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Jun 29 5 tweets 3 min read
This video from the #SanFranciscoTransMarch is going viral: State Sen. @Scott_Wiener is confronted by protesters, shouted down, and accused of being “wonderful for trans people but terrible on Gaza.”
Wiener is openly gay, Jewish, and currently running for Congress.
The clip is being shared as a moment of accountability. That’s not true.👇🧵 x.com/decadimitry/st… Wiener has spent years building a strong record on LGBTQ issues in California.
That includes legislation on HIV decriminalization, PrEP access, LGBTQ senior protections, nonbinary ID markers, and policies aimed at protecting transgender individuals.
Whatever one thinks of those measures, they reflect a long and consistent political commitment.
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Jun 26 6 tweets 2 min read
Gazans are fighting back against Hamas oppression. Hamas is cracking down on protestors.

But Western media didn't cover it. At all.

Let's take a look at what they chose to cover this week instead:🧵(1/6) (2/6) Qatari-funded @ajplus reported on Gazans using cardboard as makeshift fans to escape from the heat.
Jun 25 6 tweets 2 min read
The UN Human Rights Council issued a report claiming that the IDF deliberately targeted Gazan children.

Within hours, it was everywhere. Headlines. Social media. Even Ms. Rachel shared it, calling the report “indisputable evidence.”

But the report doesn’t actually contain any evidence.
Let’s break it down.🧵(1/6) (2/6)
Crimes against humanity.
War crimes.
Genocide.

These are just some of the claims, and among the gravest accusations under international law.

Yet the Pillay Commission cannot point to a single verified example of an IDF soldier identifying a civilian child and deliberately choosing to kill them.

Instead, it substitutes the fact that children died in war as “proof” of deliberate targeting.

But a civilian casualty, although tragic, does not prove intent.
Jun 25 6 tweets 5 min read
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“Rape” is the new trendy lie to spread about Israel.

After “occupation,” then “apartheid,” then “genocide,” the latest accusation is “systematic rape” – never proven in law or fact, built by repetition until a lie feels like “common sense.”

Watch how they manufacture it. 🧵 2/6
🔴Step 1: Incubation on the fringe.

Politicized NGOs, Hamas‑aligned activists, and partisan “rights” groups collect unverified testimonies and push the most lurid stories they can – including biologically implausible claims of dogs being used to rape prisoners. The goal is to cause outrage.

🔴Step 2: Laundering through “respectable” institutions.

Those same fringe claims are then repeated by big newspapers, UN bodies, and state‑backed broadcasters, wrapped in the language of “human rights” and “fact‑finding.” Suddenly, extreme allegations sound like serious, sober reporting.

🔴Step 3: Saturation and normalization.

Once a prestige paper, a UN office, and a major network echo the charges, activists, academics, and politicians cite each other in a closed loop. “Allegations” melt into “documented abuses,” then “systematic rape.” Question it, and you’re smeared as “denying victims.”Image
Jun 11 7 tweets 3 min read
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@CNN went inside Hezbollah.

What followed was extraordinary.

A weapons smuggler was allowed to justify rearming the terror group.

A Hezbollah “fighter” was presented without serious challenge.

And now Hezbollah itself says CNN got a key part of the story wrong.

The deeper we looked, the worse it got.🧵https://edition.cnn.com/videos/title-2600355 2/
CNN’s International Correspondent, @IsobelYeung, tracks down a man smuggling weapons into Lebanon.

But instead of challenging his role in helping Hezbollah rearm, the report frames the conversation around whether the weapons are needed to "defend" against Israel.

The result? A weapons smuggler is given a platform to justify Hezbollah's case.

CNN's job was to challenge it, not amplify it.
Jun 7 9 tweets 3 min read
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What does this @nytimes investigation actually tell us?

Nothing we didn't already know.

Instead, it appears to be another attempt to cast legitimate Israeli military operations against Hezbollah as inherently suspect.

Let's talk about what white phosphorus is - and what it isn't. 🧵https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/world/middleeast/white-phosphorous-israel-lebanon.html 2/
Despite years of media hysteria, white phosphorus is not banned under international law.

The US, UK, and other NATO militaries use it regularly, primarily for smoke screening, signaling, and illumination.

Its mere use is not evidence of wrongdoing.
May 28 9 tweets 3 min read
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Meet Erin Cunningham, the incoming Jerusalem news director at @AP.

Her professional record - from her tenure at The Washington Post to her public statements and social media activity - raises serious questions about the impartiality expected on one of journalism’s most sensitive beats. 🧵Image 2/
As @washingtonpost's Middle East news editor, Cunningham oversaw coverage marked by:

▪️ Loaded anti-Israel framing
▪️ Euphemistic language that softened terrorism
▪️ False moral equivalence
▪️ Persistent skepticism of Israeli claims while amplifying Hamas-linked narratives

This wasn’t incidental. It reflected a newsroom culture problem.
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May 25 9 tweets 4 min read
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Meet Ahmad Hariri. According to The New York Times, he was "a paramedic and photojournalist who was killed in Deir Qanoun an-Nahr on Friday" in an Israeli airstrike.

Don't let the press vest fool you. Was Ahmad Hariri targeted for his medical or media work? Five minutes looking at his Facebook told us everything the NYTimes didn't. 🧵Image
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Here's the terrorist org and Hezbollah ally Amal mourning Hariri's "martyrdom."

Check out the Amal flags amongst the ambulances. Hariri was a member of a terrorist organization.
May 22 12 tweets 6 min read
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The @nytimes’ new defense of Nicholas Kristof’s column on alleged sexual abuse of Palestinians – including the “rape dogs” claim – even drags in Oct 7 and Islamophobia to protect it.

Here’s what they still aren’t telling you 🧵
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Opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury says they “stand by” the piece, boasting of “rigorous vetting” and claiming editors “found no errors.” But if the original reporting were as solid as they say, the NYT wouldn’t be scrambling to issue multiple follow‑ups, stretching evidence and hiding key facts to avoid taking any accountability.Image
May 20 7 tweets 4 min read
Canada is facing a serious Jew-hate crisis.

In 2025, there were 6,800 documented antisemitic incidents, nearly 20 attacks on Jews every single day. Despite some of the strictest gun laws in the world, Jewish schools, synagogues, and businesses are repeatedly shot at while perpetrators face little to no consequences.

Israel raised Canada to Threat Level 2 for Jews, and stated that the Canadian government has failed to protect its Jewish community. When Jews are no longer safe in their home and communities, the entire country is at fault.

This is a national crisis that can no longer be ignored by Canadians.

#Canada #Jews #Antisemitism #JewHateImage Image
May 20 8 tweets 5 min read
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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.

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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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May 17 6 tweets 2 min read
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.

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May 17 7 tweets 3 min read
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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 2/
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
May 15 4 tweets 3 min read
"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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May 12 5 tweets 2 min read
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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
May 11 10 tweets 7 min read
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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 2/
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.

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May 7 5 tweets 3 min read
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The viral @nytimes clip where Tucker Carlson toys with calling Trump the “Antichrist" is clickbait. The most revealing parts of the interview – in clips below – aren’t about theology at all, but about Israel, where his worldview and conspiratorial ideas are laid bare. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 2/5
On Israel and Lebanon, Carlson doesn’t just criticize policy. He casts Trump as a “slave” to Netanyahu and claims Israel deliberately killed civilians in Lebanon to sabotage peace talks and grab land. It's not analysis, but a story in which Israel is always the hidden villain. It requires you to ignore decades of land‑for‑peace – Sinai for peace with Egypt, withdrawal from southern Lebanon, disengagement from Gaza – and to see a small, embattled state as a kind of omnipotent puppeteer.

When that goes largely unchallenged, it signals how comfortable mainstream platforms are becoming with framing Israel as uniquely sinister.
May 5 4 tweets 3 min read
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The @PulitzerPrizes just crowned @nytimes photographer Saher Alghorra for his Gaza photos – a prize built on staged scenes, a manufactured “famine” narrative, and intimate access to Hamas terrorists.

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One of the winning photos shows 2‑year‑old Yazan Abu al‑Foul, turned by the NYT into the face of children “starving” because of Israel.

Yet the original wire copy notes that Yazan has four older siblings – none of whom appear in the Pulitzer portfolio – and the same mother and child were repeatedly shot by multiple agencies in near‑identical poses, raising serious questions about staging, consent and how one family was repackaged into a global “famine” poster‑child.Image
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Apr 17 6 tweets 2 min read
Do you follow @PopBase, @PopCrave, or @PopTingz?

These accounts present themselves as lighthearted pop culture sources — Taylor Swift tours, K-pop photoshoots, Eurovision updates, and celebrity news.

Yet a closer examination reveals something far more concerning: they are operating as vehicles for a coordinated influence campaign. 🧵 A review of their 𝕏 posts shows an unmistakable pattern: every number below represents posts that explicitly mention Israel.

2025:
• @PopBase: 34
• @PopCrave: 18
• @PopTingz: 7

2026 (through mid-April):
• @PopBase: 13
• @PopCrave: 4
• @PopTingz: 6

Why do accounts that are supposed to be reporting on Pop Culture have such an infatuation with Israel?

This is not incidental news coverage. It is a deliberate, disproportionate focus.
Apr 15 5 tweets 2 min read
Italian magazine @espressonline put a photo of a Jewish IDF soldier and a Palestinian woman on its cover under the headline “The Abuse.” It played on all of the emotional tropes: an abusive man vs. the abused woman; the heartless Israeli monster vs. the powerless Palestinian.

But press play, and the narrative falls apart.🧵Image @espressonline It went viral, racking up more than 3.7 million views on X alone. Like clockwork, antisemitic accounts reposted the image. Image
Apr 14 6 tweets 3 min read
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The @Guardian just ran a fawning profile of UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese – they even call her a “rockstar.”

In the opening scene, a Geneva café supposedly lines up for selfies. It reads like fan fiction, not journalism.

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Borger gushes that Albanese is the first person with “UN” in her title to accuse Israel of genocide.
Translation: she used a UN platform to push a claim that doesn’t survive contact with facts.

Genocide means intent to destroy a people.
Israel fought Hamas, a terror group embedded among civilians, with evacuation warnings, aid facilitation, judicial oversight. Not genocide. War.

And on Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day?
The Guardian chose that moment to trivialize the word beyond recognition. The timing can only be deliberate.Image