Seymour Hersh writes that Israeli insiders and American officials tell him there will be “heavy American bombing” of Iran as early as this weekend and that all will be “under control” if Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei “departs.” If true, this suggests that the Trump administration is once again using the media to mislead the public and that Trump won’t take two weeks to decide what to do. It would also confirm that this assault is all about Israel’s longtime goal of forcing regime change in Iran.

Israel went into overdrive to deny it killed Palestinians at an aid site in Gaza on Sunday but @CNN investigation “points to the Israeli military opening fire on crowds of Palestinians as they tried to make their way to the fenced enclosure to get food.” cnn.com/2025/06/04/mid… More than a dozen eyewitnesses, including those wounded in the attack, said Israeli troops shot at crowds in volleys of gunfire that occurred sporadically through the early hours of Sunday morning.

As 2024 comes to a close, I wanted to share all of the films on Palestine that @AJFaultLines released this difficult year and encourage you all to watch, share and screen them. 🧵 In March we released “The Palestine Exception” which looks at the crackdown on criticism of Israel on college campuses. In a prescient decision, our team filmed with student activists at Columbia even before the encampment.

On MSNBC Joe Scarborough is blaming Trump’s win on progressives for using pronouns. And now he’s blaming anti-genocide protests on college campuses.

Stories western media routinely ignore:

1. Israel’s use of Hannibal procedure on Oct. 7

2. Gaza death toll likely far higher than recorded (Lancet study)

3. Genocidal comments by Israeli officials and soldiers

4. Israeli soldiers’ obsession with Palestinian women’s underwear 5. Apparent war crimes by Israeli soldiers in Gaza recorded on video (eg drone strikes of unarmed Palestinians)

6. Israeli soldiers recording themselves on TikTok stealing the belongings of Palestinians from their homes

7. Mass displacement of Palestinians over and over again

As @nytimes continues to come under fire for anti-Palestinian bias, Adam Rasgon is joining their Jerusalem bureau. Only days after Israel killed Al Jazeera’s Wael Al Dahdouh’s wife and children, Rasgon co-wrote a @NewYorker piece smearing Wael’s journalism as “Hamas propaganda.” That article was one of the lowest points for western journalism since Oct. 7 and that’s saying a lot. While Israel was caught repeatedly lying to the media, Rasgon and his co author chose to smear a Palestinian journalist risking his life daily whose family was brutally killed.

This seems like a big deal and I ask if it goes against the @nytimes policies. As @zei_squirrel found, one of the authors of the “mass rape” story, Anat Schwartz, apparently liked posts saying Gaza should be turned into a “slaughterhouse.” Anat has reported on Palestinians. And as @RBrulin points out, the post that the @nytimes Anat Schwartz liked was mentioned in South Africa’s application to the ICJ as an example of intent to commit genocide

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This is Dr. Khaled Al Serr. He’s a general surgery specialist at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. After more than 20 days under siege by Israeli forces, there have been reports that soldiers abducted him and 8 other doctors. He hasn’t been heard from for more than 34 hours. This is the last video that Khaled is believed to have shared from Nasser hospital. He discusses how an ICU patient died after the electricity cut out after the Israeli occupation forces invaded the hospital.

The Israeli military is currently besieging Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Displaced people sheltering in the hospital, doctors, medical staff and journalists are in 'extreme danger.' The U.S. could tell Israel to end its siege on this hospital if it wanted to. Earlier today, a young man that Israel had kidnapped, Jamal Abu Al-Ola, who was handcuffed, allegedly beaten and dressed in PPE garments was sent to the hospital to relay a warning to everyone to leave. When he left the hospital to return to the military, a solider shot him.

In a public talk yesterday @nytimes reporter @gettleman responsible for the heavily debunked article on alleged mass rape on Oct. 7 said his story “was compiling all these different accounts — not trying to pass judgement.”

Compare that to the actual story framing below: Gettleman said “ I don't want to use the word evidence, because evidence is almost a legal term that suggests you're trying to prove an allegation or prove a case in court. That's not my role…My role is to document.” The word “evidence” appears several times in his article.

Muslim and Arab American community members and leaders I’ve spoken with overwhelmingly have said that they have no illusions about what a second Trump administration would mean for them. But that there’s no way they could give Joe Biden their votes after the mass killing in Gaza. The Biden campaign is in clear denial about this reality. While they may take these communities for granted, they make up significant numbers in key states in a close election where just a few thousand votes can affect the outcome.

During a genocide mostly killing women and children, Jill wrote 1 piece no one read about Palestinian women and has gone on and on about unsubstantiated mass rape allegations that have been made in the same vein as the debunked beheaded babies claim to justify the mass killing.

https://twitter.com/jillfilipovic/status/1739232572905779390

Stop shaming people who don’t believe Israel when Israel has been caught lying time and again and has every incentive to lie as it continues to kill Palestinians by the thousands with impunity.

Honored to win the @PolkAwards for our @AJFaultLines film “The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh” investigating the killing of the renowned Al Jazeera journalist by an Israeli sniper. I hope this brings more attention to the effort to seek justice and accountability in her shooting. We are so grateful to the George Polk Award judges for their recognition of this film and the immense influence and inspirational legacy that Shireen Abu Akleh left through her journalism, both for Palestinians and millions of viewers around the world.

Honored that our 2019 @AJFaultLines film “The Search: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women” won @najournalists award for Best Coverage of Native America” in the TV category, Associate Division III: najanewsroom.com/2020-national-… Sincere gratitude for the families who opened their homes to the us & shared their stories. We don’t take that responsibility lightly. Congrats to the team who worked on this: Senior Producer @KaviChek, Correspondent @alisonaher, Cinematographer @acspelman, editor @warwickmeade

This is stunning news. Will the @nytimes retract Caliphate given that one of its main subjects has been arrested for making up the story?

https://twitter.com/StewGlobal/status/1309581575412232198

Apparently @CBCNews called this guy’s credibility into question more than 2 years ago, when Caliphate was racking up awards. This is a journalistic scandal. I’ve long been saying that stories about the Middle East don’t receive nearly enough scrutiny: cbc.ca/news/canada/is…

In our @AJFaultLines episode “America’s Pandemic Workers” 4 essential workers shared their lives through video diaries. As the country went on lock down, they went to work, risking their lives and fighting for better pay and protection. Watch here: The film follows a mother from Texas and a father from Pennsylvania trying to survive in a gig economy that leaves very little in the way of a safety net. An Amazon worker fighting for more pay and protection. And a first responder who has seen the horrors of the virus up close.

When we interviewed the head of the Chicago police union in 2016 about #LaquanMcDonald we asked about a police code of silence. His response: “There’s a code of silence everywhere” and then he brought up churches covering up child sex abuse That comment by Dean Angelo made it into the @TheJusticeDept scathing report on the Chicago Police Department

Our latest @AJFaultLines episode “System Failure: The Boeing Crashes" traces what led to the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes and asks if the FAA allowed industry too much control over safety. Watch: Bayihe Demissie lost his wife Elsabet, who was a flight attendant, in the @flyethiopian crash in March. She also left behind a one year old son. “She was my best friend,” Bayihe told us. Our episode “System Failure” asks whether Boeing put profit over safety.

Just today @MiddleEastMnt had a report that the daughter of Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat Al-Shater is using her pocket as a toilet in prison. If Morsi's death doesn't raise alarm about conditions in Egyptian prisons, what will? #Egypt w.middleeastmonitor.com/20190617-i-use… More from the report: "In March, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights launched the campaign Periods in Prison to pressure prison authorities to provide incarcerated women with sanitary products, access to clean water and toilets to prevent the spread of disease."

There were more than 300 mass shootings in 2018, with 4 or more killed or injured. Unfortunately, the scenes that follow - vigils and thoughts & prayers - have become too familiar. What happens to survivors & victims’ families when news moves on? Watch: bit.ly/2GXxBY9 This latest episode of @AJFaultLines “The Aftermath” is a deeply moving examination of what life is like after surviving or losing a loved one to the tragedy of a mass shooting.

Our new doc "No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border" investigates how @realDonaldTrump admin is closing the doors to asylum - from family separation to coercive tactics by ICE and border agents turning away asylum seekers (until they saw our cameras), "No Shelter: Family Separation at the Border" was produced by @KaviChek correspondent is @TeresaBo, edited by @AdiHaspel filmed by @joelvanharen and @nicoleasalazar. All credit to the brave parents who told their stories on camera, despite the risks.