A few misleading claims from Mehdi here:

1. The 82% figure is derived from the ACLED database. Here is an example of a typical Hezbollah entry contrasted with an Israeli one. For some reason a barrage of 70 rockets *on multiple locations* is counted as a single attack...

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1839420355234123786

equal to a single Israeli airstrike which might well have only used one munition. In reality, Hezbollah have fired anything from 8-11,000 rockets since Oct 8th and who ever produced this database doesn't even seem to disagree with that. They just found a way to lower the number

THE COOKIE FILES

The recent Gazan cookie debate is a perfect example of how stupid this propaganda game can get - in this case - both on the part of @TheOmniLiberal and @OmarBaddar. A 🧵on the Gaza blockade, how it changed over time and why tf we're talking about cookies: For any measure Israel takes against Palestinians, pro-Israel people will reflexively say it had to have been done for legitimate security reasons, whilst pro-Palestinians default to the opposite: the only purpose was to inflict suffering. Let's look into what really happened:

I am starting to wonder how often Jones does things like this. A few weeks ago, he was pushing the claim that almost a third of people "cancelled in Germany for supposed antisemitism have been Jews".

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1781084544315068912

He used the same stat in one of his videos to further the idea that Germany was trying to make up for its genocidal past "by targeting Jews". Obviously a statistic like this would be insanely alarming, but where does it come from?