Tamar Sternthal Profile picture
Director of the Israel office of CAMERA
Mar 27 11 tweets 4 min read
This @UPI blood libel misreports UN data to falsely blame Israeli settlers for most of reported 199 Palestinian West Bank fatalities in Jan. 1-Oct. 6, 2023 (1/11)
Image In fact, OCHA's own data shows *7* Palestinians were killed by "Israeli civilian settlers" during that time. Does @UPI consider 3.5% "largely"? (2/11) Image
Oct 22, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Days before @latimes grossly underreported that Hamas took "at least 100 hostages," # was already known to be double: at least 199. And hours before LAT's whitewash, Israel updated: Hamas grabbed 203 hostages, as reported in @nytimes & elsewhere (1/4) tinyurl.com/y86afzua


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The 200+ hostages include 30 children under age of 16 (including toddlers, babies) and 10-20 elderly over age of 60 (2/4)timesofisrael.com/up-to-200-stil…
Nov 28, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
The story @RajaAbdulrahim wants us to swallow hook, line & sinker: 🎣 Israel's 15-year blockade is increasingly devastating Gaza's fishing industry, as poignantly illustrated by boat graveyard. It's only a matter of time until the sector completely collapses, she reports (1/6) But here's what *actual industry data,* published by Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, says about last 15 years of Gaza fishing. In '05, at start of blockade, 707 fishing boats were in Gaza. By '19, that # *more than doubled* to 1,739 boats tinyurl.com/ky5d2ufm (2/6)
Aug 10, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Recall @PatrickKingsley of #SadSadIsrael saga? Touring Israel, @nytimes journo found only sad citizens in overwhelming happy country. Well, things took a strange turn this weekend when a *million* Israelis were sadly forced into shelters, fleeing from Islamic Jihad rockets (1/4) Suddenly, Kingsley couldn't find most of those 1 million Israelis sadly hiding out in bomb shelters! Instead, he reported that only "thousands" fled, erasing the vast majority of the threatened Israeli citizens. tinyurl.com/yjcd86d4 (2/4)
Aug 8, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
For the 2nd day running, @AP struggles with numbers. tinyurl.com/bdf4n4s5 Those 12,000 work permits are actually 14,000. Will AP correct? @faresakram @tgoldenberg @APFactCheck Image Check out AP's own earlier coverage. Before @POTUS' visit in July, Israel increased permits for Gaza workers from 14,000 to 15,500. tinyurl.com/3n35bdzn Image
Feb 6, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Israel in no way resembles #apartheid S. Africa, so @mehdirhasan, #Shamnesty et al strenuously labor 2 redefine the term. Mehdi's fancy footwork: "Israel doesn't have to be a replica of SA. Apartheid isn't defined by what happened in SA. It's defined by internat'l law" (1/4) In his zeal to distance apartheid from non-applicable SA precedent & expand the definition, Mehdi cite 1973 Internat'l Suppression & Punishment on Crime of Apartheid. (2/4)
Jun 1, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Over 4 years after AFP journalist Nasser Abu Baker ran for Fatah's Revolutionary Council, violating news agency's value of "rigorous neutrality," the wire service let him go, says @KhaledAbuToameh camera.org/article/rigoro… (1/4) Here's what Abu Baker's been up to in recent weeks: Falsely accusing Israel of planning a "terrible massacre" of journalists (2/4) middleeastmonitor.com/20210517-warni…
May 14, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
Meet zz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri. According to @Reuters, he was "killed in unrest." He blew himself up outside Sbarro, murdering 15, including many children. @CAMERAorg tinyurl.com/ya2y8gwr Meet Abdel-Basset Odeh. According to @Reuters, he was "killed in unrest." He blew himself up in Park Hotel among guests at Passover seder. He murdered 30, including elderly Holocaust survivors, and injured 140.
Feb 10, 2020 5 tweets 4 min read
Look how @AP describes PFLP, designated as terror org by US, Israel, EU & other Western country: "leftist political party that has an armed wing" apnews.com/029eb2f122af74… @AP In September 1970, PFLP hijacked four civilian airliners. Not your usual activity for "a leftist political party"
Feb 2, 2020 6 tweets 4 min read
Quintessential @nytimes failure of coverage via @halbfinger @IKershner: Abbas' life work = "viable state side-by-side w/Israel," as if Abbas hasn't repeatedly shut down, refused, walked away from proposals, talks nytimes.com/2020/01/29/wor… As if he has not peddled hateful, antisemitic canards and conspiracy theories
Oct 14, 2018 5 tweets 6 min read
.@HagaiElAd: "I haven't seen a single fact we presented abroad refuted." Couldn't help myself, took the bait, & spent 5 minutes on @btselem's site 1/3 & I found this: 17 y.o. Gazan "not involved in hostilities" killed while he "tried to enter Israel with incendiary devices." Seriously. I didn't, couldn't make this up tinyurl.com/yajgr559 2/3 #NotTheOnion @UNWatch @dannydanon