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Jul 25 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
🧵My jaw is still on the fucking floor after reading Jenn Counter’s “Rules of Offensive Influence” — an unapologetic playbook for psychological warfare — that is published on Columbia’s website.
I'm going to share some excerpts, then post the whole thing.
As you read, keep in mind, Counter serves as both a “Subject Matter Expert” for Safe Reach Solutions — the firm overseeing GHF’s operations in Gaza — and, according to Columbia's website, a “Course Associate” in the Strategic Communications department at the School of Professional Studies.
She introduces her 16 rules for "strategizing and implementing an influence campaign" by clarifying that "even tactical military propaganda should support a longer-term strategy and goal to be most impactful."
Jul 25 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.
In Iraq, 285 journalists were killed in 22 years. That's 13 per year, compared to about 13 per month in Gaza. Source: Brown Costs of War Project watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/fil…
Jul 22 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Oh I see—it's a coordinated rollout: the IDF, GHF, and complicit outlets like @Jerusalem_Post are all pushing the new line: yes, there's starvation, but it’s the UN’s fault for refusing to play nice with the GHF. Expect this talking point to be everywhere soon.
🧵The Israeli outlet @ynetnews just published a remarkable exposé of IDF commander testimonies that contradict Israel's official Gaza war narrative. Here are some of the most revealing excerpts...
For starters, 2025 was "supposed to be a year of stabilization in the Gaza arena," and it has basically been a disaster.
Jul 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I'm digging through one of the Columbia student antisemitism cases and found an IDF vet (Rubin) who says he fled campus because anti-Zionist stickers, pro-Palestine chants, and people saying Israel bombs hospitals made him feel unsafe
god forbid you--a Middle East history major--are required to take a class with Professor Rashid Khalidi or Joseph Massad. academic freedom baby!!
Mar 22, 2020 • 30 tweets • 10 min read
Hello. Did somebody say they needed a heartwarming story from the coronavirus era? Okay, fine.
Let me start by saying that I am not a particularly melodramatic guy, but I just don’t know how to tell this story without turning to pure mush. (1/11)
For those who saw my post the other day… on Wednesday I went out for a walk in Domino Park after several days of feeling stir crazy and lonesome in my apt — in addition to everything going on, it’s been a rough few months for me personally. I HAD A TOUGH BREAKUP OKAY? (2/11)