧵
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.Image
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.”Image
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May 11
1/
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. 🧵 Image
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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.Image
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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:
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🔴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.Image
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