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Mar 25 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
On March 4, @theintercept published a story about how Kibbutz Be’eri denied a report in the NYT regarding the sexual assault of two girls on October 7. The NYT told us they stood by the reporting. Our story is here:
Now, the NYT reports on a new video filmed by an Israeli soldier who discovered the girls that completely undermines the NYT report. And the NYT now quotes kibbutz residents as saying it was false.
Yet the NYT has not retracted it on the original Screams Without Words story, which has won a Polk Award and is constantly cited as the definitive account of systematic sexual violence by Hamas on October 7. The NYT has serious questions to answer about how this false story made its way into the “paper of record.” The new story about the video is here:
theintercept.com/2024/03/04/nyt… nytimes.com/2024/03/25/wor…
Instead of retracting the story and issuing a correction, the NYT has added an “update” that constitutes a spin job within its original story aimed at exonerating itself for not actually verifying such a serious allegation before printing it:
Jan 26 • 27 tweets • 4 min read
The president of the ICJ is Judge Joan Donoghue, former top legal advisor under Hillary Clinton at the State Department during the Obama Admin. She will imminently read the court's ruling on South Africa's request for emergency provisional measures in Israel genocide case.
The court could rule entirely in South Africa's favor and order all of the measures requested, including directing a halt to Israel's attacks and siege against Gaza. It could dismiss it entirely or it could rule in favor of only some requests or create its own tailored orders.
Jan 12 • 51 tweets • 7 min read
Israel’s representative Tal Becker tells ICJ that South Africa’s case “profoundly distorted factual & legal picture,” claiming it seeks to erase Jewish history. Says their argument is “barely distinguishable” from Hamas’s rhetoric, accuses them of “weaponizing” the term genocide.
Becker called October 7 "the largest calculated mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.” Says the court must understand the "brutality and lawlessness” of the force Israel is fighting in Gaza.
Jan 11 • 32 tweets • 5 min read
South Africa's legal team begins argument at ICJ by saying, "South Africa has recognized the ongoing Nakba against the Palestinian people."
South African lawyer Adila Hassim: Israel has engaged in a “systematic pattern of conduct from which genocide can be inferred.” It has subjected the people of Gaza to “one of the heaviest conventional bombing campaigns in the history of modern warfare” by sea, land and air.
Dec 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This was a pernicious lie that was promoted by Biden and his administration to justify Israel’s attacking of hospitals. Those of us who warned that this was a lie at the time were accused of being Hamas propagandists.
A few thoughts about the issue of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the credibility of the US and NATO:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a bald faced act of aggression, replete with war crimes, and is rightly being condemned as such by large numbers of people and nations across the globe.
May 10, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The questions from reporters here are solid. And the answers from the State Department spokesperson are, unfortunately, not shocking. This is a bi-partisan horror and Joe Biden has a very long history of defending Israel's gratuitous violence and killings.
No one should pretend the US is some neutral party in what Israel is doing right now. Throughout his career, Biden has repeatedly supported Israel when it kills women & children. Ex-Israeli PM and war criminal Menachem Begin once said Biden was too extreme even for him on this.
Jun 3, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Amy Klobuchar has been a significant participant in the racist criminal justice system in Minnesota and nationally. As a prosecutor she pushed for harsher prison sentences against nonviolent offenders & boasted of police support for her policies.
Just last year, Klobuchar pushed for hundreds of millions of dollars more for police, as my colleague @akela_lacy reported: theintercept.com/2019/05/14/amy…
May 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Great job to the 10 Democrats who voted *against* the Wyden-Daines amendment that would have prohibited FBI warrantless surveillance of web browser history. Special shout out to Bernie Sanders who didn’t show up to vote. It was defeated by *one* vote.
Remember this vote next time one of these 10 Democrats or Sanders tells you that Trump is the most dangerous president in history. They just facilitated outrageous surveillance powers for William Barr and the FBI.
Apr 19, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The DeVos & Prince families have a long record of financing the most dangerous right wing extremist individuals & causes in the country. They gave the seed money to the radical religious right, poured money into anti-choice groups & are funding the current coronavirus "protests."
One of their most prized politicians is Mike Pence. We focus a lot on Trump, but Pence is their rock. The fact that he is in charge of the administration's COVID-19 response is terrifying to anyone who knows his history and that of the DeVos/Prince financial militia.
Apr 15, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
People attacking Sanders for endorsing Biden are either being disingenuous or didn’t study Sanders’ career. He chose to run in the Dem Primary. He played by its rules. People who supported Sanders with eyes wide open knew this was a given if he lost. He told you he would do it.
Sanders could have spent 2016-2019 mobilizing a 3rd Party. But he wouldn’t do that. He never has advocated that path. Ask Ralph Nader about Bernie and 3rd parties. You can be angry or disappointed, but don’t pretend Sanders ever stood for a different outcome if he lost.
Apr 2, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
The richest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, had a meeting to discuss how to smear a warehouse worker who demanded a safe workplace for his colleagues. You can share your thoughts on it with former Obama WH spokesman and current Amazon PR hack @JayCarney: vice.com/en_us/article/…
This is what @JayCarney said about people who were reporting on and condemning Amazon’s disgraceful firing of Christian Smalls, the Staten Island Amazon warehouse worker who organized a walkout to demand a safe workplace. Disgusting.
First sentence I agree with. Third sentence is a total and complete piece of insanity that contradicts everything we know about asymptomatic carriers and public risk. My god.
All candidates should be urgently demand implementing mail voting and other measures. Calling for people to go to large group settings, particularly older people, is reckless no matter the reason you want them to go there. And Biden has a large base of older voters.
Mar 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For all the talk of toxic supporters, Biden Democrats have sent a loud scornful message to the people demanding urgent action on health care, student debt, climate and many other issues that their voices don’t matter. That’s the tone. Scorn. Mock. Shame. People won’t forget it.
They mock your sense of urgency and vision for a more just world and then demand your full support for their disastrous candidate and then will blame you when their corporate message fails to defeat a dangerous tyrant in the White House.
Mar 8, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis politico.com/news/2020/03/0…
“Trump has undermined his administration’s own efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak — resisting attempts to plan for worst-case scenarios, overturning a public-health plan upon request from political allies and repeating only the warnings that he chose to hear”
Mar 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The corporate media & establishment panic over Sanders created a myth that pretends tonight was some epic defeat for Sanders. In reality, he is fighting very powerful political & economic forces and insidious smears and propaganda. This is a close race. Keep all this in context.
The truth is Sanders is taking on the former Vice President of a very popular Democratic administration. He is constantly smeared & maligned by powerful media. He faces sustained Super PAC attacks & Bloomberg attacks. He is a Democratic Socialist. And he is very much in this race
Mar 1, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I don’t get Warren’s attack on Sanders record, saying he’s been on the right side of a slew of issues for 30 years but lost many battles. He stood up to powerful establishments of both parties when it was unpopular but right and he also did it while she was a Republican.
History is filled with people who fought when it was unpopular, when they were smeared and laughed at, but they kept focus. And that’s how many major battles have been won across the country and the world.
Feb 26, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Thread: Here are some comments that Rev. Jesse Jackson made today in an interview with me on @intercepted. Jackson won the South Carolina Democratic Primary in 1984 and 1988. He has not endorsed anyone in the Democratic Primary. 1/8
“The Democratic machinery lined up for Biden. But his message does not address the pain of our people. I’m not sure what moderate means [if] people don’t have affordable health care. I’m not sure what moderate means to us. As a matter of fact it means very little to us.” 2/8
Feb 24, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The attacks on Sanders on Cuba, Nicaragua, Latin America, etc. are meant to distract & they’re pathetic attacks. But if that’s the debate they insist on having, then let’s have a real, honest debate on the murderous US policies that Sanders was opposing.
Let’s talk about Batista’s vicious dictatorship backed by the wealthy power elite inside the US government and in private sector, let’s talk about the vile Contra death squads, let’s talk about the coups and assassinations and support for dictators and brutal thugs.
Feb 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mike Bloomberg ran a "Demographics Unit" that spied on ordinary Muslim Americans, their businesses, restaurants, cafes and mosques in the northeast USA, not just NYC. They used "mosque crawlers" and "rakers" and targeted "ancestries of interest." interc.pt/2HyYzF5
This is the guy who is going to be the "alternative" to Trump and his Muslim ban?
Jan 3, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Much like the neocons came to power in 2001 with a predetermined agenda for regime change in Iraq, the Trump administration had Iran in the sniper scope from the jump. This was at the center of the collusion scandal, largely ignored by the US media, with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
A major part of the motive for the scorched earth genocidal bombing of Yemen was to draw Iran into military conflict. Obama started it and Trump colluded with the Saudis, UAE and Israel to escalate it. Obama was played by Saudi Arabia, but Trump outsourced US policy to Israel.
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