🧵 1/7 If the hostage deal goes ahead, it will be the latest in a series of blackmail deals imposed on Israel over the years to recover kidnapped people or their dead bodies. Here’s a brief history. 👇🏻
2/7 The entire Arab strategy of hostage-taking and blackmail dates back to 1985 with the Jibril Deal, when Israel released 1,150 Palestinian and Arab prisoners, including hardened terrorists, to secure the safe return of three Israeli soldiers.
Jan 5 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
The BBC is so used to broadcasting bad faith antisemitic and anti-Israel material that it hardly surprises us any more. Here's a report about how they lied to a Rabbi before they interviewed him. I spoke with Rabbi Gideon Sylvester about his interview the day before and immediately after it, and I saw their invitation to him, so I know what happened.
This is not an isolated incident at all. It's part of a deliberate pattern. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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In 2021, Jewish children were attacked as they celebrated Chanukah in Oxford Street and had to flee. The BBC chose falsely to report that they had uttered an "anti-Muslim" slur. Jews had to carry out our own forensic analysis of the supposed 'slur' to prove the BBC's claim the children said "dirty Muslims" was entirely false. It was Hebrew for "call someone, it’s urgent."
The BBC was reluctantly shamed into a begrudging apology and Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, found that the BBC had committed "significant editorial failings".
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Jan 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The West continues to misunderstanding Islamic terrorism, obsessing over individual attackers rather than their shared ideology. Here's a thread and an article explaining why:
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As chants of “globalise the intifada” continually reverberate through the streets of Western cities, a Saudi-born psychiatrist ploughed his car through a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, and an American-born ISIS terrorist charged a pickup truck through a crowd in New Orleans, killing 15.
Many who gleefully shout that brazen, much misunderstood demand do not grasp its full implications, but its meaning has been written in blood for decades.
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