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Jun 15, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
This is a dismissive response to fair criticism FRM @elderofziyon. We found @bellingcat's investigation into the death of Abu Akleh to be biased & inaccurate. @AP, @CNN & @washingtonpost reports are merely a regurgitated version of same, no new open-sourced evidence is introduced Besides, eye-witnesses testimony was found to be inconsistent and unsubstantiated. We are extremely disappointed to see this comment from @elliothiggins.
Jun 13, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
@airwars Thanks for engaging, we identified many more cases of Palestinian militants that you present as civilians on your interactive Gaza map. You also appear to be rating the majority of the civilian casualty reports as fairly accurate on same platform. Image We feel that presenting the information in this manner is intended to deliberately mislead, we do note that you bury your assessment in text in other segments of your Website.

Please clarify which of our claims you consider to be inaccurate?
Jun 8, 2022 12 tweets 8 min read
Our investigation finds that award winning non-profit company @Airwars is whitewashing terrorism with the help of high profile donors.

Airwars' interactive map project detailing the "civilian casualties" in Gaza was nominated for @amnesty media awards 2022. Airwars is based at Goldsmiths, University of London @GoldsmithsUoL. Chris Woods @chrisjwoods is the founder and until yesterday the director. Chris also sits on Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi's Advisory Board.
May 23, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
A new video showing the moments before AJ journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot miraculously emerged. We reviewed this footage; essentially, it is just more of the same already known information.

Only a ballistics report can help establish who fired the shot that killed her. Strangely, the Palestinian Authority is withholding such report. Key point remain the same:

- there is no evidence to support the absurd allegation that Abu Akleh was deliberately targeted by the IDF
May 17, 2022 13 tweets 5 min read
@Bellingcat's OSINT investigation into the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh suggests bias.

The study's findings are suggestive, partial, and based on unreliable partisan witnesses. We feel that Giancarlo Fiorella @gianfiorella was working toward the goal of finding fault with Israel. However, the evidence material is inconclusive and the truth is not clear yet.
Jan 10, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
Certain bad faith foreign media outlets in Israel were promoting a partial edited video footage that is purporting to show an Israeli assaulting a "Palestinian" journalist. A review of the video and audio recordings makes it clear that it is another case of misleading propaganda. The incident took place last week at the entrance to Shamir Medical Center (formerly Asaf Harofeh Hospital) during a protest against the Israeli government's dealings with administrative detainee Hisham Abu Hawash.
Aug 22, 2021 11 tweets 6 min read
Apparently the story that Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate clock mechanism ended up in the British Museum might be true but the claim that it was stolen and runs Big Ben's clock is bogus. This and similar claims are not recent, here is a link to a Facebook post from November 2013 claiming that the mechanism from the stolen "Palestinian Jaffa Gate clock" was used for Big Ben.

facebook.com/generalislamic…
Aug 19, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
Academic with a history of incitement to violence and support for terrorism is behind the current "Globalize The Intifada" campaign.

Amin Husain is co-founder of Decolonize This Place
@decolonize_this; this group is organised through collective MTL+ which he also co-founded. The domain decolonizethisplace[.]org contact information is private but historical and reverse WHOIS lookups indicate it might be the property of Artists Space Inc. @artistsspace.
Jul 19, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
This thread by @Peston is a distortion of the truth. The El-Kurd family and other Palestinian families in Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood (Sheikh Jarrah) face evictions because they refused to pay rent to the Jewish owners of the properties they live in. It is a private property dispute. Implying otherwise and politicising this matter plays in to the hands of militants and terror groups.

"Understanding the Current Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem)
Property Dispute"

en.kohelet.org.il/wp-content/upl…
Jun 28, 2021 12 tweets 6 min read
International Union of Virtual Media (IUVM), an Iranian political influence & disinformation operation, is linked to Seraj Cyberspace Organization, one of IRGC's media cartels.

Last Thursday the JC published an exclusive on Iran’s shadowy propaganda network. We looked into this. WHOIS records show that the iuvm[.]net, iuvm[.]org and iuvm[.]info domain were registered on 16 June 2013. A search against saved pages on the Internet Archive Website show that IUVM was initially launched as a "discussion" forum for members.
Jun 25, 2021 6 tweets 4 min read
We professionally scrutinised this "investigation” by
@nytimes.

"There is no evidence that Israel struck or directly targeted the apartment buildings"

This should have been the headline but no, @evanhill produced a video that has the hallmark of investigation bias. We watched the video and it feels as if the investigation team was working towards a predefined outcome that Israel's actions "could be a war-crime".
Jun 22, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
This appears to be disinformation. It was reported hours ago that "initial investigations carried out by the Israeli and Palestinian security forces indicated that the shooting was not carried out by Israeli settlers but rather by Palestinians in an internal incident" jpost.com/breaking-news/…
Jun 20, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
This video was edited and manipulated to appear to be showing Israeli soldiers using a child as a human shield. We located a longer version of the video. In reality quite the opposite took place, let us present the facts. This incident took place on 23 December 2016 during the weekly demonstration in Kafr Qaddum where Arabs march towards a Jewish settlement, riot, burn tires and throw rocks at soldiers.
Jun 19, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
This is disinformation. It's well known that the people behind this horrendous fire-bombing are 3 Israeli-Arab men who misidentified the boy's home for a Jewish one. They have been arrested and charged. timesofisrael.com/3-arabs-charge…
Jun 15, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
This video which was artfully mashed up and shared thousands of times on social media is disinformation and distortion of facts.

We looked into this, here is what we found. We traced the source materials for this propaganda video; it is from B'tselem articles and videos from June 2017 & May 2018. However there are significant omissions.
Jun 13, 2021 9 tweets 7 min read
We were alerted to antisemitic tweets that have been made in 2014 by Twitter account @sarahjoe93 allegedly owned by Mia Khalifa. We decided to investigate and we can say with certainty that we can link @sarahjoe93 to Mia Khalifa who is now tweeting from @miakhalifa A thread on online #OSINT investigation

Sarah Joe appears to be Mia Khalifa's birth name and 93 refers to the year she was born in.

WHOIS records show that the Website miakhalifa[.]com was registered to a Sarah Obrien.

"Mia Khalifa" trademark is owned by a Sarah Joe Obrien
Jun 13, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
As we showed you, the current video circulating which falsely attempts to show Bassam al-Kiswani, 11, being arrested by Israeli police is disinformation. But it gets worse. This child appears in a video footage that advocates for terrorist acts. This video is of Bassam. It was found on his mother's Facebook. He is seen in a child’s bedroom & he was apparently being coached to draw a knife from his trousers & make stabbing motions. The song for the video appear to show support for terrorism & “sacrificing my soul & blood”
Jun 4, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
Fadi Washha was a terrorist and a member of the proscribed al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. This thread describing his death is a muddle of disinformation and propaganda. Let us explain. #FadiWashha served several prison sentences for terrorism offences, the last one from 2014 to 2019. ImageImage
Jun 4, 2021 7 tweets 5 min read
These are not recent images, they were taken on 16 November 2019 during a violent riot near Beit El.

#FadiWashha #فادي_وشحة #الشهيد_فادي_وشحة were trending yesterday. We looked into Fadi Washha, here is what we could find. Fadi Washha was a militant Palestinian terrorist, he served several prison sentences for terrorism offences.

Fadi and his cousin Muataz Washha were involved in a 25 February 2014 shooting attack. Fadi admitted to this and even surrendered the weapon used in the attack ImageImage
Jun 1, 2021 4 tweets 4 min read
@nytimes Saber Ibrahim Suleiman, an al-Qassam Brigades commander in Jabalia, was killed in an @IDF airstrike. His son Mohammad Suleiman who appears in your "They were only children" photo essay was killed along with him in the attack.

Allow us to show you something We also discovered Facebook posts / photos showing Mohammad Suleiman in combat uniform and holding weapons.

We wonder whether @nytimes (and @DCIPalestine) were aware of this before going to print as the information was posted to Twitter on 11 May 2021.
May 30, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
"Journalist" CJ Werleman is biased and his translation of the video segment is inaccurate and a manipulative lie.

The question was "what happens when you meet an Arab kid, what do you feel?"

To which one Jewish kid answered: "that he wants to murder me"

ImageImage We were alerted to this tweet and asked to verify whether the embedded video is authentic.



We located the source video, here is what we found:

#OSINT #Online_Research Image