.@Independent "takes a closer look at the history of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and why it is controversial."

So let's take a closer look at how The Independent evidently finds the concept of Jews defending themselves against terrorists to be "controversial." 🧵 @Independent No mention of how the newly formed IDF fought to defend the nascent Jewish state against 5 Arab armies intent on wiping it out.

Just a hyperbolic claim that "hundreds of thousands of people were driven...into refugee camps."

🇺🇸 New York 🇨🇦 Toronto 🇬🇧 Manchester 🇦🇺 Sydney

All major cities. But they aren't capital cities.

Like 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv. It isn't Israel's capital.

So why do so many media outlets keep claiming it is?

Here's a running 🧵 of capital errors as Tel Aviv comes under missile barrage 👇 Using Tel Aviv as a metonym for Israel's government and directly referring to it as Israel's capital. All in the space of two paragraphs.

Not very impressive, @MailOnline.

Israel struck Iran preemptively.
Was it legal under international law? Here's what the rules actually say 👇 International law doesn’t ban preemptive strikes, but it does make them hard to justify.
They must be a response to a real, immediate threat, not a guess or grudge.

How the media manufactured a “genocide.”
Zach Goldberg breaks down how the world’s most serious crime became a political weapon—and how media outlets helped it happen. 🧵 Mentions of “genocide” in relation to Israel have exploded—far beyond how the media treated actual, recognized genocides in history.

“Why hasn’t there been a Palestinian state?”
Let’s talk about the peace deals that could’ve made it happen—and why they were rejected.👇 1️⃣ 1947 – The UN Partition Plan
Palestinians were offered statehood with the most fertile land.
Arab leaders said no. Then 6 Arab states attacked Israel.
Israel survived.

📰 No casualties. No bullet wounds. No injuries. No massacres.
But that's not how the media reported it...🧵 The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's drone footage showed zero casualties, the IDF confirmed it, but media outlets still ran Hamas quotes as fact.

🚚 Aid finally makes it to Gazans—but the headlines still miss the real story.🧵 The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation successfully delivered aid to thousands of Gazans. Israel only fired warning shots to keep order—no injuries, no deaths. Media spin? “Israel opens fire.”

Despite what this photo caption says, it does not show Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, the mother of children killed in an airstrike.

The photo in @guardian actually shows al-Najjar's niece (left) and brother-in-law with an as yet unidentified woman. 🧵 We know this is the niece as she is identified as such in a @Reuters video interview from inside the hospital.

Despite this, Reuters is currently selling the erroneously captioned photo that The Guardian used.

Because for @SkyNews' @AlexCrawfordSky, the barbaric terrorism against Israelis on Oct. 7, including the burning and mutilation of babies, was all just an overblown and exaggerated excuse for Israel to carry out a "genocide."

And the @guardian column? There's more. 🧵

https://twitter.com/AlexCrawfordSky/status/1926240143247101993

"Israel is executing a 'final solution' in Gaza," according to Arwa Mahdawi in @guardian.

Absolutely sickening: Misappropriating the language of the Holocaust, Mahdawi effectively compares Israel to the Nazis.

The UN lied about 14,000 babies dying in 48 hours in Gaza.
So why is the media still reporting it as fact? 🧵 In a @bbcnews interview, UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher claimed “14,000 children will die in Gaza in 48 hours.”
Providing zero evidence to back up his claim.

"Famine" makes headlines, but the math just isn't mathing. 🧵 This is how major outlets frame the crisis. But what aren't they saying?

Someone is silencing Gaza’s journalists.
And it’s not who you’ve been told. 🧵 The Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom published a report revealing how Gazan reporters are being threatened, stalked, and assaulted.

On this day in 1948, the state of Israel was born.

Everyone talks about Israel since 1948.
But almost no one knows what led up to it.
So, let’s rewind 🧵 The land that would become Israel was once part of the Ottoman Empire..

Hey, @AP, there's plenty of evidence of Hamas infiltration of UNRWA, including:

▪️UNRWA employees who are also Hamas terrorists
▪️Israeli hostages hidden in UN facilities
▪️The tunnel complex under UNRWA HQ
▪️UNRWA employees who took part in Oct. 7

Here are a few reminders. 🧵

https://x.com/HonestReporting/status/1859279671487004848

There is enough food in Gaza.
So why are Gazans going hungry?
Here’s what the media isn’t reporting…🧵 The media keeps blaming Israel for a so-called “famine” in Gaza.
What they don’t mention?
The blockade was to pressure Hamas to return hostages and disarm.
And the blockade isn’t the cause of the food shortages…

Meet Pulitzer Prize winner Mosab Abu Toha. He justifies the kidnapping of Israelis on Oct. 7.

We aren't going to congratulate him for his prize. Instead, we're going to ask @PulitzerPrizes whether they bothered to check his social media.

Because we did, and it's not pretty. 🧵 @PulitzerPrizes Emily Damari, an Israeli civilian, was shot twice and abducted from her home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza on Oct. 7.

Hamas held her for 471 days. But Mosab Abu Toha claims she was a "soldier" and questions how Damari could be a hostage.

🚨 Israel identified Gazan photojournalist Hassan Eslaiah as a Hamas terrorist.

But @AP is still selling his photos in what legal experts say may be considered material/financial support of a designated foreign terrorist org in violation of US law that prohibits such conduct. 🧵 @AP Eslaiah’s specific photos of the Oct. 7 atrocities inside Israel have been removed from @AP's platform.

Whether he still gets royalties when his remaining photos are purchased is unclear, but the credit he gets on a respected news outlet is certainly a reputation booster.

The @nytimes recently ran a glowing profile of Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.
What didn’t make the cut?
His antisemitism, support for terror groups, and unapologetic propaganda. 🧵 @nytimes The Times called him “a progressive mind in a body made for the manosphere.”
What they left out: Piker has a long history of antisemitic rhetoric.

Louis Theroux’s new BBC ‘Settlers’ documentary claims impartiality. What it delivers is a slick propaganda film: Israel as aggressor, settlers as sociopaths, Palestinians as voiceless victims. Let’s talk about what Theroux really chose to show—and what he left out. 🧵 2/ October 7 is barely mentioned. When it is, it’s framed as a pretext for settlement expansion. A massacre becomes a motive. Civilians butchered in their homes are brushed aside to serve Theroux’s storyline.

🧵 1/ The @nytimes just profiled Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, nephew of Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur. Apparently antisemitism runs in the family—not that you'd know it from this glowing piece labeling him a "progressive." Yes, the guy who called Hamas massacres "resistance." 2/ The NYT goes to great lengths to sanitize Piker’s bigotry, claiming he "criticized the Israeli government" and "challenged norms." Apparently, calling Orthodox Jews "inbred" and dehumanizing a Jew who disagreed with him as a "bloodthirsty pig dog" are just norm-challenging.

Hamas built an underground city. We built the map.🧵 Our new tool geo-locates 37 miles of Hamas’ tunnel network using open-source data—marking the first interactive map exposing the terror grid beneath Gaza.